This is the last straw!

So I was on youtube searching for a song, a nice song since apparently it was never for download *cough* anyways, I decide to search youtube and on youtube only one time did that song come up and it was apparently in an AMV so I click it and decide to watch this AMV.

THIS WAS THE LAST STRAW IN AMV WATCHING AS I MUST NOW SAY THESE THINGS



1. LETS PUT INAPPROPRIATE MUSIC IN OUR AMVS!
You have no idea how many times I have run into such terrible AMVs, rather it be because of video editing skills, or in this case. What I would love to call, the music syndrome. You see sometimes people make bad choices in music and that is understandable. Though not it's just over the top abuse of bad music, I don't even watch the Naruto anime or like Naruto for this fact, and even I know putting a song such as Avril's "Girlfriend" song does not fit with the anime. Great job! Now this is what saddens me http://youtube.com/watch?v=J5UG5-nfGJA a good example, this person obviously knows how to make an AMV at least by timing but WHAT THE HELL WITH CLIPS + MUSIC THEY DON'T EVEN MIX! If this song should be used in Naruto for any reason, think like AMVHell did, and use it as a PARODY.

2." YOU MUST EDIT YOUR AMVS"
Another category of FailMV's I'd love to point out, according to many "fans" of AMV's "The music is awesome 5 stars." And by that I mean "Let's take the first 8 minutes of Death Note, and slap an audio file over it then put it on youtube." And people enjoy watching these AMV's and instead of critically thinking it's "I LOVE THIS SHOW 5/5" or "I LOVE THIS TRACK 5/5" There are always the few people with common sense that can come in and say "This sucks" or even give constructive criticism only to have it torn down by a rabid fan of said anime or track and be flagged for their constructive criticism. congratulations fans you have just reinvented fascism on AMVS!

3. "I used Windows Movie Maker that's why it sucks"
No, it sucks because you used Window Movie Maker's create an Music Video for you feature and slapped it on your account. Windows Movie Maker can make great music videos, it might not have any great effects, but it's the perfect thing to get new people at it started, although some people, or should I say 80% of the growing population is killing that series. Look at tihs http://youtube.com/watch?v=1smeGkA41JU I MADE THIS WITH WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER AND EVEN IF ITS ONLY 20 SECONDS IT PRODUCED BETTER RESULTS THEN YOUR 6 MINUTE AUTO AMV MAKING PROGRAM CAN DO

4. Naruto, Kingdom Hearts, and Death Note
You know, if you mix these three shows/games together you can find the entire soundtrack of any song you're looking for? And if not you can always turn to Final Fantasy or Full Metal Alchemist. That's right these three things have been subjected to what I would love to call AMVirus. There is not one thing you can find without one of these categories popping up. You can even search for something like "School shootout" and some audio clip of such a tragic event will be butchered by one of these three shows that the fans thought would "slip".


5. This AMV has a coherent storyline (Death Note Spoilers)
This is one of the few comments I have read when deciding to spend five minutes of my life watching an AMV, so apparently according to this AMV I saw, I would link it but it seriously is a sad cause. Light killed L, then L came back alive, Near was with L the entire time and Light never met Misa, L loves Light but Light loves Near, and Near has a fetish for the other guy who is with Takashi and in the end Light died and came back because L is apparently jesus because when he appeared Light opened his eyes again and it all ends with Light once again killing L in the exact same spot he was before.

Wow if I saw this before I watched the show I would have never wanted to see the show after reading that comment, seriously if you're going to make a bad AMV, at least have it follow the events of the show or anime especially if you're trying to get a meaning out of it, AMV's tell stories unless it's a parody or if you just want it to be full out action and not base it off the song, so you used a fast pace song that's great.


6. animemusicvideos.org picks their top AMV's
See if I want to watch an AMV I go here, this is because when you go to their top 10% every AMV there is top notched, it's great they finally updated the list with more top notch videos. But seriously listen to me when I say this, would you rather search on youtube to find an AMV of let's say Euphoria and you come across this? http://youtube.com/watch?v=NUZXcS8QMLg or would you just lookat AMV's top 10% (Ironic I'm using youtube again) and come across this. http://youtube.com/watch?v=b23Wi5Yhb7o&feature=related

There are others that make great AMVs that don't end up on AMV's top 10%, but unless you hear from a friend who knows a good AMV, or if you just look for anything relating to AMV awards, or even if you have someone who knows a good decent knowledge about AMVS, then trust their word.

At least they tried
I will always lol at this comeback as I hear it too many times. Back when I made my first AMV I couldn't stop watching it, but back then I was an AMV noob too, now I look at it and my only comment is "THIS SUCKS BALLS" Yes I hated my own first AMV because it sucked, but let's face it seeing people do that now is a rarity they just produce the same crap over and over again.

So in conclusion, just don't youtube AMV's at all unless you hear them from people or do a little research on AMV.org and by that I mean in the list they made of good AMV's. There are a few raregems of non-famous AMV makers that do not have an AMV.org account making good AMV's but once again a rarity and I tip my hat to those rarities.

 

That is so right on, man. I hate it when people just put one scene from an anime and the only thing they do with it is put music in there and call it an AMV.

Another thing I hate is when everyone uses the same clip for a certain anime everytime. I can't begin to tell you how many Gungrave AMVs I've seen where Grave fights *Bunji during a guitar solo. Most of them were made by the same person.

*Highlight for spoiler

 

The reason Xaldin is so angry right now is because it's his time of the month :P

 

LOL xDDDDDD

 

lol youtube is your friend :0

 

[claps] That was WONDERFUL! Thank you for that speech!

I am SO tired of rating really cruddy stuff! I twitch at cruddy stuff! Twitching person is not a good sign. That means it's either REALLY bad or it's seizure inducing.

 

0_0 not sound good

 

That was a great speech, so far I have done good at mixing but i have never added little things such as transitions.....but i still make good ones if you were to look at my personal website thingy xD


PS.: What song are you looking for?​

 

btw music is love

 

Well music is love but AMV's are becoming a no besides the few rarities ):

I think I was looking for a techno remix of Elevator up and Down cause that song was hypnotic.

 

AMV's? PAH!

It's all about [MAD]'s now.

 

Most AMV's now hurt my eyes. x_x

 

I fully agree.

I don't know how many Metal Gear Solid GMVs set to Linkin Park/Evanesence/etc.

SOLID SNAKE IS NOT EMO. HE WILL NEVER BE EMO. ee;

That goes for Vincent Valentine and Alucard from Hellsing as well.

Vincent wasn't the happiest guy but he never said his life sucked.

And Alucard cried a whole of twice for completely logical reasons.

Once in awhile I will come across a really good AMV on youtube that makes my jaw drop. But it's sadly buried under the garbage that makes up the place.

I like your point about how they take random scenes and smack them together with music that doesn't fit. I once saw a so called 'AMV' to the Sephiroth battle in AC. He took the entire scene and put it to 'Du Hast' by Ramstein.

Off-topic note: DU HAST DOES NOT MEAN YOU HATE! IT TRANSLATES TO 'YOU HAVE'. God...learn a language before you fanboy over it. ee;

 

Oh yes,I'm getting pretty tired of over using Evanescene/Linkin Park/Cascada songs :/
People just can't get creative and use the excuse "Oh it's because I use WMM,that's why it sucks", bull crap because khfreak makes great videos in WMM,you just gotta put your mind to it.

I create AMVS and I don't get many views (I could say 700 or less)but I make pretty damn good videos in my opinion but I would like to try and see if I can download Sony Vegas.

 

God I totally agree. Any good video editors has been saying this for ages.

If I find a song I like I find footage that will work with it, not a song I like plus a anime I like, if they do work then yeah, if not then back to the drawing board.

 

I agree with you on a lot of stuff, but some I couldn't quite understand....

*ist sehr ******ed heute* :sweatdrop: