To further this comment I had found in the journals I must point out, amvs have become SO easy to make that... well, they're MUCH too easy to fuck up now as well! When was it that we had to start basically watching our backs instead of just having fun throwing our imagination out there!what the hell is wrong with all of you, it sickens me to see so many reviews for videos that start off along the lines of 'well this was a great vid but I noticed you didn't clean up your footage around 3:14 and clearly you had about 4 extra frames at 4:08...not to mention that if you tilt your head to the left a bit and close your right eye, the video looks a bit off'
Seriously if that applies to you then I say go to hell, infinitely, you know what made the older videos so motherfucking bad ass? It was the concept and the execution, ripping dvds like crazy and cleaning up your footage for 55 hours before actually importing was unhead of and even now, if you can do it, kudos to you and I'm sure your videos have the extra edge, but it's not going to cause any disturbance in the force if you saw some weird stuff on frame 89...
I think back to the time I tried Vegas. As an old school (Premiere) editor this is just appalling, I encoded my video and it was NOT like my preview! I don't mean encoding errors, I mean there were fades and dissolves in places (while they did look better that way) I hadn't placed them, heck I couldn't even FIND the fade function in vegas yet!! Anyway, this isn't a rant against Vegas (well it sorta' is...), but *I* didn't make that AMV, SONY did! Makes me wonder?? How many AMVs have you made?? How many AMVs out there are really MADE by the person controling the editor and not the editor itself? It just sickens me. It sickens me so much that I'm gonna make my next amv using Audacity and Virtual Dub.
To put it bluntly I would like to point out many of the members of this org have just become much too <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/ ... e/l33t.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket">l33t</a> to really sustain a sane HOBBYIST environment!