*** AMV ORG GUIDE*** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Contents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Contents II. Updates III. FAQ IV. Downloading V. Effective Search Methods For Videos VI. Uploading VII. Editing Video Info VIII. Star Scale IX. Making Avatars X. Making Sigs XI. Posting Images In The Forum XII. Legal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Updates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 24 2004 Updated FAQ August 12 2004 Finished building the site. My image host went down for awhile delaying progress for a day or 2. I'm done though, and now need some sleep. August 8 2004 Started building this site. It's going to take a lot of work but it'll be much better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. FAQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q. Whenever I try to download a video the save window doesn't appear, what should I do to fix this? A. Enable JavaScript, turn off any pop-up blockers, or download helpers. Q. Whenever I go to the download page, it takes me back to the main members page, what should I do? A. Turn off your cookies Q. How do I find good videos? A. Go to the top 10% on the right of the main members page. Q. How do I make a banner for the org? A. Go to www. animemusicvideos.org/banners. The process is straight forward, so there shouldn't be any problems. If you're having trouble feel free to pm me. Q. How do I add links in my profile or video information page? A. Use html instead of BBcode < a href="link" >text you wish to insert< /a >. (When actually doing this, don't use spaces.) Q. How do I add a new studio to the list of studios? A. Log in, then go to "edit my profile." Click new studio, and type in the new studio name. Finally click add. Q. How do I view local videos I downloaded? A. Log in, and then go to "My downloads". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Downloading ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember to donate if you can! Direct Videos 1. Click "Search For AMVS" 2. Click the "Super Search Button" 3. Fill out the info that you know 4. Click the search button 5. Click proceed 6. Pick your direct video. Be sure to click on the video name, not the author 7. Left click on the green "Direct". Or right click, then left click "save target as" 8. Pick the correct folder and click save 9. Your video will now start downloading Local Videos *****Note there is a two week waiting period for new members***** 1. Fill in your login info and click "login" 2. Click the "Search For AMVS" button on the bottom left 3. Click the "Super Search Button" 4. Click proceed 5. Fill out the info that you know 6. Click the search button 7. Pick your local video. Be sure to click on the video name, not the author 8. Left click on the green "Local" 9. Click proceed 10. Click save 11. Pick the correct folder and click save 12. Your video will now start downloading Indirect Videos 1. Click "Search For AMVS" 2. Click the "Super Search Button" 3. Fill out the info that you know 4. Click the search button 5. Pick your indirect video. Be sure to click on the video name, not the author 6. Left click on the blue indirect 7. Browse around until you find a link to the video 8. Left click on the link or right click and "save target as" 9. Click save 10. Choose a folder to put the video in and click save 11. Your video will now start downloading ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Effective Search Methods For Videos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Anime - Name of Anime - Ex: Rurouni Kenshin 2. Musical Artist - Name of Musical Artist - Ex: Linkin Park 3. Song - Name of Song - Ex: Crawling 4. Member - Name of the creator of the video - Ex: Moonslayer 5. Studio - Name of Studio. A studio is a group of people who get together to make an amv with a certain theme. - Ex: Ermac 6. Category - The type of video, such as comedy or drama. - Ex: Romance 7. Title - Name of video - Ex: Crawling in my Skin 8. Comments - If you type in a word here it will most likely show up in the video description. So for instance if you want to find a video that has been in a contest such as Otakon, type Otakon in, and the creator should have something about Otakon in his/her description, whether they participated or won. - Ex: Otakon 9. Download - Download lets you choose among what type of download method you want.- Ex: Local, will only show vids on the orgs server. 10. Participation - This will only show videos that have appeared in that contest. - Ex: Otakon 11. Premiered - Premiered is the date it was put up on the org. - Ex: 2002 12. Media - Media is the format the video was encoded in. - Ex: MPEG 13. Order by - Order by will arrange it in a certain way.- Ex: Descending will arrange it in backwards alphabetically, either by member or title. 14. Recent - Recent will show videos in the past “whatever you pick days”. - Ex: Last 2 days will only show videos entered in the last 2 days 15. Now click the search button at the bottom of the page to begin your search. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. Uploading ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: You can do this using an ftp program. You can get a free at http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ 1. Fill in your login info and click "login" 2. Click "enter new video" 3. Check the box and click continue 4. Fill in your videos info and click continue 5. Choose and artist from the list or click "new artist" 6. Choose the song and click add 7. Now click continue 8. Pick the letter your anime starts with 9. Check either "s" or "i" by your anime depending on if it has spoilers, or is simply in the video. If your anime is not on the list click "new anime." 10. Click add 11. Click continue *****Leave the link address blank for now if you're locally uploading. The system should pick up bit rate, time, and file type so you don't have to fill that in either. The system so far can only detect mpeg. In the future it may pick up the rest, such as DivX. If not then type the link that goes to your video and select "Direct Link.". Or type the link to your webpage with the video and select "Indirect Link"**** 12. Fill your info out and click add 13. Click continue ****If your video was in a contest follow the next two steps, if not click continue.****** 14. Check the contest and click add 15. Click continue If you would like to credit someone follow the next 3 steps, if not click finish 16. Type in the username or studio and click display 17. Click add 18. Click finish 19. Go to the member's main page ( the page you first get to when you login ) and click upload video 20. Check the box and pick the video you want to upload 21. Click "request upload permission" 22. Write down the info 23. Go to the ftp address you were given 24. Type in the username and password you were given and click login 25. Drag your video into the ftp folder 26. Your file will start uploading 27. When it's done close the ftp window 28. Go back to amvorg and fill in your login info, then click login 29. Click "confirm video" 30. Click on the blue video link 31. Click save 32. Click save again 33. Your video will start downloading 34. Now that you can see it works, press cancel 35. Check the circle next to the video link 36. Click confirm video 37. Your video is now uploaded ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. Editing Video Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If at any time you want to edit or delete info, click the edit or delete buttons 1. Fill in your login info and click "login" 2. Click edit my videos 3. Choose the video you want to edit 4. A. In the title area fill in the name of your amv B. For Date Premiered enter when it appeared on the org C. Pick a category. You can pick more than one D. For technical details, if your video has them, check the box/s E. If you have a studio select one 5. Click continue ******Somethings are not editable. If you want them to be edited you need to request. To find out how to request, please follow the next 4 steps.******* 6. After logging in and coming to the edit videos section click on "Request Change Of Lock Video Information" 7. Pick the video 8. Choose the problem 9. Click submit ******If you have your video locally updated leave everything blank, the system will pick up video info. ( The system currently can only do this for mpeg files, so if yours isn't mpeg, than just fill out file size. )***** 10. In link, type in the address of your video 11. For the format pick the type of video it is ex: avi mpg 12. For the codec choose the compression ex: divx 13. For the bitrate choose your bitrate ex:1000k 14. For the type of link choose direct ( will download upon clicking ), or indirect ( takes you to a page with the video link ) 15. For duration, insert the time of your video 16. Click add 17. Click continue ****If your video was in a contest follow the next two steps, if not click continue.****** 18. Check the contest and click add 19. Click continue If you would like to credit someone follow the next 3 steps, if not click finish 20. Type in the username or studio and click display 21. Click add 22. Click finish ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIII. Star Scale ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What are stars? Stars are basically an opinion of the video without comments just scores. When you download a local video you can give the video a star score of 1,2,3,4, or 5. ( 1 being the lowest ). Do I have to give out stars? Yes, or your downloading privileges will be taken away. Step 1: Giving out stars 1. Fill in your login info and click login 2. Click my downloads 3. Choose a rating 4. Click "update my stars" 5. Your stars are now updated Step 2: View received stars 1. Fill in your login info and click login 2. Click edit my videos 3. Check your stats Step 3: View Videos with the highest amount of stars. ( Or star version of top 10% videos. ) 1. Fill in your login info and click login 2. Click "Top Star Scale" on the right 3. Click the "all time star scale list" or choose a week ( the most recent at the top ) 4. A. Click a video to find out more about it B. Click a number to skip to a certain page C. Click "next 100" to go to the next page of videos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IX. Making Avatars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step 1: Uploading an image on the org 1. Open MS paint 2. Click file then open 3. Select the image you want to use, then click open 4. Click edit then "select all" 5. Click on the bottom right corner and drag your image in a northwest direction, until it is 80x80 or less in pixels. This will be indicated on the bottom right. 6. Now drag your canvas ( white background ) until it is the same size as your image. 7. Now click file and "save as" 8. Put it in the proper folder, name it, select the proper format, and click save. 9. Go to the forum and click your profile 10. Click browse, find your image and click open. 11. Click submit Step 2: how to upload an image from a URL 1. Type the image address in the "Upload Avatar from URL" box 2. Click submit Step 3: How to link to an offsite avatar 1. Go to www.villagephotos.com 2. Click sign up for free 3. Fill out info and click sign up now 4. Click Log in 5. Fill out Log in info and Click Log in 6. Click Photos in the top section 7. Click the Photos folder 8. Click "Upload New Images" 9. Uncheck the "automatically optimize jpeg images." 10. Click browse, find your image and click open 11. Now click upload 12. Click Photos on the top 13. Click the Photos folder 14. Click the image 15. Now Click "Image URL, Tools, and Resource Page 16. Go to "public image url" and copy the address 17. Go back to your org profile and paste it in the "link to off-site avatar" box 18. Click Submit. Note: You may also use your own host, or a different host. If so just get the image address and then do what the last two steps say to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- X. Making Sigs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: The following is just an example. Also sigs may be 40(height)x600(width) in size. First follow steps 1 and 3 ( For part 3, only up to the 16th step) from the avatar section. Now Proceed with the following 1. Go to the sig box and put the address in-between the following tags: [img][/img]. So it would look like this [img]imageaddress[/img] 2. Click Submit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- XI. Posting Images In The Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: The following is just an example. Also images may be larger in size than 80x80 pixels. First follow steps 1 and/or (if you do not want to edit the image only do part 3) 3 ( For part 3, only up to the 16th step) from the avatar section. Now Proceed with the following 1. While posting put the address in-between the following tags: [img][/img]. So it would look like this [img]imageaddress[/img] 2. Click post ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- XII. Legal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Layout of site (c)2004 by AMV ORGGUIDE. No content may be reproduced or publicized without the owners consent. Set your browser to 800x600 for optimal performance.