[Antonio Black]

*sigh*
I've been trying to scrape some quality clips together for this next production but I've literally been working my job every day of the week and every time I come home my creative energy is drained.
And of course its all a matter of getting decent quality video and audio and putting in the right format and submitting and all that jazz...

^Does that sound like you? Well it sure as hell sounds like me.
I need help, you might possibly need help. Alright, alright, alright so maybe we need a place to go to seek out advice/suggestions/ideas no one else will take out of desperation.

Look to this thread for such things (hopefully)! Because maybe what we really need is a link to an anime torrent that won't give us a trojan virus. Or maybe we need one of those fancy converters that cost real world money that we don't have.
WHO KNOWS?!

I'm just hoping we can turn this thread into something more than "Antonio Black whining about his problems". Got a conundrum? Has the stress of daily life combined with the encroaching AMV Hell 6 submission deadline got you down?
"Yes it does!"
Well come on in and speak your mind...

[Haar]

Technical Stuff
Get your anime here (http://bakabt.me/).
Read this before converting anything. (http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/)
Use this for conversion. (http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/)
If you're planning on ripping footage from your own DVDs, use this. (http://www.magicdvdripper.com/)
And if you need an actually good editing program and are too lazy/inept to pirate Vegas, try this. (http://www.debugmode.com/wax/)
If you need to extract video streams from MKV files, use this. (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVExtractGUI)
If you plan on making your conversions actually look good, use this. (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Ut-Video-Codec-Suite)

Content
Read this to get the basic idea of how to make jokes for this thing if you're still not sure. (http://www.amvhell.com/showthread.php?2575-Humor-Guide-to-AMV-Hell-Minis-Clips&p=153974#post153974)
The tech info is outdated here, but the humor aspects still hold up. (http://www.amvhell.com/showthread.php?168-Guide-to-making-your-AMV-Hell-4-entries-not-suck&p=701#post701)

Most importantly, use this if you have any further questions and don't feel like asking me. (http://www.google.com/)