Anime North 2006 AMV Competition Results

[DJ_Izumi]

Eva is to AMV-ing what the word "fuck" is to English vocabulary, you can use it for anything.

Can I quote that on the bumper if I do my 'Shinji Gump' trailer?

[azulmagia]

Eva is to AMV-ing what the word "fuck" is to English vocabulary, you can use it for anything.

Can I quote that on the bumper if I do my 'Shinji Gump' trailer?

Sure.

[Prodigi]

this is such proof that the mods don't bother with these threads :roflage:

Or the mods are having as much fun as we are.

this could be the only likely explanation : \

[Kieop]

But the "switching DVDs" comment should be clarified: We don't switch between DVDs in the AMV Competition. I know that the A/V staff switch DVDs between programming blocks, which can lead to wait times as the A/V department is chronicly short-staffed during the con (most people want to attend the con, not be stuck in a back-room somewhere). If anyone wants to lend their expertise I'm sure they would be more than willing to accept the help.

This comes down to an operational issue at the con, not the AMV Department.

Hi, I'll be the new coordinator for next year and I'd just like to reiterate what Initial B has said. I don't think that the AMV thread is the right place to be discussing operational issues, but I'll weigh in, since I also work in the AV office. The vast majority of screeners are on DVD; the video programming staff prefers DVD, so for video room programming I don't see that changing. I was also involved in Con no Baka. They used computers to run their video programming and for the video rooms that managed to get set up, including the all-day AMV room, it seemed to work pretty well. So I'm not unamenable to considering other options. But AN is huge, and DVD's are more flexible for managing programming on the fly, since computers would require one to set the playlist in advance. While running off a laptop is feasible for screening, it is not the most efficient way, since we have the Main Room set-up to consider and the judging format to accommodate. At CNB we ran the AMV contest off a laptop, and I wasn't too happy with the results. There appeared to be a lag as it was rerouted through to the monitor before going to the projector, causing some interlacing that wasn't there before. That could've been due to inexperience though.

Izumi is right about one thing. Theft is not a consideration at all. Every year the AV office experiences theft. Yet we still provide projectors, screens, big screen televisions and yes, computers for con use.

[DJ_Izumi]

But AN is huge, and DVD's are more flexible for managing programming on the fly, since computers would require one to set the playlist in advance.

What about the part where I said you can adjust the playlist on the fly and load new media onto the machine without interupting the playback? o_O The playlist can be changed at any point without anyone on the projector noticing at all.

At CNB we ran the AMV contest off a laptop, and I wasn't too happy with the results. There appeared to be a lag as it was rerouted through to the monitor before going to the projector, causing some interlacing that wasn't there before. That could've been due to inexperience though

Lag shouldn't happen unless the computer was woefully underpowered (Which should have been checked and addressed long before hand... But then agian, it's CNB, you really wouldn't have expected those things from them. -.-;;; ) and as for interlacing, I can only see interlacing being added if you were using the laptops TV out function to connect it to the data projector instead of it's VGA output, since obviously the computer would HAVE to add interlacing to the TV output what with it being NTSC. But if someone did that, they should be fired anyway, why would anyone use S-Video or composite video over VGA out from a laptop? o_o

[Ladymercury]

Wow, gone for three days and this debate, bitchfest, whatever is still going on.

[mikestrife]

As far as I noticed there weren't any problems with this years showing. The only video problem I noticed is likely due to the projector display settings being off.

I think it's much easier for con staff to run the AMV comp off a DVD then a computer, so many more things can go wrong with a computer than a dvd player.

The bottom line is that the showing this year was great. I really have no complaints. Maybe you should check out CN anime some year and see the technical problems that they have and don't care to fix. Then maybe you'll appriciate that AN put together a good looking amv showing instead tearing them down for not using your prefered playback format.

[Kieop]

Lag shouldn't happen unless the computer was woefully underpowered (Which should have been checked and addressed long before hand... But then agian, it's CNB, you really wouldn't have expected those things from them. -.-;;; ) and as for interlacing, I can only see interlacing being added if you were using the laptops TV out function to connect it to the data projector instead of it's VGA output.

Thanks Izumi, that probably was the problem. I remember the person whose laptop was used running around the next day looking for a power-related component. Friday night was a mess, and I got no AV support for the contest. I'm not very technical ; I got my job at these cons for my contacts, organizational skills and general appreciation for AMVs. Though despite the problems we had at CNB, the AMV contest was pretty well-received. It didn't look the way I wanted, but it looked good.

I also feel that this year's AN competition went very well. Any snag we may have had behind the scenes did not appear to affect the quality of the presentation too much, which is the important thing. The DivX experiment was a learning experience, and I look forward to making improvements for next year.