Make The Cut Still Uploading and it's Past Midnight

Same boat, here's my edit as well:

Imagine Dragons Believer - Adobe Make The Cut - YouTube

Yeah, you killed it on the motion graphics spectrum. I envy your skills in that regard.

same here

My cut would have been top 25 at least

Unfortunately I received the same response. All the same, I entered the competition to receive critique to become a better editor, and in this regard at least, I can still accomplish my goal.

If everyone who has posted here could take 5 minutes of time to watch my edit and leave critique and feedback, it would be greatly appreciated. I will gladly do the same for anyone who would also like to post theirs.

You can view my video at this link Imagine Dragons Believer - Adobe Make the Cut Submission - YouTube

This is the only answer I'm receiving and it's not even coming from an official Adobe channel.  So the whole 24-48hr deal is up and the created gmail account informed me they are not accepting late entries basically, even though I wasn't late avoiding accountability for an error on their side.  Or at least that's what I'm being told.

Email Recieved: adobemakethecut@gmail.com

"Hi John,Thank you for your follow up note. On behalf of Adobe we would like to express a sincere thank you for your participation in the Make the Cut editing contest. We hope that you enjoyed working with the exclusive footage from Imagine Dragons’ Believer video.  We know that you devoted considerable time to creating an amazing cut. Unfortunately, we are not legally able to accept late entries to be judged as part of the competition, but we DO want to see your cut.   

We are always inspired by the unique ways that our community is using Premiere Pro and if you’re willing, we invite you to share your file with us over email.  While it cannot be formally submitted as part of the contest nor eligible for prizing, we would love to have our team of video experts take a look at your work.  If you haven't already, please share a link to your video file prior to April 14.

In addition, we encourage you to share your cut with your community and include it in your personal portfolio, including posting to Behance.

Thanks again for taking this journey with us and Imagine Dragons.

Sincerely,

The Make the Cut Team"

To which I replied:

I have no hate for Adobe, I truly mean I love your guys software even if this is a throwaway email to a gmail account that will cease to exist in 24hrs.

I was prepared to send various methods to provide proof that my entry would not be classified as "Legally Late."  My video submission had 2 flickering problems that presented during rendering but not prior during scrubbing and playbacks.  I was just going to send it as is cause it was minor but annoying and allowed me to submit on time until the site didn't submit my form.

If you guys love Adobe software as much as I do, could you at least do me a solid and teach me some resolve to why flickering clips sometime show their ugly head after render and not before.

I read a little online that mentioned it about a certain effects placed on other video improperly or along those lines can do it. I found a way to work that particular one deleting clips affected and re-applying to timeline.  Then it happened to me on another clip that consisted of  2 nested clips fused rotate both with key frames together.

Any tips to avoid flickering clips before render basically?

Well thank you for not keeping me in suspense at least any further.  I wish you guys the best of luck with the contest despite. I'll keep on editing.

Truth be told I had a blast cutting this footage for what its worth, so thank you for tthe opportunity.  Still annoyed I have to explain that to people who watch me fall off the Earth to edit this footage forfeiting eating and sleeping.  Woe is me, have a good night guys and gals.

Take care,

-John Zebrowski"

Hi JoshuaValient,

I hope that you can get your issue resolved.

I think that there was a big lesson learned here for everyone, as well. In the future, I advise you not to wait until the last moment to turn in work that happens to be on a deadline.

As an editor with 30 years experience, a little trick I play on myself is to set a realistic "personal" deadline well in advance of the actual deadline (perhaps the day before). This allows you to have a version ready to go well before the clock strikes midnight and can avoid the stress you likely felt as you watched a the uploading icon spin and spin.

As a person who was pretty bad with deadlines for far too long, this little trick allowed me to hit every deadline for animation projects I did on two features at Pixar.

Hope that helps you next time.

Good luck,

Kevin

Hey y'all,

Good News!

There's hope to those who emailed adobemakethecut@gmail.com in the next 24 hours or 48 hours!

Grateful that they're looking into this matter as I emailed em straight away with the screenshoot proof of me still uploading as well as my final footage edit video when I couldn't upload. :/

Hope they accept all peeps whom are having problems uploading it.

Let's all just update each other again! Cheers!

Anyway, MakeTheCutSupport has replied this post; Can't upload video to Make The Cut (just scroll all the way down) or through this screenshot.

I had the same issue.. i clicked upload and then nothing.. no video is uploading, no nothing. I did not know what was going on.  I spent so much time on this, I hope they some how allow those who could not submit due to these issues, submit. 

Hi, I had the exact same issue... I uploaded the video and after about an hour the icon was still spinning.. I read some comments here that it might need to refresh and resubmit or try a different browser or pc, but it was about 5mins before the deadline so I was afraid to close the tab in case it was still uploading, since there was no way of knowning the progress of the upload... I left the pc on to keep uploading and went to bed. In the morning the pc had gone to sleep mode and when I turned it back on the page had refreshed on the make the cut home page, where it said the submission deadline had ended. I am not sure whether it uploaded or not, and if not it means that the upload had frozen, but I had no way of knowing that at the time... I hope, like Josh Miller said above that there is a secondary way to send this, because it would be a shame, since from what I can gather this was probably due to the fact that the upload was frozen and we had no way of knowing that!