Where all that AMV editing got me

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Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby DJ_Izumi » Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:13 pm

Wow, it's been a looooong time since I've been seen around here and some time since I've uploaded any kind of AMV. I imagine few would remember me but I felt like sharing.

I always loved tinkering with video and waaaay back in 2000 or so is when I started toying with AMVs. My peak was doing trailers with the best ones in 2004-2006 and things kinda faded out quickly since then. I'm older but in college now, doing a film and television production program here in Canada and everything I learned doing AMVs has given me a huge leg up in the editing department. I started on Premiere 6.5 in 2001 or 2002, I started toying with After Effects in 2004. The rest of my classmates havn't seen anything from Adobe before this past September, except for using Photoshop to caption photos of cats. I don't need to study my text books to memorize 'NTSC', 'PAL', '29.97', '16:9', '4:2:0', '3:2 Pulldown', 'Interlacing' or any of that technical stuff. Why? Because AMVs engrained that into me for years. Classmates thing I'm some kind of god at After Effects, but I just look and say 'No, I just have experience with it. Believe me, in 2004 I was looking at AE and crying 'WHAT IS THIS DEMON SPAWN OF PREMIERE, PHOTOSHOP AND SATAN, AND WHY DOES IT MOCK ME SO!? ;_;'

So I can edit and do motion graphics beyond that of anyone else in my class and this is all thanks to AMVs. Sadly this does not make me a god at film and television production. As an AMV editor I was spoiled, all I had to do was EDIT; All the footage was pre-created my experts in the animation and television fields.

Lighting, camera operation, sound, framing, acting, getting filming locations, story boards, scripts, dept of field. In AMV's you don't have to watch the sound levels on your DSLR camera that you bootstrapped a shotgun mic onto so you can shoot first person material in 1080p, you just drag and drop that song onto the timeline and bam. I have a tonne to learn in field of film and television, but thanks to AMVs, editing and the technical side of video isn't one of them.

But on the other hand, school is pretty awesome. Why? Not only do we have a tonne of gear, a live production studio with a giant green screen and other goodies... But because the school has so many other programs that I get to leech off of. Like the paramedic program, it's gear and it's three ambulances. Or the nursing program and it's functional emergency room simulation center with 20 beds. There's a fire fighter program, I havn't leeched that fire truck off them but good god I will one of these days.

So with that, I'd like to share my first attempt, mostly a proof of concept, at doing a Canadian paramedic drama. It's rough but there will be more as we gain experience. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB98_fIB ... AoDc--TlWi
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby zibbazabba905 » Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:54 pm

Haha, awesome I've always wondered if anyone has ever pursued an actual career from doing this
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby JaddziaDax » Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:59 am

Actually a few amvers have pursued editing as a career.
Interesting to see where this is going for you DJ_Izumi.
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby Knowname » Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:05 am

Grats man, good to hear! Yep even the org has a handful of success stories (Beowulf, Machine and others) behold the power of pirating!! xD see in reality the big Senators haven't a leg to stand on.
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby DJ_Izumi » Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:27 am

JaddziaDax wrote:Actually a few amvers have pursued editing as a career.
Interesting to see where this is going for you DJ_Izumi.


Well, I'm trying to do a lot more than editing. :P It's actually pretty awesome to have control over your content, not looking for the footage that you need in some series but instead actually getting to create that footage to suit your requirements. ...It's just that you can also totally screw up filming that footage. :X
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby Castor Troy » Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:18 am

DJ_Izumi wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:Actually a few amvers have pursued editing as a career.
Interesting to see where this is going for you DJ_Izumi.


Well, I'm trying to do a lot more than editing. :P It's actually pretty awesome to have control over your content, not looking for the footage that you need in some series but instead actually getting to create that footage to suit your requirements. ...It's just that you can also totally screw up filming that footage. :X


Exactly. I love writing, producing, directing, and acting as well. :up:

I get to edit myself! (That's me in my avatar) :awesome:
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby ZephyrStar » Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:07 am

Castor Troy wrote:
DJ_Izumi wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:Actually a few amvers have pursued editing as a career.
Interesting to see where this is going for you DJ_Izumi.


Well, I'm trying to do a lot more than editing. :P It's actually pretty awesome to have control over your content, not looking for the footage that you need in some series but instead actually getting to create that footage to suit your requirements. ...It's just that you can also totally screw up filming that footage. :X


Exactly. I love writing, producing, directing, and acting as well. :up:

I get to edit myself! :awesome:


^ All of this. <3
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby Chez » Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:19 am

Its not like AMV editing got me interesting in filmmaking or anything...or got me into making a fallout fan film or anything...this plug was not shameless at all.

But in all srsness amv's where the reason I got into film school originally for editing now I want to be a Director of Photography things change quick when you are learning
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby Kitsuner » Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:54 pm

Chez wrote:Its not like AMV editing got me interesting in filmmaking or anything...or got me into making a fallout fan film or anything...this plug was not shameless at all.

But in all srsness amv's where the reason I got into film school originally for editing now I want to be a Director of Photography things change quick when you are learning

I encountered a similar change of direction in my first year of film school. I started out wanting to be an editor but found myself editing less and less. Oh, I'll be a producer! No, a writer! No, a director! And sure, I might still do those things.

But that isn't who I am. At my core, I am an editor. It was good to experience these other aspects of production, but sometimes you need to step back and reorient yourself toward where you really want to be.
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby Castor Troy » Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:16 pm

Kitsuner wrote:
Chez wrote:Its not like AMV editing got me interesting in filmmaking or anything...or got me into making a fallout fan film or anything...this plug was not shameless at all.

But in all srsness amv's where the reason I got into film school originally for editing now I want to be a Director of Photography things change quick when you are learning

I encountered a similar change of direction in my first year of film school. I started out wanting to be an editor but found myself editing less and less. Oh, I'll be a producer! No, a writer! No, a director! And sure, I might still do those things.

But that isn't who I am. At my core, I am an editor. It was good to experience these other aspects of production, but sometimes you need to step back and reorient yourself toward where you really want to be.


Actually Kit, being an editor is also being all of the above things. Editing amvs already makes you a producer, writer, and director aside from being an editor. 8-)
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby Knowname » Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:25 pm

Kitsuner wrote:
Chez wrote:Its not like AMV editing got me interesting in filmmaking or anything...or got me into making a fallout fan film or anything...this plug was not shameless at all.

But in all srsness amv's where the reason I got into film school originally for editing now I want to be a Director of Photography things change quick when you are learning

I encountered a similar change of direction in my first year of film school. I started out wanting to be an editor but found myself editing less and less. Oh, I'll be a producer! No, a writer! No, a director! And sure, I might still do those things.

But that isn't who I am. At my core, I am an editor. It was good to experience these other aspects of production, but sometimes you need to step back and reorient yourself toward where you really want to be.


you sure you don't want to be an actor Kit? they seem to love using your face as a prop...
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:33 pm

Castor Troy wrote:
Kitsuner wrote:
Chez wrote:Its not like AMV editing got me interesting in filmmaking or anything...or got me into making a fallout fan film or anything...this plug was not shameless at all.

But in all srsness amv's where the reason I got into film school originally for editing now I want to be a Director of Photography things change quick when you are learning

I encountered a similar change of direction in my first year of film school. I started out wanting to be an editor but found myself editing less and less. Oh, I'll be a producer! No, a writer! No, a director! And sure, I might still do those things.

But that isn't who I am. At my core, I am an editor. It was good to experience these other aspects of production, but sometimes you need to step back and reorient yourself toward where you really want to be.


Actually Kit, being an editor is also being all of the above things. Editing amvs already makes you a producer, writer, and director aside from being an editor. 8-)

Well, that depends entirely on how insistent the director/producer is/are that you do it their way. Everyone shits on the writer after the script's done.
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby Emong » Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:52 pm

It's cool to hear how all these years of experience have paid off for people like yourself :D I've been wondering what's the percentage of people who are into AMVs and editing who also study film, animation, graphics etc.

I used to be into film back in junior high and the beginning of high school. Wanted to make a career out of it. I'm sure my editing experience would have been a nice kick start there...... but I'm in social/political sciences now <3
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby Knowname » Thu Feb 02, 2012 7:10 pm

So you might say you took a sociopath. or you have a sociopathic view on life.
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Re: Where all that AMV editing got me

Postby DJ_Izumi » Thu Feb 02, 2012 7:40 pm

Castor Troy wrote:Actually Kit, being an editor is also being all of the above things. Editing amvs already makes you a producer, writer, and director aside from being an editor. 8-)


I'd have to largely disagree with this. A producer mostly handles preproduction, budgets, arrangement of actors, sets, hireing, making sure the script gets done and finalized, even hireing the director. Most elements of pre-production, which is what a producer's primary job is, doesn't exist in AMVs.

I also wouldn't call it writing. The song already has a story and the AMV itself also already has a story, you're just artfully arranging it. It's editing, which can be very artful, but it's not writing, everything's been written for you. The same goes for calling it directing. You arn't involved in the create of the visuals at all, they've been made for you.

AMV's are editing and just editing I think.
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