Stealing AMvs for Cash

superboi · Post by **superboi** » Mon May 08, 2006 11:57 pm

making AMV''s is very fun. I wouldn't do it if it wasn't. I don't even know why I started doing it, but b4 I knew it I was, and I ain't stoppin. It's like a drug... oh yeah give me another hit *take a deep breath* That's good shyt.

Chibi war · Post by **Chibi war** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:45 am

It's only about fun, actually, if you're not doing it for fun, then you're just not doing it good.. ^^

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:21 am

And the power of sarcasm is again lost on the intarwebs...

amvwizard · Post by **amvwizard** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:36 am

I'm not worried about my vids getting stolen because all of the ones that I have put up here so far suck... :/. But once I;m done with my newest vid I'll prolly be concerned

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:33 am

bulmafox wrote:
Qyot27 wrote:Eh, if you don't want people to steal your video footage, it's probably pretty safe right now to just use a format that's not easily manipulated without knowing your way around AviSynth or Graphedit.
And that, more than anything, will make me not want to watch your video. I hate proprietary formats.

And who said it had to be proprietary? Plenty of free formats are hard to manipulate unless you know your way around AviSynth or Graphedit.

bulmafox · Post by **bulmafox** » Fri May 12, 2006 6:41 pm

Qyot27 wrote:
bulmafox wrote: And that, more than anything, will make me not want to watch your video. I hate proprietary formats.
And who said it had to be proprietary? Plenty of free formats are hard to manipulate unless you know your way around AviSynth or Graphedit.

Such as?

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:41 pm

bulmafox wrote:
Qyot27 wrote:
bulmafox wrote: And that, more than anything, will make me not want to watch your video. I hate proprietary formats.
And who said it had to be proprietary? Plenty of free formats are hard to manipulate unless you know your way around AviSynth or Graphedit.
:? Such as?

Give someone:

(1) an H.263 video stream in an AVI container
(2) an H.264 video stream in an MPEG-4 container
(3) a Theora video stream in an Ogg container

Open Source / Free Software encoders and muxers exist for (2) and (3). Indeed, (3) adheres very strictly to the definition of "free format".

Both (2) and (3), however, are relatively difficult to manipulate compared to (1); this is not because of any NDA, patent, or other legal device, but simply because the tools to manipulate them aren't as user-friendly as the tools for (1). (You can muck around with (1) in nearly any video editing application. Not yet quite true for (2) or (3).)

This difficult has the side effect of keeping some people from "stealing" your footage, if you're concerned about that sort of thing. It won't stop everyone, but it'll stop those without the motivation to go further.

Shinodude · Post by **Shinodude** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:21 pm

damn I wish I got moeny for editing O.O

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:31 pm

People sell DVDs all the time, ne? Difference is, they're making money on their own editing effort and not others'. That's what's icky.

Stealing for free is merely pathetic. My Only Video Worth Mentioning(tm) was plagiarized and I could only laugh. It probably took them longer to chop my credits off and drool out an entry on YouSuckTube than it took me to make the damn thing in the first place.

...this horse is so dead it's undead.

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:53 pm

May the necro-equite known as most threads on the org ride on.