AbsoluteDestiny wrote:Melfina wrote:How does it take you 2 hours to do 6 seconds? I couldnt stand with myself if I got that little acomplished
I got 6 seconds done in a full working day last week with my latest video.
Some things just take that long to do.
Indeed -- some things just don't look right the first time around, so you attack it again. You might find that your idea was just crap, so you clear that portion of the timeline and approach the idea from a different point of view. You find another idea, try to execute it well. Lather, rinse, repeat.
This process can go on for much longer than two hours or a day. I would be surprised if there wasn't at least one person here who has agonized over a few seconds of video for a couple days or a week or two.
In any case, this is me:
Paste assets into timeline. Edit to fit. Possibly apply preliminary filters to get a rough idea of how it looks. Render entire footage and some surrounding context to integrate audio and video (my system isn't nearly fast enough to handle real-time compositing). Almost always find that it just looks like crap. Remove filters and try again. Possibly try some masking or image retouching and chroma key. Re-render. Looks like crap again. Adjust keying and/or masking. Re-render. Damnit, what the hell am I doing wrong? Delete section of timeline. Sit for thirty minutes. Get bored of sitting, decide to work on some programming projects instead. Hit nasty thread-related race-condition bug, lose motivation to debug, return to video editor. Sit for fifteen minutes staring blankly at timeline and clip collection. Play some albums to get self in right mood. Throw self on bed. Get Calvin and Hobbes collections, flip through those, read Bill Watterson's comments. Return to video editor. Realize self is thirsty, get drink, guzzle drink, return upstairs. Stare at timeline again. Brilliant flash of insight. Clip portion from media, paste into timeline. Render rough draft. Hmm, looks interesting. Mask out unneeded footage. Step through timeline frame-by-frame to ensure mask tweens correctly. Re-render to get an idea of the surrounding context. Goddamnit, looks bad. Erase mask keyframes. Re-render. Undo erase. Tweak mask a bit. Re-render. Looks better now. Effects. WTF? Detach effects. Re-render. Hmm. De-saturate, de-interlace. Integrates better. Render more context to see if viewer will be bored or disgusted by change. Looks somewhat okay. Get tired, decide to sleep, perhaps revise some more the following day.
And that's how it can take 2 hours to get 6 seconds of footage.
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