Where all that AMV editing got me

[DJ_Izumi]

welcome back to the org Izumi (tentative statement... but I'm sure it'll be fine, we've survived much WORSE egos than his )

I was mostly poking around for the sake of nostalgia.

[Knowname]

Please understand that the attitude around here has changed. It used to be all 'Boochsack this, Boochsack that, why are you using RealMedia, Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a> STUPID NOOB!!" ok... maybe a little bit of that but. Nobody uses RealMedia or even Quicktime any more. ANYWAY, we used to be really hard on noobs, but recently we've chilled out a bit. You may have come back joking around a bit, expecting hardened
elitest douchebag' responses to your punches and jabs. But not in today's a-m-v.org. Unfortunately today's a-m-v.org is not like it used to be in 2006, today's a-m-v.org has like... a frontal labotomy of kindness. It's sickening to us vets.

[DJ_Izumi]

Please understand that the attitude around here has changed. It used to be all 'Boochsack this, Boochsack that, why are you using RealMedia, Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a> STUPID NOOB!!" ok... maybe a little bit of that but. Nobody uses RealMedia or even Quicktime any more. ANYWAY, we used to be really hard on noobs, but recently we've chilled out a bit. You may have come back joking around a bit, expecting hardened
elitest douchebag' responses to your punches and jabs. But not in today's a-m-v.org. Unfortunately today's a-m-v.org is not like it used to be in 2006, today's a-m-v.org has like... a frontal labotomy of kindness. It's sickening to us vets.

That's not really the nostalgia that gets to me. It's more that this is the place where I learned what a 3:2 pulldown was (Funny, I learned to reverse it here, where as now I'm doing 3:2 pulldowns on 24p material to make it run on a 60i TV system) This is where I learned about Lagarith Lossless, which I still use today for RGB and RGBA exports from After Effects. This is where I learned about Pixel Aspect Ratio. So much useful technical stuff I learned from here.

Though, I think what makes me most nostalgic is the hardware. I came here on a P3@500 with 64MB of RAM, whopping 13GB of storage and an All In Wonder 128. That thing was an AMV super computer by the standards of the year 2000. Even on my profile, my last PC is listed as my editing box, and that machine has been repurposed and recycled into a simple HTPC/NAS box. The machine I have now has more RAM than my Pentium III had for hard disk space. It's kinda bonkers to think about how far the PC's used for editing have evolved.

[Knowname]

this video is the PERFECT example of the extent of production in AMVs (it's VERY vulgar BTW... so NSFW). The clips and music may be recycled, but the situation is REAL. I'm sure you didn't mean to generalize though... just nit picking.

Sorry just had to throw that out while I got your attention lots of luck to ya! Thanks for keeping us little guys in mind on your way to the top!