AMV Pet Peeves

[Knowname]

-if you want people to watch your vid, spend 2 minutes and write a discription.
-Subtitles
-stealing footage from other vids
-vids that are compressed so much that it is imposible to watch. (a 4 min vid that is less than 2MB)
-Random vids that look like someone just look a bunch of unrelated shots and threw them together in 10 min.
-People being proud of spending 5 hours making a vid. If I added up all the time I waited for various versions my vid to render, it would be more than 5 hours.

-Here's my view on that, THAT'S WHAT THE VIDEO'S FOR!! I'm here to perfect my work not to show other ppl what I want them to see. I don't mind if I get bad reviews, as long as they have a valid point, I WANT to know what they saw, what THEY think of my video.
-Subtitles are just like sound effects if used right... but it is true that subs used wrong are VERY annoying. Especially with fades and transitions -uhk..
-I have an 80s vid I put at a very low bitrate... but see, it doesn't matter ;p it's an 80s vid, it looks bad either way, trust me -_- also not everybody has broadband, there ARE ppl in third world countrys and the ghettos that frequent this site
-gotta agree, 5 hours is short no matter how you look at it lol.

[x_rex30]

I'd also say people who bash a video with lots of added FX, even when they're done well and add novelty to the video (as long as it's not fucking repetative ala NTB).

Most of the people that I know that bitch about them are people that can't do them very well. I think that's why a lot of them bitch. Though at times I think some videos with effects just scream out "Hey look, I can do effects!!".

[lenu]

-if you want people to watch your vid, spend 2 minutes and write a discription.

-Here's my view on that, THAT'S WHAT THE VIDEO'S FOR!! I'm here to perfect my work not to show other ppl what I want them to see. I don't mind if I get bad reviews, as long as they have a valid point, I WANT to know what they saw, what THEY think of my video.

Yes, but by telling others what you were trying to accomplish with the video in the description, you should get better responses. Because then they know what to look for, and then are better able to judge if the video did a good job or a bad job at accomplishing what you set out to do.

[dj_ultima_the_great]

-if you want people to watch your vid, spend 2 minutes and write a discription.

-Here's my view on that, THAT'S WHAT THE VIDEO'S FOR!! I'm here to perfect my work not to show other ppl what I want them to see. I don't mind if I get bad reviews, as long as they have a valid point, I WANT to know what they saw, what THEY think of my video.

Yes, but by telling others what you were trying to accomplish with the video in the description, you should get better responses. Because then they know what to look for, and then are better able to judge if the video did a good job or a bad job at accomplishing what you set out to do.

With something like that, though, shouldn't you say "I'm trying to convey a story, but watch my video first. Then, if you're curious, read my description and I'll explain what it was about. If not, that's okay." Of course, that's simplistic, but you could word it differently. Get my drift? Just section off the "here's the plot" part, and tell them they can skip it if they don't care. That's what I plan to do with my next few videos.


- Jen

[Clip]

-if you want people to watch your vid, spend 2 minutes and write a discription.
-Subtitles
-stealing footage from other vids
-vids that are compressed so much that it is imposible to watch. (a 4 min vid that is less than 2MB)
-Random vids that look like someone just look a bunch of unrelated shots and threw them together in 10 min.
-People being proud of spending 5 hours making a vid. If I added up all the time I waited for various versions my vid to render, it would be more than 5 hours.

-Here's my view on that, THAT'S WHAT THE VIDEO'S FOR!! I'm here to perfect my work not to show other ppl what I want them to see. I don't mind if I get bad reviews, as long as they have a valid point, I WANT to know what they saw, what THEY think of my video.

It's just a matter of how you want the viewer to see you. I feel that not writing anything on the vid info page is the ultimate sign of either lazyness or apathy. If you can't take a few minutes (or a few seconds) to comment on your vid, why should anyone take the time to download it.

You put a vid up, you want people to download it, why would you act like you couldn't care less about your work, your own creation.

[lenu]

With something like that, though, shouldn't you say "I'm trying to convey a story, but watch my video first. Then, if you're curious, read my description and I'll explain what it was about. If not, that's okay." Of course, that's simplistic, but you could word it differently. Get my drift? Just section off the "here's the plot" part, and tell them they can skip it if they don't care. That's what I plan to do with my next few videos.


- Jen

For a video that's trying to convey a story, then yes you should do what you said. But that wasn't quite what I was trying to say.

An example of what I was trying to say would be: Say you make a serious drama video, in the description you could say what you did to make it that way; whether it was focusing on a specific character, a plot twisting event, or whatever. Now I know what your intentions were so after I watch the video, I can go back and judge if the video did a good or bad job of accomplishing what you said in the description. This makes it easier to formulate a good opinion and gives you, the video creator, better feedback.

[godix]

An example of what I was trying to say would be: Say you make a serious drama video, in the description you could say what you did to make it that way; whether it was focusing on a specific character, a plot twisting event, or whatever. Now I know what your intentions were so after I watch the video, I can go back and judge if the video did a good or bad job of accomplishing what you said in the description. This makes it easier to formulate a good opinion and gives you, the video creator, better feedback.

If you watch a drama video and you can't tell what the intention was then that video failed to convey it's story. It doesn't matter if there's a 50 page thesis explaining things in the description, if the videos story doesn't come through on it's own it failed. So don't judge a vid off the fact the creator let the video speak for itself and don't formulate a 'good opinion' of the video based on the description. An opinin on the video should be based on the video itself rather than some text that the majority of people who watch the thing will never read. When I was dishing out ops I frequently wouldn't read the description until after I wrote the op for this exact reason.

An alternate way to think of it, if you watch a comedy video and it was so boring and unfunny that you almost fell asleep would a hysterial description make the video itself anymore funny?

[lenu]

So don't judge a vid off the fact the creator let the video speak for itself and don't formulate a 'good opinion' of the video based on the description. An opinin on the video should be based on the video itself rather than some text that the majority of people who watch the thing will never read.

Did you read my whole post? I said that after I watch the video I can go back and compare it to the video discription. OK, so maybe I should've used "Better opinion" rather than "good opinion." But I don't formulate an opinion of the vid based on the discription.

An alternate way to think of it, if you watch a comedy video and it was so boring and unfunny that you almost fell asleep would a hysterial description make the video itself anymore funny?

Of course not, but if the discription says it's supposed to be funny and the video itself is not, then I know the video failed to accomplish what the creator intended. Yes, it's possible to infer that based on the video alone, but not in all cases.

My point is, the video discription is there for a reason, and people should take advantage of it. I don't have time to download and watch every single video, so the discription should tell me why I should dowload it; what distinguishes this video from the next; what's the video about; etc...

[Knowname]

you judge it by not downloading it in the first place. 'I won't d/l a video if the creator won't bother writing anything about it' <--- the initial judgement. Anyway I'm not condemning I'm just saying 'some of us have our reasons ;p' but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to at least put the generic 'please leave your truethfull opinion on my video! I love opinions!'

[BCplayer]

I have no problem with subtitles as long as they go along with the video and not just there because thats where the clip was randomly placed. For example in my latest video, at one point the sub is "they're coming to steal the rice soon" which, if you've seen samurai 7, explains why the villagers are fighting the nobuseri.