Your LEAST favorite part of making AMVs.

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:36 am

My least favorite part is - once I've placed the scenes I already had planned - searching through the source footage for other scenes to fill in the gaps. It's incredibly dull and time-consuming.

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:50 am

Discovering, after painstakingly searching through hours of footage, that a certain scene that I thought existed... actually doesn't.

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:53 am

Watching the source.

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:05 am

Making clips =/

Kusokins wrote:Watching the source.

lol.

YouTube · Post by **Ileia** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:26 am

Kusoyaro wrote:Watching the source.

Fact: You don't have to do that.

My least favorite part is when I have to go BACK after I've already edited most of the video and find more scenes because I didn't have enough. ("Gah...I already did this once") The initial subclipping doesn't bother me, it's just busy work. I have enough to do while I'm subclipping that it's not tedious. (Skype, IRC, AIM, Literati :O )

Melanchthon · Post by **Melanchthon** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:28 am

Scintilla wrote:Masking, because it takes so damn long and isn't terribly interesting.

Masking is something I do when I don't have the motivation to edit.

My least favourite part of the process is when you have 90% of the timeline filled, but you can't think of anything for those last few seconds and there are several little loose ends that drop the video completion rate to maybe 75% and make the whole thing feel only half-done.

Perfecting the final encode is a pain in the ass as well, because there's nothing standing in the way of releasing the video except your own standards.

Coffee 54 · Post by **Coffee 54** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:27 pm

Melanchthon wrote:
Scintilla wrote:Masking, because it takes so damn long and isn't terribly interesting.
Masking is something I do when I don't have the motivation to edit.

Same here. I usually stack up winamp with a long play list or throw something on TV and get cracking. It's great for when just can't listen to that damned song one MORE TIME!

before, you know, totally flipping out.

For me, personally, the worst scenario is editting without a clear idea of what I want to put down for certain areas of a song. Trying to fill these gaps can be like pulling teeth for me. In addtion to the usual 'match the scene to the music' aspect, I have to take into consideration the sections that are already covered, to keep the video from become too randomized. It's these areas where I most frequently run into my worst cases of editors block.

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:36 pm

Coffee 54 wrote:It's these areas where I most frequently run into my worst cases of editors block.

Agreed.

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:41 pm

Ileia wrote:
Kusoyaro wrote:Watching the source.
Fact: You don't have to do that.

I know, and I usually don't

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:54 pm

Fighting with source material - be it audio or visual. I've been brutally punched in the gut more times than I care to remember when, on an AMV high, I suddenly discover something horrible has happened (or something good won't happen) that brings everything to a screeching halt and, at least once, sent me to bed in tears. EVERY SINGLE ONE of my AMVs has had this happen and it's really sapping my willpower.

Oh yes, and the "My harddrive ate my AMV" situation. That's happened to me three times now. Count them:
1. "D Me"
2. "In the Key of V"
3. "Portrait of the Addict"

*sigh* That's over 400 hours of work gone, folks. And yes, I back up my files, but thus far I have been unable to make Premiere accept them, so I wind up having to do each AMV from scratch.