Are AMV's a lot more tedious to make now?

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Are AMV's a lot more tedious to make now?

Postby Pyle » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:28 am

I remember that before I could just get out a song and some episodes, and the AMV took almost no time at all. Now it seems it takes months just to finish one minute of footage. Is it the same for you guys?
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Re: Are AMV's a lot more tedious to make now?

Postby AMV_4000 » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:31 am

Pyle wrote:I remember that before I could just get out a song and some episodes, and the AMV took almost no time at all. Now it seems it takes months just to finish one minute of footage. Is it the same for you guys?


why do you insist on asking stupid farking questions like this?

of course its more tedious now, people always demand more! you make a great vid, people want better.. you make a crappy vid, people hate you.. its true with many different things, not just amvs.. but in short, yes, their more tedious to make now that people expect more!
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Postby JaddziaDax » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:32 am

i must be a n00b by that description, it could be cause youre putting more thaught into your video making now compared to when you first started..

ive noticed that my first 5 videos i made in 1 night each, with maybe 3-4 hours of work..

now i am up to 3-4 nine hour days of work to make an amv, but its that i am actually putting coherent thaught into video making

but then again i have alot of time on my hands lately
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Re: Are AMV's a lot more tedious to make now?

Postby Pyle » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:32 am

AMV_4000 wrote:
Pyle wrote:I remember that before I could just get out a song and some episodes, and the AMV took almost no time at all. Now it seems it takes months just to finish one minute of footage. Is it the same for you guys?


why do you insist on asking stupid farking questions like this?



why do you insist on critisizing my stupid farking questiong like that?
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:36 am

well lets see.. 1st video: 9-10 hours while sick... 2nd video: 55+ hours of work (plus encoding time)... I hope this trend doesn't continue at least :shock:
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Re: Are AMV's a lot more tedious to make now?

Postby AMV_4000 » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:41 am

Pyle wrote:
AMV_4000 wrote:
Pyle wrote:I remember that before I could just get out a song and some episodes, and the AMV took almost no time at all. Now it seems it takes months just to finish one minute of footage. Is it the same for you guys?


why do you insist on asking stupid farking questions like this?



why do you insist on critisizing my stupid farking questiong like that?


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Postby Infinity Squared » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:59 am

BasharOfTheAges wrote:well lets see.. 1st video: 9-10 hours while sick... 2nd video: 55+ hours of work (plus encoding time)... I hope this trend doesn't continue at least :shock:


Oh but it will... at least for the most of us anyway... no matter how innovative the editing tool you are using might be, it's just going to get more complicated and complications require time...

Hmm... tedious... taking a long time to do a project doesn't necesarily mean it's tedious work... I've worked on a video before which took me a while to make (in terms of actual total editing time) but it's because I took my time to get things just right in a very delicious way. I didn't find it 'tedious' though because I knew exactly what I want and I barely hit a snag in the whole editing experience.
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Postby James Conrad » Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:11 am

AMV_4000 has it right
even if your the only one who see's the video you usually will take mor time and pay more attention to detail on the next one, at least i do
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Postby godix » Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:15 am

Less tedious for me actually. My second and third were the most tedious because I was teaching myself editing and effects. My last four or five I already knew how do what I wanted so I didn't have to teach myself anything which makes it so much easier. Two of the videos I'm working on now requires learning something new and I find it odd, and annoying, that I've spent more time on them with not even a beta to show for it than I spent on my last four videos combined.

OTOH, a glace at any of my last four videos will show plenty of spots where I obviously just said 'good enough, no reason to try and get this crap to be PERFECT.' There's something about comedies that just brings out the lazy in me, I can't justify editing past the point where I think I got across the joke.
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Postby AquaSky » Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:37 am

I wouldn't say tedious as much as time-consuming and labor-intensive. Most things in editing become a bit easier with practice, but you also start to become less easily satisfied with "good enough". So you tend to spend more time getting everything the way you'd like it. At least, that's true as far as my experiences. Then sometimes you decide that you'd like to experiment with certain new genres, styles, or effects, and that takes some time as well. I tend to think that an increase in the amount of time spent editing each successive video is reflected in the quality of said videos. That seems to be the general trend, anyhow.
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Re: Are AMV's a lot more tedious to make now?

Postby FoxJones » Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:07 am

Pyle wrote:Now it seems it takes months just to finish one minute of footage.

I don't see a problem here. Whole months' worth of more enjoyment.

If you are not enjoying it you should stop.
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Postby Sammy » Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:23 am

I'm just finding the whole audio scrubbing process tedious. I'm finding it harder to hear out beats, and parts of the music dont even show up while scrubbing, so timing is getting harder for me to pull off.

I'm gonna purchase a copy of Premiere Pro 1.5, and see how I got with that.

Wish me luck.
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Postby CerebralAssamite » Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:01 am

One word Yes.

Two word's Hell yes.

Half the time now I find myself having to force myself to finish an amv let alone start one, just because I know no matter what I do someone is going to say "Hey I've seen better, and *Bleep* was a lot more flashy n shit than yours", to be honest I don't really care for that, however I wont be forgetting it anytime soon.
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Don’t get me wrong I understand that with today's opportunities to create videos with 1,000,001 effects and making it look much better than the old days, but I think most people have begun to 'expect' too much out of creators these days and when they can't live up to the standards that only a handful have been able accomplish, we get chastised to hell and back about it. That is an obvious major turn off..
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Postby doughboy » Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:21 am

IcyCloud wrote:I wouldn't say tedious as much as time-consuming and labor-intensive.


Ditto. It's all worth it though if you find yourself grinding over the video every night in a single week/weekend, regardless of if you even finish. I get this addiction every now and then, but it sadly doesn't last unless the video goes better than planned. I burn out a lot. :oops:
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Postby Otohiko » Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:24 am

Nah. It's not the time we live in, it's the individual.

If you want a fancy-pants video with effects and such, of course it's gonna take longer! But not everyone wants to.

I, for one, hate the technical side of editing. I would always much rather spend as little time as possible editing a video. Which I have, and do - but within reasonable limits of course.

That said though, I do find myself spending a bit more time on videos, but mostly due to either 1) Having beta feedback from others which compels me to revise 2) Recently making an overly-long video. :roll:
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