Anthony1985 wrote:Are all of these music videos originals? What I mean is have they been degraded just for a faster download time. Cause degraded videos are the worst. Everything should be at the quality the person made it at.
What you are suggesting, sir, is next to impossible. To maintain DVD-quality visuals and CD-Quality audio would make each AMV roughly 10 GB each (even HuffYuv is compressing... the only way to get what he is asking is to export at uncompressed). I don't think ANYONE has the space and bandwidth to distribute MVs that are 10 Gig a pop. However, careful compression can yield results which are damn close to the original DVD.
If the visual quality is that important to you, then by all means, distribute uncompressed MVs. See how often people bother to download your work, or how much money that much bandwidth and disk space would cost, not too mention how quickly your site will be shut down for bandwidth over-consumption.
A nice idea, but virtually impossible.
Now, as to ripping off AMVs vs ripping off anime...
Gray area. Both are roughly the same in principle. William Milberry put a lot of effort and time into making Try? Hideaki Anno put a lot of effort and time into making Evangelion. Yet people take footage from Eva for MVs without a second thought, while people would be flamed and shunned from the AMV community for taking footage from Try.
The difference between the two is more subjective than objective. Taking footage from anime series and songs off of CDs is simply what we do, it's accepted among this community as the norm. However, taking footage from AMVs (I'm not going to touch the image quality issues) is looked upon differently, not because it is any different on a basic level, but because it's a social custom that has evolved over time. It's a respect issue. Respect is given to the anime series and the ones who created it by taking it and using it in a music video. Respect is given to the AMV and it's creator by not taking footage from it for your own AMV. The idea that it is wrong to take footage from AMVs, yet ok to take footage from anime DVDs, is a social custom of the AMV community. The creators do not wish for their hard work to be ripped off for other works, so that wish is respected. I'm sure that if Hideaki Anno posted on this board asking that people not use his work for music videos, most of us would gladly respect his wishes. I know I would.
Now that I think about it, ripping AMVs for an AMV
is a bit different from ripping anime for an AMV. It would be a more analogous comparison to say that someone shouldn't rip off Eva footage to make an anime series... well, I'm sure you all get my point.