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AMVs are like Vicodin, if you get some, there's a danger of addiction.
2009-11-27 09:46:36
Not that I'm addicted to my Vicodin, but I did get quite enamored with that hazy, semi-sleepy state of being that makes it easy to nap.
In any case, one thing I suffer from in terms of AMVs is a certain impatience with a slow Internet connection which makes watching many videos a time-consuming experience which prohibits other Internet activity. Consequently, I don't download anywhere near as many AMVs as I feel I should BUT when I do I almost inevitably am bitten hard by the editing bug. Same thing happens at cons when I watch the AMV contests - it gets me all fired up. So I think I will try and start a new regime - once my life sort of returns to normal - and get myself in the AMV mood: download at least one AMV every day.
Which brings me to a minor suggestion: we have the list of "New Vids on the Block" on the main page...but it would be cool if that list also gave data such as the star rating of those vids or who their editors were. I NEVER click on any video in that list unless something shows up that I've been waiting to see...but, if star ratings or the editor's name also appeared, I can guarantee I'd not only be paying more attention to that listing, but I'd be checking out the videos right from there. -
Hopefully, it's all over with
2009-11-21 14:41:46
I'm all out of it from popping Vicodin every four hours and can't type too well, but this wretched ankle Takeout screwed up has finally been taken care of. It was very cute - I found a comment on Takeout on the 'Tube today from someone who remembered seeing it at AAC last year and said they hoped I was at the con this year. I got to explain that not only that I wasn't there THIS year, but that I wasn't there last year either, and all for the exact same reason. ^_^
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A New Taste Sensation
2009-11-19 12:40:49
I've always had kind of a problem with how the AMV community - by which I mean this site, not so much the Toob - regards this hobby. This is an amateur hobby, usually enjoyed (or in my case, despised) by young, inexperienced people who probably turn out what passes for quality work more by accident than by design.
What the hell am I talking about? Most AMV editors do not spend years and years honing their skills, regarding professional-level work as their ultimate goal and evaluating their own work against that standard. Yet, somehow, there is most definitely an attitude that ye-old random 17-year-old editor can and should be able to produce something on a par with professional work, and that should they fail to do so, it is...well...Fail. There is, of course, much debate over what qualifies as truly good work, but I think that in itself is a striking reflection of how many people in the AMV community a) don't know very much and b) subsequently have skewed perceptions of what is quality work and what is not.
This is not to say that ye-old teenager is incapable of recognizing good work, but when that body of work is soooo narrowly confined to extremely amateur attempts, the definition of what is "good" becomes inescapably bound to the high end of amateur (with exceptions, of course).
In any case, I think a lot of people also have bad taste. Causes all sorts of problems. Some people have good taste and some people have bad taste and that's just the way it is. People with good taste can make bad AMVs (and so can people with bad taste) BUT the good taste folks will likely see the flaws in their own endeavors, be disappointed or unsatisfied with their work and constantly strive to reach their own good taste vision. The idea of someone striving to reach a bad taste vision is quite appalling, and yet this can explain how an awful lot of irksome AMVs come to be - I don't care HOW technically competent the editor is. How can you possibly make a good AMV if you've got bad taste?
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Oh, hello AMV Gods, didn't see you there. ehehe .. he...he.....
2009-11-14 18:05:16
Up: AMV Hell 5 - I can kick some more AC ass!
Down: I'd forgotten that my computer has an unexplained issue with the Dirge of Cerberus PSS files I've carefully hoarded for just such an occasion. I have proof that, at one time, they worked fine, because I have an AMV Hell prototype clips made from them (also carefully hoarded, thank god). The problem: the files made from the FMV rips play too fast, something I've always attributed to Vista, b/c they were fine on XP. Now that I've got W7, they still run too fast. Worst part is, I never could figure out what the hell the problem was.
Up: I discover I backed up the AVI files which created my proto. clips! Yay! I don't need the PSS files anyways!
Down: For some reason, my computer also has an issue with those AVI files, and plays THEM too fast. WHAT THE HECK?!!
Equilibrium: My desperate little brain hit upon the possibility that perhaps the original files are not playing too fast, perhaps my old prototypes are playing too SLOW. But why? And how? And I don't like it anyways! It looks really screwy! I really don't think this is right...the newscast segment in DoC, the reporter winds up sounding like she's a professional auctioneer, she's talking so fast. Is this a codec problem? A graphic card problem?
Down: I also recall some kind of bizarre AR problem with DoC which drove me equally nuts, although I eventually overcame it. Don't remember how though. There's something about DoC...it has an abnormal DAR or something.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2009-11-13 18:30:59
The answer to my AMV prayers born upon the wings of CorpseGoddess: AMV Hell here I come. This is what I get for not poking my head into the forums more often: late to the party.
The question now remains: are my comedic urges up to an AMV Hell? Or perhaps, is AMV Hell up to my comedic urges?
*prepares the noose for Advent Children* This means I don't have to bother making full-length AMVs to fulfill my irrational desire to defile one of my favorite (irrationally so) movies. I was quite disappointed to see only one AC clip in the last edition of 'Hell and this is clearly a call to action.
*plots convincing concept statements* At least they'll know I'm dead serious when I pitch my ideas. :|
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