Its good to look back and laugh....

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Its good to look back and laugh....

Postby fizzucker » Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:53 pm

So out of boredom and to see whether or not Nago is working again, I decided to start downloading some of my old music videos from a year ago. I compare them to other videos I have made and videos that others have made and for some reason...just started laughing. I remember doing things like downloading music and taking scenes directly out of other people music videos and once getting caught for it. I remember when I got so offended when someone left me a bad review on what I thought was the best AMV ever. Most of all, I realized how much I sucked back then.

Its amazing to see how you make videos now compared to how you used to make music videos. Its good to use things like Adobe, DVD rippers, ripping my own CDs, and taking more than just 5 days to make a music video. In fact only one of my videos from a year ago I still like.

Has anyone else had this kind of nostalgia looking back compared to how they do now? This is kind of a pointless topic, but I thought it would be good to share.
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Postby spacekase » Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:43 pm

I submitted my only vid way back in 2003. About a month after I uploaded it, I realised how much it sucked. Since then, I've been too ashamed to submit any more. I've made others, but just to improve so the next one I submit (hopefully in the next few weeks) won't be so horrid.

Anyway, to get back on topic, today I checked my star average out of boredom and curiosity. I'd never checked it before, and expected around 1.5 or so. When I looked, it was a 3.58. That video is utter crap, people! Why the hell did you give it such high ratings?!?
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Postby devilmaykickass » Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:52 pm

I don't look back on my own vids and laugh as much as I look back on videos I thought were AWESOME years ago before I'd ever found this site and laugh. Ah, the Kazaa days.
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Postby .:SR:. » Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:23 pm

devilmaykickass wrote:I don't look back on my own vids and laugh as much as I look back on videos I thought were AWESOME years ago before I'd ever found this site and laugh. Ah, the Kazaa days.

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Good Times.. :roll:
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Postby CerebralAssamite » Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:57 pm

.:SR:. wrote:
devilmaykickass wrote:I don't look back on my own vids and laugh as much as I look back on videos I thought were AWESOME years ago before I'd ever found this site and laugh. Ah, the Kazaa days.

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Aww common SR we had some god times while I was on kazaa chatting to you :P Anywho Ive watched my old videos recently and its just random shit over heavy music.. oh wait i havent really changed have I :?
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Postby WhereNext » Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:18 pm

ya, i just recently put a vid that is 3 years old back on the org, and when i watch it i get bored, and fast. But for some reason it has a 3.44 star rating. But i think that when you compare your own work you tend to be more critical.

But when i go back and watch my 6 year old DBZ vids made with WMM(that will never be seen outside of my pc, due to their supreme suckage), i laugh, i laugh hard.... they are so god awful.
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Postby Arcane Azmadi » Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:47 pm

Our first video was never uploaded and I lost my only copy when my AMV drive burned out (major pain) but it was no great loss. It was pretty damn awful, largely because we used fansubs and made no effort to clean it up. 70% of it was done in a single day (12 hours of practically continuous work, mind you) and I watched a quarter of the anime we used (Vandread) for the first time on the same day we finished it. However, our second AMV was a remake of our first and, although it isn't nearly as good as our recent stuff, I don't feel ashamed of it or anything else that we've done. In case you're interested, it's here and I think you'll agree we have no reason to be embarassed about it. (Strangely, our former third member still insists our crappy original version was better- probably because it's the only AMV he ever worked on.) Even the video which we were most bothered about garnered an overall score of 9.00 and we remade that recently (see sig). There are always moments in our AMVs which make us wince as we wish we could have changed that shot or fine-tuned the synch at that spot, but we never feel seriously embarassed about our work.
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Postby inthesto » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:03 pm

Ever since I've moved onto my new computer, I've been far too afraid to download my old videos and re-watch them.

I mean, I cringe just from watching my last Naruto video.
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Postby Unlimited Rice » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:58 pm

i watch my old amvs thinking of the old days when i didn't know about transitions... and the Previewing option in premiere.. :roll:
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Postby Ileia » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:37 pm

My first AMV's...
..ah...the good ol' days....downloaded Inu-yasha....subtitles and all....Windows Movie Maker.....
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*shame*

I was looking back on them the other day, and I deleted that filth from my harddrive.
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Postby Arigatomina » Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:08 am

When I watch my old vids, I tend to blush and grin and think how cute I was ripping dvds without knowing what 'ripping' meant. ^_^;; There's something about knowing I was that naive that's just cute to look back on. Of course, my third amv is still one of my popular ones, so I wasn't the only cutely naive person on this site.

I find it sad sometimes, though. There are aspects I came into amvs with that I've lost and can't get back. I have this nasty part that wishes I could have learned compression and editing without having to associate with jaded editors. I could have gotten my experience without losing my 'innocence'. I was a lot more creative back then. I miss that.
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Postby Knowname » Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:13 am

Arcane Azmadi wrote:It was pretty damn awful, largely because we used fansubs and made no effort to clean it up.

my problem was I made an effort to clean it up! the program I had just smeared the stuff, it looked so HORRIBLE!! lol oh, but I lost mine too, hope to make it again though soon as I get the bebop dvds.
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Postby LuluandAuron » Wed Aug 03, 2005 2:37 am

We have a folder on the slave drive titled 'Old crappy retired videos'. Some of them make us giggle.......but the majority bring about bursts of loud gut wrenching laughter.....and streams of tears down our cheeks.
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Postby godix » Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:56 am

What has made me wonder isn't looking back at my own AMVs but rather every now and then I'll run into someone elses video I really liked years ago that now makes me think 'WTF was I on? That thing is a piece of crap!'

As far as my own videos, I'll look at them and say 'Jesus, you suck dick as an editor'. This usually happens about three weeks after I release something, there's no need for me to wait years.
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Postby x_rex30 » Wed Aug 03, 2005 4:35 am

I don't laugh at my old amvs that much. I already know I didn't really spend anytime making them, so if there bad, I blame the time frame I spent on them! I have a video in my profile that I only spent an hour on that was made 5 years ago, and it's my highest rated video! :lol:
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