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How can you be 17 and go to college? Doesn't the UK have High Schoool through 18 or is that just the US?

Well technically I started when I was 15 because of my advanced Math class but I don't count that as actually going to a university. I still tell people I am a High school student.

To quote one character, I hope you have some talent to match your enormous pretention. razz

Name: John
Age: 22
Occupation: Transitioning from University student to graduate school student.
Favourite Anime(s): Hellsing, Full Metal Panic, Tokyo Underground, Bleach, Tsukuyomi Moon Phase, and many others
Favourite Music: (Power) Metal, but I also loves me lots of others
Favourite type of AMV: Well done paradies, Trailers, Summaries, Character profiles (pretty much any type if done well)

I haven't made any videos yet, but I think this summer sounds like a good time to start. You'll be seeing a whole lot of me.

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# User Name: SQ
# Member Since: Friday, November 8, 2002, 8:11 PM
# Studio: ANIMETRIC PRODUCTIONS
# Location: GA, USA
# Homepage: http://animetricproductions.tk [not current]
# Email: animetricproductions@gmail.com
# Forum Info: Profile Posts (2641)
# Usefulness: 319.1 with 67 opinions
[average 128.9 of 136972 opinions; standard deviation 1009.4 ]
# Profile:

Wow. Two years of making AMVs already! Time flies by. So far I've entered more than 50 videos into the catalog.

Not that I can say any of them are good, in fact, the only ones I can sit back and watch and not shake my head and say "What the hell was I thinking?" are the only ones that are currently downloadable. Well, aside from local-hosted videos I can't delete. (Note to self: stop abusing the donut! XP)

So, remember that. It's not how many videos you make, it's how well they turn out.
I can honestly tell you that I spent a lot of effort on each and every one of them, and in my videos' cases, it was usually too much effort, leading into headache. Which leads to bad editing.
It's a proven fact that you do better when you have fun. If you hate the video while you're working on it, it will most likely suck in the end. It can also go the other way. If you love your anime too much, you may not want to cut it up, and then you have a bad video with scenes going on for too long.

I have to say I've been a victim to that one too many times.

I first started editing after I saw Meri's old AMVs. But back then, I didn't have the computer nor the knowledge to make my own videos. So I did the next-best thing. I got a downloadable software named RealSlideShow(no longer available).

As I progressed through my slideshow making, I got to know the software inside and out, knew it's limits and did what I could with it for about a year, until I got one of the best presents of my life.
My brother gave me Dazzle, Adobe Premiere 6.0, Photoshop, and Windows Movie Maker for Christmas.

Unfortunetly, I had no DVD-Rom, yet a plathora of anime DVDs. So I compromised by recording my TV while the DVDs were playing with a camcorder. When I fed it into the computer, Premiere wouldn't read the files, so I was stuck using WMM for awhile unless I used downloaded footage, which only happened twice.

Well, time passed by, and I was really getting into editing. It was fun and I loved doing it. By the time I made my second video and started taking Video Productions in High school, I found this site. I had seen a few of AtomX's AMVs from Kazaa. I loved FFIX, and I was awed by what scenes he was using. He kept repeating scenes, and I was tired of it, convinced I could make a better video then he could.

Well, I failed miserably with my third video, but I guess it was the idea that counted. "A Part of FFIX" had been my first AMV using Premiere, since I had downloaded the footage. After it was created, I found myself more and more interested in the program and began using it more often.
But I ran into a problem- my computer didn't have enough power to handle it, causing most of my efforts to make videos blow up in my face when the computer crashed randomly.

Well, Christmas came around again, and I was appauled with the incredible gift of a custom computer with a DVD-Rom, CD Burner, much more RAM, and hard drive space.

Windows XP Professional was added to the computer, as well as all the afore mentioned programs from my last computer. After that, my anime collection went into over-drive, and so did my creativity. I made an onslaught of AMVs, none of which I'm very proud of, but the point was I had fun doing this, and it was much more then a hobby to me. It was an obsession.

Fortunetly for me, a few great videos came out from the crowd I created, one of my most memorable being "The Twin Star". However, I can honestly say I am shitty with compression, so most of my AMVs are crappy looking.

Now, I am really looking to edit good things, instead of crappy noob-looking videos. I'd like to have a carreer in editing, and I have to be a decent editor to get there. I've got the passion, I've got the experience and embarassment. Now all I need the talent and degree...

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I'm 17, almost 18 (october 5th), and am graduating highschool in December, woo.
Dunno what I'm going to do after that.

Name: Melyssa
Age:15
Occupation: junior in High School
Fav. Anime: To many to list
Fav. Music: Everything except Country
Fav. type of AMV: Oh I like anything as long as it doesn't have GORE to the extreme

Reason: The reason for joining was because I make music videos myself...if you want to look em p my username is Meru-Meru. Actually me and my friend have a joint account which is all good since I learned how to upload videos on it not so long ago. But if you watch my videos plz leave opinions to make em even better thank you! 3nodding

Name: In AMV Circles, I am The Mysterious Passerby
Age: 18
Occupation: One of the most hated men in America, a Telesurvey guy! Oh, and a College Student...
Favourite Anime(s): DBZ, Hellsing, Tenchi, And some others...
Favourite Music: Anything, except I'm not a rap fan...
Favourite type of AMV: A Good one. But good is relative... confused

Search Passerby on AMV.org and you will find one of my vids! Granted, it's only a 3-star average rating, but with my limited resources I'm proud to get a 3-star from probably the toughest group of AMV critis in existence.