The end of AMVs: a look back
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Re: The end of AMVs: a look back
In my day, we used Play's Trinity, it was the size of a refrigerator, and we captured from JVC SVHS decks and transitions were controlled by actual a/b levers on a physical board.
...this is actually true. Totally true in 1998.
...this is actually true. Totally true in 1998.
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Re: The end of AMVs: a look back
Yeah, but if I recall, it was like a $5,000 system or something:


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Re: The end of AMVs: a look back
I remember people that made videos with those equipments were like gods to me..ngsilver wrote:Lucky you with a/b levers. I had 2 VCRs and a CD player....
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Re: The end of AMVs: a look back
I used to work for a company that sold trinity systems, among other NLE systems.FoxJones wrote:I remember people that made videos with those equipments were like gods to me..ngsilver wrote:Lucky you with a/b levers. I had 2 VCRs and a CD player....
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Re: The end of AMVs: a look back
I made mine back in the 90's. I had an advantage in that I had access to professional gear. 1" tape, cmx editor & Grass Valley Switchers. Still I did the videos with cuts & dissolves. No effects. Certainly nothing like we have today. I've "judged" a few AMV contests. I tend to take points off for too many effects. "Effects do not a movie make" I lean toward the idea that if you can't tell a story with cuts and dissolves, then maybe you shouldn't be telling the story. Sorry I offend some people. I wonder if we can have a AMV contest for videos that only use cuts. I wonder how many entries we would have. Anyway can I get a "hurumph!!!"
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Re: The end of AMVs: a look back
You're... pretty good! That is pretty sweet though. I've heard the horrors and painstaking processes of linear style editing, so I imagine NLE changed the world as we know it at the time. I grew up with having a windows movie maker readily available, so I can't imagine not having that kind of editing!You Know Who really wrote:I used to work for a company that sold trinity systems, among other NLE systems.FoxJones wrote:I remember people that made videos with those equipments were like gods to me..ngsilver wrote:Lucky you with a/b levers. I had 2 VCRs and a CD player....
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Re: The end of AMVs: a look back
Linear editing wasn't THAT horrible. It just forced you to plan out your project ahead of time. Before you spend $500-$1000/hr for an online edit suite, you would make a OFFLINE cut of the program (usually on VHS or 3/4"), so you would have an EDL (edit decision list) that you could hand over to the online editor. This saved TIME/MONEY. If you got halfway into the program and wanted to make a change near the beginning that affected time, then yes, you would have to redo ALL the edits after that change. I wasn't too difficult because it was still computer based, but you still lost time.
NLEs came out and made changing edits a LOT easier. However I believe NLEs tended to make producers a lot lazier.
Anyway, those are my thoughts
NLEs came out and made changing edits a LOT easier. However I believe NLEs tended to make producers a lot lazier.
Anyway, those are my thoughts
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Re: The end of AMVs: a look back
I used <i>Windows Movie Maker</i>.