Questions questions questions

[ketpai]

so I have had an a-m-v.org account for a while, and am now starting to show up on it more frequently and plan on posting my own videos soon

a quick question, i plan on becomming a professional film editor down the road, so do really good editors get noticed on this site?
are amv's good portfolio work?
what does it take to get really noticed here? I mean you can have the best videos in the world but if noone knows you exist then what does it matter?


thanks for any feedback
Ketpai

[Kariudo]

Can't say much about amvs being good portfolio stuff or not as I'm not trying to get into film-related work.

Getting noticed on the other hand...do opinion exchanges, engage in discussions, send your betas out to tons of people, announce your videos in the announcement forum, participate in other things like the IRC channel...stuff like that

[Pwolf]

there are a few members that have gone from amv editor to film editor. as a portfolio piece? maybe, it really depends on who's going to see it. Personally, I wouldn't use AMVs only but also have some short films or other editing work with it.

[Castor Troy]

Amvs are excellent portfolio work, although granted you're experienced in different styles of editing, won a few awards, etc.

If Beowulf, Lord Rae, Machine, Kionon (who actually started pro but went to amvs afterwards), LuluandAuron, and myself (and anyone else I missed) were able to do it, so can you.

[Radical_Yue]

Amvs are excellent portfolio work, although granted you're experienced in different styles of editing, won a few awards, etc.

If Beowulf, Lord Rae, Machine, Kionon (who actually started pro but went to amvs afterwards), LuluandAuron, and myself (and anyone else I missed) were able to do it, so can you.

AND NOW YOU'RE RE-EVO CASTOR TROY!

[Castor Troy]

Amvs are excellent portfolio work, although granted you're experienced in different styles of editing, won a few awards, etc.

If Beowulf, Lord Rae, Machine, Kionon (who actually started pro but went to amvs afterwards), LuluandAuron, and myself (and anyone else I missed) were able to do it, so can you.

AND NOW YOU'RE RE-EVO CASTOR TROY!

And we shall dominate the world.

[Kionon]

AMVs do get noticed, but not as much as sometimes I think people initially would believe. As Castor mentioned, I started at out doing RTF as a vocational program in the late 90s and, but I was still making commercials politically well into 2006 (search for Greg Hecht to see what I mean, HE HAS A PLAN), and felt that it was a fun hobby I could use my skills to do. Now I am quite happy as a teacher and only edit

I did use my AMVs as part of (but not the ONLY part) of the portfolio that landed me the projects, both freelance and long-term, but I also had a collection of clippings from the Daily Texan (Machine and I worked in the same building at that time, he was on the sixth floor, and I was in the basement), and camera work I had done for Good Morning America. That showed I had a wide variety of experience, and AMVs showed that I was well-familiar with NLEs (Non-Linear Editors, ie premiere, final cut, avid), and used to thinking outside of normal media constraints.

I recommend if you are serious that you also study how to make commercials, hard news stories, parodies, and shorts as well as AMVs. AMVs will definitely show your savvy with NLEs, but it WON'T show you know how to do any of the former, because all the examples I gave work with live footage and have different processes involved, both mentally and technically.

Yeah, you can do it.

[Kionon]

Now I am quite happy as a teacher and only edit as a hobby.

Fixed.

[blabbler]

a quick question, i plan on becomming a professional film editor down the road, so do really good editors get noticed on this site?

not by the industry, if that's what you mean.

are amv's good portfolio work?

speculation:

i would say it depends what kind of portfolio you're building. for zero budget music videos/tvc where the client just wants to see that you can use the software... maybe.
for film work? i really doubt any serious editor has an amv or any kind of video with music and footage ripped from an illegitimate source on their reel.

i think you might be better off looking at amvs as a hobby, and spending some time trying to land a placement or internship as an assistant editor at a respected facility.
getting involved in no-budget indie productions would probably be a good way to gain relevant experience, skills and sequences for your reel.

[Bauzi]

I do think that you can be use amvs for a portfolio if you present it in the right light:
-Limitation of footage. Control over footage you didn't recorded by yourself.
-MEPs as international cooperation of talented energic young editors.
-Won awards in the greatest AMV contests of the world/a country like Most Artistic
...

Anyway I would think about it twice.