don't you feel strange when you've finished an AMV ?

Illia Sadri · Post by **Illia Sadri** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 8:53 am

I dunno, I have fun while editing although here is my general reaction once I am finished........

"I am never listening to that song again"

Because after hearing a song over and over for a couple months while you edit it gets very, very tedious.

Dead_Pool · Post by **Dead_Pool** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 9:59 am

I feel satisfied that I acually finished something, but after I feel drained and I have no idea what to do next, or how I can make it different

Tuplica · Post by **Tuplica** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 6:56 pm

Most of the time, I feel elated when I'm finished with a vid.. I'm jumpy and bounce all over the place and can't wait to show it to someone- anyone. Sometimes, though, after it's been finished for a long time I start to get all

and >_< and just start disliking the vid. Particularly if the video is well-liked on the net or in my circle of anime fanatic pals.

Lately, though, I've been getting about 90% through my videos and production'll come to a dead halt because I don't have any inspiration. *sigh*

bma_ksa · Post by **bma_ksa** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 7:35 pm

Good question …
Well, to me in creating amv "especially lately" it's like it never really finished!!
I do export every 15-20 sec and encode them to check the timing and to be able to watch in full screen…and move on next. When I've do everything "still didn't finished yet" somebody has to watch it ^^ and thanks to my friends who helped me in there critics for my videos. I do some time fallow there suggestion and sometimes I think "ohh well my idea was better" hehee
Now some times and this is something that happened early on, one of my friends suggested something and I did like it. So I made it and then found another Idea that was based on it "which my friend likes it more" …
So when the final version of the video is done with everything.
MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN the best feeling that you can't really describe!!
Another question that comes to my mind while am typing this …
How often do you watch your own AMVs?
Because to me I keep watching them a lot … and don't know what the real reason and is it me only?
Is it because it's my AMV … or is it the music "cause it's more likely you love the music you made your amv on so you like to listen to it and watching an anime video at the same time.
That's all and I hope to hear from you.
Bander [the so called BMA]

Tuplica · Post by **Tuplica** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 7:48 pm

bma_ksa wrote:Another question that comes to my mind while am typing this …
How often do you watch your own AMVs?
Because to me I keep watching them a lot … and don't know what the real reason and is it me only?
Is it because it's my AMV … or is it the music "cause it's more likely you love the music you made your amv on so you like to listen to it and watching an anime video at the same time.

I watch my own vids a lot.. To make sure everything's OK when I transfer them to tape (and I always do when they're done) or just on the comp... If I like the show and/or the music a lot, that'll get me to watch 'em... Sometimes if I'm just bored, I'll watch them a lot. I think it depends on the vid and how tight the editing is... If I've used really quick editing or multiple layers in Premiere, then I'm more interested in watching it because I can catch things I don't always see the first time. *shrug*

trillianrose · Post by **trillianrose** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 10:44 am

I have about 3 versions of each of my vids, just because I find something fun to put in. I remember my first vid that I made...two days after I finished it I bought another anime, and then I just HAD to put some footage in it from the new anime

But it does give a great feeling of acomplishment when finished, especially that first vid.

Paul Kievits · Post by **Paul Kievits** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 1:24 pm

I've done 2 video's to date (production on the 3rd is getting started).

*On the first one: Whilst editing I was like "This will be the best video ever, I'll show them" then I found out about our local con thanks to ... (still nweed to thank whomever that was) and it wasdays away. I went into a stress frenzy after I had finsihed it and had people watch it, they were like "hmmm, this could be better and that" etc. So I rush finished the project with several changes. I looked at it and thought ... "This is utter crap!" but couldn't be arsed to fix it. I felt dissapointed...

*On my second video I'd learned stuff and I wouldn't rush it ... I THOUGHT. That's until Ian informed me I could still make AWA ... more rushing but this time the video was nearer completion. I thought the video was great, it also got above average grades. But with time I saw things I could improve on. So when I released it I was eccstatic but I learnt things later on that could improve my video.

I guess it's all a joy - feedback - learning - improvement kind of thing... Am I going off topic?

FurryCurry · Post by **FurryCurry** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 7:16 pm

Paul Kievits wrote: I guess it's all a joy - feedback - learning - improvement kind of thing... Am I going off topic?

Ding Ding Ding!!!

Winner!!!

You nailed it.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 7:41 pm

Spent. This is how I felt after mine. Relieved, also. Because it really took over my life and I truly didn't want it to hang around as a daily point of orientation for too long.

Once it was uploaded, I felt kinda psyched... then it sort of evaporated... then came back again. Then started slipping to disappointment.

Then I realized that expectations, indeed, are a prison. Expecting people to download or review it - pointless. There are 18000 AMV's. At a 4 minute average, that's 50 days of round-the-clock watching. Who am I to think mine is somehow better than the others?

This realization is good. People with such expectations who put in massive effort into their AMV's, at the end of the process, might feel hopeless and despair. But hope is unreasonable, and love is greater than this.

This love, or faith in AMV as an artistic medium of expression, without regarding any expectations, is what made me finally settle down.

Because looking back, I've accomplished much artistically and in terms of personal discipline in the proccess. Now, I let it go into the wind and watch it float away... another blast into the cosmos...

visje · Post by **visje** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 4:25 am

I feel like eating when I'm finished with a video.
Just watch the video and..eat