AMV's and Their Lovers

Bennmann

Recently put together a Cowboy Bebop AMV (Spoilers for the show Cowboy Bebop if you haven't seen the end of it yet).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfx5G833OIc

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Does anyone else here make these or enjoy them?

A-M-V.org holds some nice competitions that are centered on quality, and many of their competition members have their works on Youtube.

Kagera

I made a Cowboy Bebop one too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROedBtQzmRo

It's the first and last AMV I'll ever make.

Trus

Bennmann wrote: »

and many of their competition members have their works on Youtube.

AMVs on Youtube, you don't say!

Kagera

Trus wrote: »

Bennmann wrote: »

and many of their competition members have their works on Youtube.

AMVs on Youtube, you don't say!

Hey I remember way back when you had to download all those AMVs because there was no youtube.

Whipper Snapper.

Bennmann

That's special Kagera. Oddly enough the timings were somewhat synced.

I think you just Hansen Roll'd me.

Barrakketh

I generally think they're terrible, but every so often someone links you one that's likable:

Waka Laka For Osaka

JebusUD

Is this where we talk about how silly AMV's are?

KalTorak

AMVs are handy for me because when I want to hear pretty much any random song ever, I can search for it on youtube and there will be an AMV of it and I can listen to the song.

Gabriel_Pitt

Bennmann wrote: »

Recently put together a Cowboy Bebop AMV (Spoilers for the show Cowboy Bebop if you haven't seen the end of it yet).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfx5G833OIc

.

Does anyone else here make these or enjoy them?

A-M-V.org holds some nice competitions that are centered on quality, and many of their competition members have their works on Youtube.

IIRC, I'm member #81 on there.

I used to really be into the AMV hobby, and it used to be a pretty cool community, until the advent of easily acquired digital media and digital editing software allowed participation to explode. I'm not saying that lowering the barriers to participation is a bad thing, but it allowed the signal-to-noise ratio to blow completely out of proportion, which killed it for me.

Mei Hikari

Gabriel_Pitt wrote: »

I'm not saying that lowering the barriers to participation is a bad thing, but it allowed the signal-to-noise ratio to blow completely out of proportion, which killed it for me.

I'm going to have to agree. Finding the exceptional videos on AMV.org was hard enough, but youtube has made that impossible.

So I just stick with the classics now

Falx

I haven't found one in ages which is worth downloading.

CmdPrompt

KalTorak wrote: »

AMVs are handy for me because when I want to hear pretty much any random song ever, I can search for it on youtube and there will be an AMV of it and I can listen to the song.

This is the only interest I have in AMVs as well, seeing as how I'm no longer 13.

I mean, really The Cars, Moving in Stereo without All Mixed Up on your Greatest Hits? Really?


I do enjoy the old Toonami commercials though, which sort of count as AMVs.

Gabriel_Pitt

I remember when it wasn't particularly hard to watch most every AMV as it came out, with any worth remembering ending up on one guy's personal FTP server. Going from there, to where Dragonball was the anime used 10:1 to the number 2 spot, Linkin Park was the most used artist 15:1 to the number 2 spot, and two or three times a week you could find a video unironically titled, 'In Vegeta's End,' was a surprisingly fast transition.

Bennmann

That must have taken a ton of time to do! It seems the A-M-V.org forums have become better for searching out the best of the best.

But are there any other classics that stick out in your head? Never saw the one you posted before.

Gabriel_Pitt

You have no idea. Information High was done with two vcrs, with a CD player hooked into the second one's Sound In.

Tofystedeth

I really liked MoreThanToast's setting of Somebody Hates Me to Trigun clips. Really captured the essence of a lot of that show.

Detharin

Sitting around bored and subjecting random friends to AMV hell 3/4. Ahh the memories.

Gabriel_Pitt

I guess I have to ask, what's AMV Hell 3/4?

Bennmann wrote: »

But are there any other classics that stick out in your head? Never saw the one you posted before.

Man, never ask an old timer that sort of question. Now I'm going to have to spend my evening rooting around youtube to see which of the original bests have made their way their, and which I have to dig deeper for (a friend of mine had seen all of my AMVs on youtube once, but had no idea they were mine until coincidentally I talked about my experience in video editing - someone had just uploaded them all).

Detharin

May the 7 dark lords have mercy upon my soul.

You tube version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aTgINExt2w

Bennmann

One of the most recent one's that does stick out in my mind is: The DBZ 300 trailer

If only the live action were remotely close to as exciting as that.

Bennmann

Gabriel_Pitt wrote: »

I guess I have to ask, what's AMV Hell 3/4?

Bennmann wrote: »

But are there any other classics that stick out in your head? Never saw the one you posted before.

Man, never ask an old timer that sort of question. Now I'm going to have to spend my evening rooting around youtube to see which of the original bests have made their way their, and which I have to dig deeper for (a friend of mine had seen all of my AMVs on youtube once, but had no idea they were mine until coincidentally I talked about my experience in video editing - someone had just uploaded them all).

Now you're just being a tease, bring it! All of it.

Sliver

Bennmann wrote: »

Recently put together a Cowboy Bebop AMV (Spoilers for the show Cowboy Bebop if you haven't seen the end of it yet).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfx5G833OIc

.

Does anyone else here make these or enjoy them?

A-M-V.org holds some nice competitions that are centered on quality, and many of their competition members have their works on Youtube.

Rule number 1 when making an AMV, no freaking subtitles in the vid plzkthx.

Also, amv.org hasn't been the same since they got rid off the off topic forums. Really pissed off those of us that were postcount racing.

99% of amv's suck, but the good ones are golden. just go with the editors that you know are good. AD, Fluxmeister (NHMK), Steakslim, and SpPanda are a few editors that I can think of off the top of my head that consistently make good videos.

Bennmann

I was torn about the subs, in the end they were another element of communication that fit the message of the whole.

It seems text in general is faux pas, which is odd for me as a newcomer.

cj iwakura

The best one ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgDuM9ATce4


I'm also partial to these two(Lain bias)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CajZidU7dsc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_s-Yw8C_Rs

Mei Hikari

Summoning the best Lain AMV...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SmFJRRQzdk

Done.

Bennmann wrote: »

But are there any other classics that stick out in your head? Never saw the one you posted before.

Oh god, why did you say that? Now I'm going to spend the next hour searching youtube for old AMVs.

Grombar

Here's one of mine.

Nocren

I was always partial to doki doki production's stuff. Good quality and good editing.

Having made one myself (sort of, it was to the City of Heroes cgi trailers) I think I finaly gave up on it.

Kagera

I fell out of like with AMVs pretty much around the time four out of five new videos were based around Linkin' Park.

cj iwakura

Mei Hikari wrote: »

Summoning the best Lain AMV...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SmFJRRQzdk

Done.

Best song from the best movie. :^:

I still like Children more though.

Gabriel_Pitt

Warning: All opinions are subjective, especially those espoused by the old guard.

Anything by Maboroshi Studios Kevin Caldwell or Aluminum Studios are pretty much the best of the best.
Maboroshi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSidqGbIxa8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP7bJi8bA3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C2IfSMGm3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn9rHSTcS-U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQjebr6skzc

Caldwell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHNDKAADtDo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc_gcYMsGqQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlTJbe5zvSs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rg_qabWIQg

Aluminum
I'm having a lot of trouble finding much of anything for them - there best videos aren't on youtube, at least

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLZP7vCpu3w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlUUJYeQaxE

Doki Doki Productions - making funny fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipiwJXp1IEc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFNyaPwWlFE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmfFu-MMcis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W10kEzwaiLU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-M-oYDvelg

And other high points in the hobby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBsWNofvovc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZO30DX1TrQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujU9q3Equ60
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkkRo2unJlE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1j5u7kciFQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ2PXtn4f7w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTUx_m_seaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsPUIMRSKGY

Tainted Donuts: singlehandely started the mixing-series-to-make-a-story-fad

The first is always the best
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9e_WIoJJnI&feature=related

I thought about being cheeky and including a link to my stuff, but my AMVs were adequately competent, and when the field gets as crowded as the AMV hobby did, adequate is no where near good enough to distinguish yourself from the crowd.

Jragghen

Kagera wrote: »

I fell out of like with AMVs pretty much around the time four out of five new videos were based around Linkin' Park.

Ditto. Also, when AMV Hell 3 and 4 were so utterly fantastic that everything else which has come out recently pales in comparison.

I guess I have to ask, what's AMV Hell 3/4?

The things which address the problem with most AMVs: They see one line from a song, or think of a decent intro, or something funny for a short bit, then fail at attempting to make a video for the entire song which makes it worthwhile. So they made AMV Hell, which was a series of comedic clips set to short portions of songs. It was rusty, and more a proof of concept. So they made AMV Hell 2: Son of AMV Hell. Which frankly, wasn't that good. But at that point, it became a community collaborative project, where people submitted clips and they were spliced together into AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture. It's a tad over an hour long, and for the most part, utter gold. After that came a competition, which was put together (AMV Hell: Championship Edition), which was entertaining, but unfortunately had repeating songs due to the format. Then they came out with AMV Hell 4, which was a good hour and a half, and pretty much as hilarious as 3.

We won't discuss 0 or /0.

You can find them all here


Edit: Tainted Donuts is great. And I'll also give a nod to ErMaC Studios for having a number of quality ones back in the day.

Mei Hikari

Well, Youtube really has sucky quality for most of these.
Anyway to start off, I recommend anything by these guys:

Kevin Caldwell.

Koop

VicBond007

Van Halen

Daniel Chang

I'm having trouble finding some of the more obscure ones, like RYS' videos. I did find his Shamanic Princess AMV on a russian youtube.

EDIT: Oh man, I got beaten heard.

Gabriel_Pitt

Ha! You're slow! ^_^

cj iwakura

Gabriel_Pitt wrote: »

Warning: All opinions are subjective, especially those espoused by the old guard.

Anything by Maboroshi Studios Kevin Caldwell or Aluminum Studios are pretty much the best of the best.
Maboroshi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSidqGbIxa8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP7bJi8bA3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C2IfSMGm3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn9rHSTcS-U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQjebr6skzc

Caldwell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHNDKAADtDo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc_gcYMsGqQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlTJbe5zvSs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rg_qabWIQg

Aluminum
I'm having a lot of trouble finding much of anything for them - there best videos aren't on youtube, at least

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLZP7vCpu3w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlUUJYeQaxE

Doki Doki Productions - making funny fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipiwJXp1IEc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFNyaPwWlFE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmfFu-MMcis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W10kEzwaiLU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-M-oYDvelg

And other high points in the hobby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBsWNofvovc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZO30DX1TrQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujU9q3Equ60
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkkRo2unJlE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1j5u7kciFQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ2PXtn4f7w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTUx_m_seaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsPUIMRSKGY

Tainted Donuts: singlehandely started the mixing-series-to-make-a-story-fad

The first is always the best
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9e_WIoJJnI&feature=related

I thought about being cheeky and including a link to my stuff, but my AMVs were adequately competent, and when the field gets as crowded as the AMV hobby did, adequate is no where near good enough to distinguish yourself from the crowd.

I'm sorry I never heard of Doki Doki until now. That Sailor Moon / Springer one was perfection.


(Also, seconded on Shimmer/FLCL)

On a similar note, not an AMV, but the editing is amazing(sub aside):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ZCAt7Bw-g


And another classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NNCb3CROwk

Cokebotle

There's a rather funny one (VERY NSFW) AMV using TISM's Everyone Else has had more sex than me. I'd link, but YouTube and work and all that. I'll try to remember when I get home tonight.

PikaPuff

hay guys i made an AMV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWt41-Z6MYk

hay guys iz dis amv?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzTc2gvS14I

HamHamJ

Jragghen wrote: »

Kagera wrote: »

I fell out of like with AMVs pretty much around the time four out of five new videos were based around Linkin' Park.

Ditto. Also, when AMV Hell 3 and 4 were so utterly fantastic that everything else which has come out recently pales in comparison.

I guess I have to ask, what's AMV Hell 3/4?

The things which address the problem with most AMVs: They see one line from a song, or think of a decent intro, or something funny for a short bit, then fail at attempting to make a video for the entire song which makes it worthwhile. So they made AMV Hell, which was a series of comedic clips set to short portions of songs. It was rusty, and more a proof of concept. So they made AMV Hell 2: Son of AMV Hell. Which frankly, wasn't that good. But at that point, it became a community collaborative project, where people submitted clips and they were spliced together into AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture. It's a tad over an hour long, and for the most part, utter gold. After that came a competition, which was put together (AMV Hell: Championship Edition), which was entertaining, but unfortunately had repeating songs due to the format. Then they came out with AMV Hell 4, which was a good hour and a half, and pretty much as hilarious as 3.

This is very true. A lot of stuff works way better as a short clip than a full video.

EDIT:

I find this one pretty funny

Host Club

Nocren

I used to have a whole bunch of AMVs till my hard drive got wiped when I rebuilt my machine.

Anyway, here's my AMV (or would that be Video Game music video?)

Hero's Return by Hammerfall
Statesman's Return


And I really like this one because of the music. It's the FULL opening of MGS2 done to Smash Brothers Melee. Up to a certain point, the video is almost shot-for-shot, angle-for-angle of the opening of MGS2 recreated in SSBM
Brothers of Liberty

Personally, I'm gearing more towards these types of videos (video game cutscenes and trailers instead of anime) as well as the movie trailer stuff. I had some really good ones that Black Hawk Down over Gatsuraki and Aliens to Blue Gender.

noir_blood

Man, I wonder if I could find a Dragonball video that features Linkin Park...

Sliver

How the thread got this far without euphoria I will never know.

edit: it did and I wasn't paying attention

Fluxmeister vids instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnSCv_mJdOM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDTh1aHZDnE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI_Z3NFVjTc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajpmVKi1Mz0

edit: and how does one upload an amv to youtube without it looking like complete ass?

Godfather

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lluz2thNf1g