AMV Information
Categories
Three maximum entries per registered attendee in any combination. You will need to submit a new form for each entry.
• Action
• Comedy/Parody/Trailer/Commercial
• Drama/Romance
• Uplifting/Motivational
Rules
Entries that fail to follow these rules are subject to disqualification. All rules are subject to change at any time.
• All entries need to register and attend Isekai Anime Con in order to enter this competition.Any videos created in whole or in part by a member of the Isekai Anime Con Staff may not be submitted, except as non-competing.
• Isekai Anime Con will be making title cards for each finalist, so we ask that your submissions not include intros, credits, lead-ins, or lead-outs not directly related to the video content.
• All entries must be in by 11:59 P.M. Mountain Time January 21, 2024.
• All contestants must submit their entries via the online entry form. Finalists will be voted on by audience member ballot at the competition.
• Any category which does not receive at least two entries will not be eligible for an award. Similar categories may be combined in order to have the minimum number of submissions.
• Entries that use footage taken from other AMVs will be disqualified. Identified plagiarism will be promptly disqualified to enter.
• Editors who are found guilty of submitting another editor's work as their own will lose their eligibility to enter the following year’s AMV contest.
• Videos should be new creations produced within the last year. Videos that premiered before February 9, 2023 are highly discouraged.
• Videos that have been shown at other anime conventions within 150 miles from Salt Lake City, Utah can't be submitted to this competition.
• Videos must not contain watermarks or subtitles that were not inserted by the editor.
• Sexual nudity, profanity and excessive gore/violence are not permitted.
• Corporate logos are not permitted unless they were in the original anime footage. Parodies thereof are fine, as long as it is clear that the original companies' trademarked logos are not actually being used.
• Special note for trailers: Bumpers that may have been present in the original trailers to identify the movie studios or other involved companies are NOT permitted. Parodies thereof are fine, as long as it is clear that the original companies' trademarked logos are not actually being used.
• Any mention of the MPAA is not permitted. Any trailer green screens must be obvious parodies and not mention the MPAA.
• Trailer/commercial-style videos have a minimum length of 30 seconds. All other videos have a minimum length of 1 minute, maximum length of 5 minutes and consist of footage edited solely by the entrant(s).
• The video component of each entry must consist of at least 75% footage from anime, manga, and video games of Japanese origin. Anime is here defined as: animation produced by the Japanese and originally released primarily for a Japanese audience plus special cases such as Vampire Hunter, Bloodlust, The Last Airbender, Afro Samurai, Miraculous Ladybug, and more (if you'd like to ask abut a specific show email us at events@isekaianimecon.com with the subject being "AMV question").
• Except for trailer/commercial-style videos, the audio of each entry should be mostly music. Audio from English dubs of anime is not permitted.
• Acceptable Video Formats: MPEG-4, AVI, WMV
• Resolution: Preferred is 1280x720. Minimum is 640x352. Maximum is 1920x1080
• Aspect Ratio: Use either 4:3 or 16:9, whichever matches your source material.
• Framerate: 23.976 and 29.97 are strongly preferred; 24, 25, 59.94, and 60 are also acceptable.
• Bitrate: Please send us the highest-quality file you can, subject to a maximum size of 3 GB.
• Acceptable Audio Formats: We accept WAV (linear PCM only please), MP2, MP3, OGG, AAC (/M4A), AC3, and FLAC.
Judging and Awards
After the submission deadline passes, our panel of judges will prescreen
and rate each video, and the top five AMVs from each category will be selected
as a finalist and screened during the convention. Finalists will be announced and notified via
e-mail on January 29, 2024.
During the AMV Contest screening, Isekai Anime Con attendees will have the opportunity to vote on which video they feel should win
each individual category. Once the votes
have been tallied, the winners will be announced at the conclusion of the
contest.
The Audience votes will decide the Best "Category" awards. If an entry does not make finals, it will still be shown as a non-competing entry on our social media and possibly at the convention too (as long as it is not disqualified for breaking the rules given above).
In addition to the awards voted on by the audience, there will also be a “Judges Choice” award.
Judges’ Choice Award: Chosen solely by Isekai Anime Con staff prior to the convention.
Winning the “Judges’ Choice” award will not disqualify a video from also winning an award from one of the main categories. Accepted videos that do not make the finals of the contest are still eligible to win the “Judges’ Choice” award which will be awarded to an entry we deemed worthy of special recognition that did not win the audience vote in its category.
Some of our prizes and awards will be donated by our generous sponsors. Exact prizes will be announced at a later date.