Anime Central 2009 AMV Contest Rules & Submission Guidelines

[Cenit]

guess i will submit a new vid as well

[Moonlight Soldier]

I can't remember if I have an account on ngsilver's board or not. Is there any way to check? Or should I just make a new account?

[ngsilver]

Try to sign in first. If it doesn't accept that try to use the password reset function and see if that will return a result. You can also try to make an account. The system will of course yell at you if your user name is already in use. Beyond that, there really isn't exactly any check that you can do yourself. I can look at the user tables and see if your user name and email address is there, provided the ones you supply are the ones you used to sign up with.

If all else fails, just create a new account. If later we find out you have an account already both of the accounts can be merged. Just as long as you are not making multiple accounts to submit different videos to the contest.

[BasharOfTheAges]

12. You will receive the FTP account username and password within 24 hours.

Somewhere on the site or through an email?

[SailorDeath]

You'll receive an e-mail if the ftp information.

[ngsilver]

An advanced warning and announcement for anyone who is planning on using FTP to send in their entry.

I will be moving physical locations starting on April 11th and ending on April 15th. This will include the FTP server which will need to move with me when I make the move. I at this time do not know which of those days will be the day that I move the physical server, so let it be known that anytime during those days the server may be unavailable. I will work to make the move as quick as possible to lessen the impact upon users trying to get their videos in last minute. I will also try to make an announcement right before I take the server offline.

I am stating this now in hopes that those of you who are working on videos may decide to hurry up and submit them. Last minute entrants may find a crowded and slow server (the bandwidth at my new address will not be as fast as my current one) so it would be best that you get your entries in sooner rather then later. However if the impact is great enough I may allow use of a separate off site server in order to help with the demand, but will have greater restrictions then the current server.

As always, if you have any troubles let me know.

[Castor Troy]

Sent an ftp request.

[outlawed]

Just sent a batch of e-mails out directing people to check the status of their entry on the contest database site.
http://contests.ngsilver.com/login.htm

You can contact me if you have any questions about tech issues.

From now on e-mail updates won't be sent. Just check the site to know the status of your entry.

[Castor Troy]

Just sent a batch of e-mails out directing people to check the status of their entry on the contest database site.
http://contests.ngsilver.com/login.htm

You can contact me if you have any questions about tech issues.

From now on e-mail updates won't be sent. Just check the site to know the status of your entry.

Ugh, I need to fix the audio sampling frequency AGAIN?

[outlawed]

You weren't the only one. There have been a few MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 files with slightly off specs. I expected this with MPEG-4 since it's new this year and the video frame size requirements differ from MPEG-2 entries. I wanted to open up the submissions more this year with the addition of MPEG-4. It's a popular format and a lot of folks are using it now.

In general I know people may think I quibble on some of this stuff but there are reasons I drafted the reqs as they are. Ever since I was involved in tech at Acen I've had a pretty strong lockdown on those entry requirements. This has helped in several ways not just for our staff but those who enter the contest. You have a much better idea of what we need and the product you will see shown at the con because of those rules. Believe me. You want me doing as little conversion work as possible because I would not perform QC anywhere to the level that you can =p

I expect if it's an older video people are submitting they had the sense to keep a master version. Now some people don't do proper archiving of a master version of their own projects (which is sad after all that great effort and time put in but that's another story). In a case like that I would expect they contact us to at least discuss things instead of just randomly sending me stuff that is slightly "off" because they know hey con X took it so it must be OK for Acen.

At least no one has ever complained about me butchering their AMV so I must be doing something right ^_^

Of course now that I've been running off at the mouth here I suppose I'll have to be prepared for complaints after Acen about how I ruined some AMVs