what you wish you'd known when you started

Phantasmagoriat · Post by **Phantasmagoriat** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:15 pm

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:36 pm

How to time.

godix · Post by **godix** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:32 pm

Epenis doesn't matter. What others think of the video doesn't matter. Hell, for that matter this entire hobby doesn't matter. If you have fun then you did it right. Any rule other than that is just minor crap.

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:00 pm

Other than certain ideas I simply wished I had thought of first, not really. I've grown up with the artform and the community over the last decade, and honestly, the things I wish I had known or had in 1998 are different from the things I wish I had known or had in 2003, which are different from the things I wish I knew or had now. Hardware changes, software changes, styles change, technique changes.

Honestly, if you read the guides and my sticky, and continue to lurk, you'll pick up the basics. They really haven't changed that much over the last few years. You still need to work with ripped DVDs (no blu-ray anime yet). You still need to find a way to clean them up (if you're on a mac, I have mac suggestions, although I'm shopping around for some better cleaning software now). You still need an editing suite. You still need to know what codecs and containers are standardly used. Really, this is unlikely to change until we get to the point where HD content is readily accessible without much quality loss.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:31 pm

Not to capture in 15fps and export it as 30fps.

-MD · Post by **-MD** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:05 pm

Not to use a camera recorder to record your footage and then use that to edit....I used to crank out amvs like mad....

On a serious note....I realised this more work then I thought it would ever be...I was used to seeing amvs with just regular fades and cuts, minus the story/plot/concept (etc)...basically they were mostly random songs with random anime shows...The first AMV I saw that actually went outside "my" relm of your average pointless action video was Skittles (consider I started watching vids last year...), which showed me in a way the limitless possibilities. Then I was shown by a few people more amvs that exceeded what I thought was limit between animation and music sources...yea my expectations were very damn low back then, show me anything and I'd go crazy... @.@ So to sum this up...I wish I knew what the limits to amv making were

And I wish I knew how to rip... XD

inthesto · Post by **inthesto** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:04 am

Which way to pull the pinecone when you're out of toilet paper.

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:12 am

How much videos suck so I wouldn't have wasted all that time.

requiett · Post by **requiett** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:36 am

How much of a bunch of talentless, elitist fags you all are.

MaggIvy · Post by **MaggIvy** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:27 pm

I wish I knew that I could rip dvds and fmvs instead of downloading them. I wish I knew how to use a capture card. I do now though.