Quick questions about creators and contests...

Infinity Squared · Post by **Infinity Squared** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:21 am

Yeah, exactly what I think too... supporting budding conventions is always what I've tried to do and certainly I'll try to find a way to send off anything I can even it is on DVD... but of course, it also could mean less competition

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:48 am

Garylisk wrote:Because it's so inconvenient to hook a VCR up to your computer and hit "record" while playing your AMV through a SVideo or Composite out. Most video cards nowadays have them. However, I can understand if you don't have video out, not wanting to do it.

Exactly, I don't have video out, nor do I own a VCR any more. And truthfully, if I were running a contest in which I wanted to have the screenings on VHS, I wouldn't expect all the entrants to have them either. For better or worse, requiring VHS submissions will narrow down your pool of entrants.

Coderjo · Post by **Coderjo** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:44 am

Infinity Squared wrote:Yeah, exactly what I think too... supporting budding conventions is always what I've tried to do and certainly I'll try to find a way to send off anything I can even it is on DVD... but of course, it also could mean less competition

Except your DVD would not be accepted into the contest. All entries MUST be on VHS. No DVD, no VCD, no SVCD, no digital submissions, period.

Infinity Squared · Post by **Infinity Squared** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:44 pm

Crud...

*Infinity Squared goes back into hiding*

"support the little guys"

celibi87 · Post by **celibi87** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:54 pm

no i wouldnt. digital really brings out what the creator was intending with the video and puttinng it on VHS would kill a lot of the best parts of it.

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:42 pm

Sure, why not? I export my videos to a DVD-RW and watch them on my DVD player to check them anyway. my DVD player and VCR are right next to each other, and it would take literally 5 seconds to run a set of cables between them.

And there's always my H+ card, although I think I have that sitting up in my storage room somewhere

EDIT:

celibi87 wrote:puttinng it on VHS would kill a lot of the best parts of it.

What kind of videos are you making?

celibi87 · Post by **celibi87** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:45 pm

Kusoyaro wrote:
celibi87 wrote:puttinng it on VHS would kill a lot of the best parts of it.
What kind of videos are you making?

Its been proven that VHS has lower quality than DVD.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:11 pm

celibi87 wrote:
Kusoyaro wrote:
celibi87 wrote:puttinng it on VHS would kill a lot of the best parts of it.
What kind of videos are you making?
Its been proven that VHS has lower quality than DVD.

Nothing to prove.. it's a fact... tjhe problem I have with this prossess is that by first copying ot to VHS you loose quality.. them I assume the master tape for the contests id made by coying all the tapes to it.. another gneration loss there... so by the time it's on the big screen, that's two generation losses

Vlad

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:44 pm

To me, if a con is only willing to accept VHS submissions, that's saying something bad about either the con itself or what the AMV contest organizer(s) thinks about their participants.

anneke · Post by **anneke** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:44 pm

Again, I rather see a little loss in video quality due to having the contest on VHS only, then to try and force a contest/convention to accept digital entries that they can't handle. How many contests have you been at where the digital submissions were handled poorly? Bad sound, interlacing, other various issues with the video...etc...

The contest should accept what they feel it can handle.

Anneke