Animethon 11 Contest AMV rules and entry form now up

genestarwind21122 · Post by **genestarwind21122** » Wed May 26, 2004 8:23 pm

I'll send out my entries Friday.

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Wed May 26, 2004 8:28 pm

I have 3 videos that I am uploading. I managed to get 2 of 3 up there. If you want you can leave the files with DSP - in the title and wait till I get the last one up.

Ruadvin · Post by **Ruadvin** » Wed May 26, 2004 8:33 pm

I've got 2 I'm going to upload later tonight.

Onyyx · Post by **Onyyx** » Wed May 26, 2004 8:59 pm

Ruadvin wrote:I've got 2 I'm going to upload later tonight.

Oh oh! Son of a preacher man! do that one, its still on my hard drive its sweet!

Ruadvin · Post by **Ruadvin** » Wed May 26, 2004 11:41 pm

Hey, didn't even think of that one. Can I re-submit my entry form over the ftp thing to include a third one?

Onyyx · Post by **Onyyx** » Thu May 27, 2004 12:02 am

Ruadvin wrote:Hey, didn't even think of that one. Can I re-submit my entry form over the ftp thing to include a third one?

Far as I know you can, if you can't write over the old form your can probably upload a v2 (Version 2) of the form. Probably best to get Vlad's official word on that though.

One thing though, if its at all possible i'd re encode that video, XviD 1.0.0 final is out, thats just my recomendation though. Its currently in what? DivX 5.0?

It'd be kinda nice, we can go into competition against each other for the drama/romance category. I think your vid has a good chance too....unless the judges are all 17 and never listen to any of the good oldies.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Thu May 27, 2004 12:21 am

Onyyx wrote: Far as I know you can, if you can't write over the old form your can probably upload a v2 (Version 2) of the form. Probably best to get Vlad's official word on that though.

One thing though, if its at all possible i'd re encode that video, XviD 1.0.0 final is out, thats just my recomendation though. Its currently in what? DivX 5.0?

It'd be kinda nice, we can go into competition against each other for the drama/romance category. I think your vid has a good chance too....unless the judges are all 17 and never listen to any of the good oldies.

Naa.. the judges are not under 17 so no worries....Best to re-upload with a "-v2" if unsuccessful at first... Looks to be a good contest as the entires are flooding in with a one and a half weeks left till the deadline

Vlad

Onyyx · Post by **Onyyx** » Thu May 27, 2004 12:43 am

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:
Onyyx wrote: Far as I know you can, if you can't write over the old form your can probably upload a v2 (Version 2) of the form. Probably best to get Vlad's official word on that though.

One thing though, if its at all possible i'd re encode that video, XviD 1.0.0 final is out, thats just my recomendation though. Its currently in what? DivX 5.0?

It'd be kinda nice, we can go into competition against each other for the drama/romance category. I think your vid has a good chance too....unless the judges are all 17 and never listen to any of the good oldies.
Naa.. the judges are not under 17 so no worries....Best to re-upload with a "-v2" if unsuccessful at first... Looks to be a good contest as the entires are flooding in with a one and a half weeks left till the deadline

Vlad

Note that Vlad added the UNDER 17 part.

does that mean they ARE 17? Hehe, sorry Vlad couldn't resist.

On a serious note though, why is the contest preferring mpeg2 over other formats?

I've never dealt with Mpeg at all so i'm pretty ignorant as to how it compares to avi which i'm used to. I don't even know what the extension is for mpeg2, although that might explain why I didn't recognize the extensions on Ruadvin's files.

As one who is planning on entering more contests some time down the road should this be something I should be checking out?

I just realized that practically every other post on this thread is mine. .:Smacks self:.

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] · Post by **Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]** » Thu May 27, 2004 12:50 am

mpeg2 is the same format used for DVDs but without the scrambling. (CSS)
extension is usually .mpeg, .mpg, and i've rarely seen .mpeg2

Bst program to use is TMPGENC do a search on someplace like dvd-digest.com to get the 30 day free trial version. More on this is in the All things video and Audio in the guides section, including templates to make your encodes much easier to do without having to worry about using the right settings.

Ruadvin · Post by **Ruadvin** » Thu May 27, 2004 12:52 am

alright, going to make a version 2 of my entry form and upload my son of a preacher man as well. I did re-render it, after fixing it up a bit (thanks for the op, Onyyx

)

Also, yeah. As far as I can tell, the m2p is the extension for the mpeg 2. But there's also another of my vids for drama/romance category, but it's more along the serious lines. Having 2 vids in the same category isn't prohibited, is it? I didn't see anything saying it isn't, but I figured it's best to make sure.

Also, I'm not sure the first 2 uploaded correctly, so I'd appreciate it if you could check to make sure they're ok before the contest, if possible. If not, that's ok too.