AMVs before DVDs

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:14 am

I used fansubs, dub tapes, raw tapes I copied from my japanese rentals whenever I could.

Good times.

DBZ on the i channel was the greatest raw hairy and grainy footage you could possibly get.

Pie Row Maniac · Post by **Pie Row Maniac** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:13 am

That reminds me, I should get a capture card sometime.

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:57 pm

I worked around the subtitles...ie, any scene that had subtitles in it was just automatically deemed unusable. Kinda sucked...I could have made a much better Giant Robo video if I had had access to unsubtitled footage back then.

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:49 pm

I think a lot of old AMV makers were people who had access to editing stations either at a school or at work. (Jog and Shuttle anyone?)

However for the majority, dealing with subtitles was the least of their worries. To get an idea of what it's like to make an AMV with two VCR's read this guide:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/2VCR/default.htm

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:37 pm

Well, by the time I began editing, all the DVDs and such were already around, HOWEVER, I didn't have a DVD drive, or ANY DVDs whatsoever when I first started...not even a DVD player of any form in my house. So I heard about this thing called a "capture card" and it just so happened a guy I knew was throwing one away cause he didn't know what it was (seriously), so I took it and after much toil on my 200MHZ PC from 1997 with 64MB of ram, got it to work. I then got my VCR and my horribly aged and ate up SLP VHS recordings of Sailor Moon, captured them with the capture card that couldn't capture higher than 320X240...and my first AMV was born.

But yeah I don't have one subbed VHS.

Pie Row Maniac · Post by **Pie Row Maniac** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:27 pm

Kusoyaro wrote:Kinda sucked...I could have made a much better Giant Robo video if I had had access to unsubtitled footage back then.

Do I smell a potential remaster?

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:38 pm

Pie Row Maniac wrote:
Kusoyaro wrote:Kinda sucked...I could have made a much better Giant Robo video if I had had access to unsubtitled footage back then.
Do I smell a potential remaster?

Volume 2 will be out in a couple of weeks (hint ?).

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 2:54 pm

My gosh... It all sound as if ue older editors couldn't make AMVs before DVDs unless we had access to special equipment.

I got my first VCR in 1986 and my second is 1987 so I was AMV able since then

Actually, it was kind of fun using two VCRs and it only took a weekend to make a video rather than 6 months

Vlad

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:29 pm

I either worked with the dub tapes I had on hand or I would just not use scenes that had subs in them. Needless to say, the later one made it very difficult to select scenes.

shadow-the-hedgehog · Post by **shadow-the-hedgehog** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:35 pm

I know we used VHS. We used some footage from Cartoon Network as well as some fan subs. We used an editing machine called a Casablanca. It sucked massively. I wish I still had my first true AMV...

- Shadow the Hedgehog