Quote from: RADX888 on November 02, 2013, 09:20:11 PM
To me, in my mind I saw parts of that video that would look good or be good, but told and used in a different way and this is where I told the editor, and explained that I did not simply copy and paste parts of his video but I made those parts of his video myself. I physically made it with Sony Vegas and CS4 and After Effects, exactly like how I saw it and then I combined that with other footage that I also edited to make a completely different (albeit not individually unique) AMV.
It's ok to use the same scenes as someone else, it's not ok to download their amv and take the edited scenes from it however. The fact is, even if you did attempt to copy parts of the video it would not look exactly the same in those areas, there would be some discrepancies. You said you used "Sony Vegas and CS4 and After Effects" to replicate the scenes when all I used was sony vegas.. The big give away was the masked scene though. Most people would mask the lines, but I decided to be lazy (it was my first amv gimme a break D;) and just do a rough mask of her head.
Anyways, it seems that you're sorry and this was so long ago I completely forgot.
As long as you don't do it to other people and you learned your lesson I think its fine.
If you really want to make amvs the best way to get better is just practice.
Make goals for each of your videos to improve yourself as an editor.
Fanime was the first contest I submitted to and first I won, and since then I've continued to make more amvs.
It's been almost a year since I made that chuunibyou amv and I've won a lot of contests around the world: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtzRMwc6A6ZddGduQzBOV3pZbktyTE0wZndiOXZxWXc&usp=sharing#gid=0
Don't steal from other people, make something different, make something that stands out.
I sincerely hope you learn something from this and maybe even continue making videos of your own.