How long was it until you finished your second AMV?

VRSaskayzx · Post by **VRSaskayzx** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:30 pm

15 mins after my first one.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:49 pm

DriftRoot wrote: consider myself quite a pathetic example of an AMV hobbyist as a result, however I am proud of the fact that I actually succeeded in making an AMV, despite how long it took me.

Perfectionism is valued over enthusiasm here, by several orders of magnitude. If you're unhappy with that, then that's one thing, but being perfectionist to the point of not finishing anything is pretty much the epitome of AMV editing. A good AMV that never gets made is much better than a bad AMV that does get made. You've seen bad-AMV announcement threads, yes?

So I wouldn't worry about it. I actually envy your position. I know my videos are bad and try to make them anyway, trying to improve and never succeeding. That's much, much worse.

Scott Green · Post by **Scott Green** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:37 am

My second Video...well
it was the best Video ever made in this world...haha
it was a masterpiece made with the WMM :O
it was the awsome sound of LPs Faint =P
it was the sexy animations of Yu-Ri-Pa (Final Fantasy X-2)
it was finished in half a day
it was never uploaded here
it is still on my HDD :O

btw my first one was crap

Actually I made 24 Vids with WMM, take that hah ----> who doesn't believe me?
Only the last four are up here
but enough off-topic....

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:29 am

I never understood why people, even with their first video, edited so quickly.

On our first videos, Robert and I spent months. Well, maybe he spent weeks on Heero's a Mess, and I spent months on Utena (story of a girl), but the point is that we spent a lot more time than than day, or a couple of hours.

Why? Well, at the time it just seemed normal to us that you expended an awful lot of effort into an editing project, and effort meant time (even if I we know that isn't necessarily true now). Of course, we were both TV interns who had begun editing live footage a few years before. We already knew how to use programs like Adobe Premiere and hardware like capture solutions. We would have balked at the idea a video could be made in a few hours time. Hell, rendering output by itself took days!

Although I do think this had the unintended consequence, that I remain proud of my work. I don't hide my 2001 videos. I celebrate them, and I share them proudly. I know I worked hard on them, and the mistakes were due to ignorance, not due to my lack of effort or a propensity to rush. I've had numerous people tell me that those videos were the first AMVs they saw, and that led them here. I still get emails and PMs from random people that have found them on p2p services, and it brings a smile to my face every time.

I wanted to share my love of the series I chose with others through those videos, and I know I succeeded. Maybe they're not great, you could argue (and I'd agree) they weren't even up to the quality of my contemporaries, like Daniel or Hsien, and certainly not doki, Caldwell, or EK, but they've done their job. And I just don't understand why 99% of the population hates their debut videos, unless they didn't do their very best on them. And then, I have to ask, well, why didn't you?

macchinainterna · Post by **macchinainterna** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:41 am

You are a champion. Good job with your incredibly condescending tone when you're in no position to shit-talk anybody here. You get double points for pointing out everyone's lack of effort on their second video, because the whether it's the first, second, tenth, or Nth video is certainly not an arbitrary thing to pick out and dump all over in concerns to the amount of hours put in.

You also get a gold star for subtly being able to get this pressing question off of your chest with an innocuous post in a legitimate topic, rather than having to start your own topic for the express purpose of pumping your own ego.

GG no re

I think you misunderstand my intentions for this topic. I wasn't in any way speaking out of arrogance, nor was I attempting to exploit a lack of effort in anyone's second video.

I only asked this question because for over a year now I've struggled to make a second video and was unsuccessful seven times over. I don't know if I'm simply being impatient about the whole process, or if I lack the ingenuity to participate in AMV editing.

This topic was merely idol curiosity and in no way was an attempt to insult other editors on the length of time it took for them to finish their second video. So please, don't take offense over my inquiry.

-MD · Post by **-MD** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:26 am

Same day I finished my first one

Krisqo · Post by **Krisqo** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:30 am

My second video... umm... maybe 3 days after my first.

DayWalker B. · Post by **DayWalker B.** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:57 pm

I wonder why you're asking particularly about the second AMV, but I guess for me that was in the early WMM times... uhm, took me like 30 minutes at the most. I kind of don't like to be reminded of that vid...

OmegaBastard · Post by **OmegaBastard** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:01 am

My secod amv was a rock lee amv. Damn that was a god amv.

surfsama · Post by **surfsama** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:15 pm

Discounting the time it took me to learn a new language (Videomunkanese) and a very basic understanding of the editing process...my first AMV took about 29 days.

My second AMV release came 23 days later.

Since my 2nd release, I switched from Sony Vegas to Premier Pro which reset the learning curve meter. Hence, my third AMV is...6 months and counting...