TheAX AMV Contest 2009 Finalists are...

[milkmandan]

Do you realize you too are a huge part of the problem? If there is one person who is singlehandedly setting us back 7 years it is you sir. As all those "lesser" editors with their "crap" all come from that abortion you dare to call an "AMV workshop." If I had attended myself I would have probably drop kicked that arrogant smirk off your face right then and there. Those people deserve better than to listen to you circle jerking old men and talking about how great you once were, only to follow up with telling these poor people to encode to DV rather than lossless and de-interlace in Premiere.

However rather than indulging myself in drop kicking you in the face, I will take up your challenge and be sure to attend as well as submit to AX 2010. If only to to look down on a outdated old man who doesn't belong anymore. You are clearly what one would call "legacy rubbish." Decent once, but unable to get with the times.

See you next year Brad. Don't grin too much though as I might wipe the floor with you.

Wow you are just rude O_o its not even funny how disrespectful you are.
I was one of the people on the panel with Brad, and i assure you i am not an old man and neither is Brad.
We tried our best to answer as many questions as we could. I was dying for someone to ask an aspect ratio question so we could cover the topic.
I don't remember us telling ANYONE to encode to DV rather than lossless. At least from my perspective with editing on a PC.

i really hope the AMV workshop does not come off as a place for us to boast as I can assure you that is not the intention. we mean the best and to help those that really have no clue to start.

Comedy was the most solid this year with videos that had a good deal of thought and difficult editing.

I hope you are including mine as well (r0b07$) >_<, i respect you a lot as an editor and the videos you've produced, so for you to say that makes me happy~

The contest event on the staff side was run the best in years. It started on time, no technical difficulties, had a large turnout, and the pre-show AMVs were a great touch that I hope keeps happening in future years.

Props go to Micheal and his crew for this one.

x2. Very good idea Vlad. It doesn't make alot of sense for the general audience to be judging a category like pro that should be analyzing the entries on a professional and in-depth scale. And we need upbeat back for all the dance vids/etc. Just cut each category next year by one vid and you're more than half there guys.

x3 as well in regards to vlads suggestion over mine.

Well, the contest this year was the weakest I've seen in years. As it's been said with the categorizing fiasco aside, many of the videos lacked the substance and editing expected of an AMV contest finalist, especially for a contest that gets hundreds of entries.

wow good thing you didn't see FanimeCon's AMV contest then. AX was finalists were far greater than FanimeCon's. but fanimecon also messed itself up, by doing that whole themed thing, and switching it out in the end, extending the deadline, so they actually kinda messed themselves over :\ but yeah

No, I still want to see more amv drama!

hahhahaahaaaa i am taking it all in stride

[Pwolf]

Nio: Calm down dude...

If i were you, i'd download some of these videos and watch em yourself before reading into it :\ especially taking the view points of the critiques on this forum, some may be skewed. judge it for yourself

True, I probably should download the finalist and see for myself, but I do give some weight to certain people's opinions so I feel like it would be a waste of time >.>


Pwolf

[milkmandan]

True, I probably should download the finalist and see for myself, but I do give some weight to certain people's opinions so I feel like it would be a waste of time >.>

Thats cool, i am sorry about your video this year btw
its the Macross: Angel's Voice one right?

[MisterFurious]

Brad, I agree, but I didn't stop entering because they couldn't keep proper backups. I didn't agree with their decisions (wont go into it here). AX has always been one of the best contest i've enjoyed entering and it was hard to just stop.

And, I did step up to the plate and wanted to submit a "kick ass video". But the contest coordinator wouldn't allow it because it was too long, no exceptions. I waited half a year to submit the video and he wouldn't allow it. It's not my fault they don't want quality content.

My apologies for assuming you were one of the many who got sick of AX losing videos before the contest. I didn't know the whole story. I'm sure your 7:30 video is kick-ass, and it's a ballsy move to make one that long. Unfortunately, some other contests have even shorter time limits (Otakon's is 5:00).

This is a stretch, but have you considered condensing it? Shortening a 7:30 video to 7:00 would require a less than 7% speed increase, hardly noticeable (particularly by the general audience voting for it) if you adjust the pitch on the song. I used a similar technique to get "Signal to Noise" under the seven-minute limit, just for AX.

[XStylus]

A video in an AMV contest should be technically sound as well as well edited. Since AMV contests don't have awards for the technical stuff, one should expect that the pre-judging would weed out the videos that don't meet a certain standard. The fact that the AMV coordinator(s) allowed videos with obvious technical and editing errors tells me that they do not care about the standards or the presentation of the video.

Okay, I know you've judged/ran an AMV competition before, and that comment tells me that the quality and number of submissions each of your categories received is drastically different than ours.

There's a lot I want to say, but it's not my place to. I'll just say that we don't have the luxury of being picky (except maybe drama).

[XStylus]

I havn't entered a video into AX for a few years because I didn't like how it was run

And here is where you admit that you are part of the problem. I'm sure you're not the only AMV creator who became disillusioned with AX following the fiascos of the lost videos. However, by not entering, all prideful editors have opened the door for lesser editors to create crap and be rewarded with nominations and, in some cases, awards.

This, in addition to the bullshit "troll" rules of other competitions that make people hold out their best stuff.

It's simple math. AX needs to pull 28 videos from a pool of all entries. If that pool is smaller because people aren't entering, then the quality suffers. It's not rocket science.

BINGO!

Us judges aren't idiots. We know what a good vid looks like. If a substandard video made it in, it's because you didn't submit something better.

[LC_Lapen]

i admit i voted for The Goodship Lifestyle in action

And there was much rejoicing.

people a lotta time tend to forget it's called "Action SLASH Adventure". it's not all about hand to hand / mecha to mecha combat kinda stuff that qualifies for this category.

Thank you for reassuring me. I was worried that my video may have seemed out of place in the action, but upon reflection, it would have seemed even weirder in drama among the romance and somber AMVs. Sometimes it sucks having an AMV with no clear categorical classification.


Oh, and did somebody mention Tamales? I wants some Tamales.

Hot Tamales, Hot Tamales, ~

...

Chimichanga, Chimichanga, Chimichanga.

[machina21]

Oh, and did somebody mention Tamales?.

Wrapped in banana leaves plz!

[Manganate]

Do you realize you too are a huge part of the problem? If there is one person who is singlehandedly setting us back 7 years it is you sir. As all those "lesser" editors with their "crap" all come from that abortion you dare to call an "AMV workshop." If I had attended myself I would have probably drop kicked that arrogant smirk off your face right then and there. Those people deserve better than to listen to you circle jerking old men and talking about how great you once were, only to follow up with telling these poor people to encode to DV rather than lossless and de-interlace in Premiere.

However rather than indulging myself in drop kicking you in the face, I will take up your challenge and be sure to attend as well as submit to AX 2010. If only to to look down on a outdated old man who doesn't belong anymore. You are clearly what one would call "legacy rubbish." Decent once, but unable to get with the times.

See you next year Brad. Don't grin too much though as I might wipe the floor with you.

Here's a classic example of an societal casualty waiting to happen. Take a good long look people.

[Ryvannis]

Nio: Calm down dude...

If i were you, i'd download some of these videos and watch em yourself before reading into it :\ especially taking the view points of the critiques on this forum, some may be skewed. judge it for yourself

True, I probably should download the finalist and see for myself, but I do give some weight to certain people's opinions so I feel like it would be a waste of time >.>


Pwolf

Angel's Voice would have owned the Drama category to be honest, though I'm worried about mainstream opinion being a factor in that.
But really seeing all these mean comments about how weak the category saddens me a bit, some people actually tried and put effort into their videos, like mine for example.

There's no need to flame the contest like this either, let alone make outright rude comments about each other, whats done is done. I'm sure Michael will take note to improve on it for next year and I'm sure then the contest will be better then.