Your AMV Creation Process

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:52 pm

I start out with an idea (from the bum on the street corner of course, 4 for a dollar as always.)

rip DVD's, bait and switch, generally just follow the guides for the technical stuff.

edit.

upload at least 7-8 months after I started. (Hopefully I will change this with my next video.)

Become an opinions forum junkie overnight.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:03 pm

pen-pen2002 wrote:I start out with an idea (from the bum on the street corner of course, 4 for a dollar as always.)

From all the ideas that bum sells, you would think he could live a nicer lifestyle. He certainly makes enough from us...

Then it rip, make scripts, use makeAVIs, and let them sit for some time because class and work prevents me from having spare time.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:14 pm

<ol>
<li>Dip hand in paint</li>
<li>Drip paint around canvas</li>
<li>Repeat from step 1</li>
</ol>

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 6:36 pm

I get a half-baked idea, put together maybe 30 seconds of it, show it to my journal friends, then forget about it for a bit. Eventually the fire dies and I forsake the video project almost entirely for other things. On rare occasions I stick with it to completion, but not often.

lilgumba · Post by **lilgumba** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 7:19 pm

I just started making a new video now so I can tell what I am doing now. The first thing was listen to a song. From there I get either A. a vison of an anime that could match up to a particular part in a song or B. ask someone what anime would seem like it would fit in there. Usually I hack up the song a little bit because my songs tend to be longer than anyone would sit through. (Even though this time I hacked the song first because I liked the instrumental parts then found an anime by suggestion.) I play the song a lot and try to think of scenes that would fit. Usually I just keep the ideas in my head but if it is really good or the scene would match up at a crucial moment I will write it down. After that I rip, convert to avi cause some editing god doesn't want premiere to import avs stuff for some reason, and edit a long the way. After a certain time I will go back and look at what I have but I don't show many if any people so it's either it's okay or it sucks. When all editing is done I export it like they show in the guides blah blah blah and put it up.

MomochiZabuza · Post by **MomochiZabuza** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 7:49 pm

1. Make an AMV

Although that step is optional...

kingmob_867 · Post by **kingmob_867** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 11:40 pm

First I get an anime.
Second I get a song.
Third I sit down and I edit for hours at a time. If there's a part I'm having problems with I don't get up untill happy with it.

That's basically it.

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 12:09 am

just look for something that `doesn't look right, and go for it.

next, turn on the radio and see if anything that they are playing seems to
work with your bizzare concept.

- it couldn't be any easier

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:55 am

1. Suck.
2. Suck...in public.

Actually it's come up with random thought while listening to song, make notes every now and then about the odd little pictures in my head. Continue for a while. Like, years, in some cases.

Decide to start. Rip source, lose interest, rotate between "edit all weekend" and "completely lose interest" for a few months, burn onto CD and delete all source, rerip source and start again, decide that I really should have worked with another series instead, limp along this way for a few months... finish, release badly encoded version to the org, get full night's sleep and realize stupidity, re-encode, upload to own space, try to forget it all happened and swear I'll not do something so stupid again.

Repeat, of course.

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:48 pm

1. Watch an anime.
2. Hear a song and get an idea from it.
3. Get footage and audio.
4. Edit accordingly with the idea.
5. Get about 1/5 of the way done, and don't touch it for weeks.
6. If I get past step 5, just go and finish it off non stop when I don't have anything else to do and my comp is working still.

I'm currently in step 5 with my current project....