Anime Crossroads 2015 AMV/MV Contest *WINNERS*

[Fay-Sa]

Okay I'm finally back. So I talked to Richard aka tech and now that I know what we have to use in both main room and the video/amv room please add at least 3 seconds of space before and after the video. You have till the 7th of February it's doesn't take that long to re-render a video with 6 extra seconds.

Also we will have a 'Expo' showing so if you don't wish to submit to the contest please tell me in the subject line you wish for it to be shown during expo instead.

[Dvl-Jigen]

Sent an entry in, I'll be sending another in once I finish it.

[Sephirothskr]

Going to send one in as well in the following days.

[Fay-Sa]

Deadline a month from today! Send in those video asap!

[GloryQuestor]

Where can I enter?
At this time we are only accepting digital entries via file sending sites such as http://mega.co.nz/ or other such sites that do not require a membership to download the files or thru your own web hosting site. For more information please look at our “How do I Enter?” section of the rules.

*Do not send me a link to your video on the Org or Youtube*

Um... if I wanted to, why can't I send you a link on the Org? You are a member of the Org, and anyone you have who can collect videos can join the Org membership for free and download files from here. If it's hosted here, and membership is free and you are able to download what you need, why should it be put it up somewhere else?

[UnluckyArtist]

Where can I enter?
At this time we are only accepting digital entries via file sending sites such as http://mega.co.nz/ or other such sites that do not require a membership to download the files or thru your own web hosting site. For more information please look at our “How do I Enter?” section of the rules.

*Do not send me a link to your video on the Org or Youtube*

Um... if I wanted to, why can't I send you a link on the Org? You are a member of the Org, and anyone you have who can collect videos can join the Org membership for free and download files from here. If it's hosted here, and membership is free and you are able to download what you need, why should it be put it up somewhere else?

I guess it's for the convenience of a direct download link opposed to one that redirects you to where two or three identical links are, it just saves them time cause all they're trying to do at that point is collect the videos.

[GloryQuestor]

Um... if I wanted to, why can't I send you a link on the Org? You are a member of the Org, and anyone you have who can collect videos can join the Org membership for free and download files from here. If it's hosted here, and membership is free and you are able to download what you need, why should it be put it up somewhere else?

I guess it's for the convenience of a direct download link opposed to one that redirects you to where two or three identical links are, it just saves them time cause all they're trying to do at that point is collect the videos.

What do you mean, "identical links"? The Org's method of getting videos is, and always was, straightforward:

1. Click the green "Local" link on the creator's description page;
2. Click the "Proceed" button to bypass the donation page (unless you donated, then you never see that page);
3. Wait for the file download to begin, and save it.

Just want to know why Crossroads' rules are excluding Org links/downloads. >_>

[Fay-Sa]

We don't allow Org links because more often than not videos that are hosted on this site are not 'contest' ready. By that I mean they include credits which are not allowed or they do not have the required blank space before and after the video among other things. This happened with a few videos a couple years ago and we weren't to happy about it so that rule was added. I was under the impression that asking those to submit their videos to AMV contest via ether the contest own server or a file sharing site instead of using the Org was common or have I been wrong this whole time?

It also does make things not only A LOT easier for me, being the only one who directly handles AMVs and anything AMV related for the con, but for the other con directors as well to keeping it organized. I'm not gonna make the other directors join this site if they don't want it when they already have access to the contest email.

[BasharOfTheAges]

The contest taking the responsibility to have their own upload capability used to be the norm. Sadly, that has started to go away.

[Gene Starwind 21122]

Personally I have had editors forget to add a blank space in the video so in order to create that gap I just make 2 second blank video before and after. I don't touch the editors video, but they are indepent from the video when I burn the DVD or put them in the playlist to give it that gap.

As far as credits I had editors that left them in before and it is easy to fix that with VLC, the Tekkoshocon crew was able to help me out this year and we had no video issues.

So I'm not sure why these are still issues when there are easy work arounds.

Gene