Quality or quantity?

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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby TenseiHenry » Mon Dec 28, 2009 3:27 pm

Quantity, since I tend to find something I like in amvs whether it's actually good or not. I actually have a lot of amvs in my folder that I rarely ever watch. I'm probably just too lazy to go through and actually delete the ones I never watch :P I still enjoy videos with actual effort put into them than anything else
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby Beowulf » Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:05 pm

Quantity lasts. Quality fades.
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby Castor Troy » Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:35 am

Zarxrax wrote:If you have lots of video ideas that you want to make, then unless you have tons of free time, there is no way that you can make all of them.


10 years ago, this wasn't a problem. :(
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby 8bit_samurai » Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:36 am

Nowadays I take my time with my vids. Not because I want them to look or sound better (not the first priority at least), but because it's hard to find time in between work and video games. When I first started editing, I hardly knew about quality, or at least proper ripping and such, and most of my AMVs I rushed them towards the end. I also had more time to edit back then, so I was able to release more. Now that I have read the guides (or at least the old Read Ermac's and Absolute Destiny's Friendly AMV Guide (2.0 I think)), I try to make the video and audio better, but I guess I would have to release something to prove it :/
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:49 am

It's almost as if there's 2 conversations going on here... maybe if people actually read the replies they'd pick up on the one the OP was actually asking. :roll:
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby EvaFan » Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:11 pm

I seem to only keep the ones that draw out emotions for some reason. Can be anything really from pumping adrenaline to wrist cutting drama. I don't seem to keep amv's for any other reason unless they are my own. I think the ones that draw out emotions have the highest replay value.

Whether or not they are considered quality or not isn't really answerable cause they could be short with little work done on them but such a strong concept and source/music combo that it still has the effect of an amv created through the course of a year long endeavor.

So ya, for me its not really about quality or quantity, just that specification, however, I do keep some horror amv’s that I really like. Those would probably fall into your quality ideal.
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby Nya-chan Production » Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:28 am

Quantity of Quality.

But then, I edit the only style I know. I can't edit "faster but worse". Well, actually, i can. in ICs. But I polish it afterwards anyway.

So... what does that mean?
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby kireblue » Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:49 pm

Spoiler :
BasharOfTheAges wrote:It's almost as if there's 2 conversations going on here... maybe if people actually read the replies they'd pick up on the one the OP was actually asking. :roll:

BasharOfTheAges wrote:It's almost as if there's 2 conversations going on here

BasharOfTheAges wrote:It's almost as if

BasharOfTheAges wrote:almost


not almost. That's exactly what happened. Although......both conversations are good ones. I'm the AMV assistant director for Momocon, so in order to get enough AMVs to have the AMV room open throughout the entire con, I desperately need quantity. But even so, I try to make sure that the AMVs that I download for the con measure up to a certain quality. Of course, setting the bar too high would mean that I won't have enough AMVs, so I try to find a good balance.
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:00 pm

Is the eye-rolling emoticon not good enough to denote sarcasm?
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby Megamom » Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:47 pm

Nya-chan Production wrote:So... what does that mean?


Nya...I speak of the collections, the AMVs that I download have to meet a level of quality... or not keep in my collection folder... Finally, I say that many people do not care about quality because they want to have a wide collection of AMVs!

Personally... when making AMVs, also prefer the quality, taking my time to do the job of editing... AMVs but mine are not of good quality, also I think that you learn with experience...

Experience = Quality! :up:
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby BaQuM » Tue Jan 05, 2010 4:54 am

I'd be more satisfied with myself as an editor if I'd edit atleast 0.3% of the videos I plan. Quantity.
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby Nya-chan Production » Tue Jan 05, 2010 8:18 am

Megamom wrote:
Nya-chan Production wrote:So... what does that mean?


Nya...I speak of the collections, the AMVs that I download have to meet a level of quality... or not keep in my collection folder... Finally, I say that many people do not care about quality because they want to have a wide collection of AMVs!

Personally... when making AMVs, also prefer the quality, taking my time to do the job of editing... AMVs but mine are not of good quality, also I think that you learn with experience...

Experience = Quality! :up:

Mmm, I should read your posts.

Like actually read.

For AMVs I download, I keep every and each of them. YOu never know when you might wanna rip-off them they might come in handy :>
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby Knowname » Tue Jan 05, 2010 4:17 pm

quality comes later, just concentrate on quantity for now.
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby xPiikanyaa » Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:58 pm

Quality, definitely. I don't really give a damn how many AMVs I've made as long as they're decent. When I first started out, I would spend about 3 hours on a video and just rush through it, and they were all crap. Now, I spend more time on them and they turn out better, though I wouldn't exactly say they were GOOD...
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Re: Quality or quantity?

Postby u_queen » Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:16 am

I have to say quality in both, in my creations and in the videos I collect. However, in my opinion quality for every creator has a subjective meaning; I've seen videos with high resolution but no emotion, some other look like crap but they're really sticky.

If I say quality, I mean the effort the author puts on the creation.
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