Time spent editing?

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Postby [Mike of the Desert] » Sun Aug 21, 2005 2:12 am

Arigatomina wrote:I don't like leaving a video alone, so I tend to work on it during all my free time till it's finished. If I walk away for a while, I'm more likely to delete the entire thing when I get back and start a new project. I have a very short attention span, so when inspiration hits I wallow in it for fear of taking a breath and jumping to a different idea. >.>


Same happens to me, as I said, the minimum of 2 hours depends of dthe day if I'm terribly and/or horribly busy. But my best is to work on it all my free time (and the amount of it changes by the day.)
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Postby Illia Sadri » Sun Aug 21, 2005 2:36 am

I am not the type to stay seated for too long so I work in brief interludes. Often no more than an hour but on some days I do a couple short sessions. I simply get ansty and become more enticed to dance to the song than to actually edit. Of course I rarely work on deadlines so that approach works best for me.

Total length depends on the project. I've had one be done in about 24 hours (an entirely personal video made more for release than as a serious effort) to 8 months (where I struggled to finish the video at all as I lost focus while waiting on the dvd release)
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Postby ssj4lonewolf » Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:07 am

when i worked on my first amv i spent 5 days straight waking up at 2pm(cuz i work nights)- 10 pm working on my first amv. It came out alright, on the weekend tweeked and freaked it a lil, and bam i was done. Im gonna remaster my first vid now =)
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Postby neptunestar » Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:18 am

it depends on the video, i have made ones that i sepnd about 5 hours on..and that i have spend half an hour long (but the vid was only a min and a half) it depends on the length and the footage :D
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Postby yumi+chan » Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:53 am

I've worked very long on my first AMV. It took me a few weeks, and I've worked a few hours every day on it. I don't know how many hours I've worked on it, but it was really very long.
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Postby OtakuForLife » Sun Aug 21, 2005 9:34 pm

3 dayz - week instense editing (probally30-40 hours total).
However MEPs I ted to take more time with :)
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Postby Rurounikeitaro » Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:25 pm

trythil wrote:As long as it takes.

I like that answer!

My latest AMV that I plan on finishing at the end of August was first started in December. I would work on it for about 4 hours a day every 2 weeks, sometimes twice every 2 weeks. There was a random point where I stopped working on it for about 4 months though.

It's been 8 months but only about 50 hours in total. I get very distracted like Arigatomina and start other AMV's that I haven't finished either. Main reason this AMV is taking forever is because Premier is tedious, and that this AMV is supposed to be my first "effects" AMV so I had to make it something really worth watching. I also thought I didn't have enough skill to finish the AMV the way I wanted so I spent alot of time going through guides and other AMV's watching them over and over just to learn the trick of the effect in an AMV. "watched Euphoria and Whisper of the Beast over 100 times each."

For my old Windows Movie Maker AMV's, about 10 hours each, 5 hours a day.
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Postby SpLiF_3d » Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:16 am

Pwolf wrote:i spend a few hours ripping and preping my footage. anywhere from 10-40 hours actually editing which includes tweaking. then a few hours encoding.

all that happens over the corse of a day or a few months... depends on the project and what else is going on in life.


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i've come up with about 1 hour for every 10seconds...thats just me :wink:
my 1st took 2 months, 2nd (which was just lip sync practice) took a couple weeks, and 3rd another few months but probably only an hour here or there a couple days out of the week.....the fact that i wanna watch & analyze other, better amvs drags me down cuz i just go back to mine thinkin how can i make this good but still original....as in not stealing someone elses effects/methods.... :oops: :P :)

i have yet to work on a deadline...is it that stressful?....i plan on submitting one to Oni-Con. which means i got 8 days left til submission and only 0:47 sec completed... :shock: i should be workin on it now..... :roll:

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Postby remsleep » Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:02 am

My first 4 vids all started between June 2004 and January 2005, and none of them are finished ;-) I anticipate returning to them in September definitely maybe.

But the fifth one... The fifth one is finished an even uploaded, although it's not really a standard AMV as were the first 3 (the 4th is also a bit political to be a straight AMV as well). I think I started that one in April and finished it in early August. Since I have a day job and tendinitus (which is why I didnt begin editing back in 2001 when I first wanted...), I usually would not work more than 2 hrs a night on weeknights, and only 2 or 3 nights during the week. On weekends, I may put in a full day with a couple breaks to ice my arms :-(

The problem is I get artistic mental blocks for some scenes, and inspiriation doesn't come around too often... I'm sure everyone thanks me for not filling the holes with tenuously relevant random footage and calling it done ;-)
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Postby CHAMELEON_D_H » Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:22 am

I've been working on the current one for a almost a year, and its still far from completion...... i should stop making action AMV's.... too much time to make.....
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Postby MomochiZabuza » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:01 am

|: <---- Until I look like this.
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Postby [Mike of the Desert] » Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:14 pm

MomochiZabuza wrote:|: <---- Until I look like this.


I usually start then. :|
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Postby Knowname » Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:51 pm

depends on how bored I am... very bored, I tend to act like Osaka and... do nothing, absoluteley nothing, it's an art. If I'm not bored I work. I've been bored for the last 2 months.
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Postby Beowulf » Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:43 pm

For most of my videos, it takes me 4-6 weeks. I always try to get them done quicker, but it always ends up at 4-6 weeks.
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Postby The Wired Knight » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:08 pm

60-90 hours is my average depending on the length of the song and the complexity of the video.
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