You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby Hagaren Viper » Wed Dec 02, 2009 3:08 am

I want to edit :|

Gimmie your computer.
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby Kazemon15 » Wed Dec 02, 2009 3:25 am

Hagaren Viper wrote:I want to edit :|

Gimmie your computer.


:rofl:

No, get your own. :twisted:
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 02, 2009 3:38 am

I hate editing. I like the process of coming up with ideas, and I love the feeling of these ideas coming to life. I really take pride and satisfaction whenever I finish a video and it pleases me (even if it pleases noone else). I know I may be reinventing the wheel, but I like the wheel. I don't like the process though - as my favourite musician would say:

Robert Fripp wrote:At the beginning, you have a wheel.
At the end of the process, you have a wheel.
And in between is pain.

That basically sums up my feelings for editing, and really most other technico-creative processes. I hate grappling with the mechanics of writing (even though that's what I do for a living). I hate grappling with the proportions in drawing. And probably more than those two things, I hate grappling with timelines, clips, filters, compression, and blahblahblahblah in editing. I just draw no satisfaction from cracking these kinds of annoying mechanical sideshows. I don't reach nerd nirvana when I solve a technical problem in editing. Not that I never reach it at all, but if I want to enjoy technological challenges, I play a flight simulator or something. Any technical or procedural challenge editing throws at me pales by comparison to that for me, in terms of personal enjoyment. Twiddling with clips is a bore, snore and chore and it's really not my thing.

Sadly (wait... sadly?), ideas and pipe dreams on one side, and satisfying results on the other, always make me come back whenever I work up enough motivation to get over my loathing of editing. And last but not least, the community and friends I have around AMVing keeps me firmly anchored in the hobby. And I should say, over time, I've started hating the technical aspects of it a bit less. I've become more comfortable and somewhat more creative with them.
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby Sora no Honou 空の炎 » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:02 am

I had the same feeling working on my last project. I really put it off forever, then finished like 3/4 of it over 2 weekends. I know how u feel. School really messes with it too. I would just start it, and eventually you will be sucked in to it. It's like a school club, you feel like just going home, but when you get there you have fun.
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby ZephyrStar » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:57 am

Get a good night's rest, down a shitload of coffee the next morning, lock yourself in your room with the computer.
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby JaddziaDax » Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:18 am

Set up your source to rip/convert itself while you do other things, like video games or school or whatever other "life" you may have.
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby guardiansoulblade » Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:58 am

I just haven't felt motivated to make an AMV, I've been writing reviews for a site where they pay me for them so I've been trying to make more cash to buy more anime.
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby Kitsuner » Wed Dec 02, 2009 10:58 am

ZephyrStar wrote:Get a good night's rest, down a shitload of coffee the next morning, lock yourself in your room with the computer.

That's how porn happens.
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby ngsilver » Wed Dec 02, 2009 11:29 am

I love the act of editing, I don't mind ripping (cuz I can do other things while I rip), but it's the making clips, especially for a multi-anime vid, that I really get bored with. It's half the reason I haven't really begun work on my next project.

the other half is video games I got for my birthday
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby Koopiskeva » Wed Dec 02, 2009 11:34 am

org is dead
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby hasteroth » Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:09 pm

gimme pwolf's computer and I'll make another vid.
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby Xesi » Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:23 pm

i'm like this all the time T_T
will rarely even edit a tiny beta
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby TenseiHenry » Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:33 pm

No I feel the same way. But It's not that I don't want to edit... It's that I don't have the time or means to (And finishing anything is hard for me :P . Like you mentioned school takes up quite a bit of my time and among other priorities. Also since my computer is complete crap and I have to share it with other people (family + friends). I usually never get to do what I want when I want to. :amv:
My motivation usually comes when I hear/find a song I really like, then coming up with ideas after.
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby Enigma » Wed Dec 02, 2009 2:12 pm

Kitsuner wrote:
ZephyrStar wrote:Get a good night's rest, down a shitload of coffee the next morning, lock yourself in your room with the computer.

That's how porn happens.


Well to say the least,I just get some pizza,Lock myself in my room,2 hours later = 3 minutes done |:> ?
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Re: You want to edit, yet don't want to edit?

Postby Megamom » Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:32 pm

And who the hell cares... the world ends in 2012. :uhoh:
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