Anime Central AMV COntest Due Date

[Bakadeshi]

I will be sending in something definately, just been procrastinating on sending it in ;p

[Brad]

Could somebody answer my question? I need to know whether or not I need to plan to send this in so it gets there by April 1st, or do I just need to plan to mail it out BY April 1st?

[TaranT]

Could somebody answer my question? I need to know whether or not I need to plan to send this in so it gets there by April 1st, or do I just need to plan to mail it out BY April 1st?

All entries must be in the hands of the contest coordinators by April 1st, 2005.

I'm taking that literally, and keeping in mind that an extension is under consideration - maybe.

[trythil]

However I still need to find out how the HELL I make a VCD and how to make a MPEG-2 format vid (sad...I know...but I have never done it before :P )

Uh... why would you want to make a VCD? It's not on the list of accepted media. Just encode an MPEG-2 file and burn it to a normal data CD-R.

(I've done up a <a href="http://www.aquilinestudios.org/mpegforcons.html">guide to encoding your AMV to MPEG for conventions using TMPGEnc</a>, in case it helps anyone.)

Because I need to send one into Anime North as well and this is what they want.

You do know that DVD video is essentially a bunch of MPEG-2 files, right?

Just make a DVD-spec MPEG-2 and burn it twice if you're that concerned about making two different encodes.

[TaranT]

However I still need to find out how the HELL I make a VCD and how to make a MPEG-2 format vid (sad...I know...but I have never done it before )

Uh... why would you want to make a VCD? It's not on the list of accepted media. Just encode an MPEG-2 file and burn it to a normal data CD-R.

(I've done up a <a href="http://www.aquilinestudios.org/mpegforcons.html">guide to encoding your AMV to MPEG for conventions using TMPGEnc</a>, in case it helps anyone.)

Because I need to send one into Anime North as well and this is what they want.

You do know that DVD video is essentially a bunch of MPEG-2 files, right?

Just make a DVD-spec MPEG-2 and burn it twice if you're that concerned about making two different encodes.

Anime North needs DVD-movie discs "that can be played on a standard DVD Player". They're not taking "digital", not in the sense of simple files.

What dschlag007 needs is something to author movie DVDs...and a drive to write DVDs. Without a DVD writer, some software to create a VCD would be the next best thing.

Either Ulead MovieFactory or Nero 6 Ultra will do the job, although it's usually better to have TMPGEnc do the actual encoding rather than either of these programs.

[Bakadeshi]

However I still need to find out how the HELL I make a VCD and how to make a MPEG-2 format vid (sad...I know...but I have never done it before )

Uh... why would you want to make a VCD? It's not on the list of accepted media. Just encode an MPEG-2 file and burn it to a normal data CD-R.

(I've done up a <a href="http://www.aquilinestudios.org/mpegforcons.html">guide to encoding your AMV to MPEG for conventions using TMPGEnc</a>, in case it helps anyone.)

Because I need to send one into Anime North as well and this is what they want.

You do know that DVD video is essentially a bunch of MPEG-2 files, right?

Just make a DVD-spec MPEG-2 and burn it twice if you're that concerned about making two different encodes.

Anime North needs DVD-movie discs "that can be played on a standard DVD Player". They're not taking "digital", not in the sense of simple files.

What dschlag007 needs is something to author movie DVDs...and a drive to write DVDs. Without a DVD writer, some software to create a VCD would be the next best thing.

Either Ulead MovieFactory or Nero 6 Ultra will do the job, although it's usually better to have TMPGEnc do the actual encoding rather than either of these programs.

Doesn't Nero have a DVD author software with a 30 day free trail on it?
DVD drives are dirt cheap now... buy a samsung 16x Dual layer at Newegg.com for $59 ;p Best performance and quality you can get at that price.

[trythil]

Doesn't Nero have a DVD author software with a 30 day free trail on it?
DVD drives are dirt cheap now... buy a samsung 16x Dual layer at Newegg.com for $59 ;p Best performance and quality you can get at that price.

I suppose it's worth mentioning that a great, free and Free CD/DVD burning program that matches Nero in speed and scope is k3b, even if it's likely that the OP can't use it.

[edit: damn, I keep forgetting that it needs to be DVD-Video. Well, that's why we have dvdauthor ]

[Jester_Borris]

Watch for Priss LIVE! from myself, Jester Borris, to be coming to you by mail very soon. You'll love it. I promise.

[TaranT]

Doesn't Nero have a DVD author software with a 30 day free trial on it?

If you have the latest retail set - Nero 6 Ultra Edition - then you have the DVD authoring function (not a trial). I just tried it tonight for the first time: it works well enough. But I still prefer Ulead's MovieFactory which I've been using for a couple of years. It has more control options, for one thing. Also, the burned surface area from the Nero disc looks like it is 4-5 times greater than the burned area from MovieFactory - for the same video. I don't know what Nero was putting on there. Maybe I missed an option setting that would prevent it.

BTW, if you look at the specs for the newly released MovieFactory 4, it appears they are gunning for Nero's market. A bunch of new stuff including some minor editing functions. (Nero 6 already has a video editor that is similar to WMM2.)

[outlawed]

Could somebody answer my question? I need to know whether or not I need to plan to send this in so it gets there by April 1st, or do I just need to plan to mail it out BY April 1st?

All entries must be in the hands of the contest coordinators by April 1st, 2005.

I'm taking that literally, and keeping in mind that an extension is under consideration - maybe.

This is correct. That is NOT a postmark date.