Your First Time Was ?

[gotegenks]

Mine was like back in 1995, probably before some of you were born o.0

DAMN that's scary, how old are some of the people here?
this comment is the first time i've ever felt old on the interwebs

well yee typical 13 yr olds would be born in 1997 so anybody under 15 would be game here's something that will make you feel OLD. Chiikaboom and Kitsuner were 13 (or less) when they started 4 or so years ago. They're hardly out of high school (diapers) today! Lol There are other young 'prodigys' around too lol. It's sad to think, pretty soon here we'll meet ppl who have NEVER known an America under Bill Clinton!!

LOL
i'm the same as them i guess, i'm goin on my last year of high school, and 4 years ago this fall i would've started (13 yrs old) so now i feel young again

[Kaream]

"Your First Time Was?"

I had something totally different in mind when I read that.

[Enigma]

1.Probably DarkAngel and GreekPrinces video about two years ago

2.Started making them back in late 2008

[BurningLeaves]

Before amvs my main hobby was html editing all through middle and high school. After awhile I got bored of that (because I ran out of crap to make) and decided to use my html nerdness with myspace, I have no interest in social networking but I liked the coding side of it, how it was much more restrictive than designing something on your own and you had to figure out ways around their limitations to achieve the look you wanted. One of the profiles I had made for people was a Kenshion themed one for my then boyfriend in about '04?

Spoiler :

This was before myspace had videos or music so anything you put in the profile you had to code and I had found this video by ngsilver (I believe on Kazza?) that combined the kenshin theme as well as one of his favorite songs so I hosted that somewhere and coded it in the profile. But this was before I knew amvs were an actual 'thing' and not just something random I found.


A few years later I had been searching for an episode of Inuyasha on youtube and was getting increasingly annoyed that all I found were these lame ass videos of inuyasha put to music, I watched a few of them and thought they all sucked and didn't see the point until I ran across this one.

That was the first one, apart from the Kenshin one I had seen years earlier that the person actually edited the video and while it might not stand up to the test of time it was a drama video with good scene choices which was really different from all others I'd seen. I went on a massive hunt for somewhere to download it and came across the org where I downloaded tons of videos. Ever since first watching Inuyasha my brother and I would laugh when he got shot with an arrow and sing the stupid 'Shot through the heart' Bon Jovie song. I searched for a video like this but none had been made. (Tons had been made, but I didn't realize the org spelled Inuyasha Inu Yasha and nothing without the space would come up for the tv show only movies) so I made one. Before making an amv I had for years prior been making smaller flash videos for my friends on birthdays and things like that but it was my first time actually working with video as opposed to things I tried animating myself.

[Ikore]

pretty soon here we'll meet ppl who have NEVER known an America under Bill Clinton!!

who is Bill Clinton? =3 I´m joking I know exactly what he got under him

[Honou_Miko]

1. I actually had not seen any. I was a sappy eighth grader and thought, "wow, these scenes from Tenchi in Tokyo would go really well with Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely by the Backstreet Boys! I wonder if I could take footage and put it to the music... has anyone done that?" (yes, this was back in 2000 or 2001 or so.) Then, some guy my dad worked with had a son who was into anime. The guy burned me a data CD full of some old classic AMVs and I got really excited realizing that people actually DO make those.

2. Started making them very shortly after that. I made a really crappy one to "She Bangs" by Ricky Martin (this was before William Hung, even) with Aeka from Tenchi Muyo... it was good considering my limited resources, but. I basically used some random software that my uncle happened to put on the computer while transferring pictures (it was part of some program package) and I ended up editing that way. Pain in the ass, it wasn't timeline format (or I hadn't figured out how to view it that way), and some of my source footage was real media so I paused it every split second and did screen captures for lots of the frames.

Luckily, since then, I've gotten my hands on better resources..... ^^; Shortly after that I got some VHS-to-computer software and edited the Backstreet Boys video I'd imagined first. It's on my first account, WashuuChan12, to which I forgot the password ages ago and have changed my email. When I got my laptop I started using WMM, continued using WMM when I got a desktop (the one good thing about Vista is that the WMM is soooo much better) and then my fiancé bought me Sony Vegas Platinum. So I've been using that.

[Taite]

1: Don't know the exact answer. I saw other amvs a long time ago after I began watching anime, and thought it'd be cool to try, so I did.

2: When I first managed to figure out how to get videos and music and put them in WMM about 5 years ago, so '05. But I messed around for quite some time. I watched videos, and made small ones myself. But I never released any to the public or made a full video until last year in September.

[Thepooh]

Re: Your First Time Was ? I was drunk and...Talkin' about AMV ?

1: I was drunk and...I really wanted to see an AMV based on Kurozuka. So I edited it in 1 month. At this time, I hadn't seen a single AMV. (This work is available on org xD don't laugh)

2: Late in 2008.

[u_queen]

1: My brother made one lame AMV and I wanted to prove him I could do one better

2:2004-09-29 It's the first video I've made.

3: Even if I make AMVs that doesn't mean I don't watch them. I watch them to learn how to make them or to get inspiration, because I like the song they use or because the anime they use looks interesting. There're several reasons.

[Enish]

1. I've been watching AMVs longer than I've been making them (since 2005/2006, to be exact), which is how I got into making them. I was so in love with what I was watching that I wanted to do something like that. I kept jotting down ideas for AMVs until I got my new computer. It was then that I started to make AMVs.

2. I've been making AMVs since 2007. I skipped a year, so I've actually been making them for almost two years.