How do you view your AMV's?

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:14 pm

Greggus1 wrote:I'd actually like to hear someone justify editing an entire video without them on, besides for financial reasons. For any kind of detailed understanding of the song, they're really a must.

Justify, eh? Here goes.

I prefer to watch amvs at fullscreen with my speakers. When I edit a video using headphones, I tend to sync to things I can't hear when I watch the final video with my speakers. So the editing looks randomly synced, because it's synced to things that aren't audible. That looks tacky. That looks bad. I don't like that. So I try not to edit with headphones, knowing I'll be watching without them.

If I actually liked watching amvs with headpones on, I'd edit with them on. I'd rather undersync than sync to things that aren't there when I watch the vid with my speakers or my television.

Note: Headphones hurt my ears. I have to kill my audio just to get the volume to a low enough setting to use headphones. I do edit with headphones sometimes because there's an office downstairs and the walls are thin, but I resent every second of it and wish I'd just waited till the weekend or some time after midnight. I only watch amvs with headphones when I absolutely can't wait for the office downstairs to close.

Shazzy · Post by **Shazzy** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:22 pm

Arigatomina wrote:When I edit a video using headphones, I tend to sync to things I can't hear when I watch the final video with my speakers.

x2

staces · Post by **staces** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:31 pm

Shazzy wrote:
Arigatomina wrote:When I edit a video using headphones, I tend to sync to things I can't hear when I watch the final video with my speakers.
x2

X3!

I didn't realize this for a long time though, now I have some vids that some people find to be oddly synched because they never watched them with headphones on.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:36 pm

It's nothing new to me - being seriously into music, I could always tell the difference between speakers and headphones, or among different speakers and headphones - and a big difference sometimes it is.

Naturally, when I edit something, I usually edit it in headphones but try to test it thoroughly on speakers, as well as other people's computers (it's a good idea anyway).

There are a couple of videos I edited almost entirely on speakers, though.

Cornwiggle · Post by **Cornwiggle** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:39 pm

staces wrote:
Shazzy wrote:
Arigatomina wrote:When I edit a video using headphones, I tend to sync to things I can't hear when I watch the final video with my speakers.
x2
X3!

I didn't realize this for a long time though, now I have some vids that some people find to be oddly synched because they never watched them with headphones on.

My headphones aren't good enough for that, I just turn up the speakers really loud.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:47 pm

I edit with headphones on, but if i'm doing a lot of patterned syncs, i'll just use math to my advantage and figure out where certain markers should be placed on the time line. Of course i have an audiophile SRT roommate that checks all the syncing for me whenever i bug him to. Those should come standard with editing suites.

Greggus1 · Post by **Greggus1** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:19 pm

Arigatomina wrote:
Greggus1 wrote:I'd actually like to hear someone justify editing an entire video without them on, besides for financial reasons. For any kind of detailed understanding of the song, they're really a must.
Justify, eh? Here goes.

I prefer to watch amvs at fullscreen with my speakers. When I edit a video using headphones, I tend to sync to things I can't hear when I watch the final video with my speakers. So the editing looks randomly synced, because it's synced to things that aren't audible. That looks tacky. That looks bad. I don't like that. So I try not to edit with headphones, knowing I'll be watching without them.

If I actually liked watching amvs with headpones on, I'd edit with them on. I'd rather undersync than sync to things that aren't there when I watch the vid with my speakers or my television.

Note: Headphones hurt my ears. I have to kill my audio just to get the volume to a low enough setting to use headphones. I do edit with headphones sometimes because there's an office downstairs and the walls are thin, but I resent every second of it and wish I'd just waited till the weekend or some time after midnight. I only watch amvs with headphones when I absolutely can't wait for the office downstairs to close.

Point taken.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:27 pm

By the way, headphones shouldn't hurt ears, you just have crappy headphones then

(though to be honest, most headphones and especially in-ear phones hurt my ears too; the result was that I looked carefully into open monitors and ended up with a very comfy pair of Sennheiser HD515s which solved that particular issue for me)

Another thought:
I like watching AMVs on other peoples' computers, just to see what the difference is

Kevmaster · Post by **Kevmaster** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:28 pm

hmh..it seems to me like I'm the only one who enjoys watching AMVs on the little Ipod Screen the most..O.o I guess I'm just weird..

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:31 pm

Kevmasterflashdeluxe wrote:hmh..it seems to me like I'm the only one who enjoys watching AMVs on the little Ipod Screen the most..O.o I guess I'm just weird..

No, you're not.

It's just that I'm too traumatized by the loss of my iPod to even mention it