Anime Central 2007 Rules

[SailorDeath]

Anime Music Video & Parody Contest Rules

Basic Entry Requirements:
• Entries made after January 1st, 2006 are eligible for competition.

• Entries sent to previous Anime Central competitions are not eligible.

• All entries must be in the hands of the contest coordinators by April 20th, 2007.

• Entries may not contain bumpers, title screens, credits, or any other forms of creator and/or footage/audio identification.

• Entries may be disqualified for the following reasons: Objectionable content of video or lyrics, bad audio or video quality, or irrelevant subtitles. Objectionable content includes excessive profanity, excessive violence, or sexually explicit footage or lyrics. If you are not sure if the above rule means your entry will be disqualified, e-mail musicvideo@acen.org and we can view the content in question and make a decision.

• 50% of the video must contain anime footage.

• Each entry must include a copy of the entry form and media must be labeled in some manner to identify the owner and its contents. Entries submitted without identification and entry forms will be disqualified.

• By submitting your video to this contest you authorize Anime Central staff to screen and distribute it under the Anime Central Music Video and Parody Contest title. Any physical media that entries are submitted on becomes the property of Anime Central and will not be returned.

• Anime Central staff reserve the right to disqualify a video or limit the number of entries within a contest category for any reason they see necessary.

• There is no limit to the number of entries you may submit.

• Music Video Contest Categories available: Action, Comedy, Dance/Upbeat, Drama, Romance, and Staff.

• The theme for this year's theme contest is "Faux Anime Intro" Take the opening intro from one anime, and then clone the intro using a different anime series.

• You may submit entries to our archive which do not conform to contest rules. Check the non-competing mark on the entry form. Please keep in mind there is no guarantee we will play such entries during other AMV programming blocks.

• Information about this year’s AMV contest, AMV programming, and other related topics can be found and discussed at the Video Programming forum: http://www.acen.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=15202

• Entrants must supply a working e-mail address. If you do not supply an e-mail address on your entry form then staff will be unable to contact you and your entry may be disqualified.

File Format Requirements:
• Mail entries will only be accepted as MPEG-2 or AVI files. Files will be accepted on the following media: CD-R, DVD-R, and DVD+R.

• FTP entries must be in MPEG-2 format and the wav file of your audio should be compressed into a rar file ( http://www.rarlabs.com/ ) or a zip file. Anime Central AMV staff recommends that you include a method to check file integrity such as a par2 file, sfv file, or a md5 checksum.

• MPEG-2 and AVI files must conform to rigid specifications outlined below or your entry will be disqualified. Please read the technical requirements carefully. If you have any doubts about your entry conforming to our specifications please e-mail musicvideo@acen.org.
• AVI and MPEG-2 files must have 1 second of black before the video starts and after.
• The only AVI codec accepted is HUFFYUV.
• Digital video file formatting requirements:
- 720x480 Frame Size
- 23.97 or 24 Frames per Second (Progressive)
- 29.97 Frames per Second (Interlaced)
- 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz 16 bit stereo uncompressed PCM audio (as a wav file)
- MPEG-2 bitrate must not exceed 15 Mbps

• If submitting MPEG-2, you may include layer-II stereo audio at 224 kbps or better muxed inside your MPEG-2 program stream but you still are required to send a copy of your audio in uncompressed form as a separate wav file.

Entry Submission Instructions:
• Mail entries should be sent to:

[Edit: Contest over]

• FTP entries:

The address is 208.66.172.243. Use anonymous login on port 21. Go into the pub folder. Unfortunately the account is a bit overly locked down so you cannot create a directory. This means upload your entry form and label your video with your name and video title! This will help me sort things out.

When raring (or zipping) the file be sure to include a text file with your name and video information. This will help us sort your entries easily. If you have already uploaded and have not included the text file don't worry about it, this is just for future uploads.

• Anime Central 2007 Contest Entry Form

http://www.acen.org/Acen2007_Entry_Form.pdf

Fill out a separate entry for EACH Amv you are submitting

[Koopiskeva]

Psst, can I be a judge?

[godix]

There is no limit to the number of entries you may submit.

That's new. If we do submit multiple videos can we show a preference for which we'd like shown in the very likely event extras are cut?

No theme this year? Or is parody the theme this time around?

[peropero503]

Psst, can I be a judge?

me too? peas? *puppy eyes*

[SailorDeath]

Oops that was from last year I updated it:

• The theme for this year's theme contest is "Faux Anime Intro" Take the opening intro from one anime, and then clone the intro using a different anime series.

[SailorDeath]

If you want to be a judge please post your intention here in the thread I'll take you as a first come first served basis.

[Reigna]

I'd be up for judging

[Koopiskeva]

If you want to be a judge please post your intention here in the thread I'll take you as a first come first served basis.

kickass.

[peropero503]

yay! for 2nd place :O

[SailorDeath]

There is no limit to the number of entries you may submit.

That's new. If we do submit multiple videos can we show a preference for which we'd like shown in the very likely event extras are cut?

No theme this year? Or is parody the theme this time around?

You can post your preference, but in all honesty we're going to balance the categories to try and get equal running times for each, which means if you submit a drama as your primary and a comedy as a second if we get 40 drama and 10 comedy, you might have your drama entry cut.

Also note, Theme is a seperate contest from the regular contest.