what you wish you'd known when you started

Sephiroth · Post by **Sephiroth** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:10 pm

That this hobbie is going to get much more elitist and stupid then i thought it could get.
That and people will only care about After Effects like vids in 3 years.

Yok/0 · Post by **Yok/0** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:55 am

How ALL OF US edit just to compensate cause of some social issues. When really what we're doing is not ground breaking by many. When the ignorant mass cares only for mainstream music/anime put together |:

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:29 am

Sephiroth wrote:That this hobbie is going to get much more elitist and stupid then i thought it could get.
That and people will only care about After Effects like vids in 3 years.

In three years? Like welcome to NOW, Sephi.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:51 am

Kionon wrote:
Sephiroth wrote:That this hobbie is going to get much more elitist and stupid then i thought it could get.
That and people will only care about After Effects like vids in 3 years.
In three years? Like welcome to NOW, Sephi.

It all started in 2002.

Org Profile · Post by **VicBond007** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:03 pm

Things I wish I knew before I started:
1) Popular anime of the month always beats the creative and intellectual pairing of song and anime.
2) Conforming to a compliant, recognized digital standard is way more work than it is to use some weirdass codec.
2a) It's clearly the contest coordinator's fault if they can't play my video.
3) My time would have been better spent forcing a specific program to do something that it was never meant to do, and then bitch on forums about said app crashing, instead of actually learning and understanding the whole process.
4) The number of submissions that you crank out for AMV Hell is directly related to the size of your e-peen.

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:07 pm

VicBond007 wrote:Things I wish I knew before I started:
1) Popular anime of the month always beats the creative and intellectual pairing of song and anime.
2) Conforming to a compliant, recognized digital standard is way more work than it is to use some weirdass codec.
2a) It's clearly the contest coordinator's fault if they can't play my video.
3) My time would have been better spent forcing a specific program to do something that it was never meant to do, and then bitch on forums about said app crashing, instead of actually learning and understanding the whole process.
4) The number of submissions that you crank out for AMV Hell is directly related to the size of your e-peen.
5) The only thing that sucks more than AMVs is the people who make AMVs

Fixed.

Rave_Epic · Post by **Rave_Epic** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:02 am

"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."

Could not have said it better.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:22 pm

Editing equipment is expensive.

Wish I'd known that one; oh and I wish I had known what Macrovision was. Got two videos in before I discovered the nightmare that created.