Otakon 2008 AMV Contest Results

Rinny · Post by **Rinny** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:47 pm

Brakus wrote: I liked how my entry kinda "stuck out" amongst the other entries in my video, with the sharp contrast of one "old-school anime" video going up against six relatively newer school anime videos. Afro Samurai, Baccano!, Code Geass, Gundam 00, Appleseed, FLCL.... and then DBZ?

Are you gonna upload yours soon? I loved it and voted for it.

Rinny · Post by **Rinny** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:54 pm

SecondChild wrote:Well I didn't expect to win anything, I was happy just to make the cut as a finalist! I did notice that the timing on my vid (Sex and Violence - FLCL/Firewater) seemed to be lagging by almost a full 16th note (this is not the case in the video I exported), I don't know if that happened because I encoded in Quicktime and it was then re-encoded upon reaching Otakon or what... does anyone know the best format to submit in? This was my first time. =0

They were definitely re-encoded, because I sent mine in in 16:9 and it came out in 4:3. It was lagging a little, too. I'm not sure what can be done about that.

SecondChild wrote: I thought Break the Chain was brilliant, but I must admit, I voted for "One Guitar". I hate hate HATE 80's hair metal, so any video that can make me like a Foreigner song is frikking AWESOME. xD

....I agree with you about One Guitar XDDD I thought it was awesome and more original than mine, frankly. I'd have voted for it, but I avoided voting in the category for the sake of fairness.

Jurodan · Post by **Jurodan** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:07 pm

I'm really hoping to find Fast Times at Furinkan High. I saw the AMVs at Otakon, and, frankly, I found it hillarious. I missed all but the last three of the Drama/Serious videos, so when I voted, I went for Break The Chain, which impressed me. And I loathe Death Note, to the point I didn't want to watch the AMV in the first place.

Baccano Swing impressed me so much that I'm actually looking for the series.

And I was wondering what happened to the Trailer/Parody section when I first heard about it, but yes, that does blow.

Comedy... I watched Yuri The Only One and somehow, I just felt somewhat cheap. I mean, I LIKED the song, but it just seems to tailor something like that to the crowd? I mean, maybe my opinion doesn't matter, but it just seemed... off. Anyone else think that?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:58 pm

Also, and I just remembered this: you can hold this contest up as evidence that <b>effectsless videos are NOT dead</b>, even in fan-voted contests. You will appreciate that the winners in Drama, Action, and Romance were all just cuts and fades (well, at least I <i>think</i> all the effects in Rinny's vid were already in the footage).

Rinny wrote:
SecondChild wrote:Well I didn't expect to win anything, I was happy just to make the cut as a finalist! I did notice that the timing on my vid (Sex and Violence - FLCL/Firewater) seemed to be lagging by almost a full 16th note (this is not the case in the video I exported), I don't know if that happened because I encoded in Quicktime and it was then re-encoded upon reaching Otakon or what... does anyone know the best format to submit in? This was my first time. =0
They were definitely re-encoded, because I sent mine in in 16:9 and it came out in 4:3. It was lagging a little, too. I'm not sure what can be done about that.

That may have been just a playback issue rather than a re-encode:

The Rules wrote:Please encode your video for 4:3 playback. This includes letterboxing widescreen footage ahead of time. Videos flagged as 16:9 will be screened improperly. We will letterbox what we can, but Otakon makes no guarantees that we will catch everything.

Bad Omen · Post by **Bad Omen** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:36 pm

Hey guys, n00b here!

Congratulations to all the winners, there were so many fantastic videos!

I'll be posting mine at some point, as soon as I figure out where I saved it to...(heh whoops).

Rinny · Post by **Rinny** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:58 pm

Scintilla wrote:
The Rules wrote:Please encode your video for 4:3 playback. This includes letterboxing widescreen footage ahead of time. Videos flagged as 16:9 will be screened improperly. We will letterbox what we can, but Otakon makes no guarantees that we will catch everything.

Oops, please let me clarify. I letterboxed it into 4:3, but no letterboxing was shown in the screening. So what should have been 16:9 came out as 4:3 anyway, which leads me to believe everything was re-encoded to be uniform.

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:01 pm

So technically I won if you add together all votes for my video and chang's(technically mine also) >.>

-That Steve Guy

Phantasmagoriat · Post by **Phantasmagoriat** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:30 pm

grats to the winners!
I need to check out some of these vids now.

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:49 am

VicBond007 wrote: Out of all of the videos in the category, only one made use of a movie studio's title slate. So, if this was the issue, the video could have been pulled and not the whole category.

that was ours actually :\ Aussie viewer ratings dont have a green screen of death like the yank ones. So knowing that internationally people wouldn't "get" our intro adds we used the studio one as it was a parody after all *sigh* and we've not had a problem with it screening at another convention (as exihibition or entry)...

Oh well thanks for the "not information"

HurQlez03 · Post by **HurQlez03** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:40 am

Autraya wrote:
VicBond007 wrote: Out of all of the videos in the category, only one made use of a movie studio's title slate. So, if this was the issue, the video could have been pulled and not the whole category.
that was ours actually :\ Aussie viewer ratings dont have a green screen of death like the yank ones. So knowing that internationally people wouldn't "get" our intro adds we used the studio one as it was a parody after all *sigh* and we've not had a problem with it screening at another convention (as exihibition or entry)...

Oh well thanks for the "not information"

Green Screen of death? My trailer AMV was the only one with the green movie rating intro. Maybe that was an MPAA violation. Then my AMV might have a hand as well in this.

Sorry.