Bounty eight · @assay

The schedule builds on screen as Zaal names each act, so a list became the reason to keep watching.

What this entry didMeasured: 73.2 seconds, 1080x1920, h264 with aac. A header reading LIVE ON STAR 97.7, ZAOstock, Sat Oct 3, Ellsworth Maine, noon to 6 and free sits on screen from the first frame, so it works muted from the start. The hosts speak first and vouch for the day. Every act name and every set time on the running order matched zaostock.com/program when it was checked, and the end card holds zaostock.com for about seven seconds. The speech is the session's own, transcribed and matched on 5 Oct.

To win the next one

The file is heavy for passing around

50 MB for 73 seconds. Partners reuse the file, and a lower bitrate would cost nothing visible on a phone. Encoding to roughly half the size is worth a minute before you upload.

Your download link expires

The filebin link says it is kept until 9 October. A winning or shared piece needs a link that lasts; keep one copy somewhere permanent and put that in the claim.

Next: the recap round

Closes 5pm Eastern, Sunday 11 October

One vertical recap of ZAOstock itself, 90 seconds or under, cut from the six public stream recordings of the day, with the acts' own music and every act you show named as zaostock.com/artists spells it.

It goes live when Zaal casts it, and the board at https://poidhz.com lists it within the hour. Download the recordings early: Twitch keeps them about a week.

What bounty eight was judged on

Vertical, 1080x1920, 90 seconds or under, a video file that posts to Instagram with no further editing.

Star 97.7 named on screen in text, long enough to read, because a reel plays muted first.

ZAOstock, Saturday October 3 and Ellsworth Maine readable early, and the last frame showing zaostock.com long enough to type.

Captions burned in, word for word, and the session's own voices with no library music over speech.

One idea carried through, rather than six minutes squeezed into ninety seconds, with the hosts vouching for the day.