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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby TeamCanadia » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:18 pm

VicBond007 wrote: I can't wait for a time when people realize that if they don't steal their footage, they have an amazingly better chance at getting into a big contest. Oh ho ho dear prescreeners, we are in for a treat this year -_-


Pfffft. No matter what, in a sense, we are all 'stealing' the footage.
Though, I do get what you mean. (I do appreciate the prescreeners. You sit through a lot. Good and bad, I imagine hours of it...gets tiring...)

...I can't imagine even entering a contest with stolen footage. That's kinda...lazy?

I'll stop clogging the forum up now (unless I have a real question).
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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby Scintilla » Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:15 am

TeamCanadia wrote:
VicBond007 wrote: I can't wait for a time when people realize that if they don't steal their footage, they have an amazingly better chance at getting into a big contest. Oh ho ho dear prescreeners, we are in for a treat this year -_-

Pfffft. No matter what, in a sense, we are all 'stealing' the footage.
Though, I do get what you mean. (I do appreciate the prescreeners. You sit through a lot. Good and bad, I imagine hours of it...gets tiring...)

Nothing compares to 2004: 11 hours of videos, capped off with two honest-to-goodness Linkin Ball Z videos in the last batch. :twisted:
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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby VicBond007 » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:56 am

Scintilla wrote:Nothing compares to 2004: 11 hours of videos, capped off with two honest-to-goodness Linkin Ball Z videos in the last batch. :twisted:

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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby RolltheStampede » Fri Jun 05, 2009 3:35 pm

Ok mine should be uploaded
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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby Deuce Loosely » Fri Jun 05, 2009 3:49 pm

Ze video, she is uploaded and ready for your consideration...
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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby Castor Troy » Fri Jun 05, 2009 4:02 pm

No wonder I was able to win in 2006. :?
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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby Sonydjsnmix » Fri Jun 05, 2009 4:19 pm

Castor Troy wrote:No wonder I was able to win in 2006. :?


No you won because your video was the shit.
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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby HalOfBorg » Fri Jun 05, 2009 4:50 pm

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Castor Troy wrote:No wonder I was able to win in 2006. :?


No you won because your video was the shit.


"The Fugs - River of Shit" :P

No wait, sorry, that one was Hentai. :twisted:
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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby milkmandan » Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:48 pm

are there any exceptions to the anti-trolling policy?
i won 1st in comedy and judges best in show at fanime..am i dq'ed?
though i did win, the contest itself is much smaller and not much recognition/attendance.
wondering if the rule applied more so to big-well-attended contests.

i heard there an exception like this last year with another video?
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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby VicBond007 » Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:15 pm

milkmandan wrote:are there any exceptions to the anti-trolling policy?
i won 1st in comedy and judges best in show at fanime..am i dq'ed?
though i did win, the contest itself is much smaller and not much recognition/attendance.
wondering if the rule applied more so to big-well-attended contests.

i heard there an exception like this last year with another video?

There is no exception. A win is a win. What happened last year, was that a video won at a con, but it won after the submission deadline so it was still legal. The other contest coordinator posted the results by editing his contest's initial thread, rather than start a new thread, so the date of the post did NOT reflect the date that the contest results were announced. The "exception" was made to include said video since it was not in violation of any rules in the first place, we were just confused by message board trickery.
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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby Rider4Z » Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:27 pm

VicBond007 wrote:
milkmandan wrote:are there any exceptions to the anti-trolling policy?
i won 1st in comedy and judges best in show at fanime..am i dq'ed?
though i did win, the contest itself is much smaller and not much recognition/attendance.
wondering if the rule applied more so to big-well-attended contests.

i heard there an exception like this last year with another video?

There is no exception. A win is a win. What happened last year, was that a video won at a con, but it won after the submission deadline so it was still legal. The other contest coordinator posted the results by editing his contest's initial thread, rather than start a new thread, so the date of the post did NOT reflect the date that the contest results were announced. The "exception" was made to include said video since it was not in violation of any rules in the first place, we were just confused by message board trickery.

.... :shock: i-i didn't get a word of that.
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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby Miracle_Falcon » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:42 pm

Rider4Z wrote:
VicBond007 wrote:There is no exception. A win is a win. What happened last year, was that a video won at a con, but it won after the submission deadline so it was still legal. The other contest coordinator posted the results by editing his contest's initial thread, rather than start a new thread, so the date of the post did NOT reflect the date that the contest results were announced. The "exception" was made to include said video since it was not in violation of any rules in the first place, we were just confused by message board trickery.

.... :shock: i-i didn't get a word of that.


A video was submitted to Otakon and won a contest after the submission deadline for Otakon videos, so it was still allowed in the contest.
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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby Rider4Z » Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:06 pm

...i'm reminded of a bit from The Road to El Dorado...

Chel: I want in... on the scam.
Tulio: Why?
Chel: So i can get out.
Miguel: I thought she said she wanted in.
Tulio: She want's in so she can get out.
Miguel: Ah, got it.
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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby -Corsair- » Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:24 pm

If you submit 60 fps, I will unfold the fields and interlace it for you to maintain the frame rate. Pain in the ass, but it can be done. I can only do this with avi's though, so if you plan on sending me a 60fps video, send it in this format to at least save me a step.


Meh, if it's a pain forget it.

Also, it says that you "STRONGLY recommend mpeg1-2"
will mp4s fare well? they have good quality and are nice and small... (i'm kind of a stickler for quality, sorry)
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Re: Otakon 2009 AMV Contest Rules

Postby VicBond007 » Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:08 pm

-Corsair- wrote:
If you submit 60 fps, I will unfold the fields and interlace it for you to maintain the frame rate. Pain in the ass, but it can be done. I can only do this with avi's though, so if you plan on sending me a 60fps video, send it in this format to at least save me a step.


Meh, if it's a pain forget it.

Also, it says that you "STRONGLY recommend mpeg1-2"
will mp4s fare well? they have good quality and are nice and small... (i'm kind of a stickler for quality, sorry)


mp4 will look perfectly fine.

Also, I just spent half a day converting someone else's 60p video to 60i, so now that i have a working script, doing another one should be easy as pie :)
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