Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest Thread - WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!!

[Radical_Yue]

Dropped my form in the mail this morning before I left for the airport (Yay for Koopiskeva WeddingCon! ) so hopefully they'll get there in time.

@Ryyna - If you use the putter, you can accomplish anything you set your mind to. Except for dynamic. DYNAMIC DYNAMIC DYNAMIC!

[Chiikaboom]

I will send in my videos as soon as I get home from work!! Just.. 6 hours, 15 minutes to go.. >>;;

[Melichan923]

Lots of stress tonight. [insert lots of talk about compression workflow here.]

If I send it in the mail I can probably manage to fit a Lagarith on there if I downscale it. I do not have DL disks, just SL.

My hard drive is whimpering in fear over what you intend to send, Melichan.

If your AMV won't fit on a single layer DVD, there's something very wrong. I'm all about pristine video quality, but that sounds like an OCD level of effort there.

Well your Hard drive might feel better knowing when I downscale, the lagarith fits on a SL disk with plenty of space left over. The sync and quality look great to send along! My new problem? It plays perfect in every media player except VLC. *facepalm* With certain effects VLC totally skips them and just proceeds to the scene in front of the effect or gets laggy.

I don't think it's worth the risk either, unless I make note to only use the uncompressed for the contest if it gets in and put another MPEG or something on there along with it for the viewing but that seems sort of un-needed to do. I'm about to forfeit this quality battle, because you are right and I must get better from my AMV-converting OCD. I've been told in the past that I've been marked down for quality when I've used DVDs and tried my hardest to filter, so I'm trying extra hard to make sure things look good. But I guess my computer doesn't want to let me. It's paying me back for all the 8GB AMV renders I've been making.

I will send in my videos as soon as I get home from work!! Just.. 6 hours, 15 minutes to go.. >>;;

Also, congrats on finishing Chiikaboom! I have work in a while too and being there while I know I need to get this done will be killing me.

[BasharOfTheAges]

Lots of stress tonight. [insert lots of talk about compression workflow here.]

If I send it in the mail I can probably manage to fit a Lagarith on there if I downscale it. I do not have DL disks, just SL.

My hard drive is whimpering in fear over what you intend to send, Melichan.

If your AMV won't fit on a single layer DVD, there's something very wrong. I'm all about pristine video quality, but that sounds like an OCD level of effort there.

Well your Hard drive might feel better knowing when I downscale, the lagarith fits on a SL disk with plenty of space left over. The sync and quality look great to send along! My new problem? It plays perfect in every media player except VLC. *facepalm* With certain effects VLC totally skips them and just proceeds to the scene in front of the effect or gets laggy.

That's because VLC is kinda shitty. It's meant to play everything, not play everything well. Definitely not something that should even be considered to be used in a serious playback environment.

[XStylus]

That's because VLC is kinda shitty. It's meant to play everything, not play everything well. Definitely not something that should even be considered to be used in a serious playback environment.

I will welcome suggestions. I'm starting to become unimpressed with VLC as well. Apparently VLC relies on internal codecs rather than what codecs are installed on the machine, which is a recipe for problems. I'm about to tinker with KMPlayer.

[l33tmeatwad]

That's because VLC is kinda shitty. It's meant to play everything, not play everything well. Definitely not something that should even be considered to be used in a serious playback environment.

I will welcome suggestions. I'm starting to become unimpressed with VLC as well. Apparently VLC relies on internal codecs rather than what codecs are installed on the machine, which is a recipe for problems. I'm about to tinker with KMPlayer.

Heh, you need to avoid all those "trendy players" and just stick with Media Player Classic, it'll use the direct show filters and gives you better options.

[BasharOfTheAges]

MPC Home Cinema - honestly the best i've been able to find for home playback. I've used Quu's player in AMV rooms as well, and I'm quite fond of it.

[blaku92]

BAM! Mine's in the mail. Thank goodness that's done. Decided to provide a few good quality SD options since everything will be screened from a playable DVD anyway right? This time, things are going to be PERFECT!

[JD_Lord1]

I went through this codec/compression struggle about a week ago so I could send mine in early and avoid some anxiety. I put it in the mail last Friday and it still hasn't been received. Anxiety is starting to kick in...

[XStylus]

I went through this codec/compression struggle about a week ago so I could send mine in early and avoid some anxiety. I put it in the mail last Friday and it still hasn't been received. Anxiety is starting to kick in...

OH NOES! Gosh, I hope it arrives soon!

So says me as I pop Josh's CD into my drive...

I'm processing submissions right now. I'll be sending formal confirmation letters tonight after I'm done watching the vids and checking for issues.