Otakon 2008 AMV Contest Results

Firestorm3818 · Post by **Firestorm3818** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:20 pm

Hello all!

Firstly, congrats to all the winners!

This may have been answered already, but there seemed to be an audio problem with a number of the videos when I was at the overflow on Friday and during the Best of AMV showing. I also noticed it a bit during the contest on Friday night.

It sounded like one or more speakers were blown or something was seriously out of adjustment with the audio settings (too much treble/bass?). My video during playback sounded awful when shown in the overflow -- the audio was crackling something fierce and like I said, mine wasn't the only one this happened to.

Was this a problem with the equipment or was this a problem with the way the audio was encoded with the videos? If it was the audio encoding, I want to make sure I correct this in the future -- my ears almost bled while listening to it :\

Anyways, great contest as usual! Keep up the good work!

Org Profile · Post by **VicBond007** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:36 pm

Firestorm3818 wrote:Hello all!

Firstly, congrats to all the winners!

This may have been answered already, but there seemed to be an audio problem with a number of the videos when I was at the overflow on Friday and during the Best of AMV showing. I also noticed it a bit during the contest on Friday night.

It sounded like one or more speakers were blown or something was seriously out of adjustment with the audio settings (too much treble/bass?). My video during playback sounded awful when shown in the overflow -- the audio was crackling something fierce and like I said, mine wasn't the only one this happened to.

Was this a problem with the equipment or was this a problem with the way the audio was encoded with the videos? If it was the audio encoding, I want to make sure I correct this in the future -- my ears almost bled while listening to it :\

Anyways, great contest as usual! Keep up the good work!

The audio problem was most likely DSL's fault. Our main sound was being patched into a tiny mixer with their crappy cable. The best I could do was babysit the server and turn the volume down every time things got ugly. This was a non-issue on Sunday.

freya13 · Post by **freya13** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:37 pm

Firestorm3818 wrote:Hello all!

Firstly, congrats to all the winners!

This may have been answered already, but there seemed to be an audio problem with a number of the videos when I was at the overflow on Friday and during the Best of AMV showing. I also noticed it a bit during the contest on Friday night.

It sounded like one or more speakers were blown or something was seriously out of adjustment with the audio settings (too much treble/bass?). My video during playback sounded awful when shown in the overflow -- the audio was crackling something fierce and like I said, mine wasn't the only one this happened to.

Was this a problem with the equipment or was this a problem with the way the audio was encoded with the videos? If it was the audio encoding, I want to make sure I correct this in the future -- my ears almost bled while listening to it :\

Anyways, great contest as usual! Keep up the good work!

It was a problem related to how the room was set up for sound, (as far as i remember) but it wasn't something we could fix ourselves because a different company sets up the speakers and system we were going through, in that room. I believe that Vic also mentions something about the scaler an stuff in a post above this one.

Rinny · Post by **Rinny** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:49 pm

milkmandan wrote:
VicBond007 wrote: The mpeg2 is letterboxed, which means that it was letterboxed at the con. However, it appears that when you encoded, you told tmpegenc that your source aspect was 4:3 instead of 1:1, and because of that, the footage is not letterboxed down enough (720x405 = 1:1, 720x360 = 4:3 compensated). I have never seen Death Note, so I assumed that the characters were just drawn that way to begin with.
I heard my AMV Critical Mass was displayed incorrectly as well? I am pretty sure I submitted in 4:3 with letterboxing, but i forget, it was a while ago, when i submitted my amv. Can anyone confirm? Wanna make sure that if there was a problem, that I fix it for coming years.

I didn't see any letterboxing on any video, even the ones I knew had natively 16:9 footage.

Firestorm3818 · Post by **Firestorm3818** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:18 pm

VicBond007 wrote:
Firestorm3818 wrote:Hello all!

Firstly, congrats to all the winners!

This may have been answered already, but there seemed to be an audio problem with a number of the videos when I was at the overflow on Friday and during the Best of AMV showing. I also noticed it a bit during the contest on Friday night.

It sounded like one or more speakers were blown or something was seriously out of adjustment with the audio settings (too much treble/bass?). My video during playback sounded awful when shown in the overflow -- the audio was crackling something fierce and like I said, mine wasn't the only one this happened to.

Was this a problem with the equipment or was this a problem with the way the audio was encoded with the videos? If it was the audio encoding, I want to make sure I correct this in the future -- my ears almost bled while listening to it :\

Anyways, great contest as usual! Keep up the good work!
The audio problem was most likely DSL's fault. Our main sound was being patched into a tiny mixer with their crappy cable. The best I could do was babysit the server and turn the volume down every time things got ugly. This was a non-issue on Sunday.

Thanks Vic, I appreciate the info!

NightMistress85 · Post by **NightMistress85** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:11 pm

VicBond007 wrote:
The audio problem was most likely DSL's fault. Our main sound was being patched into a tiny mixer with their crappy cable. The best I could do was babysit the server and turn the volume down every time things got ugly. This was a non-issue on Sunday.

Okay that explains it then. My video's bass in the overflow was so prominent that I could barely even make out the lyrics. But I didn't know if it was because I was too close or not. Sounded absolutely perfect at the prescreening though so I didn't think it was my file or anything then.

freya13 · Post by **freya13** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:30 pm

NightMistress85 wrote:
VicBond007 wrote:
The audio problem was most likely DSL's fault. Our main sound was being patched into a tiny mixer with their crappy cable. The best I could do was babysit the server and turn the volume down every time things got ugly. This was a non-issue on Sunday.
Okay that explains it then. My video's bass in the overflow was so prominent that I could barely even make out the lyrics. But I didn't know if it was because I was too close or not. Sounded absolutely perfect at the prescreening though so I didn't think it was my file or anything then.

that was also part of the fact that the bass was on the floor cuz it had to be, an their other speakers weren't powerful enough to make up for it (the ones in the air) the room has a bad bounce-back problem, but nowhere NEAR as bad as previous years : \

RolltheStampede · Post by **RolltheStampede** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:04 pm

Congrads guys and gals. I got to enjoy the full show. Sorry for the trailers.

Now lets get some shoes!!! LOL

JMI · Post by **JMI** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:12 pm

I feel a sprint to the front of the room to the comps for IE is mandatory.

RolltheStampede · Post by **RolltheStampede** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:23 pm

yeah that was entertaining though BOB gave them the time back