AMV Competition

Eirtakon is pleased to announce our fifth annual Anime Music Video (AMV) Competition! This year brings a change to the focus of the competition; we will be abolishing the categories we’ve had in previous years and will now giving awards based on aspects of the video so that all the best videos can compete with each other.

Awards

• Best Overall Video
• Best Editing
• Best Choice of Music
• Best Newcomer

Judging Criteria

All entries will be judged on the following criteria:

• Video and sound quality
• Originality
• Entertainment value
• Editing
• Effort
• Sync to music

Rules

Any entry that does not conform to these rules will not be accepted.

• Any entrant found to have used part of or the entirety of another person's video will be disqualified and banned from future competitions.
• There is a maximum of three entries per person - collaborative entries count as one entry per person involved.
• All entries must be submitted by October 31st, 2012.

Video Content Restrictions

• The video must be suitable for a PG-13 audience, and must not contain any graphic sexual content.
• The video must be all original work. Any entry found to have used part or the entirety of another person's video will be disqualified and the entrant banned from future competitions.
• The video must not contain any title screens, logos, credits or introductions either before or after the main video. Any of these left in the video will be cut out prior to showing - if they cannot be effectively cut out, the entry will be disqualified.
• The video must not contain any hard-inserted subtitles or watermarks. Subtitles may be left in a subtitle track.
• All content in the video must be animated - hand drawn, cell shaded, CGI, etc.
• Video game cut scenes are allowed provided they are anime-themed or anime-styled.

Video File Restrictions

• The video file must be under 5 minutes in length.
• The video file should be rendered in widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio (with pillarboxing if required), with a framerate of 29.97fps or 30fps. Videos submitted as 4:3 aspect ratio with letterboxed 16:9 content will not be zoomed.
• The following file types are allowed: .avi, .divx, .m2ts, .mkv, .mp4, .mpg, .mpeg, .wmv
• The following codecs are recommended: AVI, DivX, MPEG-2, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, WMV9, Xvid

How to Enter

To enter please submit the following information:

• Your real name and age
• Whether or not you have entered our AMV competition before
• The title of the anime(s) used in the AMV
• The title and artist of the music track(s) used in the AMV
• A link to the raw file

All entrants must prepare their AMV and submit it before the convention as we will not have time over the weekend to judge all the entries.

All submissions must be made electronically. All entrants must upload the video to some web space, a free hosting site or a video streaming site that allows downloads without registration - Eirtakon will not host the files on our server. YouTube is not permissable, as entries are judged on video and sound quality, so the original file is required.

To submit your entry, please e-mail amv-submissions(at)eirtakon.com, or select "AMV Competition Submissions" on our contact form. If you need somewhere to host your video we recommend using DropBox, or alternatively you might use SendSpace or AnimeMusicVideos.org.

Please do not enter if you do not intend to attend the convention! All of Eirtakon 2012's events are only open to attendees. If you are not at the closing ceremony when the winner is announced you will not receive a prize unless you inform the committee in person that you cannot attend.

The three finalists for each award will have their videos shown at the convention on Sunday, before the winners are announced at the closing ceremony.