AMVs (Anime Music Videos)

[Kisa]

I looked and could not find a forum for AMVs on here so I decided to start a thread . . .

DOes anyone here make AMVs? I just made my first one and it went over pretty well I think. I submitted it to one of the conventions and didn't win, but I got alot of positive feedback. Let me know if anyone else is into AMVs! They are a great way to use music and anime to support eachother and get either the music or anime recognition. I have seen some really excellent ones! If you want, most of you probably know, but here is the biggest site for AMVs:
animemusicvideos.org
Go and watch!

P.S. Check mine out when its up
Done by kitkatbrat to-
anime: Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
music: Bring me to LIfe by Evanescence

[brantelg]

Yay! Another AMV'er! I am an AMV'er also! I have made approx. ten. Not all of them are listed on animemusicvideos.org, but some are, and one is downloadable, with more to come. Yet I digress.... Anyways, I will definately check out that AMV!

Proverbs 1:7!!!

[Bobtheduck]

I've never made any, but I plan on making one when I get my editing software (after effects, premiere)

My Favorite AMV's

Futurama Theme: Nadesico movie
DDR smoke: Kenshin (great for DDR fans!)
Weird Al "All About the Pentiums": Lain
Linkin Park "With You": Sailormoon
Linkin Park "In the End":Final Fantasy X
Weird Al "Jerry Springer" (warning: The title should tell you it's not "Zest-fully clean" not too bad, but questionable I guess):Sailormoon

[Orange Kitten]

I've been making AMVs since 2002. I've only made 3, but 2 of them have made the finals at Anime Expo 2002 and 2003.

I just finished my 4th video, Shamanic Princess to 'Imaginary' by Evanescence. I almost didn't want to do it because Evanescence videos are becoming like LInkin Park videos; way overused. But I had a unique idea for it, so I decided to.

I've been collecting AMVs for a few years now. I liked AMVs before I even liked anime (or got big into it). I have aprox. 200 AMVs on my computer. If I was to keep every one I download, I'd have close to 1000. But I delete all the ones I don't feel are good.

It was after I went to my first anime convention, Anime Expo 2001, and saw the AMV contest that I was motivated to make my first, which made the finals the next year.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_myprofile.php
That is my AnimeMusicVideos.org Profile

http://www.orangekitten.com is my website that has all my AMVs plus all my other videos that I make, since I'm a film student ^_~

Nice to see some other AMV creators on this site.

- Pete

[Lufkin777]

Yeah, I love AMV's I started by just teaching my self Adobe Premiere. Good times, I have made AMV's on
Akira
Street fighter II
DBZ
And someother that I cant remember

[Mithrandir]

My favorite of all time was the Urusai Yatsura AMV to 'Linger - The Cranberries.' It was just TOO appropriate.

[Technomancer]

My own favourites:

Weird Al "Jerry Springer"- Sailor Moon
Rufus Wainwright "Hallelujah"- Trigun (specfically Wolfwood)
Genesis "Land of Confusion"- Faceless Hill
Rammstein - Eva

[Gypsy]

P.S. Check mine out when its up
Done by kitkatbrat to-
anime: Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
music: Bring me to LIfe by Evanescence

Oh cool, I've got a Lunar Silver Star Story one in the works set to "Heaven" by DJ Sammy.

(Awesome game, btw!)

[Orange Kitten]

My favorite of all time was the Urusai Yatsura AMV to 'Linger - The Cranberries.' It was just TOO appropriate.

Hmm, the video's not up on AMV.org and it's not on his website

Sorry, my amv.org profile link didn't work before
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_myprofile.php?user_id=36939

Just a speck of my favorites
Memories Dance - Vlad G Pohnert (Vlad Pohnert)
Rhythm of the Heat - MisterFurious (Brad DeMoss)
The Look - Vlad G Pohnert (Vlad Pohnert)
The Chibi Things (That Kill) - Nappy (Richard Cole)
Mitternacht - Pwolf (Scott Grasso)
Princess of the Wind - rubyeye (Danniel Cecava)
Journey of Days - silver_moon (Valerie Fremmerlid)
Evangelion Opus - ShonenDizzyCow (Weng-Cheong Fung)
Mambo #5 - tetzlaff (Brian Tetzlaff)
Let it Make Me Strong - silver_moon (Valerie Fremmerlid)
Stop The Rock? - Nappy (Richard Cole)
Eva-Man - You choose Sam,the rest (David Chan)
Goin' Postal - Kusoyaro (Hsien Lee)

[Macross]

Well I´ve made 2 so far... one with Macross Plus and Sweet Child O´mine(Guns´n Roses), and the other with Cwboy Beebop movie and Thousand Foot Krutch, The first one I really like it....

And I have to say I thou it really consuming... specially now days that I don´t have time for nothing....

[Kisa]

Some of the best ones I have seen are:

Trigun to I'm just a Kid by Simple Plan
Ah My Goddess to One Day by FFH
Fushigi Yuugi to At the Beginning with you by Donna Lewis and Richard Marx
Angelic Layer to Chop Suey by System of a Down
and many others . . . cant think . . .

[That Dude]

I haven't made any AMV's but if I ever got a chance to I would...It's funny because I'll just be listening to music then anime scenes will pop into my head and I'll make an AMV in my mind...I don't have the software to make a real one though.

Here are a tiny bit of ones that I've thought of.

Chick Magnet by MxPx--Nadesico
August Winterman by Dead Poetic--Evangelion
Running From Me by TrustCompany--Evangelion

[The Silence]

my favorite one ever was trigun done to Garbage's "When I grow up" I don't remeber where to find it tho... - -;

[Michael]

Where can I find these hilarious bits of fandom?

[inkjet1987]

My fave is Cowboy Bebop-Chop Suey, and Cowboy Bebop, Samurai X, Trigun- Bring me to Life.

Macross, are your videos on animemusicvideos.com?

[Bobtheduck]

You can find AMV's for download on P2P or at anime conventions, it's probably the last legal thing to do on P2P...

Well, that and homemade vids and game previews and movie trailers, but mostly just AMV's...

About Chop suey: Every big anime has probably had that song for an AMV at least once, some more than once...

Also, every song has probably had DBZ for an AMV at least once... I don't watch DBZ AMV's anymore, or Chop Suey AMV's... Both are way too overplayed...

Even though Eva is also overplayed, my fave is the Mentos Commercial and Asuka the Black Knight... You ALL have to check those out!

[Tet-chan]

There is one on Final Fantasy 8 which i really like
Soundtrack is from System of a down-Chop Suey

[Orange Kitten]

Where can I find these hilarious bits of fandom?

This has been posted a few times, I'll post it again.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org

If want good videos, but don't know where to start, click on the top 30 or any top videos list on the right side (you have to be logged in) to find the most "popular."

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_myprofile.php?user_id=36939

[inkjet1987]

What do you need to make an AMV?

[Bobtheduck]

Anime footage in some form, a capture card if it's not captured allready, editing software such as premiere and/or aftereffects (after effects is more for, well, effects... Which are usefull for making better AMV's like some people have been doing (Check out the Jerry Springer one or "Help" set to Tenchi Muyo to see that one...)

[Gypsy]

[quote="Bobtheduck"]Anime footage in some form, a capture card if it's not captured allready, editing software such as premiere and/or aftereffects (after effects is more for, well, effects... QUOTE]

Yeah, even attempting audio in after effects can be a nightmare.

I got an idea for a Princess Nine song to go alone with a Super Chic[k] song this morning. Not sure if the idea will actually go anywhere *pokes it* but we'll see.

[Gypsy]

I've been making AMVs since 2002. I've only made 3, but 2 of them have made the finals at Anime Expo 2002 and 2003.

While I don't like some of the anime or fanservice clips that you use in your AMVs, (gee, I bet you didn't see that comment coming, huh? ) you have a great deal of talent. Doing the special "hack" on Ed's computer was excellent. Also, you've got quite the edge going on with After Effects. I was really impressed because when I was learning the program, I did the same thing you did - hig res photos & effects set to music. Amazing how you can change a handful of stills and a song clip into something cool, isn't it? Anyway, just though you should know how good they are. (I only had time to watch "Young Felicity" and "A Strange Case of Anime" and your AE learning video.)

[Bobtheduck]

About Chop suey: Every big anime has probably had that song for an AMV at least once, some more than once...

in addition to that, they are almost ALL better than the REAL chop suey music video... hehehehe

That song is sorta depressing, though...

[Orange Kitten]

Anyway, just though you should know how good they are.

Thanks for the compliment ^_^ Always appreciated!

What do you need to make an AMV?

The basics and cheapest would be
. DVD-Rom
. Ripping software from doom9.net
. Editing software - Windows Movie Maker is free but is cuts/dissolves only and fairly cheasy. Premiere is the the most used on the PC (has a slight learning curve). You don't NEED After Effects, you can easily make a good amv without all the fancy effects and manipulation A.E. gives. Plus After Effects has a larger learning curve than Premiere. But once you become an experienced editor, A.E. becomes a very good friend of yours. All you really need to make a good amv is to be creative and know where to place your shots.

For mac users, you can use Imovie which is just like Windows Movie Maker. Final Cut Pro is what I recommend. It is by far much better than Premiere.

You can use a capture card if you want. A decent capture card (ranging from $400 - $2,000) will let you capture analog and digital and can give you certain RealTime effects, eliminating lots of rendering time.

You can use your video card if it has an input too. The only problem with that is sometimes they don't let you capture at full 720x480, and they also have a tendency to drop frames during capture. And many times they will capture with some proprietery codec that your editing software may not know, forcing you to convert them and causing problems.

Then after it's all done and over with, you get to have fun trying to export with the million different compression methods out there. And always export a DV NTSC copy as a master copy. Or export to a mini-dv tape (which is what I do, and that's how I submit them to conventions)
Good luck

[Bobtheduck]

I have had a few ideas for a while about using "Suicide is Painless" from M*A*S*H and scenes primarily from "Grave of the Fireflies" I had big plans for it... I need to make a list of all my wild ideas, so I can start prioritizing them... I mean, I doubt I could ever do all the things I wanted to do... But, that is something I'd like to do, anyhow...

[Orange Kitten]

I've considered making an AMV, but I have my reservations.

If AMV'ing is anything like converting a DVD into a (S)VCD, count me out. It took me maaaany hours to encode a DVD into a usable MPEG, and I had to do it over again because for some reason, it didn't encode the whole thing despite getting the frames right--when watching the MPEG, it gets "cut off" in the middle and starts playing a part closer to the beginning so the first bits of video you saw were completely useless. Hard to understand, but....

So, Orange Kitty, does AMV'ing take hundreds of hours + trial and error? Or am I just using all the wrong equipment? I used DVDx.

o.O Haven't used DVDx, and from your experience I don't think I want to lol

I use Smartripper to rip, DVD2AVI to convert, and TMPEG to encode to mpeg. It usually takes only a couple hours tops. The encoding to mpeg takes the LONGEST http://www.doom9.net has guides that will guide you through the process. Plus, when making an AMV, you don't have to rip the entire dvd (unless you want to), you just have to rip the scenes that you want. And you probably don't want to convert to mpeg for editing. You'll leave it as an uncompressed avi.

Personally, I usually capture my scenes through my DV 500 ( http://www.pinnaclesys.com ) capture card. I bought that for my pc before I got my mac. The process of getting the scenes onto my computer is faster capturing than the ripping process. Even though ripping a dvd will give you higher quality scenes, the slight generation loss in capturing doesn't matter to me.

Bottom line, Ripping can get very confusing but you can reach a higher quality end result (and it's cheaper than buying a capture card).
Capture cards let you rip anything analog (like from your vcr or s-video from your dvd player), it's quicker and depending on the card, will allow some Real Time effects

No, AMVing shouldn't take hundreds of hours. But when exporting the final product to a good file for web distribution, it can come down to trial and error.

[BishounenCookie]

In case anyone cares, I've made several AMV's, one of which is downloadable on thelastcookie.net/akane

However that's not the best one of the two. My best *completed* video would be my Kenshin AMV, putting footage from the kenshin movie to Sky Flashings by Earthsuit. It turned out quite nicely for my first completed project, and recieved the compliments of several professional AMVers with whom I brush shoulders. ^_^

I also have so many incompleted projects it's sickening. But one project I am (or was) doing that I think will fly is Water, which uses Saikano with some techno song I found on mp3.com a long time ago. It's really sweet except since it's a techno beat, synching is of the utmost importance... and must be accurate to the exact frame. And it needs to be resynched. I definitely have a good vision for this project though.

Thanks for listening.

[shooraijin]

Well, that works, but how come http://www.thelastcookie.net gives a 403 Forbidden?

I'll check out your work later tonight.

[BishounenCookie]

Well, that works, but how come http://www.thelastcookie.net gives a 403 Forbidden?

I'll check out your work later tonight.

It's because I've got no index page there. It's kind of sad, but I don't even keep a real website up there except for that one fan shrine at /akane/. I mostly use the host for storage purposes and to disseminate files to large groups of people easily. My hosting plan is actually about to expire and I don't think I'll be renewing it. I might renew the domain later and host the website on my own connection. But my cable company r teh nazi so I don't know if that will work out.

[Fsiphskilm]

My FAVORITE would have to be