who has made the most amv's?

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 3:02 pm

The member search option is still being reoptimized, so I have no way of knowing if someone else has suddenly jumped into the fray, but MetalWolf has been the long-time productivity champ of the .org, with 58 videos so far.

In terms of pace, yours is a little less than 31 VPY (videos per year), which is pretty close on the resident pace champion Kai Stromler, whose pace, career, is 40 VPY. (I'm still having trouble believing this one. How the hell did I DO that??!)*

With regard to quality over productivity, Kusoyaro is hard to beat, with 47 videos to his credit, an impressive con record, and huge amounts of respect from nearly everyone in the scene.

However, productivity and pace are false metrics, because of differences in equipment and experience (Kusoyaro has been working since 1996, I'm using a non-Premiere editor and working front-to-back in MPEG2), and really, having more videos, or more videos faster, than anyone else is an empty statistic. Most of the .org works at 3-8 VPY and has a catalog between 3 and 20 videos, but if you're happy with the results you're getting, or at least with the improvement curve you're on, then your current pace is right for you.

--Kai

*statistics not official. I didn't even run the numbers on anyone else. If you've made only one video, and it took you a week, start-to-finish, ending today, then your pace is 52 VPY, but I don't think that many people would accept that as a valid point of comparison.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 3:40 pm

Quu wrote:I remeber one guy who claimed to have made 200 music videos...

in his words being "a little over 400 hours of work"

and it showed... i can't remember his name... it was on the amv mailing list a couple years ago...

and he sis make that many videos... and they were all that bad

WTF???!!! Ok, I need to go check this out, Quu, do you happen to remember who it was and where I can download these 200 videos? what are they? once scene with random music?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 3:55 pm

The Wired Knight wrote:
Quu wrote:I remeber one guy who claimed to have made 200 music videos...

in his words being "a little over 400 hours of work"

and it showed... i can't remember his name... it was on the amv mailing list a couple years ago...

and he sis make that many videos... and they were all that bad
WTF???!!! Ok, I need to go check this out, Quu, do you happen to remember who it was and where I can download these 200 videos? what are they? once scene with random music?

Quu wrote: i can't remember his name... it was on the amv mailing list a couple years ago...

I've made what something like 12 - 15 videos. I have one that I am not going to release ever even though it was "my latest and greatest" really lacking I feel. Made it back in april. I've got tons of little mini-clippettes of amvs that I've played with. I find playing with 30seconds of a song more enjoyable then playing with 3minutes :p

~klinky

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 4:06 pm

The Wired Knight: I think Quu's talking about Gerry Hsu. There are a few references if you search Google groups for "gerry hsu amv". He never had any videos online to my knowledge. (they were made with two VCRs)

There are 148 listed here:
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Shrine/6 ... videos.htm

Quu · Post by **Quu** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 5:21 pm

My heart beats for doki doki

he's right... Gerry Hsu... he subbitted alot of his videos to cons I help run...

and He offered to sell you cd's full of the music videos

and to do videos on demand... pick the footage and song... 2 hours later he would be done

iserlohn · Post by **iserlohn** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 10:32 pm

There's also the complete SSGWNBTD collection. I can't even count or think of what he's done....he really doesn't have anything better to do!

silver_moon · Post by **silver_moon** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 10:59 pm

Imagine trying to find hosting for all those videos

I think if somebody has the time to edit that many videos, they might as well make something that actually has a lot of effort in it, rather than taking two hours to create a video they probably won't even like themselves later. You might as well make a video to its full potential when you have an idea.

UncleMilo · Post by **UncleMilo** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 11:49 pm

I've made 11 so far...

and I have a few in the wings, but my DVD drive has a problem... so that's gonna be a slow down.

-Uncle Milo

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 1:24 am

el_farlo wrote:i really go for quality, but when you have nothing better to do with your life, after work and on the week ends, i spend at least an hour and a half EVERYDAY making amvs...i have one vid i have been working on for 6 months, and over the weekend i made 5

Dude.

Quality
Quantity

You don't want to be like that Gary Hsu guy. I mean, I hate to say this, but look at it as a form of artwork. Make something that at a con 5 years down the road, someone will mention your vids, and say "Damn, I loved that one!" I understand if you're making vids for relaxation (HOW? I don't know...), Excitement, or Training, but if you do it for quantity, you end up like one of those burned out spammers in the OT boards that finally come to realize: "Hey! In five years it wont matter how many posts I had on a message board that probably won't exist at that point!" (I'm not saying the .org forums are doomed, but "what if?". Instead of making a diff vid each night spend that 1-1/2 hours planning your next vid, remastering one of the videos that youve already done, or even re-watching anime for that "Special" scene. Hey, I know I've put together my share of shitty videos, but hey, once this POS computer gets replaced, theose little bastards are being remastered...

Fluxmeister · Post by **Fluxmeister** » Sun Nov 03, 2002 2:16 pm

I am all about QUANTITY. The sooner I make an amv the sooner it's time to
buy more dvds.

... though now with no job, buying dvds is well... a
dream of the past.

... escaflowne ... which for some reason keeps ripping itself
to my hard drive... I keep asking it not to. But alas... 6 esca videos.