AMV flaws you want to admit

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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby pink haze » Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:35 pm

irriadin wrote:
Phantasmagoriat wrote:- I waste a lot of time because I'll obsessively watch and re-watch parts of my AMV midway through editing. :|


I do this too.

Same.
And then after I'm finished I never want to watch it again. ~_~

~I'm afraid of my youtube account.
~I'm a slave to my little sisters, because I know they won't edit if I don't do all the boring technical stuff for them.
~I spend days cutting and cleaning footage and then never use it.
~My planning to editing ratio is like 100:1.
~I feel like I can't edit to a series if it's still coming out; I need to have all the footage at my disposal before I start (oh, Kingdom Hearts =_=).
~I copy myself without noticing (ex: 2 of my vids have the same ending--with different anime o.O).
~Sooo lazy about sending stuff to conventions.
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby Hagaren Viper » Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:01 pm

* I have a habit of coming up for ideas for AMVs with songs other people have already used. Not really a bad thing on it's own, but when I want to use four songs that one other editor already used, it's kinda embarrassing.

* That said, ever since I released Digital Phenomenon and some people accused me of copying Sierra Lorna's Phenomenon -Open Your Soul vid, I'm scared of people accusing me of copying other things :uhoh:

* I use one script for pretty much every anime, and it works well enough for me.

* I hate starting new projects, sometimes to the point of wanting to cancel them, but after the video starts shaping up, I start to enjoy myself.

* It can be very hard for me to casually listen to a song unless I have an AMV idea for it.

~I feel like I can't edit to a series if it's still coming out; I need to have all the footage at my disposal before I start (oh, Kingdom Hearts =_=).

For the most part Im the same - unless it's a long running series like One Piece/Pokemon, since those...arent going to ever end. I don't want to get stuck and thing "CRAP, I could have sued that scene" after the fact.
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby Nya-chan Production » Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:04 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:I feel beats/syncopation that no one picks up on and therefore people tell me that "my sync is off". I enjoy videos of other peoples who do this, even if it's unintentional.

So much this ;____;
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby l33tmeatwad » Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:28 pm

More flaws:
- I always starts a project too close to the deadline for the convention I want to send to.
- I always get something "good enough" and then I tell myself I will finish tweaking it later but never do get around to all of them.
- Stick to a very strict "release schedule" for youtube based around convention premieres, leaving most of the videos I uploaded there with flaws that I fixed for the org release.
- Avoid sending to a lot of conventions because I don't want to look like a troll, then regret not sending to certain ones later, lol...

Quirks that aren't really flaws:
- I always encode to h264 Main Profile @ Level 3.1 in a MP4 container so my videos are compatible with iOS devices, Apple TV, PS3, XBOX 360, and Android OS.
- I always convert the audio to 48kHz (old habit from when MPEG-2 was required for contest, I assume they wanted to throw it on a DVD and some DVD players don't like 44.1kHz audio in VOB files).
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby Chez » Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:36 am

- I don't finish about 85% of all the projects I start

- I try to create a point to about 90% of my work but it usually never works out or makes 0 sense till the end.

- When using avisynth I tend to just let avspmod script for me :/

- I get stuck on certain parts of a single scene and cut the crap out of it usually creating jump cuts for no other purpose then I like that shot.

- I find meanings or points to songs, but leave no trace of where I got it leaving people confused to how I came up with the idea ( my latest video is example of this)

- Sometimes I just get lazy with my effects.
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby Nya-chan Production » Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:39 am

Chez wrote:- I don't finish about 85% of all the projects I start

- I try to create a point to about 90% of my work but it usually never works out or makes 0 sense till the end.

- When using avisynth I tend to just let avspmod script for me :/

- I get stuck on certain parts of a single scene and cut the crap out of it usually creating jump cuts for no other purpose then I like that shot.

- I find meanings or points to songs, but leave no trace of where I got it leaving people confused to how I came up with the idea ( my latest video is example of this)

- Sometimes I just get lazy with my effects.

Chez!

Haven't seen you in ages, you still edit? ^^
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby Chez » Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:43 am

Yes!!! Just not often enough!!
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby Infinity Squared » Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:45 am

More often than not, I just sit there with my program openned and not actually edit. Video could have been done much sooner if only I actually bothered to edit.
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby lloyd9988 » Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:49 am

irriadin wrote:
Phantasmagoriat wrote:- I waste a lot of time because I'll obsessively watch and re-watch parts of my AMV midway through editing. :|


I do this too.


x3

I'm still new but I can kinda see my flaws.

- I suck at maintaining a solid concept (Currently working on fixing that).

- I dislike doing an action AMV, but I conceitedly think that I'm way better at doing action AMVs more than any other type of AMVs.

- Effects are my worst enemy since I don't have the right programs to work with. Like AE and Photoshop...

- I can never get my footage to look exactly the way it should be. Clean cut and purrrty. :P

- Whenever I clip out some scenes from my footage, I tend to just stick with only the footage I just clipped and never attempt to get any new clips, which, I need to fix as well.

- I can get very obsessed when working on an AMV, but, if something distracts me enough, I can forget about editing for hours unless its important. xD

- I'm scared of comments on my videos and I'll either use them if I'm still working on my AMV or, if my AMV is already finished, I'll just use those comments for the next time I make an AMV.

- I hate most of my AMVs, but I love them as well... if that makes sense.

- I suck with people so that's why I haven't joined a studio, or finished one single collab. or MEP yet. (Working on that too >.<)

I have more stuff but I'd be giving too much away I'm afraid. xD
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby Emong » Sun Aug 14, 2011 9:37 am

I always edit in a linear fashion from the beginning of the song and I almost never return to what I've already edited to improve it. There are no multiple drafts for me, everything needs to be perfect right away.
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby ngsilver » Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:56 pm

Phantasmagoriat wrote:- I waste a lot of time because I'll obsessively watch and re-watch parts of my AMV midway through editing. :|

x4

In fact, I'm doing that right now with a vid I'm currently finishing up for Pro.

- I have a bad habit of waiting till the last min to finish a video. It isn't always due to putting it off until then or lacking motivation until right before the deadline (deadlines help me apparently) but sometimes it's just due to the idea itself taking too long to work on. Though it's fairly rare that's the case, considering the ideas I prefer to work with are ones that require very little effects work.

- I've grown way to accustomed to having a set group of beta testers I trust. I'll send out beta's every major milestone in the project, which generally is a verse/chorus. I'll obsessively watch the beta myself looking for flaws and then let my beta testers have a look as well. It's really annoying however, when I want to keep the project a secret from other editors I normally beta to, since my other friends are rarely available when I need them to beta a vid... I just feel like I've going to miss something glaringly obvious simply because I'm used to how the vid is edited.
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby JaddziaDax » Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:59 pm

ngsilver wrote:I just feel like I've going to miss something glaringly obvious simply because I'm used to how the vid is edited.


That's my beta experience in a nutshell.. so its tough for me when people just reply with "its good" or something else similar
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby dakotasapphire » Sun Aug 14, 2011 6:54 pm

I've only made three lip synching videos, and I only uploaded one.

I tried out for AMV Hell twice, but one of the videos wasn't funny, and the other I couldn't figure out how to downsize it so they could put it in their video.

I've never made any funny anime videos, cause my brain don't roll that way(I can be a jokester around real people, and have them laugh though, so it's kind of weird I can't make AMVS like that.)

I use WMM to cut up my clips. Hahhaa... it doesn't do that much to the quality though.
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby dakotasapphire » Sun Aug 14, 2011 7:55 pm

Koopiskeva wrote:I actually just stole my videos from Youtube. |:>


Are they clips or full episodes? or AMVS? If they are full episodes, that's okay, but not if they are clips or amvs, because that's called footage stealing.
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Re: AMV flaws you want to admit

Postby TritioAFB » Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:26 pm

Phantasmagoriat wrote: - A lot of the time, I don't even watch the anime. I just use it for the pretty pictures.


This :ying:
Actually for a short MEP I used as source Canaan when I haven't watched the full serie at all.

Also:

- I always like to install several programs for edition but I rarely use them :shark:
- I learned how to use photoshop by "accident"
- I like to use AE but if my source is not K-on! then I don't use it
- The Visual quality of my vids is now saved by Aggressor :awesome:
- In the past I hated Virtual Dub, now I love it <3
- When an otaku ask me how many series I have watched to edit my amvs I just say 30 series in 9 years. Then the people is kinda :shock:
- I'm the last to join a MEP and always the first to bring a beta first :amv:
- In the music library I add 200 songs per month and delete 100 at the same time. I only choose less than 15 songs per month to edit something
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