why do you guys act like its so hard to do?

[Arigatomina]

.....it depends on how hard you make it for yourself. If you just crank out a hack job amv every 3 days, I can see why it wouldn't be too hard. If you come up with something that will require detailed work and long nights of tedious and sometimes repetitive editing methods.

Three days can be 45 hours (or more for some who don't need the usual 8hrs sleep). I don't believe it takes 450 hours (a month) to make a good amv - even the best most perfect astounding entirely original amv in the world. I'd hope almost anyone would be able to animate 4 minutes of footage from scratch in under 450 hours.

As for the question - some people say it's difficult because if it weren't...then they'd have no excuse for not being great at it. So long as it's something only those who'll put a year or two into (5400+ hours), they can say "I just don't have the time to devote a few years to 4 minutes of footage". It's the same reason you must be rich to make a good amv - because if it were cheap then everyone should be able to make them. This way, you have a great excuse. I can't make great amvs because I don't have years and thousands of dollars to blow on 3min 58 sec of viewing pleasure. I can't afford Premiere so I can't make great amvs. I can't afford to buy every anime in the world, so I can't make great amvs. It's just far too difficult for the average person.

[Jebadia]

Pepsi your a dipshit...

And had i actually read guestuser's post, I would of just ignored this thread all together.
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[Chaos Angel]

guestuser...?

[billy_wires]

I like cheese whiz on saltines.

[Beowulf]

Hey beo, what'd you have for dinner this evening?

Funny you should ask, this evening's dinner was exceptional. BBQ sausege, brisket, coleslaw, and potato salad.

Topped off with a Fresca

[billy_wires]

SPAMTACULAR!!!!!ONEONEONE11ELEVEN1!!

[Onideus_Mad_Hatter]

whay do you guys act like is -soooooo- hard to make good amvs? like all you do is put it togdther and add in the effects! peoplle say like it took tham like a month to make one of the fancy looking ones like that Uphoria one thats #1 on the site. YOU CAN MAKE THAT IN LIKE 3 HOURS! and if you cant then ur just plkain dumb. i mad a thing better than any amv its a HMV thets Halo Music Video! its footage of 4-player split-screen multiplayer games of halo with cool music and its better than anything on this site! if it takes you a month to make a amv then ur stupid or have a super bad coputer

Bad computer, VERY BAD!

So uh, if yer such the incredible AMV maker who can outmatch us all in less than 3 minutes on yer magic Best Buy computer that yer mommy bought you fer keeristmas...um...where are they? Hrmmm...uh oh, backpedal, lookout!

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"j00" is a direct reference to Rikijo aka Raymond Dixon, AHM circa ~2001

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AOL is a fools paradise...and you seem to be running for mayor. Next time try a bit harder troll boi.

[Fluxmeister]

Did you get that hard drive stuff straightened out?

Yea... data saved off luckily! Now I have to wait for the replacement to be shipped.

Funny you should ask, this evening's dinner was exceptional. BBQ sausege, brisket, coleslaw, and potato salad.

Topped off with a Fresca

Oh man, sounds like a good meal! Haha... topped with a fresca ... good times. Was this mother Milo's cooking? 8)

[trythil]

Three days can be 45 hours (or more for some who don't need the usual 8hrs sleep). I don't believe it takes 450 hours (a month) to make a good amv - even the best most perfect astounding entirely original amv in the world. I'd hope almost anyone would be able to animate 4 minutes of footage from scratch in under 450 hours.

It's about how much time you want to put into a video. If you want to spend 400+ hours tweaking twenty seconds of a video, there's nothing that says you can't do that. I've done it before.

As for the question - some people say it's difficult because if it weren't...then they'd have no excuse for not being great at it.

Difficulty is not a justification; AMVing is as difficult as you want to make it.

It's the same reason you must be rich to make a good amv - because if it were cheap then everyone should be able to make them.

It's as expensive as you want to make it. Nobody said you had to pay thousands of dollars for software and hardware to make a good video.

Well, I don't believe that, anyway.

[Arigatomina]

Well, I don't believe that, anyway.

Neither do I. I was being sarcastic because people *do* say you have to have the best to make a good amv. They *do* say you can't make a good amv in a few days. They *do* say you can't make a good amv unless you use Premiere and spend months on it.

Not everyone says this, no, but a lot of people do. And they aren't saying "it takes this for me to make one" - they're saying no one can do it unless....etc. Look around - you see someone say "I spent 4 days on this" and the automatic response is "four days? Ha, I spent 3 months on my last one." Or "yeah, any loser can pop out a vid every 3 days if they want to have bad vids". And that's not to even mention the old "you didn't use premiere? no wonder your vids suck" comments.

I don't believe it either, but I do think part of the reason people think you have to use the best, and you have to put in endless hours is to explain why their own work may be flawed. It's the easy way out.