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What obstacles hold you back?
My opinions about myself are boring so I will spoiler tag myself. Share yourself if you want.
Spoiler :
So have I made the videos I have always wanted?
No not even close. Here are my road blocks.. *I shrunk the text on the things where I found others would just be annoyed or less interested.*
I'm lazy, I'm easily discouraged, I can't edit for that long and I'm impatient. Great recipe for not being able to get anywhere with your videos. Not to say I haven't had gaps of great patients to make a video.
I haven't proven it, but when I have had the ideas, I didn't have the resources to make something that I thought would be top rated in the amv community. *sigh* But often when I did have the resources, I would became lazy and annoyed with a lot of stuff. So not much of an excuse to most eyes I know.
I had a video I worked on that I think would of been thought as one of the best violent AMVs, but never could finish it because I ran out of scenes of people getting body parts twisted. And if I even found the right scenes to finish it, I would want to redo the video to have optimum video quality.(don't have a lossless version of what I finished)
When I started I lacked the resources to make videos but out of what clips and amvs I download, I would make videos with some of the worst visual quality you have seen. Though people I have shown, even people that didn't really care about me or ignored me seem to act like they liked the videos I would make, even non anime people would like them. Some of these videos I never posted because of the file sizes of them or because of the visual quality, and the fact that I did use scenes from amvs. Never looked up a guide because I did get things moving along and working. Never spent time looking up guides until 2004(been making videos since 2000).
The only good looking video I made in the first two years was my first one because of the equipment I had at school. Only knew how to transfer through tape, so I copied my dvds to tape, put it on their computer, made the video, put it back on tape, then put it back on dvd, then from dvd compressed it for online, and posted it on this site years later.
I used a downloaded akira to make promises.. and finally after that, I started to get serious with using proper tools.. dvds, vdub, xvid, etc..
Some of my favorite videos I've seen, I have thought I could do better, but who doesn't feel that way.
As of now.. I don't watch anime anymore, my ideas no longer come to me as clear and it's rare that I get boosts of creativity in imagining amvs(maybe I'm just discouraged).. probably more to do with self talk than what I'm actually capable of. Also had some fall outs with some editors works I appreciated, and because I make such dumb associations, when amvs came to mind, I would just get frustrated and make associations that destroyed my ability to sit back, relax, enjoy music and visualize anime to the music. That's what you really need to make good videos. Negative feelings ended up being associated with my thoughts of amvs. *shakes head at self* I know these reasons are stupid to run away from this amv world.
As an editor, I feel like I'm fading. It makes me upset that some of my videos never saw the light of day(but maybe they will)
So yeah, who knows what I can't and can do, but I know what videos I want to see and people are not making them. And then I would rather be able to make other people make the videos than make them myself.
I have experimented, but it's frustrating to edit when so much can go wrong. Like I have a history of project files ending up not working anymore and having to redo the same video ten times because of the that and trying to remember what I did. Hell also had times where when I try to render a video, a lot of the scenes are not visible(this is more like 8 or more years ago though)
I have to give you guys a cheers who have the patients with this hobby.
I wish I can be one of you, because there are videos I want to be made, but I guess the best I can do is sit back and admire your efforts and patients. Working with scripts, going through DVDs, making them lossless, rendering your amv, re-rendering to test rendering results, working on effects, getting support(my family and friends don't like AMVs, only few people I know in real life like them and haven't got to know much amv editors), spending months on a video, working out your ideas, finding work arounds.. it amazes me.
If I can get dedicated to this hobby like I have my health, I would have maybe made the videos that I want to see made and done them quite well.
No not even close. Here are my road blocks.. *I shrunk the text on the things where I found others would just be annoyed or less interested.*
I'm lazy, I'm easily discouraged, I can't edit for that long and I'm impatient. Great recipe for not being able to get anywhere with your videos. Not to say I haven't had gaps of great patients to make a video.
I haven't proven it, but when I have had the ideas, I didn't have the resources to make something that I thought would be top rated in the amv community. *sigh* But often when I did have the resources, I would became lazy and annoyed with a lot of stuff. So not much of an excuse to most eyes I know.
I had a video I worked on that I think would of been thought as one of the best violent AMVs, but never could finish it because I ran out of scenes of people getting body parts twisted. And if I even found the right scenes to finish it, I would want to redo the video to have optimum video quality.(don't have a lossless version of what I finished)
When I started I lacked the resources to make videos but out of what clips and amvs I download, I would make videos with some of the worst visual quality you have seen. Though people I have shown, even people that didn't really care about me or ignored me seem to act like they liked the videos I would make, even non anime people would like them. Some of these videos I never posted because of the file sizes of them or because of the visual quality, and the fact that I did use scenes from amvs. Never looked up a guide because I did get things moving along and working. Never spent time looking up guides until 2004(been making videos since 2000).
The only good looking video I made in the first two years was my first one because of the equipment I had at school. Only knew how to transfer through tape, so I copied my dvds to tape, put it on their computer, made the video, put it back on tape, then put it back on dvd, then from dvd compressed it for online, and posted it on this site years later.
I used a downloaded akira to make promises.. and finally after that, I started to get serious with using proper tools.. dvds, vdub, xvid, etc..
Some of my favorite videos I've seen, I have thought I could do better, but who doesn't feel that way.
As of now.. I don't watch anime anymore, my ideas no longer come to me as clear and it's rare that I get boosts of creativity in imagining amvs(maybe I'm just discouraged).. probably more to do with self talk than what I'm actually capable of. Also had some fall outs with some editors works I appreciated, and because I make such dumb associations, when amvs came to mind, I would just get frustrated and make associations that destroyed my ability to sit back, relax, enjoy music and visualize anime to the music. That's what you really need to make good videos. Negative feelings ended up being associated with my thoughts of amvs. *shakes head at self* I know these reasons are stupid to run away from this amv world.
As an editor, I feel like I'm fading. It makes me upset that some of my videos never saw the light of day(but maybe they will)
So yeah, who knows what I can't and can do, but I know what videos I want to see and people are not making them. And then I would rather be able to make other people make the videos than make them myself.
I have experimented, but it's frustrating to edit when so much can go wrong. Like I have a history of project files ending up not working anymore and having to redo the same video ten times because of the that and trying to remember what I did. Hell also had times where when I try to render a video, a lot of the scenes are not visible(this is more like 8 or more years ago though)
I have to give you guys a cheers who have the patients with this hobby.
I wish I can be one of you, because there are videos I want to be made, but I guess the best I can do is sit back and admire your efforts and patients. Working with scripts, going through DVDs, making them lossless, rendering your amv, re-rendering to test rendering results, working on effects, getting support(my family and friends don't like AMVs, only few people I know in real life like them and haven't got to know much amv editors), spending months on a video, working out your ideas, finding work arounds.. it amazes me.If I can get dedicated to this hobby like I have my health, I would have maybe made the videos that I want to see made and done them quite well.
