Video Thread: Hilarious MLG videos only

[hascoolnickname]

you can't watch this and not laugh. I cried the first time i saw it. hahaha
Tim & Eric - Christmas

i'm really late on this but this show is like, worse than mad tv. i think these guys must write sketches when they're drunk or high because it's just bad, i don't know how they actually got a deal with whatever station they're on

I think they were on cartoon network's [adult swim] block of programming, there have been worse shows on there. Better than the andy milonakis show at least.

[Riot]

http://www.purepwnage.com/episodes/s2/2/

[Jeff Jeff Revolution]

you can't watch this and not laugh. I cried the first time i saw it. hahaha
Tim & Eric - Christmas

i'm really late on this but this show is like, worse than mad tv. i think these guys must write sketches when they're drunk or high because it's just bad, i don't know how they actually got a deal with whatever station they're on

I think they were on cartoon network's [adult swim] block of programming, there have been worse shows on there. Better than the andy milonakis show at least.

I'm quite fond of Robot Chicken; at least they put some creative thinking into that show.

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[Potter]

lol@sole reason I'm never even considering going to a "School" for creative work


edit: ok that came off a bit mean

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[Potter]

where would I go? I taught myself premiere and after effects in a matter of weeks. and guess what, it was free! some of the best directors and editors I know have never stepped foot in a film school.


and yes, I have also done payed projects for people (as if that's some kind of signifier)


on a lighter note, have you used the cs3 package yet? the integration between premiere and AE is A+

[elcuebee]

where would I go? I taught myself premiere and after effects in a matter of weeks. and guess what, it was free! some of the best directors and editors I know have never stepped foot in a film school.


and yes, I have also done payed projects for people (as if that's some kind of signifier)

but who? people touring around the world, who've toured with jeff beck and micheal jackson? :/

also, i can see you taught yourself it in a matter of weeks; you're not using proper codecs, nor are you using any real effects innovatively besides just slapping them on and doing basic beat-timing.

you even used some animation presets with fractal noise which is really kind of ehhh

I still don't know why you're talking about a "film school"; i'm going to a normal college, majoring in film, with a general ed AA. true, it's the same college george lucas went to, but otherwise, no, it's not a film school.

that, and i have no desire to make films, i only want to make music videos.

EDIT: No, i haven't used CS3, because the only pirated version I could find blocks integration between AE and PP. aka, it's a fucked up version. and i'm sure as hell not paying for it, of course.

Add in with that that the CS3 copy I got prevents me from using a ton of my plugins, including magic bullet and trapcode plugins, and those are massively useful to me.

That and CS3 doesn't really add anything I would really use. It has brainstorm and that's about the only feature i'd find interesting, everything else I can do on my own with AE 7.0.

[Potter]

just mindless bashing of someone's work when you yourself aren't at that level yet kind of makes me go like "what"?

LOL what? considering from the look of your videos you don't even know basic color correction or motion tracking, let alone simplistic layer feathering, Id ask you to rethink that sentence. also, my best work isn't even online, so once again, please rethink your sentence, or get out of my hard drive. your work is somewhat boring and lacks creativity, it's like a teacher just told you to go make a video exercising certain aspects of an editing program.


edit: oh, you where looking at my youtube account, no wonder. like I said my real work and payed work for obvious reasons isn't online, everything on youtube was made in under an hour when I get bored. so please, rethink yourself. almost everything on that account is a visual representation of an inside joke, and no, I don't disagree with you of course they look like shit. that's not real work.

[Potter]

also, about not being able to find working copies of cs3, check your pm's in a little while. My trapcode plugins work just fine, but like you said my magic bullet suite did not. I just left pro 2 installed to use it, plus I needed to leave pro 2 installed anyhow to finish up some projects that were started in it. note, pro 2 projects have a high chance of not opening correctly in cs3, a lot of people were pissed about that.

[elcuebee]

just mindless bashing of someone's work when you yourself aren't at that level yet kind of makes me go like "what"?

LOL what? considering from the look of your videos you don't even know basic color correction or motion tracking, let alone simplistic layer feathering, Id ask you to rethink that sentence. also, my best work isn't even online, so once again, please rethink your sentence, or get out of my hard drive. your work is somewhat boring and lacks creativity, it's like a teacher just told you to go make a video exercising certain aspects of an editing program.

LOL I don't? LOOOOOLLLLL

I don't know color correction or motion tracking? layer feathering? are you smoking?

If you base editing skill off of those, wow. I know how to do all three of those, and you apparently missed the fact that i used layer feathering all over the place in the first video I linked.

And wow, I don't know color correction, you assume, yet I know how to use glow and magic bullet? Right. Sorry, I know all three of those, and you know what the teacher's assignment was for that video?

"Impress me".

That was it. So I made up that entire thing on my own in one day, and if you think that's not creative, again, look at your own videos. You can say you don't have your best stuff up online, but none of the stuff you had on your own videos was anywhere near the caliber of the video i posted;

the codecs were horrible, the videos had almost nothing interesting in them, there was no masking besides photoshop, and what was masked was completely still, the effects used were not tampered with at all (aka they were just slapped on), and the effects used did not help the video at all, gave no mood to it, and generally made it worse.

lol i still find it funny you say it lacks creativity or is boring. putting random effects on a video, as many as you can do, is far from creative or boring.

Come September, go out into a music store and pick up a copy of Jennifer Batten's new CD, comes with a DVD, i'm on there, see that video and tell me if you think it sucks, lmfao

I know AE inside and out; the only things I don't normally utilize are expressions because I really don't have a use for most of them, as I find workarounds to almost every expression you could use.

Otherwise, yeah, fail for assuming that; leaving topic, before this goes into a bigger flame war. I know my skills, and I know my expertise at this program.

[Potter]

once again thats fine, but please read my sentence. of course things were slapped on, maybe tweaked a little. nothing on that page took longer than an hour, and are representations of inside jokes and things such as that between friends and I. nobody ever sees those except for the people involved, thats why I tagged them so fucked up-ly. there not meant to be taken as "works". they are, quite literally, jokes.

if you used layer feathering all over the place, then why are your hands so sloppily layed over and blending in with the video? maybe you purposely did that, i have no idea

if you knew how to use motion tracking, why didn't you just motion track the wall and corner pin the static to it? 5 more minutes of work. like you said, the objective was to impress, and I would think your teacher would find the additional work and idea of motion tracking more impressive than just sitting the camera on a tripod to avoid having to actually do anything with the static than sit it there, well, statically. also, if you are so familiar with color correction, why are all your "serious for school" videos so bland looking? maybe that's what your going for, who knows.

your trying to compare your effort fulfilled work with my, well completely effortless and quicky youtube quality videos. that just doesn't work. maybe Ill shoot you a dvd when the current project I'm working gets finished, albeit I have no idea when that will be, as I'm delaying shooting until I get my hands on better equipment.

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[Potter]

had to post here, because you finally gave a rational critique

once again thats fine, but please read my sentence. of course things were slapped on, maybe tweaked a little. nothing on that page took longer than an hour, and are representations of inside jokes and things such as that between friends and I. nobody ever sees those except for the people involved, thats why I tagged them so fucked up-ly. there not meant to be taken as "works". they are, quite literally, jokes.

why not post anything good then?

because it's youtube, jesus. I think thats plenty reason. but if you want another, I don't like whoring out my effort work, same with my music, I don't go posting it everywhere. I might enter a track in a compilation album every once in a while, but that's about it.


what separates us is I create for nobody but myself, whereas you seem to take pride in doing work for other people where creative input is limited, and use that as some kind of signifier. When I do my work I want nothing but freedom, and having *tried* to work doing video for other people, that's the last thing I have, is freedom. When I envision a treatment in my head, that's exactly what I want the final cut to look like. I don't want one thing changed because whoever paying me to do it wants it changed. some directors are ok with that, others are not. It doesn't make one person better at it than the other, some people just have different creative morals.



I don't have the interest to go into a discussion on color correction or motion tracking in here, nor do I want to clutter up this thread any more. catch me on aim or something

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