Show Off Your Creative Video Making Talents
Whether you're a novice making an AMV for the first time or a seasoned veteran, we would love for you to submit an Anime Music Video to our Contest. Awards will be given out to the top AMVs.
We look forward to seeing another year of AMV creations at Setsucon 2025, occurring January 31st - February 2nd, 2025 at the Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Please join us in-person if you can for a great weekend filled with celebrations of anime and Japanese culture, including numerous ours devoted to showcasing AMVs like yours.
Thank you for your interest in entering our AMV Contest. Check out our rules and policies below and take the time to read them carefully before submitting your application. If you have any questions, please contact our AMV Coordinator via the Contact Form on our website.
AMV applications will be open until December 13, 2024 11:59:59 PM EST. AMV entrants do not need to register for the convention in order to submit an AMV (although attendance is always encouraged). AMV finalists will be showcased during the convention weekend at our AMV Contest.
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Note from the AMV Contest Coordinator
----------AMV Creators, we wanted to give everyone a small notice. The rules for our contest allow a creator to enter the AMV contest only once. Though you'll see we've made some small tweaks to our rules and reorganized them, this is still there. As always if we receive additional entries we will ask which one a creator would like to enter into our contest and the others will be added to our Overflow alongside others that might not make the final cut. While we will always recommend creators select the video they believe is their best, we would like to note that the Action/Drama category is the most heavily contested and usually has to be limited. Please keep this in mind.
General Rules
Setsucon cannot wait to see your amazing AMV creation. However please be aware that there are a few guidelines you must follow when submitting your creation:
- By submitting your AMV entry, you grant Setsucon the rights to show your video at Setsucon 2025 and all future Setsucon events.
- A video may be accepted into the contest in a single year. You may not resubmit the same video in later years unless it was not accepted and any reasons for rejection have been addressed.
- Setsucon Planning Staff may not enter an AMV into the Contest.
- Exception to these rules and other rules will be made on a video-by-video evaluation.
- Organization of the AMV Contest, its categories, and its judging will be based on the number of entrants and is at the discretion of the Setsucon staff.
- Should Setsucon receive a large number of submissions, AMVs will be pre-screened to ensure as many videos can be shown within the contest's scheduled time. Any videos not in the main contest may be shown in an Overflow.
To submit an AMV, please ensure that you meet the following requirements:
- Anyone, both veterans and amateur video editors are encouraged to enter.
- Applicants must be 13 years of age or older.
- Multi-editor collaboration is allowed, but only 1 video submission per person or team. Any extra videos will be added to the Overflow showing.
- Attendance at Setsucon is not required, although it is encouraged. Attendance has no effect on your chances of winning the AMV Contest.
When creating your AMV, please keep in mind the following technical rules in order for your AMV to be eligible for our contest:
- Submissions should be an MP4 using x264/h264code at 1080p resolution and 29.97 FPS format if possible. All videos will be scaled to this.
- DO NOT include a title screen or credits anywhere in your video. We will format one for the contest using the information provided on the entry form.
- Please preview the finalized version of your video to check for any issues (sound quality, timing, disk errors, etc).
- Bad pixel quality, subtitles, watermarks, logos, etc., will result in immediate disqualification.
- The minimum time limit is 30 seconds and the maximum time limit is 5 minutes.
- The contest will use VLC Media Player for the show. Please ensure that your video plays smoothly in this player.
When creating your AMV, please keep in mind the following content rules in order for your AMV to be eligible for our contest:
- Setsucon is a family friendly convention, please make sure the content is suitable for a general audience.
- All videos must use anime footage, or video game footage, granted that the game originated in Japan.
- Audio from any English Dubbed anime is not permitted.
- No subtitles will be permitted unless you added them yourself. If it looks like a fansub it will be disqualified.
- Setsucon reserves the right to disqualify any submission for any of the following reasons: objectionable content in the song or video (language, hentai, etc.), bad audio or video quality, subtitles, lack of signed entry form, failure to adhere to the rules, unplayable on Setsucon equipment, or for other reason not mentioned as the staff deems necessary.
When submitting your AMV, please keep in mind the following rules in order for your AMV to be eligible for our contest:
- Links to a directly downloadable file for your AMV. Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Dropbox are preferred. Streaming sites (YouTube, Vimeo, etc) are NOT allowed.
- Please verify share permissions on your video before submitting (attempt to use your link when not logged into your Google/Microsoft/etc account).
- If you are unsure if the content of the AMV is permissible, please email the staff and then we can review the video and make a decision. Remember, Setsucon is a family friendly convention, so the content must be tasteful.
- If more than two animes or songs for your video are used, "Various" may be used in the appropriate space on the entry form.
Entries Will Be Accepted Until December 13th, 2024.
Learn More and Enter at https://setsucon.com/programming/amv-contest/.
