Fucking noobs

[godix]

The necroposting on the where is our world going thread reminded me, somewhere in that thread I mentioned there should be a fucking noob faq sent to all new users that links to existing faqs, undocumented features, etc. At the time I had school and shit so never did it, and apparently neither did anyone else. I got a few weeks off now and may give this a shot.

Below is my off the cuff idea on how it should be covered. If you know of existing faqs for these subjects, please link them. I know some of them offhand. Others I know exist but would have to search for them. Still others I probably don't even know exist. I also need suggestions on what else to cover, or what I mentioned that perhaps shouldn't be covered. Perhaps some ideas for a better name than 'fucking noob faq' would be useful as well.

Break it into two sections, for viewers and for editors. Viewers should be first since most people with an account on the org are not editors. The list looks long, but for most of these topics a couple sentences and a link are probably all that's needed

Viewers

Community
Forums & PM system
Journals
IRC
Banner creation (or should that be in some other section?)
Donation and donation perks (perks mentioned elsewhere should also be marked as such there as well)

How to find AMVs
Top 10% lists
Top star lists
Recommendation forum
Announcement forum
how to be hasteroth er I mean Stalking uhhh... I mean the alert system
Search
- Quick search
- Super search
- Suggestion Queries

Viewing vids
Preview
How to download local, direct, indirect
Programs/codecs to view downloaded vids


Editors

How to make a video
Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a>
IIRC Scintilla has a guide on AVIsynth filters that's more indepth
The various video forums
Kionon's So You Want To Be An Anime Music Video Editor? thread and my So You Want To Be A *GOOD* Anime Music Video Editor? thread

How to upload
Orgs rules on uploading
Basic FTP instructions

Acceptable pimping
Announcement forum
- Preview embeding
- vidid
- vidlink
Journal
Sig banner

[Otohiko]

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... r/main.htm

Still largely applies, although could certainly use some updates.

[Nya-chan Production]

Teh layout. Teh colours!

D:

[Dar]

clicked because of interesting title, and tldnr.


but i did skim it actually and i agree.

[gt-dragon]

Finally I know how to upload I have so many videos in me computer that I have tried to upload but couldn't

[EvaFan]

Don't forget the random vid link: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... domvid.php

Good for surprises... Though actually getting a GOOD one may/may not take a while.

[seasons]

Finally I know how to upload I have so many videos in me computer that I have tried to upload but couldn't

what?

[Enigma]

Godix for most helpfull

[BasharOfTheAges]

I've always endorsed a Posting and You style approach to this kind of thing. We edit video here... it shouldn't be that hard to do.

[Panky]

- Preview embeding

Is there Preview embeding really or it was just a thing to add?
And about the vidid, I guess there could be some kind of tip for those that are creating a topic in the Announcement forum or detect somehow that they don't know how to and advice them (well I know the first time I copied the "video template" from other topic and applied to my own ). That isn't necessary, but it could be a good thing to add as well.
A good suggestion of things to download (codecs, avisynth; the AMVAPP) for those first-login guys in a more noticeable place or page would be better. IIRC, when I first came I found that pack was useful but only after someone on IRC or MSN from here told me. Either way, it could be ignored because they just don't see it, or think that it's more on the "advanced" style of editing.

Some thoughts.