Anime Mid Atlantic AMV Contest Winners....

[Gene Starwind 21122]

This years contest was great and the Audience enjoyed it alot. I think this has been one of the bigger turn outs. Nearly 800 votes were casted for this contest by the audience. We had 2/3 of the room filled Friday and a full room Saturday. Thanks to everyone who submitted. I'll be posting the rules in November for the 2008 contest. You can expect the deadline to be sometime in late April or early May. I would like to have more time with creating slides and intros then I had this year to make an even better contest presentation.

And if you won a prize or are a runner up please email me so we can talk about mailing your prizes.

Here are your winners for this years AMA AMV Contest

Judge's Best Romance Award Runner-Up

Desire by Radical Yue

Judge's Best Romance Award Winner
Unrequited by buma

Audience Best Romance Award Runner-Up (2 way tie)

Haruko's There by Brakus JS Production
We Lived to Love by Dragon/Roy

Audience Best Romance Award Winner

Tamaki's Glory by Oreofaery

Judge's Best Drama Award Runner-Up

Dare to be Yourself by Lilyakka

Judge's Best Drama Award Winner

Someone by Dragon/Roy

Audience Best Drama Award Runner-Up

Ordinary by Adam Porrovecchio

Audience Best Drama Award Winner

The Sole Survivor of The Uchiwa Clan by darksaiyajin

Judge's Best Action Award Runner-Up

Shards of Faith by Jade_Eyed Angel

Judge's Best Action Award Winner

The Undeads by darksaiyajin

Audience Best Action Award Runner-Up

The Undeads by darksaiyajin

Audience Best Action Award Winner

Genkaiten by BasharoftheAges

Judge's Best Comedy Runner-Up and Audience Best Comedy Runner-Up

Code Monkey by Studio Hybrid

Judge's Best Comedy Winner
Audience Best Comedy Winner
Best of Show

Something Fishy by JaddizaDax

Con-Chair Award

Love Notes by Moonlight Soldier

Coordinator's Choice

Utena's Broken Heart by Ranmafan477 (David Warner)




I am proud to announce your Finalist for the AMA's AMV Contest...(In no particular order)

Romance

1) "Haruko's There" by Brakus JS Productions
2) "Tamaki's Glory" by oreofaery
3) "Desire" by Radical Yue
4) "Unrequited" by buma
5) "Star-Cross'd" by Scoob (Divine Illusion Productions)
6) "Stay with Me" by Krisqo
7) "Love Notes" by Moonlight Soldier
8) " We Lived to Love" by Dragon/Roy

Drama

9) "Dear Rosetta" by Moosephish
10) "The Sole Survivor Of The Uchiwa Clan" by darksaiyajin
11) "Dare To Be Yourself" by Lilyakka
12) "Utena's Broken Heart" by David Warner
13) "Fear to Love (A Heart's Yearning)" by Scoob (Divine Illusion Productions)
14) "Magician in the Shadows" by Unexpected Productions
15) "Someone" by Dragon/Roy
16) "Ordinary" by Adam Porrovecchio
17) "satellite" by jade_eyed_angel

Action

18) "Center Forward" by Yusf
19) "God Is A Girl" by Kevin Zeng
20) "Genkaiten (subeta wa watashi no bankai wo shiranai)" by BasharoftheAges
21) "The Undeads" by darksaiyajin
22) "Hazy Bebop" by Brakus JS Productions
23) "shards of faith" by jade_eyed_angel
24) "Mascent Malediction" by Valion

Comedy
25) "Kimi Wa Suteki ("You are Wonderful!")!" by Taifunbrowser
26) "Strange Brew" by Adam Porrovecchio
27) "Code Monkey" by Studio Hybrid
28) "80's of the Future" by Snapxynith
29) "Do You Wanna Play?" by oreofaery
30) "Something Fishy..." by JaddziaDax
31) "Coffee!" by Laughing Hack
32) "Jurassic Eva" by David Warner

The AMV Contest will take place on

Friday
4PM-6PM

Saturday
2:30PM-4:30PM

And I'll have the AMV Contest Replay on Sunday changed to a General Screening where all the videos will be shown. (Some videos from the contest may need to be cut to show the one's that didn't make the finals.) I want to have all the videos shown that were submitted. So if you are coming to convention you will be able to see your video on the big screen at least one time. I wanted to make sure you guys got that chance.

Sunday
Sunday 10AM-12PM

The awards will be handed out at closing cermonies on Sunday at 3:00pm. If you did submit be sure to be at closing cermonies. Even if you are not one of the finalist. I'll have something there for you as well.

Good luck to everybody this year. This has been one interesting contest to judge. Now that we know the judge's awards, its time to see what the audience votes for.

And we have an amv panel at 10pm Friday night.

Also an AMV Critique panel Sunday 12:30pm-2:30pm. Feel free to stop by and join in on the fun.


ALSO if you are attending the convention let me know ahead of time so that way I can get you an amv badge for the screening to get you special seating for the contest. I'm trying to organize a creator gathering at the convention too.

PRIZES AS OF THE MOMENT

WINNER OF EACH CATEGORY AND OTHER AWARDS MENTIONED IN THE PREVIOUS POST gets

-A stand-up plaque
-A Series or variety of Manga
-DVD's (will be coming shortly)
-Best Of Show will recieve a free badge for Anime Mid Atlantic 2008, and Anime USA 2007

Official List of Sponsors

Bandai Entertainment
Anime Hut
Power Gamers
Fudd's Rabbit Hole
Pandora's Cube
Twilight Comics
Crimson Orchid
(more sponsors to come)[/b]

[TaranT]

<strike>The other thread says "May 15". Is this a new set of rules?</strike>
Ignore that ....

[Scintilla]

- Non-Interlaced video (Progressive)

Is this even possible with MPEG-1?

Also, if we edit our video at 29.97 fps interlaced, does that mean we must attempt to deinterlace it when finished, or what?

[Gene Starwind 21122]

- Non-Interlaced video (Progressive)

Is this even possible with MPEG-1?

Also, if we edit our video at 29.97 fps interlaced, does that mean we must attempt to deinterlace it when finished, or what?

Forget I mentioned the Non-Interlace video part because they must have used something different last year. I'm using Nero DVD Burner to burn the contest to DVD. It has worked well in the past with videos that were submitted in these formats:

- MPEG 1 or 2
- HuffYUV avi
- Uncompressed avi
- Divx avi
- Xvid avi

[BasharOfTheAges]

I can throw you a link to the MPEG2 of what i'm submitting now, but how would you prefer the info? Is PM okay?

[Gene Starwind 21122]

Sure send me a link pm for your video. Also just copy and paste the info I require in a text document and email it to me at genestarwind21122@yahoo.com.

[snapxynith]

NOOOOO, BUMPERS CUT AGAIN!
I know why but still DUDE, you know...*sigh*
I'm STILL going to make one, but you'll just have to edit it out for the con again.
edit- or just see both with and have me submit the without bumper version *shrug*

[Gene Starwind 21122]

I appreciate it. It makes it less work for me and plus less blame on me because the quality of your submission is in your hands. I want this contest to go flawlessly if it can. Knowing from my past experience at panels. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong type of idea. So I got to be prepared for everything when running this contest. I have back up plans made just incase one of the DVD's decide to give out me. I'll have my computer with me just incase the DVD player goes. I want everyones video to be shown in the best quality they can be.

Gene Starwind 21122

Also we have 2 submissions so far and both are for Action. Keep them coming.

[snapxynith]

Right I know the method and the feeling.

[Scintilla]

NOOOOO, BUMPERS CUT AGAIN!
I know why but still DUDE, you know...*sigh*
I'm STILL going to make one, but you'll just have to edit it out for the con again.

Most cons' AMV contests do have this requirement, you know. It's pretty standard.

[snapxynith]

I'm very aware of it.
I'm also understanding of why they do it. Most don't put more than ten seconds of time into their vid for bumpers. I just happen to be a person that puts time into it.

And going through vid after vid with subpar info display does drop the contest quality feel. Making standard bumpers for the vids causes more of a cohesive feeling rather than an odd collage of videos one after the other with nothing more than a category breaker.

That doesn't mean I have to like it

[JaddziaDax]

i think that also depends on the coordinator... and what they want to do...

[snapxynith]

indeed

[Gene Starwind 21122]

Hey everybody just to let you know I am contacting different stores about sponsoring the contest. I have a few stores already interested with us and say they probably are going to donate T-Shirts, Wall Scrolls or DVD's. I'm still looking for more so I'm hoping we can have a nice amount of prizes for this year contest. I'll be posting the sponsors up here as I get them. I'm just waiting on the final word.

[Gene Starwind 21122]

UPDATE: The trophies I found out are going to be glass like trophies, similar to Anime Evolutions. I'll post pictures of them when we get them in April or May.

I am still working on getting sponsors for prizes. I have about 5 stores that are interested right now. I'll be working on getting more. (It's hard to get free stuff.)