What happened to fun?

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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:17 pm

Speaking of fun... what con do you guys think will be the first to ban :bzz: ?
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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby Kitsuner » Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:22 pm

Koopiskeva wrote:So basically..

You and Kit have something going on under the table.. :aimkissyface:

We make great instrumental music together... :ying:




That instrument, of course, being the vuvuzela.
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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby JaddziaDax » Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:45 am

I don't know, I don't think the fun was lost for me, I've just been busy with irl stuff that my social life online has suffered (I also forget to sign in to aim and skype all the time but hardly anyone IMs/calls me anymore anyways.) I just haven't had time like I have in the past to work on anything.

I guess while improving I also found a lot of time savers, so when I do prep-work I don't feel as though I have all this work to trudge through. I do have some ideas that are a little too big for me to contemplate starting (at the moment), but more of my simple ideas always seem to flow easy.

Most of the videos I can categorize as "not fun" were requests from other people, but the videos that I really wanted to do were a blast even if they took me forever to make. :3 I guess though most of my videos never took that long to begin with. Either I just let it flow and see what I come up with, or I already have all the ideas worked out ahead of time so all I have to do is put them together, and fill in the blanks.

I can understand the difference between editing programs, and for me it was less fun when I was on WMM and Ulead. When I got Vegas it opened up a whole world for me. I tried Pinnacle and Premiere after Vegas and those didn't really work out for me. I guess with programs it's all about finding what you are comfortable with.

I don't think that the making part has lost it's fun, but perhaps some of the bits about releasing a video.

It does feel that the org has lost it's funness, and while people may come here for srs bsns or whatever, that's not how the org was for me when I started. The org was a place for me to share the crap I made, and a place where I made friends. I did want to improve but I didn't join the org just so I could get feedback and improve, I joined because I made an amv in the first place. I wanted to contribute. I still want to contribute.
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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby Kosmit » Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:45 am

Megamom wrote:For me, everything is fun... from the editing process once to the comments... everything is fun!

So... uh... why did you want to quit? :uhoh:
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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby Midnightowl999 » Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:51 am

Why not preserve the fun before it goes away forever. Think about keeping the good ones or any others for another generation to enjoy. We don't live forever and maybe the donations and contributions of amvs would mean something more again. The fun is in knowing if your stuff will be played and enjoyed even if it stinks. They get a good laugh at least. Like Saturday Morning cartoons. Don't let the amv phenomenon disappear as well. Anime may be obsolete in a hundred years. Who knows what the future brings. I sure don't and I am not expert on amvs or people's thoughts and feelings. Was that an intent by the creator, Phade, to catalogue. Isn't cataloguing another form of preserving amv's for future generation or is that gone too. . Amvs equal music and anime. Think about it. Both need to be protected and preserved for future generations. Simply put. Then I had too much sugar in my cereal. Have fun folks!
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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby ngsilver » Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:07 am

I don't think the fun went anywhere really. At least not for me. Sure, I'm more technically minded now with how I work on a video. After all, I know what my style is now and when I make a video I either try to keep my style, evolve it somehow, or branch out because I think it'll be fun to try something new. The results for me are the same either way, I end up with a video that I'm generally proud of and enjoy watching.

As for other people, I don't know if it's the same or not. I started out as a fan. I didn't have the equipment or money to get the equipment to make videos on when I got into the hobby back in the 90s. But even despite that I would do only what I could, download other people's videos and enjoy watching them, dreaming of the day I could obtain the required elements and make my own joy to send into the world.

I can't say that I still enjoy videos exactly how I used to. After all, being on the other side I've developed eyes for things. Heck, I can pick out errors in effects in big screen movies. So yeah, there are now things that can annoy me when I see them in a video, and sometimes I'll turn a video off that annoyed me, though afterwards I look back and see something else in the video that I didn't like that isn't technical that was the true reason I turned the video off. I've overlooked some really bad editing in the past simply because I like the video that much.

So really, I don't think the fun ever went anywhere. After all, I'm still a fan first. When I say I rape the org on a regular basis for videos I don't lie. On average I download a good 50 videos at a time and watch them. So... :A
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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby ZephyrStar » Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:34 am

Things have gotten even more fun for me. I'm just working on a project that will take.... 5-7 years to finish. I'm having the time of my life with it. And I'm being dead serious.
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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby Kosmit » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:57 am

ZephyrStar wrote:I'm just working on a project that will take.... 5-7 years to finish. I'm having the time of my life with it. And I'm being dead serious.

You sir, are either a genius or a complete nut. Possibly both. :wink:
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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby Megamom » Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:55 am

Kosmit wrote:
Megamom wrote:For me, everything is fun... from the editing process once to the comments... everything is fun!

So... uh... why did you want to quit? :uhoh:


I no have ideas... also...

I stop editing AMVs, because I wanted to devote myself entirely to edit my short documentary, Also I had many personal problems, economic and psychological :| , but as I said in another post, I missed editing AMVs, now I'm back and although my AMVs are not amazing now, it does not matter, it's fun editing AMVs.
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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby ZephyrStar » Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:49 pm

Kosmit wrote:
ZephyrStar wrote:I'm just working on a project that will take.... 5-7 years to finish. I'm having the time of my life with it. And I'm being dead serious.

You sir, are either a genius or a complete nut. Possibly both. :wink:


Absolutely both :awesome:
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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby LittleAtari » Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:57 am

All the fun was left in Vegas....


stupid premiere >.>
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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby Chaobunny12 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:30 pm

Personally, I don't see the point of a hobby if it isn't fun anymore. If it's too much SRS BSNS then it's not really a hobby. :/

It's true that as I've made more and more AMVs, I've begun to spend more time on technical stuff and pay more attention to detail, so my ideas don't just transfer into videos so easily or quickly anymore. I still have fun making AMVs, though I guess it's a little less fun than it used to be, since the more I learn about the hobby, the higher standards I set for myself, and the more frusterated I get when I can't get something to look right. But, on the other hand, that just makes it all the more rewarding when I finish a video. :)

Overall, I find the hobby to be rewarding in itself. At least that's how I see it. When I see people treating it like an Olympic sport and obsessing about a pixel that should have been 2 milimeters to the left, that's when I think it's a bit over the top. I make AMVs because I enjoy it and so I can entertain other people, not to achieve perfection. xD
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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby CastielTheFallen » Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:32 pm

LittleAtari wrote:All the fun was left in Vegas....


stupid premiere >.>

> Switching to premiere to be able to say LOLIUSEPREMIERE

I have fun and I am awesome. You all suck cocks.

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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby Scintilla » Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:02 pm

Let me start by saying that you don't have to enjoy editing for this hobby to be worthwhile. For some people, the competition aspect is enough.

And I will say that it feels great to still be relevant on the AMV scene after 7 years of editing.

That said, it feels even better to still be having fun with AMVs after 7 years of editing.

Yes, I'm one of those people who gets very much into the technical side of things. It didn't take long for AMVing to improve my "eyes", if you will, to the point where if I'm watching a typical American cartoon over an SD feed on a big HDTV, the first thing I notice will be the mosquito noise every-freakin'-where. And every time I'm trying to put together a distribution encode of an AMV, I always run tests on various denoisers to try to figure out how to arrive at the optimal balance between looks and filesize.

But at the end of the day, I'm still making the videos *I* want to make, and I'm having fun doing it. And to do the same and screw what everyone else thinks will to continue to be my advice to people, just as it has been for years.
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Re: What happened to fun?

Postby trythil » Sat Jul 03, 2010 3:51 am

I now get my fun from hookers, blow, and booze.

And Arashinome.
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