Want to make an AMV TV show, but I need opinions on this.

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Want to make an AMV TV show, but I need opinions on this.

Postby Chaos Angel » Tue Sep 17, 2002 10:19 pm

I am thinking of starting a music video TV show with my campus' student-run TV station. The twist is, I would like to show AMVs instead of normal music videos (of which the station has plenty of).

I was inspired by a music video on one of our filler tapes that someone at the station editted with a combination of live footage and Akira. Our production manager says that as long as we don't show the entire series or movie, the AMVs should be fine legally as long as we put up a shit-load of disclaimers (all copyrights are held by their respective owners, not us, etc.)

However, before I put in the official proposal, I wanted to see what kind of response I would get to the following question. I also intend to e-mail specific creators individually about this, unless of course they happen to answer here, but here is what I am wondering.

While I could use VirtualDub to size the videos up to the 720x480 broadcast aspect ratio, I have seen for myself that this can cause blurriness and general loss of video quality. So, my question is this: If I were to ask for one of your videos, who out there would be willing to snail mail me a CD, DVD, VCD, whatever, on which you have burned a copy of one or more of your music videos, sized at 720x480, and encoded in a format that won't make Premiere choke up, so we can dub it to a video tape? I figure, if you make the copy yourself, you will have the final say in quality of the video. I say snail mail because my Hotmail account won't hold more than 1 MB of info, my website only has 100MB of storage, and that's if I delete EVERYTHING currently on it. I am willing to meet up on AIM, or a Direct Connect hub, however, if that is preferable.

Right now, I just want to see what the response is, who would be willing to re-encode their videos in a workable format, or who wants me to just do what little I can to re-encode them (I will try to keep the quality as good as I can). Later, if the response is good, I will e-mail specific creators about their specific videos. If anyone would like to volunteer one or more of their videos, I'll give it a view and see if I want to show it (Note: No RealMedia files, please. RM does not want to work for me, it just freezes up my computer when I try to open a RM file).

Thanks in advance!!
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Postby jbone » Tue Sep 17, 2002 10:28 pm

The anime companies may not complain, but you'd still have to pay royalties on the music - and the music companies may not authorize you to broadcast anything which may "reflect their company in a bad light" (read: they didn't get paid to make).

Personally, I wouldn't want anything I make to be a part of it. I don't want to have to worry about the legal repercussions.
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Postby Chaos Angel » Tue Sep 17, 2002 10:32 pm

Well, I plan to look more into the legal aspects of it once I see whether it would feasibly work or not. The production manager says it would be ok, and I assume she knows what she is talking about, but I plan to do my own personal research once I see that it would be feasible.
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Postby Gaikotsu » Wed Sep 18, 2002 12:14 am

I for one would be happy to resize "The Reason Why", (my only vid so far), and have you air it on your show, (assuming it's all legal). However, the original copy I had died along with my last hard drive, so unless I re-ripped all the footage from my DVDs, and basically redid everything, I wouldn't be able to remaster it very easily. Unfortunately I don't have that kind of time to spend on an AMV I've already made once. You're more than welcome to use the one that's on my website though, loss of quality be damned! :)
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Postby Anime Jedi » Wed Sep 18, 2002 4:46 pm

What happened to your idea to have an anime show on your campus? I'm guessing that died out, or are you thinking of alternatives incase it doesn't work out?
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Postby Chaos Angel » Wed Sep 18, 2002 5:47 pm

Never heard back from Pioneer. It's been a few weeks, I'm thinking they aren't going to bother with me. Oh, well.
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Postby Stryker » Wed Sep 18, 2002 7:35 pm

:roll: I doubt that I'm one of the select few creators that you have in mind for your project, But I think it's a hell of a idea. It would be a amazing step for amvs and anime. In my little area of the world anime is still just a cult following, With only a few people to talk to and still having to drive a hour to a hour and a half to get any dvd's that aren't shown on ctn or fox over and over again. Kinda fusterating ... But to simply know that anime's following is growing to the point of having a small chunk of time on the tv's airwaves. That alone could keep me happily going while I to spread anime to my little corner of the world. Sorry I rambled on like that, but i do think it's a hell of a idea.

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Postby The Non-Professional » Wed Sep 18, 2002 8:55 pm

well id send a copy of my video the group i think doesnt exsist anymore so im free of legal repricussions but no one likes me so ill shut up...
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Postby silver_moon » Wed Sep 18, 2002 9:08 pm

I have three anime music videos I'd be willing to send you if you can get around the legal factor:

One Day

Let it Make Me Strong

In My Arms Again

Give them a download and see if you like them or not. If yes, just drop me an e-mail asking me to sign on AIM. I already have high-resolution divx files (about 150 MB each) on my computer, so I don't have to do any re-encoding or anything and I can just send them away.

I think I heard somewhere that if you have voice-overs in your videos it's less legal to show them, since it kind of gives away a part of the series, and both my Oh My Goddess videos used voice-overs... I don't know if that will matter or not but I thought I should make a note of it...
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Postby You choose Sam,the rest » Wed Sep 18, 2002 9:56 pm

Well I would say show my trailers but I think you might get in a big deal a trouble if you did....
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Postby Chaos Angel » Thu Sep 19, 2002 8:55 am

silver_moon- Thanks for the videos, I'll give 'em a watch.

Stryker- Where in Central Illinois do you live? I was born in Springfield, and I currently live in Carbondale (three hours south of Springfield).
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Postby Ashton » Tue Sep 24, 2002 6:55 am

All three of my videos are currently encoded in 704x480 and all, and I would be more than happy if you would broadcast them anywhere. In addition, if there were any kind of a problem, I would not mind if you screwed with it to make it work.
They are all availible at www.originalskin.org but more specificly:

http://www.originalskin.org/Original%20 ... 20Lies.mpg

http://www.originalskin.org/Original%20 ... 0Dance.mpg

and

http://www.originalskin.org/Original%20 ... %20See.mpg


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Postby Stryker » Tue Sep 24, 2002 7:17 am

Chaos Angel wrote:Stryker- Where in Central Illinois do you live? I was born in Springfield, and I currently live in Carbondale (three hours south of Springfield).


I live in Astoria which is about a hour hour and a half drive northwest from Springfield and about 5 hours from Carbondale.
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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Tue Sep 24, 2002 2:36 pm

I'd be happy to do it, but once I remaster the two videos I currently have in my profile. My Close Friends Trigun video may not look right at 720x480 because the source is 368x240 on most of them. Only episode 9 is 720x480. And anyways, I'd have a hard time keeping the video quality at the same as the DVD files unless I RARed/ZIPed it and burned it. I exported my Deluxe Bebop video at 720x480, and it was around 2GB in HuffYUV RGB. So once I remaster both videos, I'd be happy to burn the files into HuffYUV/RARed HuffYUV and snail mail them to you.
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Postby Chaos Angel » Tue Sep 24, 2002 9:22 pm

Thanks for the support, everyone. I wish this idea would have panned out (stupid laws...)

I talked to our production manager about it again, and apparently she misunderstood what I was wanting to do earlier. Apparently, the law only allows about fifteen seconds or so of clips to be aired, not an entire music video. In her own words, "We'd get sued." So, it's no go.

-_-

Meh. Oh, well.
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