Fastest edit evar

kilo · Post by **kilo** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:16 pm

i completed my first video in about 5 hours. i did minimal editing tho because the clips i used were so action packed, they pretty much fell right with music automatically.

Pyle · Post by **Pyle** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:30 pm

What I don't get is how most creators tend to brag that they worked on a vid for 8 months. However what they don't mention is that they also only worked about ten minutes on it each day. Some guys will say they worked 200 hours on a video, when in actuality, they spent about 150 hours learning the programs, and about 50 editing the video.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:02 am

Hm...my first amv took 6 days to rip the footage and about 8 hrs to place the clips. But that's because I hadn't planned anything for the video and knew nothting about ripping. The actual editing was nearly non-existent in that vid, though, it was just choosing and laying clips back then. And it certainly didn't look good afterward.

My smoothest amv was probably medium in length - the time to edit it. But it was done in straight sessions, no work to interrupt the editing, just naps. ;p

I tend to make vids using set concepts - ideas I've already had about certain aspects of the anime being used - so I rarely change my view of an anime after making a vid with it. The only exception I can think of was Inuyasha. I made a vid for that anime once, and then went back to try and remake that video - I'll never think of the anime the same again. I'm actually amazed that I didn't realize how choppy and spread out the pertinent scenes are in that anime. Skimming for the footage I knew was in there *somewhere* really made me realize I didn't know the anime I was using, and didn't want to reacquaint myself with it. Making that vid made me realize I didn't like the anime at all.

As for songs - after I edit a video with a song now, I tend to hear more. I listen to the song on the radio or on a track in my car and I hear the patterns *I* edited to, the ones I followed when making the vid. So when I see that song in a different vid it seems off and odd, like the person wasn't listening to the same song I was. That's just audio. The interpretation of the lyrics has always been personal for me. I can rarely watch a story vid or a romance vid if the person uses the same song I did because the meaning of the lyrics seems twisted and taken strangely. It's as if what I thought they were saying has suddenly turned to a foreign language. Two people using the same song and having the vids look as if they were completely different not only in sound but lyric sync as well, lyrical meaning especially.

I tend to like songs more after I've used them myself - given my interpretation of them. But once I've done that, I have trouble enjoying other interpretations - I default back to my own as the 'one' that makes the most sense to me. Which ruins viewing vids for a song I formerly enjoyed watching amvs for.

ProphetDK · Post by **ProphetDK** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:25 pm

I've had my days in fast editing. my PSME vid heart,resurrected took me longer to work xvid properly then to edit it. Took me a weekend, sat to rip and vob encode and sunday to edit my clips.

Daio Kaji · Post by **Daio Kaji** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 2:22 pm

hmm, don't know whether to brag about it or not, lol, but my Crash video took only like 2 hours.. max to make, but in the end, you get out what you put in, so yes, the video has no point to it but action and some comedy thrown in there

luckily, i'm got premiere now, so it's easier to edit clips which allows me more time to decide on good scenes... plus Crash is older than i can remember, i'm working on a Blood video right now, i've already put like 8 hours of work over two days, so i don't think i'll be making any more videos as fast as i did Crash