Editing decisions on content...

[Brakus]

As you know, those that know how to use Adobe Premiere use it for good. For the good of ourselves and others that enjoy anime music videos.

There are people out there that use it for bad. Their name is Cleanflicks, and they were a subject on a "Censoring Hollywood" special that's airing on AMC.

This very tangentially hits home for me as an AMV editor, as well as several others that have made adult-type (not-necessarily-hentai-oriented) AMVs for contests. Yes, we need to edit our respective entries according to whatever contest we submit them to.... however, at the same time, we as editors usually have the final decision as to how our AMVs should be shown. We're not talking technical glitches like some previous contests I've submitted to... we're talking things like edits for content and all. Luckily, most of us are open-minded and usually make two versions of a potentially content-violating AMV - one for the contest, and one for ourselves that would be shown at an "unleaded/uncensored" showing late at night at a convention.

Besides the usual gang of suspects that have made shock-hentai and over-the-top pornographic AMVs, have any other AMV editors made a video where you would stick to your guns about its content when asked about it by a contest coordinator?

[Kalium]

It's happened before.

[trythil]

As you know, those that know how to use Adobe Premiere use it for good. For the good of ourselves and others that enjoy anime music videos.

There are people out there that use it for bad. Their name is Cleanflicks, and they were a subject on a "Censoring Hollywood" special that's airing on AMC.

Oh, what moral absolutes.

Anyway, to elaborate on Kalium's link: you might want to check this out.

[Beowulf]

I've never made alternate versions for any of my videos. Not for some strict code of ethics or artistic integrity but rather because it has never occured to me. If I make a video that isn't con appropriate (read: always), then I don't submit it to cons.

omfg im too hot 4 tv

[bum]

That's like cencoring all the good parts of american pie or hiting play on passion of the christ only to have the credits pop up before you can say "WT...motherfuckers"

[mexicanjunior]

omfg im too hot 4 tv

omfg! one of us!

[godix]

Besides the usual gang of suspects that have made shock-hentai and over-the-top pornographic AMVs, have any other AMV editors made a video where you would stick to your guns about its content when asked about it by a contest coordinator?

Depends on the video. If the part that needed censoring was vital to the video then I'd just not have it in the con. If it wasn't vital to the video I'd probably change it. In fact I have a video in my profile that's borderline for a local vid and if it couldn't be hosted locally I would have just not distributed the video rather than change it. OTOH I self censored my submission for Acen this year since the part I thought would cause problems wasn't central to the video (although I still expect the reaction to be 'Hell no we ain't showing this' despite the self censoring). I'll upload the un-self censored version when the time comes since I prefer it but what the hell, so I had to change one joke. Big deal.

That however isn't the same as what Cleanflicks did. I think cleanflicks changed movies without even letting the original creators know much less have a say in it. That's vastly different than any situation I know of in AMVs. Even the Childrens Project that was linked to didn't do that. AFAIK that was a situation where one creator was told his video would need to be changed to go into a project and the decision was left to the creator on if he'd make that change or not (of course, since I wasn't involved in that issue I could be wrong).