Projects that were so frustrating that you droped them...

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Projects that were so frustrating that you droped them...

Postby CaTaClYsM » Sat Nov 23, 2002 8:20 pm

I just want to know if anyone here ever gave up because they bit off mroe than they could chew. And what exactly it was that made you decide not to continue your vid.
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Postby RichLather » Sat Nov 23, 2002 8:30 pm

I've never taken on a project I cannot handle.

The closest, however, would be dumping out the Akira remaster project in favor of better ways of ripping and converting the VOB files, and putting the whole thing on the backburner while I try to learn Premiere.
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Postby Ashton » Sat Nov 23, 2002 8:31 pm

I was working on this really cool video a long while back (almost a year ago now) and I gave up on it.
Why? Because I made the project with fansubs and it looked awful. Also, I didn't have the disk space to support all of those DivX files, premiere kept crashing (three guesses why!) and problems figuring out the most effective timing.
However, about two weeks ago I bought the DVDs to the series, bought the CD with the song, and started editing on the projecting again (from the start.) It promises to be a very cool project indeed.
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Postby You choose Sam,the rest » Sat Nov 23, 2002 8:35 pm

I just stopped working on my eva video mainly because it was too much like "Engel". I was afraid people would label me as a lamer and clueless noob.....
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Postby SarahtheBoring » Sat Nov 23, 2002 8:36 pm

Ahaha. About three so far, which is sad considering that I've only made four videos.

Usually it's because I wanted to make a video centering on a minor character or a storyline that isn't given all that much attention, and there's even less video than I thought there was... or the song is longer.

But hey, if it protects the world from a half-assed video of mine, it's all good. ;)
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Postby Castor Troy » Sat Nov 23, 2002 8:40 pm

A Digi Charat video due to lack of footage. I tried working with what I had and didn't like the current footage one bit.
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Postby FirestormXIII » Sat Nov 23, 2002 10:36 pm

I dropped a VHD:Bloodlust video I was working on a while back because when I'd think about the video the idea would be great. When it actually came to editing I found the song was too fast for what I wanted to get across.
I basically dropped a Cowboy Bebop video I'd done a while back. I actually did finish it, but not a living soul will ever see that horror.
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Postby Hakura » Sat Nov 23, 2002 11:02 pm

I only ever scrapped one video.

It was to Blood: The Last Vampire

it was an action video...it actually looked hella cool and my friends loved it....but I lost interest in it so it fell into a bottomless pit.
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Postby bloodyfang » Sat Nov 23, 2002 11:05 pm

FirestormXIII wrote:I dropped a VHD:Bloodlust video I was working on a while back because when I'd think about the video the idea would be great. When it actually came to editing I found the song was too fast for what I wanted to get across.
I basically dropped a Cowboy Bebop video I'd done a while back. I actually did finish it, but not a living soul will ever see that horror.


I almost dropped my VHD bloodlust vid cause of some of the lyrics.. damn crickets.... but fortunatly enough i got past that part of the lyrics...thanks in part to Beowulf did i show you my beta? i odn't remember if i did or not.
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Postby ErMaC » Sat Nov 23, 2002 11:32 pm

I attempted to make a Princess Mononoke video to the last three tracks off the Gladiator soundtrack (Elysium-Honor Him-Now We Are Free) which totalled like 8.5 minutes. I made it through one run of the video (i.e. I actually had an entire video sitting there) but I realized the whole thing really stunk on ice. The concept I was going for (retelling Mononoke to the music since throughout the piece there's like four shifts in tone and I matched those to the parts of the film) just could never hold up to eight and a half minutes worth of video done to an instrumental song.
The experience in doing that, however, helped me make Evil Light, which turned out much better.
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Postby OmniStrata » Sat Nov 23, 2002 11:54 pm

My Moonlight Shadow track for DDR Project Take 2...

Obvious reasons why I stopped the video are seen elsewhere on the board... :(

Anyways, aside from that, I haven't stopped in-editing yet...

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Postby ladydx » Sun Nov 24, 2002 4:03 am

My Austin Powers/Trigun vid..there wasn't enough Knives/Legato/Gung-ho-Guns footage to do what I wanted with the movie quote clips.. :?
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Postby mexicanjunior » Sun Nov 24, 2002 1:14 pm

My Violence Jack/ultra violent-gore project kind of got put aside due to me getting sick of the song. I still have the source footage, so I might pick it up back some day with a different tune.
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Postby Zarxrax » Sun Nov 24, 2002 1:37 pm

Hmmm... I think I've dropped a number of videos... Probably my most notable one was a video I was making to the live-action Japanese movie Battle Royale about a year ago... I actually had the thing about halfway completed, and had worked on it for maybe a month, but I just decided that I didn't like how it was turning out... I really wish I had kept one of my renders of it though... cause I'd really like to see it again :(
Right after that, I remember I was going to make a video using the game Super Mario Bros. and some random mario images that I found on the internet, to the song Super Brothers by Guitar Vader. That video didn't really get anywhere, as I found out right away that I lacked the skill and know-how to do anything worthwhile with it.
Sometime later, I had recently discovered MADs, and I attempted to make my own Kanon MAD with the song Truth ~A Great Detective of Love~ by Two-Mix. Once again, I lacked the skill and knowledge to make such a thing, however I worked on this one for about a week.
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Postby longhairedloony » Wed Nov 27, 2002 4:58 pm

I gave up on a Ninja Scroll video - started off fairly "wah-pow!" but about 45 seconds into it turned to "wah?"
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