The Fun Behind Making an AMV

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The Fun Behind Making an AMV

Postby SpPANDA » Thu Dec 26, 2002 4:30 pm

who here has had fun making an AMV?

im sure it all seems like work to some, but who here actually has FUN doing it?

aside from all the technical know how.

who sits at their desk smiling and loving the idea of making one?

i do.
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Postby OmniStrata » Thu Dec 26, 2002 4:38 pm

I'm not ur enemy am I?

:cry:

Anyways, editing is NOT the fun part to me... The special fx, [or not] are a pain in the butt...

I live for watching the finished product 209384092384 times, now THAT is my fun part...
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Re: The Fun Behind Making an AMV

Postby mexicanjunior » Thu Dec 26, 2002 4:38 pm

SpPANDA wrote:who here has had fun making an AMV?

im sure it all seems like work to some, but who here actually has FUN doing it?

aside from all the technical know how.

who sits at their desk smiling and loving the idea of making one?

i do.


Back when I used WMM, making AMV's was uber fun since I didn't care about all the technical stuff. Premiere has syphoned some of the fun away but I still love seeing something worked on till completion. ^_^
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Postby SpPANDA » Thu Dec 26, 2002 4:41 pm

i love it!

>_<

maybe it's a flaw of mine.
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Thu Dec 26, 2002 4:48 pm

its not a flaw, its what makes your videos so good. People who dont have fun with it make videos that turn out horrible ~_~
I've turned into too much of a technical person which I think has sucked out alot of the fun of amvs.. maybe I should just revert to being an encoder. Then again I havent been watching anime as much as I used to so maybe I'll get that creative flow back once I get back on schedule
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Postby Fluxmeister » Thu Dec 26, 2002 5:17 pm

Same reason I make them Sppanda! I love editing in general.

I have way too much fun editing music videos. :D

...even the weird ones that I only like... :wink:
I have sinned. I made a video I wanted to make that was music + anime + sync + action + effects/transitions. Oh lordy. :roll:
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Postby Jebadia » Thu Dec 26, 2002 5:52 pm

If I didn't have fun editing, i don't see how I could stand making a video in the first place. Editing is the best part, aside from the finished product, when making a video, coming up with ideas to throw in, the utter enjoyment of getting part correctly synched just the way you like it..aahh..yes... *creams his pants*
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Postby trythil » Thu Dec 26, 2002 6:00 pm

The first thirty seconds or so are always fun for me.

But that's it. I have to force myself to keep going, and I don't know why I even bother. The quality of my work tends to reflect this:

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I think I just like pain. Come to think of it, that might also explain why I bothered to make that ASCII graph.
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Postby Chaos Angel » Thu Dec 26, 2002 6:01 pm

AMVs are a hobby. If you don't enjoy it, I fail to see the point in pursuing it.

I do this because I find it enjoyable. Editting is fun to me. Also frustrating at times, but still fun. ^_^

I love to have fun with what I do. Although I pretty much suck, I have fun doing what I do. That's why I keep doing it.
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Postby Hitori » Thu Dec 26, 2002 7:21 pm

I'm having fun with a video i'm currently working on.. ^_^
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Postby Vancore » Thu Dec 26, 2002 8:58 pm

Well, I often think about how to edit things in my projects when I'm away from the computer and I spend time going over in my mind what I have done to my projects. Often times thinking about tweaks, scene changes, things I'd like to experiment on and so on.

but is it fun... hmm. Well knowing that nobody is forcing or asking me to create AMV's and I usually look forword to getting on the computer to apply some change I think may work well, I'd say yes. :wink:

Now if only Adobe premiere was more stable :?
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Postby Satori » Thu Dec 26, 2002 9:32 pm

I don't think it's the editing part that I have fun with, but the idea of the video itself. I love seeing it all come together. I may not be the best editor, but I have a great time making my videos. When it stops being fun, I think it'll be time to find a new hobby.
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Re: The Fun Behind Making an AMV

Postby You choose Sam,the rest » Thu Dec 26, 2002 9:45 pm

SpPANDA wrote:who here has had fun making an AMV?

im sure it all seems like work to some, but who here actually has FUN doing it?

aside from all the technical know how.

who sits at their desk smiling and loving the idea of making one?

i do.


I don't
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Re: The Fun Behind Making an AMV

Postby klinky » Thu Dec 26, 2002 10:24 pm

You choose Sam,the rest wrote:
SpPANDA wrote:who here has had fun making an AMV?

im sure it all seems like work to some, but who here actually has FUN doing it?

aside from all the technical know how.

who sits at their desk smiling and loving the idea of making one?

i do.


I don't



You'll never have fun until you get that bug removed from your ass :O


Well as for uhh me, I enjoy it partly. Waiting for things to render and just gather clips is the unfun part. Cursing at Premiere for doing something this way, but not allowing you to do it another way.

I spent 15mins, finding a 10second clip :\ I then had to take the "found clip that you needed mandatory break".

I more so enjoy helping people because I have a short attention span and doing that is REALLY quick, but even then I sometimes rush that ;p


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Postby Ashton » Thu Dec 26, 2002 11:14 pm

The funnest thing about making AMVs is getting high scores and trophies, and shoving it peoples faces. The funnest part is embarasing yourself and all of your friends by getting up on stage recieving an award and yelling "you suck" at all of the people who lost. This is the point of our comunity; to assert dominance! :roll:

No, but honestly, the fun thing about creating vids for me is the comunity. I really enjoying taking part in group projects, contests (online and otherwise) and keeping in contact with people of the same hobby.
During the actual creation process, Im the really messed up guy that has less fun editing than he does encoding. For some reason I just get a total kick out of creating a really smooth looking video file ^_^
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