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• Member: bugmuncher
• Title: untitled ranma 1/2 edit project
• Premiered: 1994-02-11
• Categories:
  • Action
  • Fun
  • Sentimental
• Song:
  • Gloria Estefan Go Away
• Anime:
  • Ranma 1/2 OAVs
  • Ranma 1/2 The Movie: Big Trouble in Nekonron China
• Comments: This is a video I made in a television production class in college in 1994. The assignment was to demonstrate that I could make at least ten edits in a project of up to three minutes long, using found footage. And make something good.
  
  "Found footage" means stuff you didn't shoot. So I dubbed my best Ranma VHS tapes to 3/4" U-Matic tape, and took to the edit suite. I used a Sony RM-450 edit controller connected to two Sony 3/4" U-Matic decks for most of the editing; Titling was done with a Quantafont QCG-400(?). I don't recall whether I used an A/B roll edit controller for the last edit, or a DVE machine in a studio, or both. Anyway, I received the highest grade in the class for the assignment. (Well, duh.)
  
  I had no idea what an AMV was at the time.
  
  Unfortunately, time has not been kind to the VHS copy I used to make this dub. There is also a 3/4" copy floating around, but I don't know if it is in my attic or in a landfill. When I played it back, I lost about four seconds due to the VCR not liking the tape.
  
  I'm mostly pleased with it, but my standards have gotten to be more meticulous since 1994. If I did it again, I might have made a few different choices.
  
  I just wish my 13-year-old master had less dropout. :-( Maybe that means I have to remaster this from DVD at some point.