AMV Editing: A dying hobby (?)

[Castor Troy]

Go to conventions. Nuff said.

[Sephiroth]

AMVs aren't centralized anymore, that's all that happened.

[Mr Pilkington]

[blaksun]

I wot say if any thing is dying it is the forums not just a-m-v.org but all forums, now a days there is so many odder communist out there

[BasharOfTheAges]

now a days there is so many odder communist out there

I don't know... We do have a pretty odd communist.

[blaksun]

community\community´s
not communist
(And this is the reason way i don´t post)

[Mr Pilkington]

Well, lets work on proofreading first.


Or go the canajin roooute, just stop caring and invent your own language

[seasons]

No one gives opinions anymore - not even comments, no one cares about the org contests (except for the contestants), all the great old editors are gone... What happened? Is this really a dying hobby?

Also, what can be done to save what can be saved? Would the org's redesign help at all? Would a big international contest (AMV Olympics) change anything?

Contests have played a big part in ruining the hobby and played no small part in why activity here has dropped off in the way it has.

The best thing the Org could do for itself right now would be to take (at least) a year off from holding contests.

[TritioAFB]

If you want to know, my friend and I'm not going to lie: From the beginning of this year I started to not feel comfortable with the org. In other years normally I respected the authority of the org as a community of amv edition, but in the last videos, I have noticed there's no more feedback for the videos. There;s no real intention of helping other editors, to help improve videos, so I decided to move out to amvnews since I have found that the community there helps more than the org, so that the last proyects have received feedback mainly from the news, rather than the org. And that's the reason of my decision.

If I comment a video here, it's because I previously watched it in youtube or other sites. It doesn't matter how much the org could promote about the techncial aspect of amv making: If there's no real help here, then it's useless.

I guess I'm not the only one with this thought: I have noticed in the newbies, intention and hope to improve and they trust this site as a possible solution, but when taking part here, you see you will have to take your time to find the people that could be a help. And in which case, there aren't much, just a few ones

[Diegao]

Well I don't know if we can say that the hobby is dying simply because the Org isn't used as it was before. As the others said, AMVs are now in a lot of different places, and maybe the Org has not that appeal compared to the others alternatives.