This sh!t ain't free! - UPDATE #3

[guy07]

Hey y'all, been a few years since I posted one of these and I'm sort of scared to answer the question myself but here it goes:

How much has this hobby cost you to date? Include anything you bought mainly for the reason of making/enjoying AMVs. This includes rigs, source materials, programs etc.

Last time I checked back in the day it was 3,500CDN. I'd say with my new computer, monitor, HD TV and speakers plus a few other things, I'm sitting at around 5,200CDN now. Strangely, I haven't actually made one in like 2 years. It's starting to look like money wasted.

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[TritioAFB]

Hmm I haven't asked myself that. I guess at my case is 2000CDN, since someone here donated me the laptop and the speakers I use for editing, and the only thing I had to but was my external drive and the software. I had to start spending money in other things like a new refrigerator

[ibabrak]

Hmm as for editting softwares I haven't gotten them so that I could edit anime/life show in the first place so.. as for other thing, it's gonna be soon around 15000-17000CZK so basically 900-1000 US Dollars.

[CodeZTM]

My machine was purchased for things other than editing [most notably to handle my tax/accounting software], so I wouldn't TECHNICALLY call it an AMV purchase. But since i do use it, then I'd probably put that at about 1,000.

My DVD collection EXPLODED since 09', so I'd probably value it at around $900 total. [I did NOT just type out that. /me dies]

My software is paid for by the company that I work for, so I don't have to count that.

About $250 for various Project Editor related expenses over the last 2 years.

Donations to the org of 12 for every year since 06 comes out to $108.

$2258

Yeeeeouch. >____________>

[JaddziaDax]

hahahaha last time I said I didn't want to count my DVD collection, but I've also bought two computers, a few different editing programs, and a video capture device since then O:

[mirkosp]

Last time I was at around 3k eur, it seems... with the DVDs and BDs I bought in these two years I should be at around 3.5k, however I don't think I can say I bought them mainly for editing, despite using some of them as footage I think, so I'm not sure I can count those.

[Castor Troy]

I could have bought several cars for the amount I've spent..

[Quu]

To date, on equipment alone I have spent $67,500 just on AMV equipment... IE equipment that had no other use, or where the overwhelming primary use was AMV related. I am not counting personal computers that I "also" edited AMVs on... but dedicated computers for convention playback or for file serving. Most of the expense was for pro grad analog equipment to capture people's (S)VHS submissions... i bought a bunch of time based correctors, pro grade VCRs with component out to capture uncompressed component in with a Targa3000 (which required a dedicated, very specifically configured computer). Most expansive single item... AG-DS555 ... though some of the TBCs came close.

I am not counting equipment that was donated to me, or equipment that was paid for with donations. I am not counting the plane trips, travel expenses, of going to conventions to help run thier contest. I am not counting the cost of running a business class T-1 to my home for the submission site (back in 2002 a T-1 was not cheap, i got a better connection now, but still business class)... i never added that stuff up, and really don't care to. I am not counting my anime collection, since it was also used to... well watch at my weekly gatherings I had at my house. My anime collection was, at the time, larger than the anime selection at MediaPlay. If I were to add up all the things somewhat related to AMVs... i think I would cry.

[SailorDeath]

To date, on equipment alone I have spent $67,500 just on AMV equipment...

YOU WIN

[Quu]

i did not mean to win... it was just a nice cross section of stuff... at the time i was a contractor earning a very high hourly rate, and working 60-80 hours a week... i bought a house and a bunch of video equipment... still got the house.