AMV Pet Peeves

XXXShin · Post by **XXXShin** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 7:55 pm

AMV Pet Peeves

1. Long boring AMVs- The average attention span for the average viewer is 3-4 minutes. Unless the video is really engaging with both sound and visual, it's just fn' boring.

2. Watermarks and poor quality - I'm pretty sure this has been said numerous times. "Cartoon Network", "Divx", and anything else watermarked on the screen is just sloppy and distracting. So are 11th generation VHS DBZ music video, just flat out ugly and sloppy.

3. Sound quality - I have yet to run into too much of this but poor sound quality is disappointing. What may sound fine in your average $10 computer speaker may sound like crap on a good set up.

4. Potentially good videos gone wrong - There are a lot of great ideas out here. However, it's sad to see that a lot of them are a let down.

5. Retarded studio bumpers - Sticking your favorite Naruto image behind your studio name is just fn' dumb. I don't want to offend any one out here, but it is. We all watch tv, look at the end of the program you are watching. You don't see many bland studio bumpers. A lot of us may not have the technology/resources to do something similiar but I'm sure a lot of us have the ability to do more then just adding text to an image. Hell, if you aren't, ask some one who is! =)

/Soapbox.

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:30 am

XXXShin wrote:AMV Pet Peeves

1. Long boring AMVs- The average attention span for the average viewer is 3-4 minutes. Unless the video is really engaging with both sound and visual, it's just fn' boring.

2. Watermarks and poor quality - I'm pretty sure this has been said numerous times. "Cartoon Network", "Divx", and anything else watermarked on the screen is just sloppy and distracting. So are 11th generation VHS DBZ music video, just flat out ugly and sloppy.

3. Sound quality - I have yet to run into too much of this but poor sound quality is disappointing. What may sound fine in your average $10 computer speaker may sound like crap on a good set up.

/Soapbox.

I've recently been noticing soundfx in videos. soundfx are SO underrated, I agree, even a 1 minute video can be boring without soundfx. BUT some 5 minute videos are better off without soundfx, but on the whole soundfx are underrated and not even used by big creators

and on the sound QUALITY issue, my 30 dollar 5.1 setup choked on LOW bitrate files, typically I needed to have it at at least 192kbps to sound good without any noticeable anomolys. My current setup (bros in a band so I got 2 monitors hooked up now...) can dissern ANY anomoly... it's annoying. I usually judge with headphones.

Dragon_Avatar · Post by **Dragon_Avatar** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:56 am

AMV titles and descriptions that don't tell a thing about it and AMVs that are too short. I'd love it if more of the AMVs were towards 6 minutes or so, but I don't think that many songs are that long. There are exceptions to my 'too short' policy, such as 'It was the what?'. I love that one, but it's a bit over a minute long. *sighs*

mtyugi · Post by **mtyugi** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:06 pm

It really bugs me when you give an opinion but the creator doesn't comment back to you but they will to someone else........ it makes me sad....

sigh.... oh well!!!

"This is it now, everybody get down, this is all I can take, this is how a heart breaks!" ~Rob Thomas
(I want that song soo badly!!!)

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:10 pm

mtyugi wrote:It really bugs me when you give an opinion but the creator doesn't comment back to you but they will to someone else........ it makes me sad....

I try to reply to everyone who gives more than a twenty-word opinion.

WhereNext · Post by **WhereNext** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:21 pm

my main ones would be the coomon ones, subs and logos in videos. But also videos in the wrong aspect ratio. And then this is more of a pet peeve of creators than videos really, but when they opinion there own video, and especially when they can't even manage to do it objectively and give themselves all 10s.

Fall_Child42 · Post by **Fall_Child42** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:56 am

The number on thing that Peeves me is watching AMV's where they used an anime source, and for the song they used music from that anime, (like a cowboy bebob video using TANK!...) No creativity, irks me...

aside from that it's your typical, subtitles, low qulaity D/l footage... divx/cartoon network logos....(makes me even more mad because it reminds me I dont get the friggin cartoon network with all this anime on it.)

Scandia · Post by **Scandia** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:27 pm

I've got a few:

1) Overused music and series. Especially since the overused stuff is not really stuff that I am a big fan of. That, and the fact that I tend to get resentful of overrated series, no matter how objectively good they may be.

2) Stuff with subtitles, watermarks, poor quality, etc. that got better ratings than my best stuff did simply because the video is of a popular series or has a popular song.

3) Overdone special effects. I am not an Euphoria fan, but this mainly goes to videos that just throw in the special effects for the heck of it trying to raise scores instead of using something that adds to the plot or aesthetics.

4) People that deduct major points simply because quality of capture is not optimal. People who care more about "pixellation at 2:34" (I'm being hypothetical) than about the story the video tells, thus ignoring the good sound quality, lyric sync, originality, good use of effects, and whatever else good the video may have.

5) Videos that just put the OP of an anime to a new song and call it an AMV. Where's the originality in that? A specific example comes to mind, but there could be others floating around. Also to a lesser extent, people who use just a looooong scene from one episode in the series without cutting/splicing/editing/syncing at all. I have seen a couple of these- sadly both to the same song, an anime song that I totally love.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:35 pm

Scandia wrote:
1) Overused music and series. Especially since the overused stuff is not really stuff that I am a big fan of. That, and the fact that I tend to get resentful of overrated series, no matter how objectively good they may be.

4) People that deduct major points simply because quality of capture is not optimal. People who care more about "pixellation at 2:34" (I'm being hypothetical) than about the story the video tells, thus ignoring the good sound quality, lyric sync, originality, good use of effects, and whatever else good the video may have.

1) - I think if the creator comes up with an original idea out of the overused anime/song thats good, it can still be acceptable. I care more about originality in the entire sence more than a particular anime or song being overused.

4) - you didn;t specify, but I think its fine as long as they only deduct in the apropriate category (video) and give more acceptable marks whereever apropriate in the other cateogires. I have seen cases where someone will mark low scores across the board because they didn't like 1 particular thing about the video, like the song, or the visual quality and so was blinded to everything else good about the video. If this is what you meant, then I agree ;p

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:21 pm

Scandia wrote:5) Videos that just put the OP of an anime to a new song and call it an AMV. Where's the originality in that? A specific example comes to mind, but there could be others floating around. Also to a lesser extent, people who use just a looooong scene from one episode in the series without cutting/splicing/editing/syncing at all. I have seen a couple of these- sadly both to the same song, an anime song that I totally love.

rofl, we got one of those for the CSUN anime club amv contest in 2002.

The ENTIRE tenchi universe op with NO edits to a different song.