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- Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Battle of the Bands
- Replies: 1787
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Black Sabbath - 20 save Amon Amarth - 26 Buckethead - 22 kill Equilibrium - 24 Ulver - 20 Cynic - 32 buckethead is a great guitar player, but the only thing on here that doesnt hold my attention. I Agree. Black Sabbath - 20 Amon Amarth - 26 Buckethead - 20 kill Equilibrium - 24 Ulver - 20 Cynic - 3...
- Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Battle of the Bands
- Replies: 1787
- Views: 132983
Dude, how could you Kill Sabbath? Sorrym it just happened <.< Black Sabbath - 18 Amon Amarth - 26 Buckethead - 26 Equilibrium - 22 Ulver - 20 NEW Cynic - 32 SAVE Hall of Fame: Nine Inch Nails ASHES dIVIDE Porcupine Tree The Mars Volta Opeth Portishead Dark Tranquillity Tool Machinae Supremacy A Per...
- Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:24 am
- Forum: General AMV
- Topic: AMV Autobiography
- Replies: 179
- Views: 33196
My story starts before I had any real interest in computers or even really used the internet much at all. My first "Idea" for an AMV (one that I'll probably never do) came when I was about 12 or 13 (2000 or 2001), I was playing through Chrono Cross and listening to a 3 Doors Down album I'd gotten for Christmas, and I felt like several of the songs could fit together with the footage from various cutscenes. I put it together in my head, but I never did anything with it. By the time I got a computer of my own that could even start to think about editing, the concepts were long lost.
My interest in anime, something that had been around since I first saw Robotech on Toonami back when it was run by that one Space Ghost Villian, Moltar. I believe this was 97 or 98. Either way, I was under the age of ten.
Anyway, fast forward to the summer of 2003, I finally had my own, up to date computer, leaving behind the old family computer that had a single gigabyte worth of hard drive space and ran windows 95. The upgrade was pretty massive, the computer I got had a 40 gigabyte hard drive and ran Windows XP. I used it primarily to talk to people, and talk to people I did. In early 2004 I started using Kazaa to download random songs that I'd heard on the radio, and I started running across AMVs (one of which being Kevin Caldwell's Engel video, the only video that I got in that era that I still think of as good, I'm pretty sure) and went "hey, I had that idea once!" I started splicing together clips from the AMVs I had downloaded with music that I'd heard on the radio and consequently downloaded.
Then a friend of mine that I'd known from some of the forums I frequented told me about the org, and in June of 2004, I joined. I was almost totally lost, Read ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides made very little sense to me, no matter how many times I read it (I still have problems learning to do things by reading, I either have to do or be taught). A different friend of mine walked me through the encoding process, and for a long while I used footage that I'd ripped from DVDs and then encoded into XviD.
My first video, Samurai X - I Hate Everything About You was made with WMM, and for a first video, an all right concept that wasn't very well executed. I would not suggest watching it. A month and a half later, I had another idea that could work, but didn't, Wolves and Men. The last of my WMM videos was It's The End Of The World As Shinji Knows It, which was the REM song "it's the end of the world as we know it" with Evangelion. Once again, could've worked, didn't.
Then I started trying out a more advance program that yet a third friend pointed me at, Vegas 5. I've yet to upgrade from it, as it does everything I need, except for REALLY detailed masking, which it actually can do to some extent. Anyway, my fourth video, In the Shadows of Kenshin's Life,was one of those really poorly done action videos with popular songs, but it gave me a feel for Vegas and how it worked, so it served its purpose as a stepping stone.
My next video was actually mildly ambitious. After seeing FullMetal Alchemist at a friend's place, he sent me the fansubs he had (which was up through episode 38 or so), and I made an AMV with that and a song from Escaflowne, and the result was FullMetal Doubt, and it was pretty much an exercise in "what kinds of effects can I try out now?" As a video, it's pretty meh, but I was starting to get the hang of some very important timing concepts. To date, it's still my most effects heavy video. There's a lot of sliding frames.
My next video, RAVE was an instance of me being bored and wanting to make something over winter break, and that's what popped out. It was the last of my random concepts. The next video, Kenshin Unforgiven was easily my best video for a long time. I executed my concept well, for the most part, and I spent some time getting everything I could right. All in all, it's still one of my favorites. It also was the first time I spent a long time on an effect. I spent 3 hours making a reflection in a blinking eye. It wasn't excessively noticable, but it was totally worth it.
Between Kenshin Unforgiven and the next video, I saw for the first time a video by Bote called "War Of Warth". It used a song by the band Blind Guardian called Battlefield. The editing style and music utterly floored me. I'd never heard anything so completely amazing, everything about that song just blew me away. And so, I found Metal. This is the most significant way that AMVs have changed my life. Those of you who know me know that Metal is a big part of my life. I spend most of my money on Guitars, Guitar Gear, CDs, Concerts, and band shirts. I'm actually working on starting my own metal band now, and more on that will come in other threads... but yeah, note this as the point where AMV editing for me was about to get a lot harder
Next came Have I Found A Way,a video that saw me using true lip sync for the first time, consciously making it happen. It also brought me into the use of After Effects, for masking purposes.
My love affair with metal and that style of editing (the bar I set for myself was the aforementioned War of Wrath video) took me over. I wanted to make metal AMVs, and god dammit did I try. I got somewhere on a few of them, but only two have ever been completed, and they were with accoustic songs by metal bands.
The first, a minute long short by the name of Somewhere Far Beyond, was something I did in about five hours. I sat down one night with the concept, and just started editing, and out that popped.
I spent the next 3 years trying (and not succeeding) to make videos. My editing dropped off in early 2007. I was at College, I was actively hanging out with friends and playing a lot of DnD, and while I did start a few things here and there, it mostly stopped. I stayed on this until about half way through this year, when I picked up an old video project. I just started editing it again, and it just sort of happened.
That video was Harvest. It has not been well received. However, I am extremely pleased with the results myself. I feel it's a very well put together video that strongly executes its concept. Most of my friends (Otohiko, Flint, and Breeman being the most notable editors) agree with me. *Shrugs*.
I'm currently working on two Gurren Lagann videos, one of which will probably never see the light of day.
My interest in anime, something that had been around since I first saw Robotech on Toonami back when it was run by that one Space Ghost Villian, Moltar. I believe this was 97 or 98. Either way, I was under the age of ten.
Anyway, fast forward to the summer of 2003, I finally had my own, up to date computer, leaving behind the old family computer that had a single gigabyte worth of hard drive space and ran windows 95. The upgrade was pretty massive, the computer I got had a 40 gigabyte hard drive and ran Windows XP. I used it primarily to talk to people, and talk to people I did. In early 2004 I started using Kazaa to download random songs that I'd heard on the radio, and I started running across AMVs (one of which being Kevin Caldwell's Engel video, the only video that I got in that era that I still think of as good, I'm pretty sure) and went "hey, I had that idea once!" I started splicing together clips from the AMVs I had downloaded with music that I'd heard on the radio and consequently downloaded.
Then a friend of mine that I'd known from some of the forums I frequented told me about the org, and in June of 2004, I joined. I was almost totally lost, Read ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides made very little sense to me, no matter how many times I read it (I still have problems learning to do things by reading, I either have to do or be taught). A different friend of mine walked me through the encoding process, and for a long while I used footage that I'd ripped from DVDs and then encoded into XviD.
My first video, Samurai X - I Hate Everything About You was made with WMM, and for a first video, an all right concept that wasn't very well executed. I would not suggest watching it. A month and a half later, I had another idea that could work, but didn't, Wolves and Men. The last of my WMM videos was It's The End Of The World As Shinji Knows It, which was the REM song "it's the end of the world as we know it" with Evangelion. Once again, could've worked, didn't.
Then I started trying out a more advance program that yet a third friend pointed me at, Vegas 5. I've yet to upgrade from it, as it does everything I need, except for REALLY detailed masking, which it actually can do to some extent. Anyway, my fourth video, In the Shadows of Kenshin's Life,was one of those really poorly done action videos with popular songs, but it gave me a feel for Vegas and how it worked, so it served its purpose as a stepping stone.
My next video was actually mildly ambitious. After seeing FullMetal Alchemist at a friend's place, he sent me the fansubs he had (which was up through episode 38 or so), and I made an AMV with that and a song from Escaflowne, and the result was FullMetal Doubt, and it was pretty much an exercise in "what kinds of effects can I try out now?" As a video, it's pretty meh, but I was starting to get the hang of some very important timing concepts. To date, it's still my most effects heavy video. There's a lot of sliding frames.
My next video, RAVE was an instance of me being bored and wanting to make something over winter break, and that's what popped out. It was the last of my random concepts. The next video, Kenshin Unforgiven was easily my best video for a long time. I executed my concept well, for the most part, and I spent some time getting everything I could right. All in all, it's still one of my favorites. It also was the first time I spent a long time on an effect. I spent 3 hours making a reflection in a blinking eye. It wasn't excessively noticable, but it was totally worth it.
Between Kenshin Unforgiven and the next video, I saw for the first time a video by Bote called "War Of Warth". It used a song by the band Blind Guardian called Battlefield. The editing style and music utterly floored me. I'd never heard anything so completely amazing, everything about that song just blew me away. And so, I found Metal. This is the most significant way that AMVs have changed my life. Those of you who know me know that Metal is a big part of my life. I spend most of my money on Guitars, Guitar Gear, CDs, Concerts, and band shirts. I'm actually working on starting my own metal band now, and more on that will come in other threads... but yeah, note this as the point where AMV editing for me was about to get a lot harder
Next came Have I Found A Way,a video that saw me using true lip sync for the first time, consciously making it happen. It also brought me into the use of After Effects, for masking purposes.
My love affair with metal and that style of editing (the bar I set for myself was the aforementioned War of Wrath video) took me over. I wanted to make metal AMVs, and god dammit did I try. I got somewhere on a few of them, but only two have ever been completed, and they were with accoustic songs by metal bands.
The first, a minute long short by the name of Somewhere Far Beyond, was something I did in about five hours. I sat down one night with the concept, and just started editing, and out that popped.
I spent the next 3 years trying (and not succeeding) to make videos. My editing dropped off in early 2007. I was at College, I was actively hanging out with friends and playing a lot of DnD, and while I did start a few things here and there, it mostly stopped. I stayed on this until about half way through this year, when I picked up an old video project. I just started editing it again, and it just sort of happened.
That video was Harvest. It has not been well received. However, I am extremely pleased with the results myself. I feel it's a very well put together video that strongly executes its concept. Most of my friends (Otohiko, Flint, and Breeman being the most notable editors) agree with me. *Shrugs*.
I'm currently working on two Gurren Lagann videos, one of which will probably never see the light of day.
- Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:23 am
- Forum: AMV Announcements & Feedback
- Topic: Unlimited Blade Works Project [UBW + Fate route profile]
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3440
Nice one, I liked it! And damn the Lyrics really fit Archers live almost perfectly! :shock: The only bad thing is: no Rider!!! :cry: ....and I have to agree about the gray-scale images looking a little strange Although I have to say that the most awsome character of the UBW route is still Lancer! H...
- Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:12 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Battle of the Bands
- Replies: 1787
- Views: 132983
- Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Battle of the Bands
- Replies: 1787
- Views: 132983
- Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Battle of the Bands
- Replies: 1787
- Views: 132983
- Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:37 am
- Forum: AMV Announcements & Feedback
- Topic: Unlimited Blade Works Project [UBW + Fate route profile]
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3440
- Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:41 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Battle of the Bands
- Replies: 1787
- Views: 132983
- Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:25 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Battle of the Bands
- Replies: 1787
- Views: 132983