Editors who put no credits: Explain yourselves!

[Flame-X]

I used to do that but stopped for a number of reasons.

1. Most people don't care.
2. I don't have ownership over copyright footages or music.
3. I don't need internet fame.

[Kai Stromler]

I did not do credits initially because I did not have the technology available to make them not look like garbage, and more importantly because I had no need to become internet famous for doing this. If someone else wants to jack my videos and pretend they made them, that's fine; the music continues to get spread without me doing any further work, and they have to deal with the existential reality that they're popular not for creating something or for rearranging it, but for pretending to rearrange other people's creative output.

I started doing credits when the technology made it possible to make them look good, and more importantly because the music I was using was getting too obscure to release out into the wild without telling people what it was. The fact that I'm expected to add my own composition credit is a necessary evil; the ability to promote my friends' bands under trailer cards when I can't do it in the video directly is an unexpected bonus.

--K

[mirkosp]

I make them if I they come out entertaining, otherwise it's a waste of time. Most people skip the credits anyway, so why putting another buncha secs for no reason? If it's text they want, there's plenty in the catalog page. They know who made the vid and its title from the filename, so it's not like it takes much to track the info down.

[Nya-chan Production]

They know who made the vid and its title from the filename, so it's not like it takes much to track the info down.

And then there are those people who don't put any credits in the vid and name it "1.mp4"

And it's the best instrumental of this year I have in my folder and I don't remember who made it.

Will be hell of a search for VCAs...

[Otohiko]

I do mood videos. Credits spoil the mood. I also have a no-frills approach to serious videos and I've no particular passion for asserting my creative credo.

The only times I do credits is when it's entertaining for me to do so.

[chambeyc]

I always put at least names of anime and music used in the credits:
From my point of view, AMVs are fan-made videos, meaning that as a fan of the footages I used, I'd like to get people interested in them.

[Angelyco]

This:

For a long time, I've felt that most viewers just want to get straight to the main feature. I can get behind credits that add something interesting to the video though...Sometimes though it's hard to segue into a credits sequence from the main video.

and this:

If it's text they want, there's plenty in the catalog page. They know who made the vid and its title from the filename, so it's not like it takes much to track the info down.

However, I've seen some videos with awesome credits lately, so I may start doing it--ONLY if I can make them look good enough to be included.

[Knowname]

cause people if they really want to can just remove it.

If I care I don't make credits I overlay my studio name over the begining of the video like a wetmark (or w/e it's called...)

Otherwise I don't care to inconvenience the viewers with information they should have readily available (via my file name or vid profile page) do I care if someone steals it? 1) it'd never happen 2) just putting your name on something won't stop that! hello!! CLONES!! 3) It'd never happen.

It also inconveniences me cuz I watch my video 15x a day. I'd rather not spend 50 minutes watching a credit sequence. wetmarks FTW!!

[Enigma]

Lazyness

[Nya-chan Production]

cause people if they really want to can just remove it.

If I care I don't make credits I overlay my studio name over the begining of the video like a wetmark (or w/e it's called...)

Otherwise I don't care to inconvenience the viewers with information they should have readily available (via my file name or vid profile page) do I care if someone steals it? 1) it'd never happen 2) just putting your name on something won't stop that! hello!! CLONES!! 3) It'd never happen.

It also inconveniences me cuz I watch my video 15x a day. I'd rather not spend 50 minutes watching a credit sequence. wetmarks FTW!!

Watermark.
Plus, there are better methods to get your credits in the AMV... but also more difficult to pull out :>