Hello all. I am new to the board but I have visited AMV a couple times in the past. I collect music videos (almost 1200) and discovered what you call Anime music videos, but I call them Homemade Music videos because they're not all Anime. I have videos using video from popular Anime titles, as well as video games and movies.
It's been about 2 years, I'd say, since I saw the first one and I cannot even remember what it was. Anyway, just a couple weeks ago I just watched my first Anime series. (I had never really been a fan of Anime in general.) The series was .Hack//SIGN and I was blown away. I can totally relate to one of the characters as you can guess from my Screen name and all in all, the series was unlike anything I had ever seen.
Now I would like to make an Anime music video for it. I have the entire series in near-DVD quality (subtitled English, which is acceptable by me for my 1st project) AVI format. I have the song in mp3 format and it is CD quality. I have high speed DSL access in case I need additional software, and I have Adobe Premeire 6.5, though I haven't really gotten into it very much.
Anyway, is there a good how-to guide for beginners that reccomends some basic, easy to learn with software, that someone who has never worked with video editing can learn how? I am highly adept with computers and I think if I had some kind of guide to get me started, that I could be very good.
As for distribution of the final product (not to get ahead of myself) does AMV host? If not, I am not willing to pay for server space as I'm not getting paid anything to do this (nor will I solicit payment). However, I do have KaZaA and will share it there no matter what. I use KaZaA to download and to share the AMV's I have now.
Thank you in advance for your reply if you can help me. I hope I posted this in the right place.
