Brand new con, guess who's a first year guest of honor!

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Brand new con, guess who's a first year guest of honor!

Postby animeamiee » Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:04 pm

Our very own Phade!!!!!

that's right everyone, he will be making an appearance at the first ever Anime Detour, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota!

www.animedetour.com for more details!
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Postby Castor Troy » Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:13 pm

They spelled Kyle Hebert's name wrong. :?
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Postby animeamiee » Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:16 pm

BAH!

I'll get them to fix that ASAP!!!!

*grumbles something about being on Guest Relations and how nobody listens to her*
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Postby animeamiee » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:26 pm

OK! it's fixed, thatks for pointing that out to me!
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Postby Castor Troy » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:34 pm

As a follower of the Bean Dip, I had to point that out. :P
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Postby jbone » Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:07 am

How lovely, they completely redesigned the website I made for them - removing the simple and direct navigation system and clean graphics, and replacing them with cheesy gradient backgrounds and a piss-poor navigation system.

Thanks, guys, I feel the love. While you're at it, remove the link to my website... it still says I made the website - which, clearly, I didn't. :P
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Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:25 am

A contest with VHS only??? any considerations given to digital considerations

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Postby Metro » Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:46 am

anime detour website wrote:1260 days until Anime Detour!
man, you are really planning ahead :D
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Postby animeamiee » Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:22 am

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:A contest with VHS only??? any considerations given to digital considerations

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Well, because this IS our first con, we've been doing a lot of "borrowing" from other cons ^_^

these rules are very similar to both Anime Iowa's rules for their AMV contest, maybe it's a midwest thing *shrug*

we decided to go with this for a few reasons

1. not ALL amv creators have GOOD ways to transfer their video, keeping the quality etc. I know it took me a while to master the art of encoding ^_^

2. This way we get them all in the same format which will make presenting them a whole lot smoother.

3. Since I'm involved I didn't want an Acen disaster, with them taking the digital entries themselvs and putting them on VHS, thereby cutting some videos short, and cropping others and other icky things like that.


if there are any suggestions for a more digital friendly way of doing this, I'm all ears!
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:35 am

Well I wont be entering - I dont have any way of producing an NTSC vhs.

A dvd, sure, vhs - why would I have an NTSC recordable vcr in England? :)
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Postby SQ » Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:08 pm

I don't have any way to record to VHS either, AD. You're not alone.
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Postby Dannywilson » Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:39 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:Well I wont be entering - I dont have any way of producing an NTSC vhs.

A dvd, sure, vhs - why would I have an NTSC recordable vcr in England? :)


I'm smack dab in the middle of america and I don't have a VCR.
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Postby Mr Pilkington » Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:47 pm

Dannywilson wrote:
AbsoluteDestiny wrote:Well I wont be entering - I dont have any way of producing an NTSC vhs.

A dvd, sure, vhs - why would I have an NTSC recordable vcr in England? :)


I'm smack dab in the middle of america and I don't have a VCR.


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Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:51 pm

animeamiee wrote:
Vlad G Pohnert wrote:A contest with VHS only??? any considerations given to digital considerations

Vlad



Well, because this IS our first con, we've been doing a lot of "borrowing" from other cons ^_^

these rules are very similar to both Anime Iowa's rules for their AMV contest, maybe it's a midwest thing *shrug*

we decided to go with this for a few reasons

1. not ALL amv creators have GOOD ways to transfer their video, keeping the quality etc. I know it took me a while to master the art of encoding ^_^

2. This way we get them all in the same format which will make presenting them a whole lot smoother.

3. Since I'm involved I didn't want an Acen disaster, with them taking the digital entries themselvs and putting them on VHS, thereby cutting some videos short, and cropping others and other icky things like that.


if there are any suggestions for a more digital friendly way of doing this, I'm all ears!


I can understand keeping it simple, but actually there are probably more creators now that can't properly ouput to a VCR then those who can. I myself can, but as a bare minimum will only enter on SVHS and up. I much prefer to enter on DVD or MPEG2 these days... I just wanted to point this out since it is hard to get enough entries for beginning contests as it is....

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Postby VegettoEX » Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:07 pm

Honestly, though...

If the people running the contest ONLY know how to deal with VHS, let them do it. I'd rather see a mediocre contest with videos that look EXACTLY as the creators intended them to look, than later hear about how the coordinators didn't have a clue what they were doing with all the digital entries and totally FuX0rZeD them all up.

That's why I offered to do AnimeNext's contest this year. I saw that it was done with VHS-only last year, and decided that since I knew what I was doing, I'd extend my knowledge to them in order to help out. This was their second year, right after a VHS-only year.

Things will change... let the con get on its feet ^^;;
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