Categories
- Action/UpBeat
- Drama/Romance
- Comedy/Parody
Every contestant can enlist at most two AMVs, each to a different category from those listed above (AMV can consist of more independent parts). While enlisting the AMV, contestant should specify which category he/she enlists his/her AMV in. Organisers reserve the privilege to reassign the category.
Following prizes will be awarded:
- Best AMV of AnimeFest - awarded to AMV with most votes from audience across categories
- Best AMV in "Action/UpBeat" category - awarded by votes from audience
- Best AMV in "Drama/Romance" category - awarded by votes from audience
- Best AMV in "Comedy/Parody" category - awarded by votes from audience
- Animefest portal award - (for Czech authors only) awarded by votes from portal users
- Jury Award
- Jury Award for personal improvement - (for Czech authors only) awarded to author who shows radical improvement from last year or created an extraordinary AMV above levels of common AMV production
General rules
- AMV contest is open for all citizens of "Visegrad four" countries - Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland and Hungary
- The contestant must be an author or part-taker of enlisted AMV
- The contest is open for individuals (AMVs which are work of a team can be enlisted by any member of given team but only once)
- The contest is open for AMVs which did not participate in previous AMV contests on AnimeFest
- When submitting an AMV, author have to list all applications and tools he/she used to created the AMV
- Organisers reverve the privilege to disqualify any AMV which they found to be in conflict with laws of Czech Republic or with good manners.
- The contestant agrees with publication of the AMV on a webpage (after the contest)
- Participation in the contests in not enforceable
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Deadline for submitting AMVs is April 15th, 2012
- The AMV should be submitted through web-form (contact amv@animefest.cz for alternative ways of submitting). After successful upload, fill the form to enter the contest.
- If you need more information, please, contact amv@animefest.cz
Technical rules
- Enlisted AMV must be at least 1 minute long (without credits) but not longer than 5 minutes (with credits). AMV must consist of video and sound track.
- Enlisted AMV must not have subtitles or have picture deformed, if it's not authors intention (TV station logos are accepted but may result in lower score)
- Enlisted AMV must not contain black stripes (letterbox or pillarbox)
- Enlisted AMV must consist of at least 70% of scenes from anime or manga. All used video sources must have a record on ANN encyclopedia.
- Enlisted AMV must not use other AMV as a source.
- Size of submitted file should not exceed 200 MB
Video:
- Video resolution should be 640x360 pixels at least but not more than 1920x1080.
- Suggested video containers: AVI, MPEG, MKV, MP4
- Video containers WMV and MOV are allowed but not suggested due to possible issues with playback.
- Allowed video codecs: Xvid, DivX, H.264, H.263, MPEG-2, Windows Media Video
- Video frame-rate should be at least 23,976 FPS
Audio:
- Allowed audio codecs: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, ACC
- Suggested sampling rate: at least 44,1 kHz @ 16 bit
Credits:
- AMV must contain credits with following: Authors name or nickname, used song (name and author), video sources (list of all used animes and mangas)
- Contestants should provide two versions of their AMV - one complete and one anonymous - without author's name. Anonymous version will be screened during the contest.