What do you value higher?

[Nya-chan Production]

Just because this interests me a lot recently - if you had to compare two videos, both great technically and comparable, except one thing:

Video 1 uses "overused source", but comes with a new and very original story/plot/atmosphere.
Video 2 uses some less used and more original source, but fits in the "slightly above average" story - your well done romance/drama/action, but nothing exceptional.

For which one would you go?

[Niotex]

The better video.

[OropherZero]

Neither. I prefer overused sources which retell the plot of the anime rather than attempt something new.

[Arigatomina]

Video 1. I'm interested in the anime and the overused anime tend to be the ones I like best. I probably don't know the anime in the second one, so it would have to be the most amazing amv ever before I'd keep it (or made by an editor I like) and even then I wouldn't rewatch it, I'd just keep it on principle. The first one I would keep and rewatch on a regular basis and possibly share with other fans of that anime. It doesn't even need an original story. It just has to be a reasonably edited video featuring characters I like from an anime I like.

[BasharOfTheAges]

Video 1. Source doesn't matter. Doing something unique with your source is far more novel than simply buying some other DVDs that most people don't own. Concept is king. That said, most of the stuff I watch is a pretty random spattering of what's out there and my AMV watching habit is so infrequently satisfied that I'd have difficulty discerning between the two anyways.

[Castor Troy]

The better video.

[Ikore]

Video 1. Source doesn't matter. Doing something unique with your source is far more novel than simply buying some other DVDs that most people don't own. Concept is king.

pretty much this... I just like to see something new, something I have not even imagined it was possible.

[TritioAFB]

pretty much this... I just like to see something new, something I have not even imagined it was possible.

That's the reason why Whisper of the Beast is considered one of the bests

[Fall_Child42]

the one that has the music or anime that I like.

(let's be honest)

[Vivaldi]

Just because this interests me a lot recently - if you had to compare two videos, both great technically and comparable, except one thing:

Video 1 uses "overused source", but comes with a new and very original story/plot/atmosphere.
Video 2 uses some less used and more original source, but fits in the "slightly above average" story - your well done romance/drama/action, but nothing exceptional.

For which one would you go?

More simply put, the question is just how highly one values the use of rarer anime in and of itself, right? I think it's possibly a misdirected question, as few people really care about the scarcity of the anime used and rather just consider it a possible indicator of the quality of editing. If, as in your case, the quality of editing is already known, then the question just becomes a no-brainer.

In other cases though, if you have say, 50 editors who produce really quality work, and overused and rare anime will both be used by half the group respectively. Then you see 500 amvs with an overused source, and 50 amvs with a rare source. Well, right there you have a 1 in 2 chance of see a really good amv with the rare source, but only a 1:20 chance of seeing a good amv with the overused source. No one cares about the source per-se, but there are just proportionally more good amvs made with the rare ones.