MisterFurious wrote:This is a stretch, but have you considered condensing it? Shortening a 7:30 video to 7:00 would require a less than 7% speed increase, hardly noticeable (particularly by the general audience voting for it) if you adjust the pitch on the song. I used a similar technique to get "Signal to Noise" under the seven-minute limit, just for AX.
I tried to cut it but cuting out 30 seconds is way too much without ruining the entire thing. as for changing the speed? no way, that's worse then cutting it IMO.
xstylus wrote:Pwolf wrote:A video in an AMV contest should be technically sound as well as well edited. Since AMV contests don't have awards for the technical stuff, one should expect that the pre-judging would weed out the videos that don't meet a certain standard. The fact that the AMV coordinator(s) allowed videos with obvious technical and editing errors tells me that they do not care about the standards or the presentation of the video.
Okay, I know you've judged/ran an AMV competition before, and that comment tells me that the quality and number of submissions each of your categories received is
drastically different than ours.
I'll take that as sarcasm since I have not judged or ran a contest before. I want to so I can hopefully change how these things are run. I don't care if 3 videos out 10 in the drama category are the only good ones, if there are only 3 videos that I can say are both good and technically sound, then I would only show 3.
xstylus wrote:Bottom line, where ya'll at? Where's all these killer submissions I hear being entered at AWA, Otakon, and elsewhere? The contest is running nearly trouble free now, so what more must be done? (Methinks the "troll" rules of other cons play a part, but not this much.)
I recommend that the lot of you stop complaining and start editing. Us judges aren't idiots, and we know a well made vid when we see it. What you saw was the best we got. If you're unhappy with it, then you're unhappy with yourselves.
As Steve Jobs says, "Real artists ship." Kudos to the artists who did, and a pox on those who are complaining.
Troy, as mentioned before, I had a video for AX I intended to submit but the coordinator wouldn't allow it. It's not my fault I cannot submit "killer" submissions. If the contest is having such a hard time with quality submissions, then it needs to lighten up on it's rules in the future.
outlawed wrote:I'm going to guess one of the continuing factors on the "decisions" from recent years was the "Wedding Rings is not an AMV" fiasco?
That was indeed one of the reasons...
Overall, my major gripe here is that I feel like editors are getting way too lazy and amv contests are looking more and more like amateur slide shows. If the contest coordinators would step up to the plate and require stricter technical guidelines, we would have a better looking show. If you have to cut half your entries, then do it. It would force people to fix their shit. I'm tired of sitting at a contest and watching these obvious errors show up on screen, it's embarrassing to be honest.
Pwolf