This is actually less a question for everyone out there than it is an observation I've made over the past year or so.
Basically, there came a point in my life as an editor (around a year and a half ago, when I finished Hold On) where I no longer needed people telling me how to improve my AMVs. Don't misunderstand - I'm not saying I make perfect AMVs now, or anything so vain, but rather that I have my own standards and other people telling me what to improve doesn't really mean anything to me.
To prevent this from becoming another boring "edit for yourself, not others" kind of discussion, let me clarify further, because I believe that no matter how much you make a video for yourself, if you release it to the public you have some innate desire (no matter how small) to impress others. I don't care about that, so when I say "I have my own standards", I mean to say that I know what looks good and I know what doesn't. I've been editing for three-and-a-half years now, I've seen enough videos and made enough of my own that no one needs to tell me "You need to sync here" or "This scene doesn't really match those surrounding it". In short, I'm technically competent (or at least I like to think so), and all the rest is just a matter of taste.
As a further example, I released a video two days ago, and while it hasn't gotten great reception, pretty much all the criticisms (too much internal sync, music/anime mismatch, pacing) are things that I chose to do deliberately, and are actually the main reasons I like the video so much. Basically, I'm not even receiving constructive criticism anymore, just people telling me why they like/don't like my videos.
So I guess my question is...does anyone else feel this way? Where you don't really need to be told how to make a video anymore?
Conversely, when I download other people's videos and post in their announcement threads, I tend to give constructive criticism based on what I know about that editor. For example, I probably wouldn't post in Ileia's announcement thread saying "You need to do more sync here, here, and here" because she's been making excellent videos since before I even started editing. I would probably say something more along the lines of, "I don't like this video because I feel that there's too little sync here, here, and here". So is it just a matter of language depending on the "level" of editor you're dealing with?
Meh, just a few random things I've been mulling over recently.









