AMV remixing?

[seasons]

Anyone ever tried to "remix" someone else's AMV?

I'm not talking about making a different AMV based on the same concept (like the "Phenomenon" videos) or making parodies of someone else's work. I mean taking someone else's AMV and adding effects to it, inserting new material, or just chopping it up and rearranging it into something else completely different? With the same audio or totally different music, either way it seems like there's a lot of potential for fun and creativity.

Obviously this probably wouldn't go over well with many editors if people went ahead and did it without permission but I'm wondering if people have ever gotten together and agreed to do something like this together. It wouldn't have to go down the MEP route but it seems like a great idea for an MEP. Someone makes a short AMV (1 minute?), then someone else remixes that footage, adds new material, maybe leaves some of the original out, then passes it on to the next editor, etc...

Maybe it's been done before and I just don't know about it? Any thoughts?

[pan_dbgt01]

LOL I like that idea. Someone actually made a remix on Youtube of some Nostromo's AMVs.

[Sephirothskr]

Interesting idea. Act of genesis x under control sounds fun lol

[ngsilver]

As far as chopping up other peoples videos and making something new out of them (new music) CB-R holds a contest every year called King of Spayn where we do just that.

Now, I've made a number of remix AMVs myself. I do some VJing and DJing on the side from time to time and what I like to mix is music videos. For the Youmacon VAT Dance a few years ago I made a number of remix videos to be playing during it and often I mix videos live (adding effects, overlaying other videos, live lip sync, ect) when I perform. I don't post anything I make however.

[Scintilla]

Well, there was one time when ZeroSerenity took Machine's "Naruto's United States of Whatever!" and switched out the audio for a... somewhat YTMND'ed version to make "Naruto's United States of NNNOOOOOO!!!"

... why can't I find ZeroSerenity's Org profile anymore?

[Ileia]

... why can't I find ZeroSerenity's Org profile anymore?

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... _id=241310 ?

[Shui]

The only thing I do is to dub some AMVs. I switch out the song without even touching the videostream. That way I don't have to encode it. I guess the challenge is mostly in finding a fitting song and music-editing there

I can't really stand the Idea to make an AMV out of an AMV. It'd just be wrong.

[ZephyrStar]

This is one of my faves, using many AMVs.

[CrackTheSky]

I don't know of any other than the one ZS posted (which is an awesome video, by the way). I do know people have used AMVs for source footage before, but that never turns out good and it's not in the spirit of what you're describing. I also know that it was a thing at one point (maybe it still is?) to take popular AMVs and just swap out the music track to see if it syncs up with something different. I don't know of any examples to link to offhand, but these videos are almost all on YouTube and are mostly done without the consent of the original editor. I know Ileia's had that done to some of her videos before. But again, that's different from what you're describing.

I think it sounds like a neat idea, with the consent of the editors being "ripped off" (or, whatever, even without their consent; as editors we don't exactly have any moral ground to stand on to ask people not to use our creations in their own. Just, y'know, credit the editors in question I guess). If MEPs were still a thing it'd be neat to do what you described, and then release two MEPs simultaneously -- one with the original edits and the other "remixed".

[Mol]

Kinda like A little retrospect ,here actually we edited out our own amvs that were created by us to diffrent song (turned out random as hell )