ANIME BOSTON 2004 - AMV PANEL TOPICS

[turboneko]

Wow, you know it looks really professional you telling your panellist what the content of their panels should be on a public forum........

Especially when I've never done the things he specifically referenced in his response.

Me neither.... I guess it's part of the fun of it

[jbone]

Wow, you know it looks really professional you telling your panellist what the content of their panels should be on a public forum........

Especially when I've never done the things he specifically referenced in his response.

Me neither.... I guess it's part of the fun of it

Let's just all order pizza and watch Law & Order on the projector. Screw the panel, none of us have any idea what it's supposed to be about, anyway.

[mexicanjunior]

Bah you.

General: Technical stuff (basically demystifying AD's guide as far as we can take it)

Advanced: More theoretical (how to approach different kinds of videos, not doing effects for the sake of effects, etc) but with some technical stuff as well.

I always thought the General panel was more for theoritical stuff (concept, ideas, etc...) and the Advanced was more for technical (effects, obtaining footage, etc...). Maybe it's done differently up north.

[dokool]

Bah you.

General: Technical stuff (basically demystifying AD's guide as far as we can take it)

Advanced: More theoretical (how to approach different kinds of videos, not doing effects for the sake of effects, etc) but with some technical stuff as well.

I always thought the General panel was more for theoritical stuff (concept, ideas, etc...) and the Advanced was more for technical (effects, obtaining footage, etc...). Maybe it's done differently up north.

We had one panel last year that was a lot of general technical questions, thus we're making that the General panel. At this point it looks like we must sacrifice half an hour in order to get into Panel 1, so the distribution of technical/theoretical info may need to be revised...

-DOKool

[Mr Pilkington]

Wow, you know it looks really professional you telling your panellist what the content of their panels should be on a public forum........

I hope you cover lens flares in your advanced section. I'll be sure to take notes.

I always thought the General panel was more for theoritical stuff (concept, ideas, etc...) and the Advanced was more for technical (effects, obtaining footage, etc...). Maybe it's done differently up north.

What ever happened to constructive criticism?

[turboneko]

We had one panel last year that was a lot of general technical questions, thus we're making that the General panel. At this point it looks like we must sacrifice half an hour in order to get into Panel 1, so the distribution of technical/theoretical info may need to be revised...

Well... letting the jokes go for a minute, I don't know if any of you guys have been in touch in the past weeks to organize the panel: it would be probably a good idea to start some email discussion about the contents and leave the public forum.

For the rest, I partially agree with what said above by Dokool and MJ about how the advanced panel is supposed to be more on the technical side... I am just concerned that, by talking about advanced avisynth stuff, AE and methods for editing from VOBs, we'll make sense just for us and 2 or 3 people in the audience.

From what I've seen last year, most of the people attending never made an AMV or were just at the beginnings: parachuting them right into AVS looks a little scary to me (considered that we have just one hour for that)

Well... just my .02$

[Ashyukun]

We've discussed starting up a listserv for the panels, but my site has been down for the last few days and I can't currently use the mailing list functions on it just yet. Once it's back up to full I'll set it up so we can toss things around there.

Focussing in too closely on any one program is a danger we want to avoid- but it will be inevidible that some questions will have to be answered rather specifically by their nature. Ideally, the way I would envision things working would be for us to make not of any questions that are too in-depth for the 'general' panel and ask that the questioner come to the advanced panel so we can answer it then. What we end up talking about will be very heavily dependant on what people what to know about. For things that we expect we'll likely to get asked about (masking, interlacing, aspect ratio, etc.) I believe the plan is to have materials prepared for the panels, but we'll have to be prepared to answer just about anything that gets asked. We're planning to have CDs with most if not all of the materials we have for the panel as well as a number of the common references and utilities (Vdub, the AMVApp, local copy of E & AD's guide, etc.) so people will have something of a starting point.

As for things like AviSynth, I'd like to not get very much into it in the basic panel other than a simple explanation of what it is and that there are basic instructions on how to use it in the guide. I believe we have a good range of panelists who can discuss a number of different approaches to both the theoretical and the technical aspects so we should be able to field most anything that comes up.

[OtakuForLife]

Hi looking at the the panelists
I want to know how to make videos that will make me famous?

(lol)

err.... I mean After Effects training would be nice, Vicbonds panel
at Anime USA was intriguing ,but, not enougth for me to dive into
after effects fully. Yeah, I was the dork in the front asking all the
stupid questions.

[mckeed]

Hi looking at the the panelists
I want to know how to make videos that will make me famous.

Just make videos that don't suck

[dwchang]

Hi looking at the the panelists
I want to know how to make videos that will make me famous.

Just make videos that don't suck

CRAP! Is that the trick?

Man I better attend this panel too. Hehe