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AMV Open Contest

Postby siragin » Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:30 am

This will be the second AMV contest here at J2 Graphics. Unlike the first contest, this contest has no theme. That means that this is an open contest and your video can be about anything you want. View more information at Open AMV Contest.
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Postby Scintilla » Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:14 am

Technical requirements...?
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Re: AMV Open Contest

Postby Kariudo » Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:02 am

From the site:
# Entries must be no shorter than :30s no longer than 2:30 minutes ( This is not including the credits)
# Video resolution must be no smaller than 640 x 480 pixels and at a frame rate of 29.97 fps
# You may use subtitle footage if you wish but be warned that many people do not like sub titles and it may hurt your chances of winning.
# Video's must be at least 95% anime.
# Acceptable file formats are wmv, avi, divx, flv, mov, and mpeg.Stay away from “exotic” or “new” codecs. For example, RMVP is a codec that is new and problematic to open.
Video files should be no bigger than 100mb


2:30 is a bit short...and another page says up to 7 minutes...
I assume RMVP should really be RMVB
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Re: AMV Open Contest

Postby siragin » Wed Sep 02, 2009 2:31 pm

Sorry about that. That was the rules for the previous contest. This contest has a limit of 30s to 7 mins. Besides that, the same rule apply I will change that later on today.
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Re: AMV Open Contest

Postby Scintilla » Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:27 pm

Eh, crap. Clicked on the "contest" button and missed the "rules" button.

Still some questions:

- You say the videos may not have nudity, but what about gore?
- What audio codecs are acceptable, and at what sample rates?
- Is joint stereo audio acceptable?
- Can we send an MPEG-2 at 23.976fps encoded with the 3:2 pulldown flag?
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Re: AMV Open Contest

Postby ExSphere » Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:20 pm

this contest is full of fail :down:
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Re: AMV Open Contest

Postby siragin » Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:57 pm

Scintilla: No nudity can be in the video but blood and gore is fine. Audio codec is up to you. If you choose a low mono audio output then it may hurt your video in the end. The audio sampling is all up to you, the choice you make can either help or hurt your video.

And all videos will have to have a 29.97-30fps. This is just standard for any digital media that will be viewed on the computer. Mpeg-2 is fine since it is in the mpeg family (mpg, mpeg-2, mpeg-4,) The resolution can be anything as long as it is no smaller than 640x480.

ExSphere: If you don't want to enter, then fine don't enter. But saying that it will fail does not help anything.
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Re: AMV Open Contest

Postby Scintilla » Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:48 am

siragin wrote:And all videos will have to have a 29.97-30fps. This is just standard for any digital media that will be viewed on the computer. Mpeg-2 is fine since it is in the mpeg family (mpg, mpeg-2, mpeg-4,)

The reason I asked is because the 3:2 pulldown flag should ensure that playback on interlaced devices does indeed happen at 29.97fps interlaced...
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Re: AMV Open Contest

Postby ivanduzer » Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:32 am

Quick question: where do we submit our video? I've been making amv's for a while, but this is my first competition I've decided to enter.
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Re: AMV Open Contest

Postby siragin » Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:35 pm

Scintilla: It all depends on how you got the anime footage. If you ripped it from a dvd and converted it to an mpeg file, or if you got it off the internet then your video source will already be running at 30fps. But yes you can use the 3:2 pulldown if you want to.

ivanduzer: On the site go to the submit video page and it will give you instructions on how to submit your video.
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Re: AMV Open Contest

Postby siragin » Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:15 pm

The Open AMV Contest is now underway and you can now start submitting your videos and view current entries Here.

The current entries are

For the actions catagory:
PatC with The Final Countdown
Rattle Snake with The Rebels
R0e-[nsy with Advent of Cloud
Rolfboy8 with Cockpit Angels
Sanj008 with Bleach AMV: Aerials

For the Drama catagory
Rolfboy8 with Kingdom Bleach
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Re: AMV Open Contest

Postby DisturbedRocks111 » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:22 pm

What about mp4?

**EDIT**

Never mind, didn't read enough lol
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Re: AMV Open Contest

Postby CodeZTM » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:33 pm

Acceptable file formats are wmv, avi, divx, flv, mov, and mpeg.Stay away from “exotic” or “new” codecs. For example, MKV is a codec that is new and problematic to open.


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Re: AMV Open Contest

Postby sonicfan74 » Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:26 am

Please someone help i want to enter thhe contest but i dont know how to put my vid and discription of vid into one zipfolder please somebody help.
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Re: AMV Open Contest

Postby siragin » Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:40 pm

sonicfan74:

To put the video and the text file in a zip file just put the two files in a regular folder then if you are useing a windows computer, right click on the folder. a drop down meanu should come up and go down to send to, then from there click compressed (zip) folder. It will creat a .zip folder with the everything in the origional folder next to the origional folder. If you are useing a mac computer after you create the first folder, go to the edit menu on the desktop and click create compress folder.

If anyone out there created a video titled a swords man finale hour and sent it to enter the contest, all I recieved was a shortcut icon to the video and it can't be played. Also Please send the text file that was asked for in the submit video page so you can becontacted when your video has been posted.

And if Evi7Penguin is here I need the text file with the video info and your email so you can be contacted about your video submission as well.
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