Do I just dig for the sticks? No. Not exactly.

[Infinity Squared]

Practically all of my recent AMVs have been created with a deadline being an upcoming convention. I can't fully say that I made them purely for the convention only, but a large part of the motivation and initial impetus are due to conventions.

The way I usually operate is, I'll have several AMV ideas at any one time. I'd usually be too lazy to make them. And then a convention comes along and all of a sudden the gears start moving and 24 hours to the convention deadline later, I'm rushing to finish a video ^_^

[OtakuGray]

I do a little dabbling in both.

I definitely make certain AMV's for me and for my friends. I also love my Youtube account, it's nice to see your work appreciated. Same goes for the org, and it's very nice to get your work critiqued.

This.

[Hagaren Viper]

I've never made an AMV specifically with a contest in mind. When the contests start rolling around, I pretty much just throw what I made that year at them. Even still, I get lazy with it and usually only submit to Anime Expo.

I make AMVs mostly for fans of the anime to watch. Weather that is here, or youtube, doesn't matter to me [As long as it's *my* accounts]. As long as there's a place to show off my work, I'll keep editing, regardless of contests.

[ngsilver]

I started making videos without any real care to enter contests. I knew they existed, I just didn't care to enter. I also didn't want to enter a contest for a con I wasn't going to be at.

Now I enter contests more to get my videos out there for the general masses to see rather then to compete. Though it's fun to compete and see how well certain videos stand up against other editor's videos but that isn't really a driving force. I do make videos for cons sometimes, it's a great motivator to get things done.

In fact, anymore I doubt I would get many videos finished if I didn't have con deadlines looming over my head forcing me to sit at my PC and work on a video. Grant it, I'd have a catalog saturated with more 'fun' videos that I made on a the fly for the heck of it that way and less I'm trying to prove myself stuff... so who knows which is the better thing.

[Cannonaire]

I edit because I've loved AMVs for so long now. I used to watch them with my brother all the time, and I went to my first AMV contest at AX 2004. I'm only on my second video now, but I wish I had started editing sooner. But I guess it's never to late to have fun.