Your LEAST favorite part of making AMVs.

Infinity Squared · Post by **Infinity Squared** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:19 am

Willen wrote:Oh, it's there. Rewatch the WHOLE series (OAVs, movies, next episode previews, promo videos, etc.) slowly...

Or it actually exists, except it's in bits and pieces from all over the place... which means masking... eventually... or laziness which means the video never gets made

Taruto! · Post by **Taruto!** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:03 pm

Ripping the footage takes forever. Probably the first thing that came to mind regarding things to do with AMV making that drives me crazy.

Secondly, when it's only after planning out everything, sorting the footage, getting the audio and getting EVERYTHING sorted perfectly, that I lose any inspiration to work. I've got 2 projects like that.
I'd love to see them finished, but I'm too dang lazy to work on them.

Just need some more motivation, I suppose.

Melanchthon · Post by **Melanchthon** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:24 pm

x_rex30 wrote:There is satire in my last post.

Yeah, but you're just pointing out the obvious.

Taruto Chan wrote:Ripping the footage takes forever.

If I had a functioning DVD burner (and clean, easy source), it would all be encoded to mjpeg and written to DVD as soon as I'd finished watching the episodes. I die a little on the inside every time I realise that I'm going to have to fire up DVD Decrypter in the middle of a project. :/ I don't mind going from vob to avi if there's a whole series to do because I can switch my brain off and mass-produce all the necessary little files, but doing it just once annoys the hell out of me.

Batto! · Post by **Batto!** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:06 pm

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

LMAO, i do that sometimes as well

SQ · Post by SQ » Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:04 am

Doesn't seem like anyone's mentioned encoding the final product for distribution.

I hate this part because, for me, it is more time consuming than ripping, and I somehow manage to always screw it up, so I have to encode the damn thing all over again. There are times when it takes me three whole days to encode something because of how sucky I am.

Of course, I've since given up and now distro everything in .wmv, but that was only because XviD hates my guts, and encoding is my least favorite part of AMVing.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:34 am

the actual editing....

I edit purely to see the final product. there have only been a few cases where I actually enjoyed the editing part ;p (accidentally in love, Enoz feat SOS, my animasia video) Aside from that, the only part of the editing process I actually like, is when something challenges me in the actual effects field, and I have to get creative to come up with something, either making a new effect, or creating footage that didn't exist originally.

Deathscythe_Animated · Post by **Deathscythe_Animated** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:56 pm

There are three things I hate equally in making AMV's. I don't mind ripping, I usually have a good idea of what I want to do ahead of time so it makes the process rather simple. However, I hate cleaning up the footage when I'm done ripping...especially deinterlacing.

I hate being on a roll and losing even 5 minutes of work due to an internal windows error, especially since it only happens at a pivotal moment in an AMV...then having to try to do it over again and make the scene as good or better than it was before.

Getting halfway through an AMV and realising that the song really doesn't seem to fit *or* there is a part in the song that you can't cut out, but also can't do anything with. There is a part like this in my Bohemian Rhapsody video that nothing I could think of to put in that part worked or looked cheesy, so I left it blank, which actually turned out nicely as it created a pretty dramatic effect.

Cornwiggle · Post by **Cornwiggle** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:03 pm

Deathscythe_Animated wrote:
I hate being on a roll and losing even 5 minutes of work due to an internal windows error, especially since it only happens at a pivotal moment in an AMV...then having to try to do it over again and make the scene as good or better than it was before.
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I've learned to save in bits at every point to avoid that.

dj_ultima_the_great · Post by **dj_ultima_the_great** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:37 am

I was going to say, "cleaning up my footage," but for some reason, everytime I get started on doing it I'll mindlessly keep at it for hours without a care.

No, I think that the part I actually dislike the most is how long it takes me to make a video - and I really can't speed it up. I've tried. If I don't want to edit, then I will simply not edit. I'll stare at my timeline for ten or twenty minutes, having a vague idea of what I want to happen, but not making it do so.

At heart, I'm really not much of an editor. However, I love getting great ideas and I love having finished products, so that's enough to keep me in the game. Moreover, if I don't make my ideas, it's doubtful that anyone else will. I'd rather not wait around for that to happen if I can do it myself.

- Jen

Deathscythe_Animated · Post by **Deathscythe_Animated** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:15 am

Cornwiggle wrote:
Deathscythe_Animated wrote:
I hate being on a roll and losing even 5 minutes of work due to an internal windows error, especially since it only happens at a pivotal moment in an AMV...then having to try to do it over again and make the scene as good or better than it was before.
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I've learned to save in bits at every point to avoid that.

Heh, unfortunately, I'm either too stupid or too lazy. I need a program that automatically saves everything after 10 seconds.