Your AMV Creation Process

Voices_Of_Ryan · Post by **Voices_Of_Ryan** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:24 pm

I just edit.
No planning, no ideas... Just edit.

I'd say I have about a 1 outta 32 shot at actually doing a video. Usually I'll make a beta (10 - 30 second depending) watch it, show it to a few friends and just decide if I wanna continue on it or just stop.

I'm sure in Amv Hell there are a good 300 of my videos that never made it past the gates of heaven.
And one that got threw >>

Brsrk · Post by **Brsrk** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:04 pm

I try to plan a storyline, try and make something that's similar and add any touches that I want to.

Of course, stuff never comes out the way you want it to (WOO HOO, ACCIDENTAL SYNCH!!!)

Org Profile · Post by **GloryQuestor** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:18 pm

(This is my first post. Hi, everyone.

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For my videos, I add in music first, then give the song a few run-throughs just to see what ideas I come up with. Then, I cut and paste here and there to see what works with the beat and what doesn't.

At present, I'm using Windows Movie Maker to do my AMVs. Until I move on to a more "professional" movie editor, the MM AMVs I am presently doing will probably stay as "Prototypes" (I explain my AMV classification system in my Profile; go take a look.

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Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:21 pm

I write out a full script for the video, and sketch out storyboards for every clip. Then I sit down and watch the source with my script in hand, fully annotating it with all the scenes I want to use. Then I feed the script, storyboards, audio, and DVD rips into a special program that assembles my video exactly as I have specified in my notes.

That, or I just listen to the song a lot and then wing it

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:23 pm

It usually starts when I can't get an idea out of my head.

When I actually get to editing, the scenes in which I already know what I want to go where, often because there's some obvious lyric synch just waiting to happen (ex.: "Word to your mother!"), are the first to get done.

And now that I've discovered PixieDust(), the filtering and encoding part of the process will probably take rather longer than it used to.

(It was so insanely good at cutting size down while preserving details that, on "The Prescott Affair", it even preserved some of the noise I didn't want... so I had to throw in a Deen() as well.

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SuperFusion · Post by **SuperFusion** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:16 am

Idea, plan, rip, encode, begin, edit till' I get to 30 seconds, stop, wait to get motivation to edit again which takes forver.

bum · Post by **bum** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:14 am

Doesnt anyone use the good old method of blank disk, microscope and magnetic needle any more?

Pie Row Maniac · Post by **Pie Row Maniac** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 7:19 am

1. Get an awesome video idea
2. Rant about how good it could be in my journal
3. Listen to the song A LOT
4. Put it off due to other video projects
5. Forget about the idea after putting off the other video projects as well.
6. Open Adobe Premiere (this is where it gets tricky)
7. Place what parts of the video on the timeline I have established in my mind
8. Repeat steps 3 through 8 until video is done
9. Gets some damn sleep

doughboy · Post by **doughboy** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 8:02 am

Pie Row Maniac wrote:1. Get an awesome video idea
3. Listen to the song A LOT
4. Put it off due to other video projects
5. Forget about the idea after putting off the other video projects as well.
6. Open Adobe Premiere (this is where it gets tricky)
7. Place what parts of the video on the timeline I have established in my mind
8. Repeat steps 3 through 8 until video is done
9. Gets some damn sleep

That's been me as well these past couple years.

I'm getting better though.

FoxJones · Post by **FoxJones** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:57 am

1. Come up with the best idea ever
2. Get the needed anime directly from the producing studio. (Buy, Steal, Borrow, NinjaTroopAssault)
3. Kidnap the band needed and stuck them in a cellar to make remixes
4. Edit the shit together with a new supercomputer from hell
5. release the shit and get know as the greatest AMV-maker ever
6. Sell it back to the anime studios to use it as a promo.
7. Get invited to all the great anime conventions and be introduced as the god of AMV
8. Get caught, sued and buttfucked by Benny the pink polka rabbit
9. wake up sweating.. badly.
10. Increase medication.

*cough* serious for a moment now..
When I get the idea I run it through my twisted head for a while. After that I know excactly what I want the AMV to be like and start collecting clips from the anime(s) needed. With the stuff needed, I start the edit. Result is not always what I want because of the problems like.. lack of material that I wanted to use (not existing), Lack of editing skills (getting better with experience), low quality (have to work with limited HD-space) or getting lazy (after fine-tuning a certain scene 30+ times I usually give up)