Is there anyone using this forum besides the profesionals.

[x_rex30]

We're all armatures here, and that's the way hobbies should be
Besides, I'd probably suck doing this as a profession

Vlad

I guess your right. I personally want to make video editing, directing, and/or producing a proffesion. Why? Mainly because ive been offered really good money for my work. I was able to get ahold of really good software in one of my classes so i made one of my videos there. it took around five hours to put everything to gether and a weekend to get some clips from my VHS's. That was my first video. I take that note and i see a good future with that proffesion. dont get me wrong. i hate it when i brag but i also hate it when i get doged-_^

[Corran]

Speaking of irregular sleeping patterns... I should go to bed now.

If other amature is gettin the same problem then give me a respond.

I'm confused? How is it a problem.

[x_rex30]

Speaking of irregular sleeping patterns... I should go to bed now.

If other amature is gettin the same problem then give me a respond.

I'm confused? How is it a problem.

Dont get me wrong. Im new too forums. Maybe i dont understand the true nature of them yet.

[trythil]

We're all armatures here, and that's the way hobbies should be

I'm an armature? Crap, I didn't know I was part of some grand character animation scheme!

[Bote]

^LMAO Good read.

[Declan_Vee]

Maybe I missed something, but I'm not quite sure you've explained what you mean by "professionals". If by that you mean hardened creators who have a solid understanding of what they are doing. Then... you've lost me. I've been spotting unintelligible noobs left-right-and-center.

Truth is, the world isn't a very nice place. Sounds like you've been getting some good honest feedback. And if you think about it, you won't be improving very well if you're only getting reviews of the sugar-coated variety. My advice is to take in whatever they may be saying and keep it in mind for any videos you may make in the future.

[Arigatomina]

I made a few subjects to be read in the forums and all the people who freakin respond are highly professional AMV creators. I look under everyones personal profile and everyone who ever seems to respond to me are these very judgemental profesional editors. If other amature is gettin the same problem then give me a respond.

If you have a problem as an editor, why would you want to get help from others who don't know what they're doing either? It's those people who've had the 'same problem' and who've gotten past that problem who tend to respond first. That doesn't make them professional, it just makes them helpful because they've been there and choose to respond to the topic.

When i mean amature i mean someone who isn't on here twenty for seven infesting the entire forum ^_^.

In that case you aren't talking about professionals at all. You're talking about forum members. If you want to only talk to those people who never post, then you're in the wrong place. The ones who talk to you on this forum are people who post *on* the forum. That's necessity. If they didn't post, they couldn't post in response to you.

If you don't want to talk to people who post, don't post on the forum. Go do some searches on the member main page. Try going to the star scale and getting the first page of stars - the 1s and 2s avearages - chances are those vid creators have never posted on the forum. You can email them and talk as much as you want to people who never post and have no idea what they're doing - which would make them as far as you can possibly get from professional.

Another place would be the chat room - chances are the people posting in there will also be regular posters here, though, since this is a community, so that might not get you non-posters either. Your best bet would be to go somewhere else and post - then you'll never have to worry about getting replies from people who post here. After all, if you don't post here, the people posting in reply to you won't be people who post here either. That seems to be what you want - for those who never post to talk to you.

Just remember, if they don't post in reply to your topic, chances are it's because they have nothing to say about the topic. If that's the sort of response you're looking for, just post about amvs on a general anime forum - you're bound to get all sorts of uninformed replies. Non-amv'rs are more likely to know nothing about amvs and therefore be as newb as you want your responders to be.

I don't see why you'd want responses from people who have no idea what they're talking about, from people who aren't regular members who might have heard enough to know about different subjects. What's the point of asking a question if you only let those who don't know the answer respond to that question? It defeats the purpose of posting here.

[dokool]

And his post is hardly elitism. Lay off the noobs, man.

I never said his post in itself was elitism, but he's complaining about a rift between "professional" and "amateur" editors, which I'd call an "elitism" post (i.e. 'wah wah wah you're all elitists who don't give n00bs a chance!') any day of the week...

-DOKool

[Scintilla]

Crap, I didn't know I was part of some grand character animation scheme!

<b>DIE SCHEME</b>

I know I do an awful lot of hanging around this forum, but I've never considered myself a professional. I've never even considered myself an OMGWTF mad-skilled-and-famous editor (and probably never will). Heck, I've only been AMVing for a year, and I've only been around the forums with any kind of regularity for half a year.

But yeah, I don't see it as a problem that a lot of the people who post a lot on this forum are experienced editors who know what <s>you</s> they're doing. For example, isn't that the kind of person you'd <i>want</i> answering the threads in the Video Help boards?

Outside technical threads like that, I really don't see any difference between how the more experienced people act and how the less experienced people act on these boards -- if there is elitism, I really don't see it.
I mean, there are people who have bad grammar and spelling and generally act noobish, and there are people who act like jerks, but that's a different story.

[fyrtenheimer]

you people bitch too much