Category: Music Videos

I’m again a few months late in posting it here, but I made an AMV! An actual AMV, not a video game or CGI-movie “AMV.” It’s my first AMV in a decade in fact!

Teenage me would be so happy to have every episode of Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood at a reasonable video quality, ready for AMV-making. That Emily would be making so many AMVs right now… and they would all be to Static-X and Nine Inch Nails songs. 🙄 I made so many Static-X and Nine Inch Nails AMVs in the mid-2000s…

I’m glad my music tastes moved on. My love for FMA, however, is eternal. To this AMV’s detriment, I can’t get the images from the original FMA out of my head (SO MANY AMVs I’VE MADE!). Despite FMA:B looking prettier and having a modern aspect ratio, I couldn’t leave FMA out of it in honor of my younger self, who would perform human transmutation to have so much FMA footage.

This actually isn’t the AMV I was planning to make, so next year and next OokiiSoraCon, I’ll have another chance to use all this FMA footage. Maybe I’ll even upgrade to modern Adobe Premiere. I realized Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 is 15 years old when it dawned on me that its “YouTube HD” rendering setting defaults to an aspect ratio of 1280 x 720. Yes… very HD.

It’s been a few months, but at the end of the July, my latest AMV won Best Action and Best of Show at OokiiSoraCon.

I’ve dreamt about winning an AMV contest for more than a decade. Even though OokiiSoraCon’s AMV+ contest is tiny, I’m still happy. 😀

Hey! It’s my second music video in four years! Although, this one is a remake of a music video I made… 14 years ago. O.o

Among other things, I upgraded from crappy, timecode-stamped footage to glorious DVD quality. I’ve meant to remake this video for 11 years (yes, that is how old the project file is on my computer). When I finally decided to do it in June, I thought maybe I’d waited and procrastinated long enough for Daft Punk to have re-released Electroma in HD, but sadly, no. There may never be sad robots in HD.

I also made this music video for OokiiSoraCon’s AMV+ contest. It also didn’t win me any prizes. Sad.

Hey! It’s my first video in four years!

It didn’t win me any prizes at OokiiSoraCon’s AMV+ contest, but it was fun to make.