Are we over-complicating matters?

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Post by Otohiko » Mon May 26, 2008 10:25 am

Eh, this is not an aberration that we can blame on some conspiracy of technocrats.

The real cause of this is the amount of competition in the community, which has skyrocketed. We wanted to get more AMV contests, and the idea blew up on us. Now everyone makes their con videos, and the smart ones make their con videos in ways that emphasize technical merits, the "objective" measure of success. It's not that there's anything wrong with it or that it's somehow worse than the "old school". It's just that you have to live with it now. If you're not fine with it, I have only one thing to suggest to you: boycott AMV contests. See if anyone cares :roll:
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Post by Shui » Mon May 26, 2008 10:38 am

Well I don't like all the Beta-test shit.

Everybody can do the Vids they like, I don't have standart expections on users. All I want is not too pixelated and no subs.
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Nothing beats the hardcut (on the right place of course) :wink:
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Post by Megamom » Mon May 26, 2008 11:28 am

It is logical that things change, nothing is forever, the same applies to amvs I like amvs of the old school because each is different, each has his style and his technical editing, I also like the new Amvs, new editing techniques, depends on the editor to use well these new techniques to achieve something different!
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Post by BasharOfTheAges » Mon May 26, 2008 11:45 am

Otohiko wrote:...the smart ones make their con videos in ways that emphasize technical merits, the "objective" measure of success.
We have a winner. I haven't seen that put so succinctly before - kudos.

It all comes down to - "if you don't want to spend all your free time editing a time-sink, then don't. Don't expect others to follow suit though."
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Re: Are we over-complicating matters?

Post by Scintilla » Mon May 26, 2008 12:31 pm

Deaf Jester wrote:Now it seems like everything is footage quality, layers, subtle effects and TEXT TEXT TEXT.
<a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... 7899">THIS IS <s>BLASPHEMY</s> TEXT.</a>

This thread is the first thread I've looked at in months that wasn't under one of the following three categories:
1) threads I've previously posted on
2) threads in the AMV Contests board
3) threads mentioning my name

What a happy coincidence that it's a perfect reminder of why I stopped paying attention to the fora in the first place.

My attitude about the whole thing is still the same: make the videos <b>I</b> want to make, send them to whatever conventions make sense (esp. if I'm attending), and screw what everyone else thinks about my motives.

Sometimes I just want to make a quick minute of silliness; sometimes I want to make a large-scale project with so much masking that I may not even have it done by the time it hits three years since I started. But ever since I started doing this five years ago, my attitude has not changed.

As a side note, I really don't download videos much anymore, but when I do, I usually get them simply because they have songs and animé I like. (Which means that I have absolutely no idea what the most popular videos of the last year and a half are.)

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Re: Are we over-complicating matters?

Post by godix » Mon May 26, 2008 12:35 pm

Deaf Jester wrote:Are we killing the heart and soul of the org? :cry:
No but we are focusing on entirely the wrong things and to a large degree we're a bunch of hypocritical lying elitist bastards who actively try to run absolutely everyone away from the hobby. Considering my usual attitude I shouldn't complain I guess. However in a healthy community I'd be the extreme outlier on the edge of being permabanned and these days it feels like I'm fairly mainstream for the org...
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Post by inthesto » Mon May 26, 2008 1:08 pm

This topic is my excuse to call you all morons whenever I get criticized.
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Post by Tsunami Jones » Mon May 26, 2008 1:50 pm

Deaf Jester: You're not deaf nor amusing and your name is ghey, so I'm changing it back to Prodigi, which I think far better represents you as it has an air of elitist pretension about it.

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Post by Emong » Mon May 26, 2008 1:54 pm

Complicated shit ftw :up:

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Post by Chiikaboom » Mon May 26, 2008 2:22 pm

I approve of this topic :|
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