Too many ideas!

[meleechampion]

So... I feel like doing some editing, but I'm sooooooo scatterbrained.

Instead of writing a long post, just... here's the question. How do you (yes, you *points*) decide what to work on?

[Beowulf]

No one can help you decide what to work on. Having too many ideas is a good problem to have.

Do a random idea.

[cosmoho]

it has to have something to do with cookies, alcohol, disco or andy warhol

[Castor Troy]

I have ideas from 1999 I still want to work on.

[TritioAFB]

Just choose the craziest idea

[gotegenks]

just choose the one that seems funnest to edit.
if you're in a block, choose the easiest one.
if you wanna challenge yourself, choose the hardest!

[JaddziaDax]

write them all in a list and do the one that inspires you the most first.

A couple of mine, I still need to get sources for, so they have to wait that includes an idea from 2006 or so...

[DriftRoot]

Here's how I pick an idea: I sit on them all for about six to eight years, and then, after awhile, I get a better feeling for which I'm going to be really bummed about NOT making. Then, I start making one of them that seems the most interesting, but meanwhile I get bored or frustrated, so I work on a different video just to keep my edge. Then, when I get really aggravated at my lack of progress, I delete all my footage for THAT video and go back to the original one. Right now I'm on year two or three of this process and I'm closer than ever to making one of my AMV ideas! It's GREAT!

The important question to take away from this is that - given a choice - would you rather make a video you could make, or one you will always wish you had?

[godix]

I tend to either go with the one that requires a couple hours max to do since I'm facing some deadline or I go with the one that will take months, but I actually have an almost complete mental picture of what the video will look like before I even start.

[EvaFan]

but I actually have an almost complete mental picture of what the video will look like before I even start.

This.

I find myself usually only completing AMV ideas that were relatively already layed out in my mind otherwise It sits on my HD forever unfinished or ends up deleted at some point due to it just not working out like I had wanted/hoped it to.

So, I guess my answer would be to go with the one that you have strong visuals and scenes planed out already in your head, maybe even fx ideas. Otherwise you may end up fumbling around on an idea that isn't working out.