What Type of AMV Editor are you?

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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby nommay » Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:07 am

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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby Silk_SK » Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:48 am

I'm not sure about those two types. I don't have to watch an anime much to be familiar with it. But the best way to get familiar with it is to edit with it. I don't watch the anime 100+ times but I do listen to the song I'm using more or less constantly. Over time as I listen to it, scenes start applying themselves to the song by themselves. I suppose that's like storyboarding but I don't wait for the whole song to be done in my head before I start so in a sense I am winging it chaos style. But I'm definitely not just throwing scenes down so people get the general idea.

When I edit, I proceed assuming that somewhere in the source I am using is a clip that was assigned by God to be applied to this particular part of the video I am working on. No other clip will suffice. It was it's destiny to be applied to this very part of the song from the moment it was animated. Likewise, the song was composed for the very purpose of marriage to this clip. Not only will this clip match the music in both tone and rhythm, it will also lead off perfectly from the preceding clip and into the next one, which will also be a clip of destiny. All I need to do is find it. This will continue until I reach the end of the song. That's more or less how I edit.
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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby JaddziaDax » Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:09 pm

I'm the type that makes amvs.
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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby DriftRoot » Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:32 pm

I think I work in a macro-chaos, micro-storyboard state....meaning my grand plans inevitably implode, leaving me no choice but to bludgeon the remaining pieces into submission and thus achieve a final product that is more accident than happy design.

The real problem is that my imagination is way too vivid - I routinely craft AMVs out of footage that doesn't exist. You can't storyboard AMVs like this. :-| Actually you can, and it's unfortunate I view creating entirely new scenes from scratch as a viable solution, because this makes for a lot of work.
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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby kenisama » Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:56 am

where does "lazy" fit into all this?
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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby Athena » Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:22 pm

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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby Pozorrogo » Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:06 am

Im a slap-sticker

I slap clips around until they stick.
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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby competitionbros » Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:25 pm

kenisama wrote:where does "lazy" fit into all this?




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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby gotegenks » Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:37 pm

Infinity Squared wrote:I'm a water type... I go with the flow 8-)

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i'd like to say i'm a little of both, but i'm more of a wannabe of both. I've only watched what i edit with twice at most, and i never really write out stuff, just what i think in my head (which i do try and think things out before i edit, but it's usually lost as soon as vegas opens up) but i kinda just go straight into edits like a chaos engine or w/e

i wish i could call myself a chaos engine, sounds so cool :o
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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby OtakuGray » Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:46 pm

I'm def. a storyboard type.

at times...it takes me a year before i have a good song/anime pairing and then it takes me even longer to make it...and rarely finish. :|
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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby Beowulf » Thu Apr 22, 2010 2:14 pm

Editing is like any other creative activity. It helps to plan, but when that magic lightning bolt hits your forehead you have to be ready to throw all your plans out the window and go with what the moment demands.

I still haven't finished watching Boogiepop Phantom, Lain, Soultaker, or FLCL. I just loaded up the .vobs into Premiere and scrolled through that footage finding stuff I liked. During the very beginning of the editing process, it would be very difficult to find anything worthwhile, but after a couple days or scrolling through that footage, it all started to fall into place. I never did any sub-clipping for "Hail To The Thief", and if you watch it with this in mind, its pretty obvious. Most of the sequences in that AMV are just big scenes of the movie that were cut to my purposes. Theres no crazy juxtaposition. During the explosion of the song, we have THE ENTIRE "Asuka gear freakout", cut down to 45 seconds. During the grove we have THE ENTIRE "Eva troops fucking shit up", cut down to about 20 seconds. During the climax we have THE ENTIRE "omg omg omg end of the world" section.

This isn't a bad way of doing things, its just a way of doing things.

These days I roughly sub-clip all the footage and put the subclips in bins that relate to the song. My project window will often just look like 4 bins called:

"Action"
"Buildup"
"Misc Gold"
"Vobs & Song"

I'll start the video with chunks from all the subclips, but by the time the video is done, half of the timeline is sub-clips and half of it is stuff I found scrubbing through the vobs that I never thought I'd need.

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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby geowil11_3 » Thu Apr 22, 2010 2:36 pm

I would say a mix. I plan it out a bit then start putting things together, more often then not my first instinct for clip choices is pretty good. I don't spend a whole lot of time on making a video, usually averaging between 6 and 12 hours on a vid.
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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby GH » Thu Apr 22, 2010 6:14 pm

the chaos engine.

although i only watch the episodes once, and i'll usually have an amv immediately decided in my head, sometimes sentimental with a story. but, i tend to never execute those ideas and instead just edit random shit due to lack of inspiration and how faineant i am. but i haven't edited in over a year; so that all is subject to change whenever i reinstall my editing programs and required tools.. and buy new software such as speakers, ram, and a mouse.
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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby Nira1992 » Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:52 am

I tend to think about my good AMVs for a few months before making them. I don't actually plan very much, but I think about what type of clips would go in certain parts of the song, and I listen to the song a million times.

When I'm editing, chaos. Though I'd say Controlled Chaos, more specifically.
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Re: What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Postby Kristyrat » Sun Apr 25, 2010 12:08 pm

Kitsuner wrote:I'm a storyboarder on my good AMVs, and a chaos engine on the ones I actually make.


This. You said it perfectly Kit :up:

Also, I'm a terribly slow chaos engine. D:
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