Editors who put no credits: Explain yourselves!

[chambeyc]

I always put at least names of anime and music used in the credits:
From my point of view, AMVs are fan-made videos, meaning that as a fan of the footages I used, I'd like to get people interested in them.

[Angelyco]

This:

For a long time, I've felt that most viewers just want to get straight to the main feature. I can get behind credits that add something interesting to the video though...Sometimes though it's hard to segue into a credits sequence from the main video.

and this:

If it's text they want, there's plenty in the catalog page. They know who made the vid and its title from the filename, so it's not like it takes much to track the info down.

However, I've seen some videos with awesome credits lately, so I may start doing it--ONLY if I can make them look good enough to be included.

[Knowname]

cause people if they really want to can just remove it.

If I care I don't make credits I overlay my studio name over the begining of the video like a wetmark (or w/e it's called...)

Otherwise I don't care to inconvenience the viewers with information they should have readily available (via my file name or vid profile page) do I care if someone steals it? 1) it'd never happen 2) just putting your name on something won't stop that! hello!! CLONES!! 3) It'd never happen.

It also inconveniences me cuz I watch my video 15x a day. I'd rather not spend 50 minutes watching a credit sequence. wetmarks FTW!!

[Enigma]

Lazyness

[Nya-chan Production]

cause people if they really want to can just remove it.

If I care I don't make credits I overlay my studio name over the begining of the video like a wetmark (or w/e it's called...)

Otherwise I don't care to inconvenience the viewers with information they should have readily available (via my file name or vid profile page) do I care if someone steals it? 1) it'd never happen 2) just putting your name on something won't stop that! hello!! CLONES!! 3) It'd never happen.

It also inconveniences me cuz I watch my video 15x a day. I'd rather not spend 50 minutes watching a credit sequence. wetmarks FTW!!

Watermark.
Plus, there are better methods to get your credits in the AMV... but also more difficult to pull out :>

[Koopiskeva]

I always put in credits mainly to give credit the sources that were used. Hence why my credits are mostly just text, hardly anything fancy.

But yes, a lot of people just skip over them anyway.

[ngsilver]

I prefer myself to watch a video and not have to be shown the credits right away. I wanna turn the video on and get the video. So I personally prefer to put the credits at the end, after the video finishes.

Though I have on occasion been fancy and hid the credits in the video itself.

Generally though, I find it could be lazyness. I mean, I usually make a video without credits and then send it to cons. I have to then create the credits and re-render and re-encode the video to then submit it online. That's a lot of extra work. And by the time I do it, I could be sick and tired of the video, ect.... So it could be that even.

[dwchang]

I actually do put credits, but as you noted, people still remove them and say that it's theirs. At first I was shocked, but now I view it as a badge of honor or 'truly making it.' Someone was willing to do something so stupid for e-fame? lawlz I guess I could put something in the corner like Aluminum Studios or someone used to do, but A) I'm lazy and B) I doubt it'd really hinder anyone.

[DriftRoot]

I would assume that a lot of people feel whatever information they'd put in the credits is already blatantly obvious. Why bother stating an InuYasha AMV is using [insert current top 20 hit song] when anyone who's going to watch the AMV knows darn well what anime and song was used, as well as who made it b/c - surprise! - it's on their UToob channel or under their account name here. If you look at it this way, credits are not only redundant, they're kind of silly.

I also don't think a lot of people view their videos in a way which reflects long-term planning (or, perhaps more appropriately, a view of AMVing as anything but a passing source of amusement). This stuff, generally speaking, has an extremely short shelf-life. You make it, you release it...and pretty soon - with a few exceptions, and even then the clock is ticking - it's all swept away in the massive tsunami that is the creation and release of millions of other videos on the Web. Is it really going to matter a year later whether your name is embedded inside a video? Five years later?? Probably not, and chances are pretty good the video itself isn't going to matter all that much to you or anyone else, either. So, why bother with credits if they're not going to mean anything to anyone anyways down the road?

For the record, I add credits to my videos b/c I have fun with them, in most cases more fun than I had with the AMVs.

[JaddziaDax]

I do a splash screen at the beginning, changing it every year, so that way when I look at the thumbnails of all my videos I can tell what year I made them without having to look at the video info (I rarely remember this crap off hand)... however it's usually a silent 4-5 second still image.

I'm not a huge fan of mini-amvs for their "studio logo" at the beginning. Those usually ruin the mood of their videos, not to mention when someone downloads a video that's credited with Full Metal Alchemist, and they have an opening using Junjou Romantica or something - it will throw off the viewer and they'll go "Wait! I thought this was FMA! what is this yaoi crap?"

I usually put the actual credits at the end, because I feel that the sources should be credited, since they are not my own.. also it gives me valid reason to ignore the people who ask me the sources on other sites that don't have our fancy cataloging system.

As for the argument of people who try to take credit for making an amv, I know adding credits doesn't really "hinder" them, but I don't do credits to try to hinder them. I do it for the people who who might want that info without having to search the web for it.

If I were really worried about "amv thieves" I'd watermark (which still won't stop them either - but at least makes it easier to recognize your clips if they don't crop) - but since I hate watermarks, I'd rather just let the people take the video/clips... The people who really matter know I made the video, and that's what matters to me.