Nekocon 2009 Submission deadline October 1 2009

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Re: Nekocon 2009 Submission deadline October 1 2009

Post by drewaconclusion » Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:12 pm

deuceloosely wrote:For those of you who still need to upload, you have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to do it.

Sheesh. I had stopped reading the thread days ago after realizing I had missed the deadline. Had I known it got extended, I would've sent in a new video.
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Re: Nekocon 2009 Submission deadline October 1 2009

Post by Squancho » Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:13 pm

drewaconclusion wrote:
deuceloosely wrote:For those of you who still need to upload, you have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to do it.

Sheesh. I had stopped reading the thread days ago after realizing I had missed the deadline. Had I known it got extended, I would've sent in a new video.
No extensions...we only allow the extra days for receiving entries mailed in / requested for FTP on the last day. If you didn't mail or request an FTP account by October 1, you were out of luck.

And seriously...the guidelines clearly state we ONLY accept mpeg2 yet we have quite a few AVI and MP4 entries coming in. Why??? :nono: Frustration, people. Not a good thing when on such a tight schedule... :down:
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Re: Nekocon 2009 Submission deadline October 1 2009

Post by Squancho » Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:26 pm

Just a quick update.

The "tentative" scheduled times for the AMV contest programming:
Friday showing: 3pm
Saturday showing: 1pm
Award Show: Saturday 4:30pm
Overflow Screening: ??? (I didn't get the times for that :oops: )
There may still be a Sunday Award Show replay so stay tuned.

If I'm wrong about any of the times, I'm sure lilith2003tr can correct me on that. They should be within a half-hour of the actual scheduled time if I'm off. ;)
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Re: Nekocon 2009 Submission deadline October 1 2009

Post by gotenks794 » Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:59 pm

I never got a confirmation....is this bad or am I just paranoid?
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Re: Nekocon 2009 Submission deadline October 1 2009

Post by Onibakun » Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:09 pm

Hey... when will we know who makes the cut for teh contest?

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Re: Nekocon 2009 Submission deadline October 1 2009

Post by Squancho » Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:12 pm

gotenks794 wrote:I never got a confirmation....is this bad or am I just paranoid?
We just had our final general pre-con staff meeting yesterday, so I imagine our DH was able to get the FTP info necessary to extract all received files and data. For the time, I suggest you PM me with your name so we can check.

The same goes for any of you who have yet to receive confirmation that we have your video. :sweat:

As far as finalists, give us a chance to set up the screening / scoring first. The FTP only closed Wednesday morning... :amv:
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Re: Nekocon 2009 Submission deadline October 1 2009

Post by Adv1sor » Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:13 pm

deuceloosely wrote:As far as finalists, give us a chance to set up the screening / scoring first.
The heck with all that! Just tell us who's in! :)

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Re: Nekocon 2009 Submission deadline October 1 2009

Post by Squancho » Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:54 am

UPDATE:
We will be screening for finalists Friday evening at 6:30pm.
Shortly thereafter, we will have an official lot of contestants.
After which, we will post the list of finalists here.
Then you can sweat it out until after NekoCon is over. :P

That is all for now...
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Re: Nekocon 2009 Submission deadline October 1 2009

Post by Squancho » Sun Oct 25, 2009 1:49 am

After viewing all the entrants in this year's AMV contest, I really have to wonder about some people (for different reasons).

When we say in the rules, "No credits or bumpers," we mean it! This is for purposes of keeping studio names and online aliases out of view. Yes, believe it or not, it does sway some people's votes. the credits get in the way when they're hard-edited into the video - very distracting.

When we say in the rules, "No watermarks or logos of any kind,"...that should go without saying! There's no excuse for leaving DivX watermarks on your final renders. And it doesn't help much to blur out or mask whatever logos exist on your source video. :nono: From even a casual viewer's perspective, once a watermark / logo or any trace of one appears the first time we're no longer watching the video. We're waiting to see if what we thought we saw will appear again.

But then some of you turned in videos which made me wonder what you were on when you dreamed these ideas up (but in a good way). :lol:

Personally, I see Romance and Action as being the most competitive categories this year. I'm not gonna fake it: these categories were very tough to score. I wouldn't be surprised to find there had to be a "run-off" of some kind to narrow the fields to 7.

Our DH was doing the math on the score sheets as I left so we should have a list of the finalists here within the next couple of days, I think. I'm as anxious as the rest of you to find out who's in.

To be continued... :sweat:
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Re: Nekocon 2009 Submission deadline October 1 2009

Post by Nya-chan Production » Sun Oct 25, 2009 9:30 am

I forgot the other vid I submitted D:
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