Please read the following instructions carefully and submit your 30-second Video Preview by the date (August X, 2015) indicated below for your track. You can think of this Video Preview as an elevator pitch to advertize your work or the event you are organizing. Video Previews are mandatory for all papers presented at VIS, but strongly encouraged for all other VIS tracks.

VIS 2015 will broadcast Video Previews on large video screens at the conference venue. These videos will also be accessible from the conference website on the VIS Vimeo channel prior to the conference. This a great opportunity to publicize your work or event to a wider audience and to attract more attendees. VIS 2015 will have multiple sessions and the Video Previews will help conference attendees decide which sessions to attend. For inspiration, you can watch the Video Previews of VIS 2013 or VIS 2014.

Additionally, authors of certain tracks will preview their work live during a Fast Forward session at the conference. The Video Preview can be reused later for the Fast Forward video, with minor adaptations. Detailed instructions for the Fast Forward are available here.

IEEE VIS Tracks with a Mandatory Video Preview

Authors participating in the following tracks are required (not optional) to submit a Video Preview:

• VAST, InfoVis and SciVis papers (both journal and conference papers)
• TVCG and CG&A selected papers

All other tracks are strongly encouraged to submit a Video Preview.

Submission Date

Different VIS tracks have different Video Preview submission dates:

VAST, InfoVis and SciVis papers: Saturday, August 1, 2015 (5:00pm PDT)
TVCG selected papers: Saturday, August 1, 2015 (5:00pm PDT)*
CG&A selected papers: Saturday, August 1, 2015 (5:00pm PDT)
Panels, Workshops, Tutorials: Saturday, August 1, 2015 (5:00pm PDT)
Doctoral Colloquium: Saturday, August 1, 2015 (5:00pm PDT)
Posters: Friday, August 7, 2015 (5:00pm PDT)
Visualization in Practice: Friday, August 7, 2015 (5:00pm PDT)
Others contacted by email: Saturday, August 1, 2015 (5:00pm PDT)*

* unless informed otherwise by email

Requirements and Checklist Before Submission

Your Video Preview must comply with all the points in this checklist. If not, do the necessary changes, re-consult the checklist and then submit your video.

• Length: 30 seconds 
• Maximum file size: 20MB 
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 px, at 24 to 30 frames/s 
• Format: mp4 using H.264 encoding
• Content:
  • Includes the title of your work, authors list, affiliations and contact information at the beginning of the video 
  • Communicates the topic and the message of your work (like an elevator pitch) 
  • Includes the URLs of websites, online demos or other material related to your work (recommended) 
  • Is appropriate in terms of rights, use of language, viewpoints or imagery and does not offend any individuals or groups at the conference or elsewhere (we reserve the right to reject videos whose content is inappropriate; for copyright refer to the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives)

You can generate your Video Preview using typical video editing software (e.g. Windows Movie Maker or iMovie) or presentation software (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 as in this guide or Apple Keynote as shown here). Free software is also available to export to the requested format (e.g., Freemake Video Encoder, Miro Video Converter, FFmpeg).

Submission

Identify the VIS track you are participating in and follow the corresponding submission instructions.

VAST, InfoVis and SciVis Papers, Posters, Workshops, Tutorials

Submit the Video Preview using the Precision Conference System (PCS). Log in on PCS and go to my submissions in progress > modify final version. Upload your video file in the box named 30-sec Video Preview.

Authors that run out of space on PCS should:

• If the Video Preview is greater than 20MB, try to re-compress the video to yield a smaller file size and re-upload on PCS.
• If this is not possible:
  • Rename the Video Preview file as <track name>-<ID>, where ID is the ID you were automatically assigned when you first submitted your work on PCS (e.g., vast_paper-100.mp4, infovis_paper-100.mp4, scivis_paper-100.mp4, poster-100.mp4, workshop-100.mp4, tutorial-100.mp4).
  • Upload it on a sharing service of your choice (e.g. Dropbox or Google Drive).
  • Email the URL of your Video Preview file to ff(at)ieeevis.org. The subject of the email should be [VIS15 VP submission] <track name>-<ID>: <title of paper/poster/workshop/tutorial> (e.g., [VIS15 VP submission] vast_paper-100: Designing Effective Visual Analytics Methods).

Please double-check that you have included the correct URL and details before sending your email. Multiple emails for the same work could cause confusion.

TVCG and CG&A Selected Papers, Panels, Doctoral Colloquium, Visualization in Practice, Others Contacted by Email

• Rename the Video Preview file as <track name>-<ID>, where ID is the ID you were assigned by the chairs of the tracks (e.g., tvcg-1.mp4, cga-1.mp4, panel-1.mp4, dc-1.mp4, industry-1.mp4). 
• Upload it on a sharing service of your choice (e.g. Dropbox or Google Drive).
• Email the URL of your Video Preview file to ff(at)ieeevis.org. The subject of the email should be [VIS15 VP submission] <track name>-<ID>: <title of paper/panel/poster/event> (e.g., [VIS15 VP submission] tvcg-1: Designing Effective Visual Analytics Methods).

Please double-check that you have included the correct URL and details before sending your email. Multiple emails for the same work could cause confusion.

Fast Forward & Video Previews Chairs

Luana Micallef, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University
Christoph Garth, University of Kaiserslautern
Tom Peterka, Argonne National Laboratory

For more information, please email ff(at)ieeevis.org