Go watch your old videos. Right now.

Niotex · Post by **Niotex** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:43 pm

I hate all my video's from before May 2005 and beyond April 2006 =|

Fall_Child42 · Post by **Fall_Child42** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:00 pm

I like all of my videos alot for a variety of different reasons, I guess I'm in the same boat as Oto.

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:00 pm

downwithpants wrote:
Unlimited Rice wrote:I enjoy watching my old stuff [more] than my new stuff.
x2. they remind me why i was into editing at first - looking for favorite scenes and arranging them to the lyrics. and they remind me how little i've improved.

the amv aesthetic castor troy was talking about - the same style of beat sync to 90% of amvs in the past 4-5 years - is what got me tired of amvs. it's not that beat sync is bad, it's that when you edit based on rules rather than you think instinctually looks good, the video is boring.

x3

I personally enjoy some of my 'older' stuff significantly more than some of my newer stuff and have often wondered what it'd be like if I didn't know about the org or wasn't as involved in the community? My favorite videos of mine were edited when I had no concept of 'standards' or 'how videos should be' and I just edited what I felt was right. Nowadays I consciously try to time things and make them flow in a specific and almost scientific or mathematical way (it's hard to explain).

It's kind of strange that without rules I made my best work (imo) and sadly, I kind of wish I wasn't 'programmed' to make videos a certain way now. I've tried to depart from that with my latest video (since I felt my previous two were almost *too* consistent on scene changes and timing). Not that it makes for a 'bad video' per se and yes, it's technically 'correct,' but what I miss is that raw feeling when you watch a video and go "I don't know why I like this, but I do." Kinda like it doesn't necessarily change scenes or time EXACTLY where you think, but still nails it in a subtle way. Subtlety (and to a degree flow) is missing nowadays.

Does that even make sense?

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:00 pm

makes sense to me O.o

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:04 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:makes sense to me O.o

Thank you

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Chiikaboom · Post by **Chiikaboom** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:33 pm

nessephanie wrote:Personally I like where amv's are right now compared to what they used to be. Things are more clean technically and I like that. I think people can convey their themes and stories just as well with editing now, and make them look alot better.

I like the 'standards' and being able to kinda follow them, it means I can make videos that I like more because they look nicer, not just everyone else, but to me as well. I don't think amv's need to 'evolve' or that we're in a slump. There will always be videos that we like, and ones we don't, no matter where the community is *shrugs*.

I like my stuff just fine.

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CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:20 pm

It was actually a very informative watch.

I realized that I learned something with each video that I intergrated with my next video.

After my first video, I learned how to rip DVD footage.

After my second video, I learned how crop my DVD footage.

After my third video, I learned how to deinterlace my footage.

After my fourth video, I learned that country music isn't very welcomed here and how to fix AR.

After my fifth video, I learned to edit with beat sync.

Also, while I think I could have done better in all of my videos, I love all of my videos for different reasons. Most of the time, I made the videos for a specific reason or for somebody special in my life. They've really taught me a lot.

Beowulf · Post by **Beowulf** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:00 pm

I love my newer videos more and more. I think I might be in the minority in saying that my opinion of my own videos is that they keep getting better and better.

My first 3 videos are ok and fun; Die Motherfuckers is funny lyric and beat synch, Keep Breathing is a nice exercise in tension-release, and Come With Us was actually a pretty good technical-beat synch-video in its day. But after that, I love my newer videos more and more as they go on. My newest video is my best editing yet imo.

I ran into the "I wish I would forget all this programming" problem, that people are talking about in this thread, numerous times while working on the big marilyn manson video. I think its a natural occurrence on your way to mastery of any skill.

Its dangerous when you know enough about something to not make it fun anymore. Like if all you hear when you listen to music are chord changes and time signatures. Everyone who edits will go through a time when all you see is the editing and your overall enjoyment of the piece suffers.

Whenever I'm in that shit, I always work on a random type video (Detach), or work on a more zen type video that doesn't really requires brain power or artistry (remastering old videos).

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:02 pm

So I went back and watched the first AMV I made, which was released almost exactly one year ago, and my feeling towards it have not changed in 12 months. Nor have my feelings towards my second AMV, or my third. I don't look back at them and think "Wow, I'm doing things differently than I am now" because my number one priority is still making AMVs that I enjoy, that I want to make, that achieve what I want to achieve. Now, number four might not fall into this category...but still, no beat synch or eye candy anywhere so I guess I'm still doing my own thing. lol

The biggest change I've made is learning to compromise and accept the fact that I can't necessarily make the AMVs I want to make - whether it's because the footage doesn't exist, the skill isn't there or the concept doesn't work out. Since these things kept me FROM making AMVs for many years, I prefer to look at this compromising as a step forward, but at the same time it's kind of depressing. My standards, one could say, are lower, but on the other hand...they were so outrageously high in the first place that now I'm probably handling my AMVs much more realistically.

Heh, I very much doubt at any time in the AMVing community there was a standard which was not being strived for, a bar which was not constantly inching higher and higher. The nature of that standard and the height of that bar have changed greatly over the years, but that doesn't mean they are negative influences on AMVing in and of themselves. When your own standards start to diverge, or your bar doesn't go as high, that's when you start having to make a choice which way to go.

DeinReich · Post by **DeinReich** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:06 pm

Well, there were two points in my AMV life. The first (read: most of my videos) was a series of mashups that I threw together one after another just for laughs. Then I started to actually try, and ended up slowing my work in the process. I try to forget the first, say, 30 or so videos I did what seems like eons ago and try to focus on my work over the last couple of years, and it is fun to look back on those vids, I'll give you that.

I can't even get through my first video I uploaded here anymore. Meh, live, learn, move on.