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| The Scenes Cover Rules 2004 |
| Retail & Customs Releases |
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| These are the 2004 rules set by members of the covers scene on |
| June 15th 2004. Members from the largest groups atteneded a |
| meeting in order to determine the standards for cover scanning / |
| custom cover creation. We would like to thank everyone involved |
| in the TSCR meeting for your input and views, We would also like |
| to wish you all a good year! |
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| **RETAIL SCAN RULES** |
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| **IMAGE RULES** |
| Images must be a minimum of 300 DPI, scaling down is allowed but |
| to a maximum of 50%. In order for the scalling to be acceptable |
| the image must stay in its original ratio. The amount of scalling |
| is left up to the scanners discression. CROPPING IN ORDER TO GET |
| RID OF ANGLES WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. There is no file size limit. |
| All scans must be cleared in a editing package to clear dust etc. |
| The file type of .tif, .png or .jpeg must be used. No |
| compression is allowed on the .tif or .png files. No Watermarks |
| are allowed to be placed on the image by the group. If cat no's |
| are removed clone brush must be used and not blocks. If a covers |
| has rounded edges clone brush must be used to fill them out. |
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| **PACKING & DIRECTORY NAMING** |
| Directory's must be labelled clearly weather the package contains |
| all contents of the original DVD package (Front/Inlay/DVD) or |
| only the front cover. e.g: |
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| For Complete Package: This.Is.A.Movie.Retail.Covers-Group |
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| The NFO must state what is in the package. E.g Front/Inlay/DVD. |
| You must always state the word "Covers" in the directory name so |
| that they are not confused with movie rips. If Dir Name is wrong |
| then a dir fix must be issued. |
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| The files must be rared in either 3mb, 5mb, or 10 mb Volumes |
| and the recovery record should also be selected. |
| All releases must have a .sfv file and a .nfo stating any notes |
| essential to the release. RARS may not have compression. |
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| *3mb = 3,000,000bytes 5mb = 5,000,000bytes 15mb |
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| **CUSTOM ART RULES** |
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| **IMAGE RULES** |
| Must be the size of a normal dvd case (Scalling not allowed). |
| High quality pictures must be used to eradicate lack of quality, |
| this means small pictures blow up to the level of distortion is |
| not allowed. No Custom art must be released if it has already |
| been published on a covers website: e.g CDCOVERS.CC or DVDCOVERART|
| any releases breaking these rules will be nuked as stolen. |
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| Files must be in .tif, .png or .jpeg format only. No compression |
| is allowed at all. Watermarks are not acceptable. |
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| **PACKING & DIRECTORY NAMING** |
| Directory's must be labelled clearly that the release is a CUSTOM |
| release. This is so they do not get confused with Retail scans. |
| Different versions must be named with .V* to differentiate |
| between different versions. For Example: |
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| For A First Release: This.Is.A.Movie.CUSTOM.Covers-GROUP |
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| or |
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| For A Second Release: This.Is.A.Movie.V2.CUSTOM.Covers-GROUP |
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| You must always state the word "Covers" in the directory name so |
| that they are not confused with movie rips. Year is not nescessary|
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| The files must be rared in either 3mb, 5mb or 10mb volumes. |
| All releases must have a .sfv file and a .nfo stating any notes |
| essential to the release. RARS may not have compression. |
| *3mb = 3,000,000bytes 5mb = 5,000,000bytes 15mb |
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| **PROPERING A RELEASE** |
| A proper is only valid if the original release is lacking in |
| quality, a proper due to bad dirname or no nfo is not a valid |
| reason. A group may proper if the file type is not the correct |
| type as specified earlier in these rules. A custom release may |
| not be propered but a new Version may be brought out. |
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| **FINAL NOTES** |
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| These rules were put in place to avoid bad releases being put in |
| to the scene, therefore any release not following these rules |
| will be nuked. |
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| THANK YOU FOR READING AND HAPPY |
| SCANNING! |
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| The TSCR Consists Of Members From: |
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| EMU - SaNdS - iNDiAN - GCaRDiNaL |
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| And Was also Signed By: |
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| TSCR 2004: The Scenes Cover Rules |
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