How many videos do you scrap?

godix · Post by **godix** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:04 pm

When I started I scrapped about 50% of my projects before completion and of the ones I finished there were several that were experiments that sucked and got deleted.

These days I generally don't scrap projects, instead I just let them sit on the HD in a semi-done state for months on end. The other day I started cleaning up HD space and found about a dozen projects I started but never finshed (along with several DVD rips that I finished using last year). What really made it odd was there were several that I don't remember ever having the idea much less actually doing any editing on. It's rather strange to watch something you know you made and have no recollection of doing it at all. Gave me a much more objective look at my work than I usually get and boy do I suck.

KoRn_Child · Post by **KoRn_Child** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:11 pm

I have finished every video I started, even if it isn't turning out too good. No matter how much they suck, I keep working on them, if only for the experience. I just keep the duds in a seperate folder.

YouTube · Post by **Ileia** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:28 pm

The last time I had to format, I was deleting stuff off my harddrive so it'd transfer quicker...
...and...
....I deleted about fifteen projects. They'd been sitting in that folder, wasting away for months, so I decided to put them out of their misery. It was mercy, really. Poor little guys. They were suffering so much.

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:15 pm

My ratio is about 6:1. Six trashed projects for every one finished, or at least mostly finished.

I've found that the 'big' projects that have actual thought behind them, effects, story... all the normal stuff that you'd expect a video to have usually get trashed first. The projects that I started messing with because I randomly picked a song and started messing around stragely do better. I spend a lot of time looking at people's videos at work... so when I go home and work on videos.... it feels too much like work.

SQ · Post by SQ » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:08 pm

Well, I used to be so into AMVs that I kept a damned journal.

Out of these.. 100 ideas, I think, 90% of them have been scrapped before even getting the DVDs/CDs together.

A few ideas actually go into storyboarding because I do not have the footage and/or song handy. This holds true for two AMVs, currently. (Although one of them isn't anime, it's a real video thing that I'll probably never be able to complete).

I also storyboarded a really old AMV of mine called "Challenges", before it went anywhere. Although the storyboards had NOTHING to do with the finished product. So in essense, it was sort of scrapped, as challenges actualy evolved from a totally different AMV idea that was more autobiographical than anything (it was a planned "Last AMV" of sorts).

Recently, however, I have started more AMVs that I scrap after beginning to make them. Mostly this is because I run out of footage.

I think this is in order...

"Story of an Android" was a Earthian AMV to Cell's theme from DBZ. I got half way through it before I decided it was a sucky idea, and too repetative (those who remember betas.. I think only Devolution and YSCTR... will tell you how badly it sucked).

The FFVI Project's "Mog's Theme" using Mokona was scrapped because I ran out of images of Mokona EXACTLY half way through it.

"Underground" was a trigun/Ladykillers trailer and was scrapped because I lost it all in a reformat (:roll:) and I was too lazy to try again. (although I probably will a few years from now, cause I really liked it)

Knives' View was scrapped because I lost everything after the reformat

"Cloud's Sentiment" Was scrapped because the same exact thing happened with a totally different reformat from "Knives' View". (Yet both the betas for these are uploaded)

Wolf's Rain Yaoi AMV was scrapped because I ran out of Tsume x Toboe footage (this was actually going to be a submition for Yaoicon this year).

"Macs" isn't scrapped yet, because I really really like it, but it probably will be scrapped on acount of no footage.

So, the ones I scrapped after they were on the computer I remember. Always. Because I worked hard on them. X|
I have all the scrapped in the idea process written down somewhere. I should take pictures of my AMV Idea journal someday. It's got X's all over it. XD

And you'd laugh at some of the INSANE ideas. =p

megaman917 · Post by **megaman917** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:38 pm

I rarely scrap projects; some I just put on hold until I'm ready to deal with them, which make take a good while.

bum · Post by **bum** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:47 pm

I try not to scrap projects. Anything that I know isnt gona turn out well I try and finish anyway. Its good practice.

OtakuForLife · Post by **OtakuForLife** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:56 pm

I drop most videos at the notepad stage.
If I decide to do something... I do it and don't quit.
Thats just the way I edit.. I started it and I'm finishing it.

Tuplica · Post by **Tuplica** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:35 am

I scrap a lot of ideas before I even start them, but otherwise, I don't scrap many videos in production. Basically, if I actually have the drive to even start it, I'll probably finish it. Eventually. In two years. ;P

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:55 am

SQ wrote: I have all the scrapped in the idea process written down somewhere. I should take pictures of my AMV Idea journal someday. It's got X's all over it. XD

And you'd laugh at some of the INSANE ideas. =p

If you ever do take pictures, post them here. I'd love to see somthing like that, especially from one of the older (org-wise) editors.