by SQ » Sun Nov 24, 2002 9:26 pm
Video capture cards: If you're on a VERY tight budget, don't get one. I'd recommend WinTV. It's an old wannabe-capture card, but it works if you're on a tight budget. I bought it for around $40 after the rebates. You hook it up with a USB cord to your CPU, and then another part to a VCR, put the tape in, read the directions, get AVIs and screencaps galore. I know there's somehow a way to get game footage with that, but haven't been able to figure it out yet ><.
Rare animes and WinMX: Although WinMX has a LOT of rare animes because it is popular in Japan(heck, I have WinMX, and try to advertise it in my AMVs). However, few English speaking people use it, and unless you somehow get your Japanese/Chinese Language supporter to work while you're using WinMX, all you're going to get in the title of what you're looking for is a lot of numbers and symbols, so, god luck. ><
Reading guides, not being able to post for three days, and other n00b suggestions: I made atleast four music videos before I even CONSIDERED joining a-m-v.org(don't flame me for that ^-^;;). I didn't read any of the guides or anything, but I did make four AMVs before even knowing this site existed, got familiar with my software, and how to make relatively decent AMVs. (my first one sucked ass, but I was fairly good in the lip-syncing department!) Anyway, I think people should make atleast ONE AMV before joining this site. It worked for me, it should work for all of you!
The a-m-v.org "confusion": I cannot understand how POSSIBLY someone can think animemusicvideos.org is a-m-v.org, even though we refer to it as such. I mean, you had to FIND this site by entering in the url at the top first, to knwo it exsisted. Do when someone says a-m-v.org, wouldn't it pop into your mind "Oh! That means animemusicvideos.org!" instead of "Somehow this URL at the top of my screen MUST be wrong because everyone's saying it's a-m-v.org!" I mean, isn't that common sense that it's animemusicvideos.org?
-End of a noob-but-not-really-a-noob's rant-
-SQ™
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