How did you get into making AMVs?

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:44 pm

The opposite for me. AMVs helped me decide what I wanted to major in.

Freshmen year of college (I'm a junior now). I was attending a community college in Champaign, IL with a computer animation program, my goal being to become an animator, because I can draw reasonably well and I love animation. This did not pan out. But during the fall semester, I got into actively into anime (I had watched anime with some small regularity before this [New Gigantor, Tenchi, some Gundam Wing, Voltus 5 as a kid, and DBZ up until it got sucky], but did not get into it actively until after seeing Cowboy Bebop) and discovered AMVs. Eric Jones and Will Milberry's videos relly motivated me, and after utterly falling in love with Cowboy Bebop, I decided to take a stab at making my own videos.

After making a few videos, I found that I really liked editting. By the time I had finished the year there and decided not to be an animator, I opted to be a filmmaker to direct my own movies and stuff.

That kicked my ass almost as bad as the animation program had. No, strike that, at least I can draw, I can't make movies for shit.

By this point, I had been making AMVs for about a year and liked it, and being forced to choose another major, I decided that since I enjoy digital editting so much, why not make a career out of it? So, approaching two year in AMV making this spring, I am now a Video Production major because I found this hobby and enjoy it so immensely.

Oh, and Roz... Maybe this is because I started on digital first, but I don't know how ANY of you can stand that annoying crap known as analog editting. Goddamn, if I ever see another piece of splicing tape or roll of Super-8 film, I swear I will lose my damn mind.

/me hates cut-and-splice hand editting with teh passion of Hephaestus

And my friend Bill says the course is using DV tapes and Final Cut Pro this year... >_<

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:02 pm

i'm not into them yet. just chipping away.

ansem'skitty · Post by **ansem'skitty** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 3:48 pm

I don't make 'em, I collect 'em. MysteriousMan got me into it.

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 4:47 pm

Started learning premiere all by myself after graduate from matriculation. Some 3 years later I found a-m-v.org.

Now I'm doing final in uni (systems management) and also work as freelance programmer, currently making a web-app for some company. Been spending most of my bedtime doing work so I haven't have the time to evn think about AMV.

But thanks to my knowledge in digital video, one of my proud apprentices now running his own (amateur) production business.

Rozard · Post by **Rozard** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 7:51 pm

Chaos Angel wrote:Oh, and Roz... Maybe this is because I started on digital first, but I don't know how ANY of you can stand that annoying crap known as analog editting. Goddamn, if I ever see another piece of splicing tape or roll of Super-8 film, I swear I will lose my damn mind

I think it can be a lot of fun, and it makes you appriciate the time that goes into it. It's like starting a fire by rubbing two sticks together (Which I did in Boy Scouts). It's fun to just mess around on the decks. Well, to me it is.