Where all that AMV editing got me

[DJ_Izumi]

Wow, it's been a looooong time since I've been seen around here and some time since I've uploaded any kind of AMV. I imagine few would remember me but I felt like sharing.

I always loved tinkering with video and waaaay back in 2000 or so is when I started toying with AMVs. My peak was doing trailers with the best ones in 2004-2006 and things kinda faded out quickly since then. I'm older but in college now, doing a film and television production program here in Canada and everything I learned doing AMVs has given me a huge leg up in the editing department. I started on Premiere 6.5 in 2001 or 2002, I started toying with After Effects in 2004. The rest of my classmates havn't seen anything from Adobe before this past September, except for using Photoshop to caption photos of cats. I don't need to study my text books to memorize 'NTSC', 'PAL', '29.97', '16:9', '4:2:0', '3:2 Pulldown', 'Interlacing' or any of that technical stuff. Why? Because AMVs engrained that into me for years. Classmates thing I'm some kind of god at After Effects, but I just look and say 'No, I just have experience with it. Believe me, in 2004 I was looking at AE and crying 'WHAT IS THIS DEMON SPAWN OF PREMIERE, PHOTOSHOP AND SATAN, AND WHY DOES IT MOCK ME SO!? ;_;'

So I can edit and do motion graphics beyond that of anyone else in my class and this is all thanks to AMVs. Sadly this does not make me a god at film and television production. As an AMV editor I was spoiled, all I had to do was EDIT; All the footage was pre-created my experts in the animation and television fields.

Lighting, camera operation, sound, framing, acting, getting filming locations, story boards, scripts, dept of field. In AMV's you don't have to watch the sound levels on your DSLR camera that you bootstrapped a shotgun mic onto so you can shoot first person material in 1080p, you just drag and drop that song onto the timeline and bam. I have a tonne to learn in field of film and television, but thanks to AMVs, editing and the technical side of video isn't one of them.

But on the other hand, school is pretty awesome. Why? Not only do we have a tonne of gear, a live production studio with a giant green screen and other goodies... But because the school has so many other programs that I get to leech off of. Like the paramedic program, it's gear and it's three ambulances. Or the nursing program and it's functional emergency room simulation center with 20 beds. There's a fire fighter program, I havn't leeched that fire truck off them but good god I will one of these days.

So with that, I'd like to share my first attempt, mostly a proof of concept, at doing a Canadian paramedic drama. It's rough but there will be more as we gain experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB98_fIB ... AoDc--TlWi

[zibbazabba905]

Haha, awesome I've always wondered if anyone has ever pursued an actual career from doing this

[JaddziaDax]

Actually a few amvers have pursued editing as a career.
Interesting to see where this is going for you DJ_Izumi.

[Knowname]

Grats man, good to hear! Yep even the org has a handful of success stories (Beowulf, Machine and others) behold the power of pirating!! xD see in reality the big Senators haven't a leg to stand on.

[DJ_Izumi]

Actually a few amvers have pursued editing as a career.
Interesting to see where this is going for you DJ_Izumi.

Well, I'm trying to do a lot more than editing. It's actually pretty awesome to have control over your content, not looking for the footage that you need in some series but instead actually getting to create that footage to suit your requirements. ...It's just that you can also totally screw up filming that footage. :X

[Castor Troy]

Actually a few amvers have pursued editing as a career.
Interesting to see where this is going for you DJ_Izumi.

Well, I'm trying to do a lot more than editing. It's actually pretty awesome to have control over your content, not looking for the footage that you need in some series but instead actually getting to create that footage to suit your requirements. ...It's just that you can also totally screw up filming that footage. :X

Exactly. I love writing, producing, directing, and acting as well.

I get to edit myself! (That's me in my avatar)

[ZephyrStar]

Actually a few amvers have pursued editing as a career.
Interesting to see where this is going for you DJ_Izumi.

Well, I'm trying to do a lot more than editing. It's actually pretty awesome to have control over your content, not looking for the footage that you need in some series but instead actually getting to create that footage to suit your requirements. ...It's just that you can also totally screw up filming that footage. :X

Exactly. I love writing, producing, directing, and acting as well.

I get to edit myself!

^ All of this.

[Chez]

Its not like AMV editing got me interesting in filmmaking or anything...or got me into making a fallout fan film or anything...this plug was not shameless at all.

But in all srsness amv's where the reason I got into film school originally for editing now I want to be a Director of Photography things change quick when you are learning

[Kitsuner]

Its not like AMV editing got me interesting in filmmaking or anything...or got me into making a fallout fan film or anything...this plug was not shameless at all.

But in all srsness amv's where the reason I got into film school originally for editing now I want to be a Director of Photography things change quick when you are learning

I encountered a similar change of direction in my first year of film school. I started out wanting to be an editor but found myself editing less and less. Oh, I'll be a producer! No, a writer! No, a director! And sure, I might still do those things.

But that isn't who I am. At my core, I am an editor. It was good to experience these other aspects of production, but sometimes you need to step back and reorient yourself toward where you really want to be.

[Castor Troy]

Its not like AMV editing got me interesting in filmmaking or anything...or got me into making a fallout fan film or anything...this plug was not shameless at all.

But in all srsness amv's where the reason I got into film school originally for editing now I want to be a Director of Photography things change quick when you are learning

I encountered a similar change of direction in my first year of film school. I started out wanting to be an editor but found myself editing less and less. Oh, I'll be a producer! No, a writer! No, a director! And sure, I might still do those things.

But that isn't who I am. At my core, I am an editor. It was good to experience these other aspects of production, but sometimes you need to step back and reorient yourself toward where you really want to be.

Actually Kit, being an editor is also being all of the above things. Editing amvs already makes you a producer, writer, and director aside from being an editor.