Looking back...What inspired you to make AMVs?

[Gene Starwind 21122]

So recently I've been going through some of the old amv's I have on my hard drive, videos from 2002-2007. I re-watched alternatefutures Light of Day AMV, done to Outlaw Star. I remember seeing it at Otakon in 2002, I was inspired by it. I love Outlaw Star and was thinking man I want to make videos like that. Started doing research on programs and started out with MGI Video Wave 4 and a capture device. Worked with that until 2005 when I made Back to Paradise with Adobe Premiere 6.0. Still using that program today.

I just remember sitting down at that contest and being amazed by the works that were put together. Light of Day used CG graphics ahead of its time. The sync, the story everything just seemed and felt right about the video. Over the past 12 years I have seen a lot of amazing videos, editors that have come and gone. Now a new generation of editors are here and I'm amazed how far amv's have come.

Looking at some older works like ANTDrakko's 45, Scintilla's Waka Laka, and Wizard of Ozaka, another amv "Real Ninja's" by Editinghermit (another comedy editor I loved watching.) Just some many videos.

What got you inspired to make AMV's? What were some of your favorite AMV's you have seen over the years?

With all these thoughts of AWA coming up, it brought back a lot of memories for me.

Gene Starwind 21122

[macchinainterna]

Tyler_yj, JudgeHolden, Fluxmeister and EclipseJPX were my biggest inspirations for getting into video editing. Everything I saw from them amazed me and convinced me that I wanted to make videos of my own.

Jihaku remains one of my biggest inspirations and influences for editing, and there have been far too many more over the years to fully recall.

[seasons]

Stumbling across this site back in 2003. Watching the AMV contest at Anime Central back in 2004. I was really shocked that this was a real thing, that so many people were doing it and that there was such a big community around it. I was really into video editing and anime and music and then out of nowhere, this thing comes along that brings together all of my biggest interests at the time (which haven't really changed much since then) and I just couldn't believe it.

[Shui]

I was dumb and young and now I'm tangled up in something.

Edit: for srs now. I was searching for a song and found an AMV. It was with Chobits - which is the first Anime I watched then (yes I was into AMVs before I was into Anime). Been watching AMVs ever since and when I saw Bladebeat Graffiti I wanted to also make something so cool

[Sephirothskr]

I saw a Sephiroth VS. Cloud AMV that made me go "I wanna make that." Been doing it ever since.

[UnluckyArtist]

In some weird way I got inspired from all the lackluster amvs I saw on youtube that made me think "how boring" or "wow I would've done that alot differently" or "wow why doesn't anyone actually sync to the music?"

Off the top of my head videos from Zero Link and Magnus(Zetzu) are what first impressed me and made me get serious about making them cause with them it was like "wow I wanna do that."

[JaddziaDax]

I wanted people to visit my website (they were advertisement) that I no longer have....

my site is dead, don't bother looking it up.

[The_McLaughlin]

I remember back in High School finding amvs on youtube and thinking they were the coolest, and then taught myself how to edit usin wmm. However I only made 2 or 3 technical amvs until I just stopped all together for a little over a year. Had no intention to start making amvs again. So I don't consider this to be what inspired me to start making amvs, at least not the type I maje now. At NDK 2009 I attended the amv contest, and saw the FFVII amv Clouded Memories, and fell in love with it. I said to myself, I can do something like that, why did I stop editing in the first place? I then started making use of my account over here, (I had set it up but never used it back when I first started learning but then I stopped editing and nothing ever was put up) and started to figure out how capture footage from DVDs bought vegas movie studio so that I wouldn't just kill my footage, and started editing at least 1 to 2 videos a year. Now I'm here... and I am most definitely editing way more than I used to. I'm really glad I fell back into this hobby and didn't just stop editing completely in mid 2007.

[MaboroshiStudio]

This was 1994 or 1995 I think

1) Daicon IV Opening
2) Bobby Beaver aka C-ko... Everything She Does is Magic is probably one of the first AMVs I saw
3) A buddy at my local Anime Club Dave Thotz who made clips of what was showing in Japan

[GloryQuestor]

Having already been a Japanese animation fan in the 90's and a big music fan, it wasn't until I watched some AMVs being hosted on various sites around 2002-2003 that the combination clicked, and thought I could do my own, especially since Microsoft gave us a free movie editor to play around with...