SH097 - swords cross enn Midgarth

video: X/1999
music: Hypocrisy - "Adjusting The Sun"
link: depositfiles [47.1 MB]
editor: Magix 2.0+ deLuxe
production date: April 2005

This is a remake of SH005, but as noted on there, materially different in a lot of ways, which led to it becoming its own video, about four years after the original. There are parts of it that are improved, and other parts that don't match up to the original -- whether because of closure closing differently or just pure nostalgia, I can't say, but the difference is there regardless.

SH082 - We've Come For Your Cheez Balls

video: Excel Saga
music: Hypocrisy - "Evil Invaders" (cover)
link: depositfiles [41 MB]
editor: Dazzle MovieStar
production date: October 2003

This is an action video that keeps getting classed as comedy because of a) the source and b) the fact that it's funny, even just as funny-stupid. Overcompartmentalization sucks and will kill action AMVs more surely than all the noob edits in the world, and more people need to watch The Long Good Friday.

The "cover" note is here and not on the few other videos that it applies to because if I didn't put it in, these dudes would whine ceaselessly.

SH030 - BLOOD REIGN

video: Mystery of the Necronomicon
music: Hypocrisy - "Carved Up"
link: depositfiles [38.9 MB]
editor: Dazzle MovieStar
production date: January 2002

By this time, it had been three months and eight videos since I'd done something FUCKING METAL. This was and remains too long for active operations. It's also a testament to what working conditions were like back then; I could get back to school, cap two hours of video, cut it down to strict brutality, avoiding the porn parts, then pound out a draft and a finished version and be done in about 12 hours worked, before classes started again. Nowadays, I seldom have 12 hours over two days to devote to AMVage, let alone the initiative to do so, but part of that is also that standards change. Cutting takes longer in VDub than it did in MovieStar, and the ability to fine-tune cut length and apply effects forces that work to actually be done, to make sure that the video's coming out optimal. Back in MovieStar, if I missed a hit, I missed a fucking hit, or just edited the sequence differently; not too fucking much that could be done about it.

SH022 - maelstr0m

video: Akira
music: Hypocrisy - "Turn The Page"
link: depositfiles [41.8 MB]
editor: Dazzle MovieStar
production date: November 2001

This video is weird, loose, and in many ways indicative of being a second-run video powered through at a stupidly late/early hour for no purpose, which it is. Seriously, the average cut in this one is nearly 5 seconds long, which is at least tied for the slowest cutting pace in any SH video. It kind of works with the loose, splashy feel in the music, though -- and on this I'm well satisfied, so I'm not going to rush out and re-edit this from DVD to the version of this song on Catch-22 v2.0.09. Seriously, the original is a decent enough record and an accurate statement on where Hypocrisy was when it came out, it's not so blatantly or stupidly nu-metal as to require Peter remixing/remastering it.

SH005 - Opposed

video: X/1999
music: Hypocrisy - "Adjusting The Sun"
link: depositfiles [42.5 MB]
editor: Dazzle MovieStar
production date: June 2001

I liked this video enough, and importantly, had informative enough production notes, in order to remake it as SH097, which is different enough that it's not getting linked here. (Till it's up on that video entry anyway.) This is a significant barrier to remaking most videos after this, because I didn't track in/out marks much later than this one because it was too much work when cutting source. The original video is still pretty good, despite the crap screensize and ancient technology, so it's worth continuing to circulate.