Fast Editing

[Voices_Of_Ryan]

There is the French Online Iron Chef also where they have a full 24hours (I think) to edit in.

Yup.

24 hours non stop editing on a song chosen by a member of the jury (participants choose themself their series to edit)

: | Except when you fall asleep : O

[Roccket]

24 hours non stop editing

Non stop for yourself maybe :p

I think 4 hours is enough to make something solid (though it depends a lot on the song), if the anime is known. It's the source is unknown, you could add 1 or 2 hours.
Just my opinion.

[Voices_Of_Ryan]

24 hours non stop editing

Non stop for yourself maybe :p

I think 4 hours is enough to make something solid (though it depends a lot on the song), if the anime is known. It's the source is unknown, you could add 1 or 2 hours.
Just my opinion.

Umm, I forget how long the winner of ther French chef I was in took.
I think it was about 3 hours total?


Then again we all fell asleep for a few hours.

[Infinity Squared]

(so start time for editing is 2PM).... the creators would have had to finish their editing at 11AM..... All in all, thats 9 hours in total.

Ummm, no. From 2pm to 11am the next morning is twenty-one hours not 9. Even taking 8 hours off for sleep, food, whatever would still leave 13 hours to edit. More than enough time for a competition.

Oh my gosh and I call myself an Engineering student... I guess I can be excused in that I wrote that at 4:30AM Australian DST. I actually partially realised this as I was about to doze off at 5AM. *feels very stupid*

Yeah, I would have thought that 4 hours is possibly reasonable enough. As for anything 'decent' enough, it seems an hour a minute is a good rule of thumb, wouldn't you say?

[trythil]

Also, it's so loud in the room while they're editing that they can't hear their audio :?

Monica Rial, with her awesome noise-canceling-headphone-destroying powers, contributes to this problem. Her overall level of awesomeness remains high, though, so it's not all bad.

[Infinity Squared]

But let's say that the competition occurs in a convention type situation. Really, how can such a thing be entertaining for the convention goers? A bunch of people editing doesn't seem like much entertainment to me. Unless of course the judges and/or the Chairman is constantly making life hard for the creators along the process by attempting to distract them or making witty remarks.

[dokool]

Unless of course the judges and/or the Chairman is constantly making life hard for the creators along the process by attempting to distract them or making witty remarks.

That worked for us at Anime Boston, and it's the same formula we plan on following for Iron Editor 2005 (our own version of the Iron Chef thing, with slightly more hardcore rules than the others).

Other cons do stuff like show other AMVs and have mini-games for the audience. We plan on showing AMVs, discussing the techniques behind what the two editors are doing, etc.

What makes the audience interested is that while they'll go to the AMV Panel during the day and hear a bunch of editors sit at a table and answer questions, they can go to an Iron Chef event at night and actually watch how it's done. Some people told me that was an even better experience.

[Infinity Squared]

Wow... thanks for the information. Well, yeah, it's really no big secret that what I'm trying to pull off is an Iron Chefy type of competition. I've been elected as Manifest AMV coordinator this year and I really want to make it as big a deal as possible. The past few years the usual AMV competition was handled by someone who was also in charge of other things. Nobody has ever taken the job on its own until me.

So yeah, I'm really wanting to elevate the competition this year from the crappy spot that it came from in the previous years (last year they scheduled the normal AMV competition to coincide with the Cosplay competition and we all know how much crowd the Cosplay comp entices). Manifest AMV comp definitely attracts more than enough interest among AMV creators but the committee has just never paid it as much attention as I want to now. That reminds me, I have to announce here that I have opened the submissions...

Ah crap, I've gone off topic...

[trythil]

But let's say that the competition occurs in a convention type situation. Really, how can such a thing be entertaining for the convention goers? A bunch of people editing doesn't seem like much entertainment to me. Unless of course the judges and/or the Chairman is constantly making life hard for the creators along the process by attempting to distract them or making witty remarks.

For the past two years at Anime Central, we enlisted the services of a brilliant game show host (Greggo!) to keep the crowd entertained. We've also had people such as Monica Rial and David Williams (ADV Films' ADR director) to comment on the editors' work. They did a wonderful job: the room was packed, and remained that way for the two hours of the competition.

I don't know if Greggo'll do it again this year -- he has his reasons, which I can respect -- but I hope he does. He really makes the event something spectacular.

Something like that, I think, works better than just witty remarks.

[Infinity Squared]

Well, this will be the first year that this will run in Manifest. I guess I'm a little lacking in contacts to pull off such big things and I'm also a bit timid as to the crowd reaction to it first time around. I guess as much as I want this to be a big thing this year, it would still be relatively low key compared to what's already being done elsewhere in the world.

I've got till August to make it special so I'm researching how it's done everywhere else. I'm afraid I haven't had much luck in finding rules on such events online, so if anyone is able to lend me a hand and point me to a place, I would be very much in your debt.