As I was in the middle of putting this AMV together, I started to wonder how it who might enjoy it most, what criticisms people may have of it, whether people would really "get" it... basically, I wondered how it might be received by the community. But during the few years I've been lurking here and the more recent few months that I've spent being a little bit more active in the forums and downloaded other people's AMVs, I've started to realize that it's not a matter of
how it would be received, but
if it's received by anyone at all. There have been more than 125 videos uploaded to the Org in the past week. No one's watching them all, and the one's that are thrown out there to swim for themselves might never be downloaded at all.
I've never been good at promoting myself but I guess that if I don't want my video to get buried and lost in the archives here, I'd better speak up and say a few things about it. And despite the fact that I put a lot of effort into this (although some people might think it looks like a simple, "I could've done this in an afternoon" video), I realize it's not perfect, but that I'd better say some positive things about it. So here goes.
I'd been wanting to make an AMV for a few years, though it wasn't until this summer that I was finally able to get my hands on the proper software to work with and a computer that was up to the task of actually running it. I started work on a different AMV, but after a few weeks' time, I felt like I was hitting the wall and needed to take a break. Then I read Aceman's thread on "
Ambient Videos," and it reminded me of a few ideas I'd had for videos in the past. I soon started work on a new project and picked away at it for a couple of weeks; I've no idea how many hours I might have spent on this, and if I did then would probably better not to say. And today, after lots of little revisions and learning the ins and outs of compression, it's finally done.
You know, I'm pleased with the results. I hope people enjoy it. It's just fine if they don't, but I hope it's not simply because it's slow or too "weird" or anything like that.
