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Postby Otohiko » Tue Nov 01, 2005 3:55 pm

I'd say my average is about 3-5 hours of pure editing per minute of video, but of course there's more tasks than that associated with making videos.

I'd figure that in total though, I spent no more than 150 hours on my own AMV projects over the last 2-odd years. That translates into about 10-15 minutes a day...
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Postby Beowulf » Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:20 pm

All my videos have taken between 6 days and two years.

Asking how much time you spend per day on a video is an innocent question, but a very silly one as well. If you have done anything creative for any period of time you would know the results vary so much that its impossible to answer definitively. Some videos flow out of you like water, letting you put 6-10 hours a day into them. Some videos are like pulling teeth were you get exhausted after editing for 15 minutes. Some videos are so satsfying that they practically edit themselves. Some videos fight the editor to the very end.

It doesn't really matter how much time you spend on it. If you have fun editing it, people will like it. That fun and excitment translates into the .avi file. I don't know how, but it just does.
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Postby RolltheStampede » Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:41 pm

I found i can edit for more than 3 hours in a given span. So videos i have done in 5 hours some in the upper of 4-5 months in spurts of 3 hours a day. Iwork an engineering job 8-5 m-f so after work i have time and saturday/sunday mornings if im not at a con or hanging out
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Postby BunofGovt » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:53 pm

RolltheStampede wrote:I found i can edit for more than 3 hours in a given span. So videos i have done in 5 hours some in the upper of 4-5 months in spurts of 3 hours a day. Iwork an engineering job 8-5 m-f so after work i have time and saturday/sunday mornings if im not at a con or hanging out


Same here - I work usually 6:45-4, 4:30, so when I get home, I'll try to get in 3 or 4 hours evenings on editing. Weekends I have more time, or holidays. I bring my laptop with me if I can when I'm traveling on business and in the evenings I'll do an hour or so in my hotel room. But working on an amv for me can spread out over a month or two, at even a few hours a day.
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Postby Ojamajo_LimePie » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:27 am

Preparing the source footage can take anywhere from a couple hours to a week. Sometimes I think ahead of time about exact scene placement, but not very often. I tend to marathon the actual editing; an average video is 6-10 hours worth of editing.
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Postby Castor Troy » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:34 am

Too long. :x
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