Will the true editing Masters-to-be step up?

suberunker · Post by **suberunker** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 7:37 pm

Personally, I'd have to agree that most of the first few vids I made were well....ok, but certainly nothing to go screaming "WATCH THIS!" at. I think the main problem I've been seeing more and more often is this need that new AMVers have in that they absolutely must become recognized as some sort of God.

I mean, if an AMVer came up to me and said, can you please watch this and tell me what you think, then yeah, I'd make the effort to try.

If an AMVer came up to me and was like "OMFG!!!11 \/\/I7C|-| |-|ON73R r0b!n VEDIO!!!!11 TEH BEST!!!1" then I'm going to just ignore it. If that person had fun making it, that's good and all, but if they're going to wave it in my face and act "teh 1337 h@x0R5" then I'm just gonna let them enjoy it on their own, far away from me. They can go enjoy their "glorious creation" off on their own.

I started only about 1.5 years ago and having been working on AMVs slowly (3 listed on ORG, several not) and have never expected my work to be famous or recognized or whatever, but considering I am a bioengineering major stuck in a wannabe-filmmaker's body, this is what I love to do. Making AMVs and watching/analyzing them is like the dream I've always wanted without having to go to film school.

Oh, and yes, I did read the guides, just wish I had read them when I just started out. They are mighty excellent!

suberunker

PS, thanks for the plug trythil

Nappy · Post by **Nappy** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:07 pm

Forced donations won't stop bad videos, just poor creators :l Which I thought was why we have it in the first place, for those who can't afford hosting...

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:14 pm

Look, guys, everybody knows Omni has an ego the size of Saturn. Just ignore him, it's kind of hard to speak clearly with your head that far up your own ass. (Or just say something nice about his videos and he'll eat out of the palm of your hand. It's like Cerberus, throw him a sop to his ego and he'll slobber all over you.)

That said, I'm glad that people are at least realizing that not everyone new is stupid and unoriginal. There's so much newb-bashing that I think people forget that some of the new members might have good ideas.

So that, at least, is good.

fyrtenheimer · Post by **fyrtenheimer** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:28 pm

Ut oh.

You're a hypocrite Sarah.

An ugly one at that.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:35 pm

Nappy wrote:Forced donations won't stop bad videos, just poor creators :l Which I thought was why we have it in the first place, for those who can't afford hosting...

You're very right.
I withdraw part of my last statement, though I'd still like to know how much it costs the org to host my vids since I'm probably putting more up than I rightfully donated to cover. But that's no reason to punish the rest of the people. I wasn't being very considerate.

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 9:00 pm

I guess it all comes down to this quote:

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
-Henry Van Dyke

Admit it. This place would suck if there weren't _Alot_ of videos, but they were all made by the "Masters".

I'll leave ya'll with another quote, this one a little different, but it proves a very poingant point:

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."
-Sophia Loren

BishounenStalker · Post by **BishounenStalker** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 9:58 pm

I dunno if I'd classify myself as new. I've been editing (or planning vids) for about a year, and only because I don't own the necessary computer equipment to take with me to college (I got a 3-year-old POS laptop for school, but hopefully that will change this summer), so I can only edit on vacation when I'm home on the uber-computer.

If I remember correctly, Strata, yours was the second review I received, a brutally honest one (but not actually scathing) that prompted me to read the guides and figure out what I was doing wrong on the technical side ('cause if memory serves, I actually got 9s in both Action and Effort out of you

)

So far I've used relatively original combos (in my most humble and often wrong opinion). My first video used Final Fantasy 7. It may be on the Most Used List, but it's pretty low on it. The fly in the chardonnay was that I used "This Isn't What We Meant", and I have to credit VicBond's Eva AMV for exposing me to the song.

My second AMV used the ending theme to Gundam Seed for music, and a mix of Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 9, and Chrono Cross. While two of those are on the Most Used List, the combination of all three hasn't really been done, nor has that song been used.

And my latest video employs a combination of One Piece (of which there are only 23 vids in the database last I checked) and Don Karnage's little performance from TaleSpin. Which I don't think would've ever been used except by a twisted chick like me

Yeah, I guess I'm still a n00b, though

I have yet to ask one of the Masters here to specifically review one of my videos. But that will change once I finish the one I'm working on now, of which I'm so close to completing I can taste it. And it tastes like cappuccino. Really

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 10:08 pm

Go back to WOT, Fyrt, there's no reason for you to be in this forum.

And no, I am not an egomaniac, so I am not a hypocrite. Don't try to use big words if you don't know what they mean.

Nappy · Post by **Nappy** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 10:08 pm

Hey sub gimme ur utena vid :o I thought it was one of the best at fanime.

fyrtenheimer · Post by **fyrtenheimer** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 10:21 pm

SarahtheBoring wrote:Go back to WOT, Fyrt, there's no reason for you to be in this forum.

And no, I am not an egomaniac, so I am not a hypocrite. Don't try to use big words if you don't know what they mean.

That wasn't what I was talking about.

You're so quick to judge and say harsh things when you can't even take the heat yourself "People are sooo mean to me, boohoo.". Besides, who are you to tell me where to post?

If you're mad about the time I stole your cookie, you need to get over it.