What got you into AMVs!

DrngdKreationz · Post by **DrngdKreationz** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:56 pm

Beowulf wrote:Eric's Pokemon Bitches video -> Lord Rae's Come To Daddy Video -> Hsien -> History

I think "bitches" was responsble for at least a quarter of MSI's sales.. thats the first AMV i saw and I still roll on the floor laughing when I see it.

TheKorovaMilkbar · Post by **TheKorovaMilkbar** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:09 pm

I think "bitches" was responsble for at least a quarter of MSI's sales.. thats the first AMV i saw and I still roll on the floor laughing when I see it.

Yes. That is still one of my favs.

Maverick-Rubik · Post by **Maverick-Rubik** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:12 pm

A newb Chrono Cross video 5 years ago + Kwasek's Deluxe 2 years ago + motiviation = AMV birth

kitsunebeolnet · Post by **kitsunebeolnet** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:38 pm

11 or 12 years ago, I saw several AMVs during a break between shows in the anime room at the Marcon science fiction / fantasy convention. The very first one was done to Wierd Al's 'Trigger Happy' and had me rolling on the floor. (I asked the host afterwards about being able to somehow obtain a copy and was polietly refused. The version I saw is not listed here on the org and I have never seen it again.)

A couple of years ago, I was downloading Wierd Al (coincidence?) music videos off KaZaa and I accidently got the 'Horoscope' AMV intead of an 'actual' music video. I went something like 'Hey, I remember these' and went looking for what other AMVs I could find on Kazaa. One I downloaded mentioned the org and the rest is history.

KirinRiotCrash · Post by **KirinRiotCrash** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:43 pm

What got me into AMVs?

My little brother got me into it.

After spending a few nights of watching some of his videos that he made on his PC, and using iMovie while learning to manipulate both digisub and DVD-rips on a Mac (my computer is a G4), I eventually ended up with something. Albeit, I've learned some "hard" things when using digisubs (especially trying to work around subtitles! arg!) so when ever possible, I try to make it my best ability to use a DVD source.

krzT · Post by **krzT** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:00 pm

Kusoyaro wrote:What got me into AMVs? AMVs.

So true... 8)
I think the very first AMV I ever watched was Lostboy(LeeThompson)'s Rhythm Animation. jasper-isis showed it to me at her house when we were doing a bio project...I think that video just got me hooked.

Wheee_It's_Me! · Post by **Wheee_It's_Me!** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:27 pm

There was a rather complex chain of events that led to my getting involved in this community. It mostly had to do with my discovery of anime. I used to not like anime, not really sure why, it just held about as much appeal to me as say soap operas and Farscape (both of which are only enjoyable if you actually take the time to start watching from like the very begining). So anywho, I started getting into video capturing. I though, oh neato, I can capture episodes of my favorite shows off cable and store them on my HD to watch whenever I like. And thus, a small 13 inch TV made it's way next to my computer monitor.

So I started watching TV while doing stuff on the computer as kind of like background noise. Mostly CNN at first but then on occasion I'd switch it over to Cartoon Network and just let it go. Eventually, Toonami would come on and I'd just let it run. At the time I think it was like Ronin Warriors, DBZ, Sailor Moon and Tenchi. RW I thought sucked, in totality, I still do. DBZ at the time didn't hold much appeal to me either. Sailor Moon seemed too damn cheesey. But Tenchi, WOW, that was something different. By the 3rd episode I wasn't just using it for background noise, but actually watching the show. And thus, began my interest in anime.

Flash forward about, oh, a year or so, I still was only watching sliced up dubbed crap off CN (mostly CB, DBZ, Tenchi, Pilot Candidate and Card Captors). Card Captors REALLY got my attention. Not sure why, but I just REALLY liked it. But the whole time it seemed like something was wrong with it. So I searched around online, found the CCU message boards and discovered, oh, they edit anime?! And thus began my great search for unedited, subtitled anime. I believe the CCU message boards is where I also first heard about animemusicvideos.org

In my efforts to find episodes 69 and 70 to watch (couldn't afford to buy at the time and there were no online rental outfits and I just HAD to see what CN was cutting out) I wound up downloading several different CCS AMVs, one which happened to be Melissa Harper's "At The Begining".

And then I thought, hrmm...I like...but it could be better. Now I already had some basic knowledge of video editing (simple cuts, fads, etc) so I fired up Dazzle Movie Star and used episodes of CC that I had captured off the WB and CN and basically kinda "redid" Melissa's video from scratch (I used the same song as she did, everything else is different).

Showed it all around on the CCU message board and then at one point I decided to actually check out the .org, started an account and put up my first video. And then from that point I started downloading more and more AMVs and the more AMVs I watched the more anime I wanted to watch. So to sum it all up nice and tight, my discovery of this community and anime as a whole had mostly to do with an interest in video capturing and a $200 piece of shit Dazzle video capture device I bought at Staples.

DrngdKreationz · Post by **DrngdKreationz** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:03 pm

.... That was touching man... really.. it was.

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:06 pm

kitsunebeolnet wrote:The very first one was done to Wierd Al's 'Trigger Happy' and had me rolling on the floor. (I asked the host afterwards about being able to somehow obtain a copy and was polietly refused. The version I saw is not listed here on the org and I have never seen it again.)

HAHAHAH

Oh wow. That one was done by my friend from college. He made one AMV and then went to med school, so he hasn't done anything since. He's a optometrist now, I believe

O-Kagachi · Post by **O-Kagachi** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:13 pm

Cool Ass Music+ Kick Ass Anime clips= Entertainment at its Max

AnimeMusicVideos.org

What got you into AMVs!

Its simple