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Org Profile · by **Zactar** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:46 am

Cybrose, R3DF4CT10N, and Zactar are have created an award for the best AMVs on YouTube. They are grading the AMVs on Editing, Content, and Timing. The greatest effort possible has been made to avoid prejudices in the music and anime chosen for the vid in order to ensure that it is the best AMV, not the best anime or best music. They will re-post their top ten AMVs with commentary on why it was good and what (if anything) brought it down. Their announcement video was released last night.

Check it out:
http://www.dailymotion.com/BestAMV_Awards

Org Profile · by **JaddziaDax** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:09 am

sounds similar to the contest we hold here: the viewer's choice awards..

O.o

by **MycathatesyouAMV** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:27 am

Contest on You-Tube and things on daily motion or other video hosting websites are probably not allowed here. (I think)

Org Profile · by **Zactar** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:42 am

Well, I apologize if such things are not allowed on this site, but I just wanted to announce it to the greatest amount of people who are interested in AMVs possible, hence the post on this site.

by **inthesto** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:56 pm

This is like comparing coal to lead.

Org Profile · by **Zactar** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:18 pm

Why is that? Coimparing coal to lead in reference to Youtube and Dailymotioin, or the contest itself?

And, by the way, both coal and lead are (usually) pure forms of elements (C and Pb respectively), so they do have some similarities...

YouTube · by **Phantasmagoriat** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:45 pm

I truly hope your hours of searching weren't in vain, but I suspect that's the case with the tube. I completely agree with you about the 'bad' example... that was indeed terrible, and I'm sure other people here could throw in some more meaningful adjectives to describe it.

But the 'good' example was mediocre at best. Yes I understood the lip sync [which wasn't that great btw], and I even caught the lyric sync... and maybe even a beat sync... I think, but I can't remember because the clip really wasn't memorable... at all.

The thing is, you can't find anything good on the tube-- and if you do, it is destroyed by the audio quality, video quality, sync between the two, streaming breaks... or it was just stolen from this site and posted there...

I may be wrong, but have you ever downloaded anything through this site?

and if you're hooked on Naruto, try here:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... 69&start=0
[...some of those are debatable, but they give you a general idea of 'good' if not at least competent]

Org Profile · by **Zactar** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:00 pm

Thank you for your input.

Actually, those clips were made by us, not found on You-Tube (to avoid insulting anyone). The bad one is seriously 30 seconds of the Naruto-Sasuke fight set to the worst fitting song imaginable. It's so bad that it's funny. Actually, it's kind of scary how well some of the parts fit together, considering the two minutes it took to make it. We even intentionally left the episode's audio in there at decreased volume, just to decrease quality.

As for the good example, keep in mind that it is only about 30 seconds of a larger video. Any lip-syncing was completely unintentional, and the main good point was instrumental beats and riffs fitting with the vid (esp. the part with light coming through the clouds). Recall that we are grading on Editing (Good amount of editing to fit the vid, but there is such thing as too much), Content (The material present in the song and video and how well they mesh), and Timing (How well the timing of the song was reflected in the video). This video does quite well in each category. Admittedly, it is not the absolute best, but it is much better than most of the crap on You-Tube.

You are correct, most of the stuff on You-Tube is very low quality, which is why we are giving awards to the good ones. Some of the videos may have come from this site, but the point is to have a place for people on You-Tube or DailyMotion to see the best of what we could find. Since we are only posting our top ten, it filters (almost) all of the crap. We have already found our top ten, and are now working on editing them, reformatting the credits to be uniform with music video convention, and adding our comments.

The Naruto vids were only examples, as the awards will be given to any video and song combination that deserves it, regardless of the anime or the music. As far as this site goes, we would be happy to include videos from here in our next batch of awards, just send us those that you think are deserving.

by **BasharOfTheAges** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:14 pm

You're in the wrong place if you want to try to convince us that any of that is good in the least.

Org Profile · by **Zactar** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:23 pm

Any of what? The intro video? AMVs on You-Tube?

I will address your comment assuming that you meant the latter. Once again, we are open to suggestions for our next set of awards, just send us the video you think is the best, or a link, or whatever. We'll check out anything you send us with an open mind. In fact, if we can get some input for the next awards, they will probably be more accurate, considering that the current ones are limited to what we could find during hours of fishing on You-Tube. With that, please, show us what you consider to be good.

Thank you for your input!

YouTube · by **Phantasmagoriat** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:29 am

Org Profile · by **Zactar** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:01 am

Once again, thank you for your input, and the links were much appreciated.

Although this site does have overall better quality AMVs than You-Tube, it does not, however, have the same in-site streaming video capabilities. Now, I realize that because the videos here are for download, that means increased video and audio quality. True. But streaming video is much more user-friendly and easily accessible. It really is a trade-off, but there are already a lot of good AMVs on this site, so why not bring the best ones to the masses? That is exactly what the Best AMV Awards is aimed at doing.

To respond to your expectations of what can be found on You-Tube, you may be surprised. Some of what we found was (although often low in video and audio quality) was pretty good. Just wait and see what we've found, then feel free to agree, criticize, or whatever you want.

In future sets of awards we will be sure to not only search You-Tube, but also this site, for the best AMVs we can possibly find. We will continue to repost those videos on our You-Tube and DailyMotion channels, so if you like what we are doing, please keep updated. We will begin posting the videos (starting with #10) within a week.

If any of you guys would like to submit yours or any other specific AMV for consideration in the next batch of awards, please get in contact with us through this site, other sites, or e-mail us at deathbysp4m@gmail.com.

P.S. The "Good" example is an excerpt from an AMV that is still under development by R3DF4CT10N. He's pretty good at the instrumental parts, but it's a work in progress. We used it so we wouldn't give away any of our top 10. Thanks for your comment, and I'm sure he will take it into consideration.

by **Purge** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:50 am

if you use any speed over beethoven bullshit amvs to even make fun off - i will cry

Org Profile · by **Zactar** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:18 am

I assure you that we will do our absolute best to avoid making people cry. It's not what we want to do.

by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:52 am

Your going to have to review a LOT of AMVs in order to make a honesty balanced list... Just keep that in mind and don't go with only what happens to have a pile of hits

Vlad

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