Which Aspect of AMV making takes you the most time?

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Postby iserlohn » Mon Dec 30, 2002 2:05 pm

Gotta agree with Akuma, it's grabbing the footage (esp. since most of my projects lately have involved capturing from VHS/LD) and getting it into the format I want to work with it in, renaming clips, getting everything organized, overcapturing to make sure that if one clip goes bad there's another one there, etc. It's definately the most boring part of AMV making for me, which is a pity because it takes so damn long...

Actual editing isn't too bad, but tweaking, doing photoshopping, etc. is also a pain...a more fun pain, though.
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Postby FurryCurry » Mon Dec 30, 2002 2:07 pm

Ripping source is the only easy part.

Reviewing all the source to look for the clips you might want to use and decide on scene placement can be quite time consuming, ditto for tweaking of the effects to get just what you want, and getting the timing perfect.

Then, there are those certain places where you just can't figure out either exactly what to do next, either in clip selection, or what to do to it. fade? blur? dissolve? Hmm.

I find sleep deprivation to be a two edged sword. Sometimes, you just get an idea or flash of inspiration you'd never normally think of in a million years, but then do something stupid, like forget to uncheck the "deinterlace when speed is below 100%" box, or accidentally delete a clip you had timed to perfection off the timeline. >.<

It's all worth it when you play back that final export, and it all flows together just the way you wated it to though, isn't it? :wink:
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Postby mexicanjunior » Thu Jan 02, 2003 8:39 pm

Which Aspect of AMV making takes you the most time?


Finding actual starfish on the beach... :shock:
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Longest/Hardest?

Postby Harper » Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:07 am

Forgot what the question was >my bad< but as for myself, I'd have to say two things. One is FINALLY getting close enough to a finished product that you're ready to export to AVI... so you're gonna have to find something else to do for a couple hours. IT'S THE SUSPENSE THAT GETS ME... I wanna see the semi-complete full screen presentation NOW, hot damnit!

And the hardest, harder than Chineese Algebra, is finding enough disk space to rip all these Evangelion DVDs onto my Hard Drive! Feh. Gigabytes don't grow on trees... :?
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Re: Longest/Hardest?

Postby Mr Pilkington » Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:14 am

Harper wrote:And the hardest, harder than Chineese Algebra, is finding enough disk space to rip all these Evangelion DVDs onto my Hard Drive! Feh. Gigabytes don't grow on trees... :?


What are you saying? So that's why my Harddrive Tree never grew. Nah can't be, I'm just bad gardener. After all I couln't even get a simple nacho plant to grow. :oops:
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Postby Tsukin » Thu Jan 16, 2003 8:13 pm

That is because nacho plants don't exist, find out what nachos are made of and grow that, lol.
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Postby Jebadia » Thu Jan 16, 2003 8:17 pm

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Postby jonmartensen » Thu Jan 16, 2003 8:35 pm

mexicanjunior wrote:
Which Aspect of AMV making takes you the most time?


Finding actual starfish on the beach... :shock:


... wine, song, and a picture of "pa-pa" :D
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Postby Jace Tsunami » Fri Jan 17, 2003 7:28 pm

Koopiskeva wrote:
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.


that's what I do. I've been working ona Trigun vid since october. I have reviewed the entire series and taken notes on every clip that could be worth while and organized them, i have pages typed and they're all tibets of info like, "ep 23 - part b- trash can scene" just little shit like that, pages of it.

and I thought I had a good song lined up, but I got second thoughts, now I'm listening to absolutley everything of mine that has suitable trigun lyrics, and paying real good attention. Still havn't quite picked a song.
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Postby ladydx » Sun Jan 19, 2003 6:04 pm

Right now..it's trying to find a song that doens't fall into the overly romantic catagory.. :? I'm trying to saty away from those for the time being and it's not working very well..
Other than that it would be trying to decide if I want to use effects or not..Clips scene selection comes fairly easy..*as it would be when you can quote almost every line from every ep of Trigun and know exactly what happens where :twisted:*
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Postby Chaos Angel » Sun Jan 19, 2003 6:22 pm

When you decide on an effect that requires frame-by-frame editting, that will take a SHITLOAD of time!!

I've been working all weekend on about 8-10 seconds of footage. ::tears out hair::

I think it'll be worth it, though, because it looks very nice.
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