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

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Postby jbone » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:05 am

My very first video wasn't very technically advanced, and I spent well over 70 hours on it.

My current video will have taken about 5 hours to complete, and it's very technically advanced.

Good, highly-technical videos do not require obscene amounts of time, if an editor knows how to effectively make them.
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Postby pen-pen2002 » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:07 am

CerebralAssamite wrote: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.


I agree with this but I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not. On one hand it means that the overall quality of AMV's have gone up (in very general terms of course, comparing now with 6 or 7 years ago.) This is great for the veiwer, who gets to see a ton of truely excelent videos. And the incresed pressure provides a reason for people to take months on a video.

However, for the creator it is now very hard for the average person to "make the grade" which can be discouraging. In other words the average creator's videos are below average (in case you think I'm being condecending, I count myself in this group.)

The biggest problem though, is that it stops many AMV's from being made. I have given up on a lot of ideas because they would be only good, and not spectacular.
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Postby Ashyukun » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:57 am

I don't think the actual video editing has gotten more tedious- but I think that the amount of prep and post-production work that is sometimes required now that an extremely high quality of footage is expected in videos does add a lot of time and tedium to the overall production.
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Postby You choose Sam,the rest » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:58 am

I agree with IcyCloud with the comment of how amv is just "time-consuming and labor-intensive". How long can a person spend making an amv is the more interesting question to which I think I have the record of two years and still going. :?
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Postby Pie Row Maniac » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:32 pm

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

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Postby DeinReich » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:58 pm

You choose Sam,the rest wrote:I agree with IcyCloud with the comment of how amv is just "time-consuming and labor-intensive". How long can a person spend making an amv is the more interesting question to which I think I have the record of two years and still going. :?


Commited, I see.
Yea it definentally takes longer now than in the past to make videos, at least if you want to keep up with everyone else.
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Postby SuperFusion » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:14 pm

All my videos were made in 2 days..Never have I worked months on an AMV. =|
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