If you need help with your technical questions you can pop me a PM. I will try to explain clearly why you have to have certain things. Since my brain is made of swiss cheese I may have to dig around for an answer sometimes.
If you look at the rules for AWA, our requirements are because of the equipment we use vs best quality we can get onto the screen. As our equipment has changed so have our rules.
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Vlad G Pohnert
- Joined: Tue Jan 02, 2001 2:29 pm
- Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
I can also provide some tech assistance if you have questions... The main reason I mention frame rates is once your contest starts to get lots of entries, the less work the better... For Anime Evolution I specify a number of acceptable frame rates as suggestions as in the past three years I've gotten just about every other variation that made it more work to conform the video the same standards as the rest. The more detail you can provide, the more is it hoepfully helps those submitting (one can only hope) so that the video is the best quality possible for the audiance to enjoy.
Give as many options as possible for submissions, but make sure you can handle them in conversion, etc. there is no point to list things you or anyone else on your staff can’t handle or not sure about.
The fact that you have listened to all the suggestions and are trying improve things is great! There are a lot who don’t bother and then things go wrong or the creators are upset over something preventable. I think what makes a good AMV coordinator is one who listens and cares enough to make the contest the best he can for both the audience (thus con) and the creators (wthin reason and convention limitations of course
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Vlad
Give as many options as possible for submissions, but make sure you can handle them in conversion, etc. there is no point to list things you or anyone else on your staff can’t handle or not sure about.
The fact that you have listened to all the suggestions and are trying improve things is great! There are a lot who don’t bother and then things go wrong or the creators are upset over something preventable. I think what makes a good AMV coordinator is one who listens and cares enough to make the contest the best he can for both the audience (thus con) and the creators (wthin reason and convention limitations of course
)Vlad
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Vlad G Pohnert
- Joined: Tue Jan 02, 2001 2:29 pm
- Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
I've been running Animethon and Anime Evolution's contests from computers with not even one glitch yet (the Netstream 2000 cards are so rock solid!)... For the contests I have two computers running with the play lists so I can switch to the other if one fails in seconds... I also have a DVD copy with a tested player plugged in... I use to even have a SVHS backup with player... call me paronoid, but the worst think possible is equipment failure in mid play... 15 years of doing tech stuff at conventions has cured me of thatdokool wrote:
Between that and the problems they had queueing VHS tapes, anything not professionally authored (i.e. pressed) has been banned from our venue, so we're switching to computers next year
Vlad
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Nimthiriel
- Joined: Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:22 pm
Okay here is what I think I know:
Bitrate is important because it is directly related to sound quality.
Resolution or Pixal quality is important because it is directly related to picture quality.
Framespeed is most important when transferring files onto a playable Video DVD format but not when playing a file on a PC. Since a Video DVD is one of the formats we are requesting then this should be taken into consideration when creating the videos.
Since DVD's have a maxium resolution setting no matter how high the resolution quality a video is made at the resolution cap will prevent the quality from being above that.
I guess I made the assumption that editors would want to have their videos on the highest quality possible so it wouldn't matter which is why I did not initially include these specifications.
Bitrate is important because it is directly related to sound quality.
Resolution or Pixal quality is important because it is directly related to picture quality.
Framespeed is most important when transferring files onto a playable Video DVD format but not when playing a file on a PC. Since a Video DVD is one of the formats we are requesting then this should be taken into consideration when creating the videos.
Since DVD's have a maxium resolution setting no matter how high the resolution quality a video is made at the resolution cap will prevent the quality from being above that.
I guess I made the assumption that editors would want to have their videos on the highest quality possible so it wouldn't matter which is why I did not initially include these specifications.
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Nimthiriel
- Joined: Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:22 pm
Vlad.....speaking of a cross between equipment failure and "stupid user" last year in our video room someone managed to delete the playlist. I like to wake up at weird hours of the night (3am) so I just happened to be there. So through quick thinking and audience suggestion we had a Doctor Who-A-Thon which packed the room more than anything I've ever seen.
I feel your pain.
I feel your pain.