Best AMV Awards

Phantasmagoriat · Post by **Phantasmagoriat** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:29 am

Zactar · Post by **Zactar** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:01 am

Once again, thank you for your input, and the links were much appreciated.

Although this site does have overall better quality AMVs than You-Tube, it does not, however, have the same in-site streaming video capabilities. Now, I realize that because the videos here are for download, that means increased video and audio quality. True. But streaming video is much more user-friendly and easily accessible. It really is a trade-off, but there are already a lot of good AMVs on this site, so why not bring the best ones to the masses? That is exactly what the Best AMV Awards is aimed at doing.

To respond to your expectations of what can be found on You-Tube, you may be surprised. Some of what we found was (although often low in video and audio quality) was pretty good. Just wait and see what we've found, then feel free to agree, criticize, or whatever you want.

In future sets of awards we will be sure to not only search You-Tube, but also this site, for the best AMVs we can possibly find. We will continue to repost those videos on our You-Tube and DailyMotion channels, so if you like what we are doing, please keep updated. We will begin posting the videos (starting with #10) within a week.

If any of you guys would like to submit yours or any other specific AMV for consideration in the next batch of awards, please get in contact with us through this site, other sites, or e-mail us at deathbysp4m@gmail.com.

P.S. The "Good" example is an excerpt from an AMV that is still under development by R3DF4CT10N. He's pretty good at the instrumental parts, but it's a work in progress. We used it so we wouldn't give away any of our top 10. Thanks for your comment, and I'm sure he will take it into consideration.

Purge · Post by **Purge** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:50 am

if you use any speed over beethoven bullshit amvs to even make fun off - i will cry

Zactar · Post by **Zactar** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:18 am

I assure you that we will do our absolute best to avoid making people cry. It's not what we want to do.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:52 am

Your going to have to review a LOT of AMVs in order to make a honesty balanced list... Just keep that in mind and don't go with only what happens to have a pile of hits

Vlad

Zactar · Post by **Zactar** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:37 am

I agree. I think we have had to start with a fairly limited list and trim that down, so this time around the list may not be COMPLETELY balanced (as close as we can get, though), but from here on out we will continue to accumulate more and more of a list, comparing new AMVs to the older ones we have already rated. Because of this, our awards will only become more and more accurate as we accumulate a larger list.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:37 am

Though I think this is an interesting idea, many on the org aren't going to take to it as much as the people on the tube would because quite a few of them loathe streaming sites, the lower quality etc. and some would rather keep the hobby "under ground" and not so mainstream.

Are you only going to take submissions?
or is this just a search of your own + submissions?

Another problem you are going to run into with streaming sites is the fact that people sometimes upload other people's videos to their own accounts (I have entire playlist of my videos uploaded by other people on one of my youtu<b></b>be accounts) you might have to check and re-check to make sure you credit the right people.

Zactar · Post by **Zactar** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:13 am

Good points. First of all, we searched for the videos we used in our first set of awards (currently underway), but now that we are getting a little bit of publicity we will be able to take submissions as well. So, to answer your question, both. As for the problem with finding the original creator on You-Tube, we realize this problem, and have tried our best to track down the original video in order to give credit to the right person (and get the best video quality). A couple of the videos were actually tracked to this site, so there are a couple of those in there.

Thank You.

narutoball · Post by **narutoball** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:26 am

i dun think you can convince anyone about youtube on here o_O. Plus downloads of HQ amvs are much better than shitty streamed videos. I don't think you will find much in quality and originality in any of the videos that may be in this contest...so i would just leave it and let it die >.> hopefully one day the same will happen to youtube =O

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:56 pm

it still sounds like a group effort rec list to me (with fancy titles)... I say that if they want to do it let them... pretty much all they are wanting to do is spotlight a few amvs.. I mean it's not like you even have to submit to "join" the contest :3