What happened to fun?

[ngsilver]

I don't think the fun went anywhere really. At least not for me. Sure, I'm more technically minded now with how I work on a video. After all, I know what my style is now and when I make a video I either try to keep my style, evolve it somehow, or branch out because I think it'll be fun to try something new. The results for me are the same either way, I end up with a video that I'm generally proud of and enjoy watching.

As for other people, I don't know if it's the same or not. I started out as a fan. I didn't have the equipment or money to get the equipment to make videos on when I got into the hobby back in the 90s. But even despite that I would do only what I could, download other people's videos and enjoy watching them, dreaming of the day I could obtain the required elements and make my own joy to send into the world.

I can't say that I still enjoy videos exactly how I used to. After all, being on the other side I've developed eyes for things. Heck, I can pick out errors in effects in big screen movies. So yeah, there are now things that can annoy me when I see them in a video, and sometimes I'll turn a video off that annoyed me, though afterwards I look back and see something else in the video that I didn't like that isn't technical that was the true reason I turned the video off. I've overlooked some really bad editing in the past simply because I like the video that much.

So really, I don't think the fun ever went anywhere. After all, I'm still a fan first. When I say I rape the org on a regular basis for videos I don't lie. On average I download a good 50 videos at a time and watch them. So... :A

[ZephyrStar]

Things have gotten even more fun for me. I'm just working on a project that will take.... 5-7 years to finish. I'm having the time of my life with it. And I'm being dead serious.

[Kosmit]

I'm just working on a project that will take.... 5-7 years to finish. I'm having the time of my life with it. And I'm being dead serious.

You sir, are either a genius or a complete nut. Possibly both.

[Megamom]

For me, everything is fun... from the editing process once to the comments... everything is fun!

So... uh... why did you want to quit?

I no have ideas... also...

I stop editing AMVs, because I wanted to devote myself entirely to edit my short documentary, Also I had many personal problems, economic and psychological , but as I said in another post, I missed editing AMVs, now I'm back and although my AMVs are not amazing now, it does not matter, it's fun editing AMVs.

[ZephyrStar]

I'm just working on a project that will take.... 5-7 years to finish. I'm having the time of my life with it. And I'm being dead serious.

You sir, are either a genius or a complete nut. Possibly both.

Absolutely both

[LittleAtari]

All the fun was left in Vegas....


stupid premiere >.>

[Chaobunny12]

Personally, I don't see the point of a hobby if it isn't fun anymore. If it's too much SRS BSNS then it's not really a hobby. :/

It's true that as I've made more and more AMVs, I've begun to spend more time on technical stuff and pay more attention to detail, so my ideas don't just transfer into videos so easily or quickly anymore. I still have fun making AMVs, though I guess it's a little less fun than it used to be, since the more I learn about the hobby, the higher standards I set for myself, and the more frusterated I get when I can't get something to look right. But, on the other hand, that just makes it all the more rewarding when I finish a video.

Overall, I find the hobby to be rewarding in itself. At least that's how I see it. When I see people treating it like an Olympic sport and obsessing about a pixel that should have been 2 milimeters to the left, that's when I think it's a bit over the top. I make AMVs because I enjoy it and so I can entertain other people, not to achieve perfection. xD

[dreamawake]

All the fun was left in Vegas....


stupid premiere >.>

> Switching to premiere to be able to say LOLIUSEPREMIERE

I have fun and I am awesome. You all suck cocks.

[Scintilla]

Let me start by saying that you don't have to enjoy editing for this hobby to be worthwhile. For some people, the competition aspect is enough.

And I will say that it feels great to still be relevant on the AMV scene after 7 years of editing.

That said, it feels even better to still be having fun with AMVs after 7 years of editing.

Yes, I'm one of those people who gets very much into the technical side of things. It didn't take long for AMVing to improve my "eyes", if you will, to the point where if I'm watching a typical American cartoon over an SD feed on a big HDTV, the first thing I notice will be the mosquito noise every-freakin'-where. And every time I'm trying to put together a distribution encode of an AMV, I always run tests on various denoisers to try to figure out how to arrive at the optimal balance between looks and filesize.

But at the end of the day, I'm still making the videos *I* want to make, and I'm having fun doing it. And to do the same and screw what everyone else thinks will to continue to be my advice to people, just as it has been for years.

[trythil]

I now get my fun from hookers, blow, and booze.

And Arashinome.