Which Aspect of AMV making takes you the most time?

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Which Aspect of AMV making takes you the most time?

Postby y2kwizard » Fri Dec 27, 2002 12:08 am

Hey, all. I was sitting here at my computer putting together a music video (live action, not AMV), when I realized that, man, I've been working on this FOREVER, and I've only done 45 seconds!

The video is pretty much straightforward. Mostly straight cuts with a little transparency here and there. The video is also dependent on each cut being in perfect time with the music. I'm doing frequent reverse speed effects....but otehr than that, I'm not sure what's taking me so stinking long.

What takes you the longest, other than capturing source and encoding? Which part of the EDITING process? With AMVs, I'd guess it would be finding the perfect scene from hours of footage...what takes you the longes?
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Postby Kusoyaro » Fri Dec 27, 2002 12:21 am

The tweaking and tightening of timing after I've laid down the basic framework of the video.
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Postby Chaos Angel » Fri Dec 27, 2002 12:27 am

Simply making the damn thing. Some people set up base-line footage, then add effects, transitions, etc. I make them as I go, as the ideas come to me. My videos are pretty much exercises in spur-of-the-moment inspiration, since I usually go into it with a vague idea of what I want and I figure out the details as I go. Probably why I suck.
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Fri Dec 27, 2002 12:35 am

definitely ditto at what chaos said :\
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Postby ShonenDizzyCow » Fri Dec 27, 2002 12:48 am

Debugging it near the end, it takes almost 50% of the time it takes to 'make' my vids. There's always at least one mistake that missed your checking, which you'll only find out after finished the final distribution encode.....
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Postby trythil » Fri Dec 27, 2002 12:53 am

Re-animating footage. I have a 4-second sequence in my latest video that I've been working on for nearly two weeks.
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Postby Koopiskeva » Fri Dec 27, 2002 1:18 am

trythil wrote:Re-animating footage. I have a 4-second sequence in my latest video that I've been working on for nearly two weeks.


nicely done.. the sad part is, many people won't know that you placed that teardrop there. :?

Anyways, to me, it's the planning. I usually sit and listen to the song over and over to make sure I've considered every possible beat and know the direction of where I'm headed before I even begin to layout anything. Unlike most people, I make sure that every single second/frame of the video is exactly the way I want it to be before I move on. I don't like skipping around because it feels like what I place in the gap would be just a filler.
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Fri Dec 27, 2002 1:20 am

that koop is why your videos are good and mine are bad

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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Fri Dec 27, 2002 1:47 am

I tweak things up, etc.

Once I get into editing with Cinelerra on Linux, I'll be doing a ton of more things like advanced motion and stuff.
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Postby CaTaClYsM » Fri Dec 27, 2002 2:02 am

you wanna know what takes the most time?
reanimating each and every daned frame, one at a time. THAT is what eats up 90% of the time for making an AMV.
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Postby y2kwizard » Fri Dec 27, 2002 2:26 am

koopiskeva wrote:the sad part is, many people won't know that you placed that teardrop there.


Wow. You're absolutely correct. I would never have known that the sequence was re-animated. Is there no scene in all of Eva that has a tear scene like the one that he showed us?

Also...does losing sleep affect you in a good or bad way when you edit? For instance, I've become absolutely obsessed with a live action music video I"m making for church, and I'm up at 2:00 right now doing it. I'm hoping to be done by 3:00, but no guarantees. when it gets late, I tend to get really weird, and out of that weirdness comes creativity. But sometimes, when it gets late, I get sloppy, and my videos quickly become crap. How does lack of sleep affect you guys?
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Postby trythil » Fri Dec 27, 2002 2:40 am

y2kwizard wrote:How does lack of sleep affect you guys?


I see dead people.

They give me ideas.
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Postby §_Akuma_§ » Fri Dec 27, 2002 3:22 am

oh this question is easy to answer.....ITS FINDING THE RIGHT DAMN CLIPS TO USE!!!! ARRRG! lol still gives me nightmares. and trying to figure out what effects to use is never fun ^_^
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Postby podge_again » Fri Dec 27, 2002 5:09 am

..apart from finding the perfect scenes, i find tweaking the vid after its alpha release takes forever, or often not.

sometimes tweaking is too much hassle, when i'd rather cut my losses and start afresh, cus by the time i finish a AMV i am fully sick of the song im using, and wll not listen to it for months afterwards.
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Postby OmniStrata » Fri Dec 27, 2002 10:13 am

Special fx, transparency timing...

Good lord... I've been referred to as an "action-synch" guru in terms of beat matching but GOOD GAWD does it take time...

Finding scenes is easy for me, if it's not exact, it's symbolic... ^_^

What I'm working on now needs a 7 video layers special effect in Premiere! [what's worse is that I have to use the motion filter IN TIME with the beat. at 30 frames a second... /me pulls hair out of skull...]
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