general raw footage choosing tips apreciated

[Odi]

Like to start off by saying I spent like 5 min trying to chose wether this post would go in the Video software thread or here. Sry if I posted wrong and... ye do the lil magic stuff you do to topics when they are placed wrong.

I finarly have all the recources and editing experience needed (i think and most certainly hope) to make an above or maby even far above mediocore AMV. Kinda hyped up about it. Ive been through 5 first ep's of Azumanga Daioh picking clips and since I dont really know all the exact clips needed I pick evrything I might have the slightest need of.
After the 5 first ep's im upp to 186 scenes on 79 different clips O.O thats 4836 scenes from 2054 clips of pure raw footage from the complete series and every inch of my body screams thats it is Abnormal.

Heres my q's:

Any tips on how I can make the raw footage less. Like some weird super planning strategy I have never heard of. I have 16 gig hard drive memmory left now but have planned to get a 300 gig soon + I have an iPod with bout 10 gig left to store some backup stuff.

I am wrighting them down on a paper marking them down where they are and if they are a "Dance clip" "story clip" or a "Landscape clip". Any tips on how I can sort them better? (note: I am only choosing now. I will cut em out later)

This last is a kinda big q.
How do you plan youre video and choose the clips needed, to avoid this because I suspect things will get messy once I have them on the comp and to tell the truth Im sceptical If 316 gig will do as I saw a 23 sec clip take about 600 mb (using the guide VicBond007 put up on ripping DvD footage and the oh so famous huffyvuffy codec... you know which I mean).

(If youre for some reason interested in the consept check the "AMW
suggestion" thread and "Azumanga Idea")
Thx for all the replys. ^^

[JaddziaDax]

if you know the general mood of your amv then choose clips that fit that mood... or just preplan everything down to the last transition.. O.o

[Scintilla]

Any tips on how I can make the raw footage less. Like some weird super planning strategy I have never heard of. I have 16 gig hard drive memmory left now but have planned to get a 300 gig soon + I have an iPod with bout 10 gig left to store some backup stuff.

If by "less" you mean "take up less space", then you can always compress your footage with a lossless codec like HuffYUV: it'll be smaller than uncompressed RGB without any quality loss.

[SarahtheBoring]

If (on the other hand) you mean organizing, then if you have written down all of these notes, you may want to listen to your song a few times and decide which out of these clips are your favorites, or best suited to the idea.

In other words, you go from everything you may have the slightest need of to things that you'll actually use. Remember that you can always go back and clip more. It's a good idea to pick more than you think you'll need, but not by THAT much. Azu's not that fast-paced a show, and I'm not sure that there even are 186 scenes in the first 5 episodes. (Shots, maybe, but scenes?)

So you can't use the whole series, every single frame, unless your video is very long or very fast. Some of that is going to be more "right" for your idea than the rest. Figuring out which clips those are is a matter of practice, but you do have to do it, I think.

[Bakadeshi]

Any tips on how I can make the raw footage less. Like some weird super planning strategy I have never heard of. I have 16 gig hard drive memmory left now but have planned to get a 300 gig soon + I have an iPod with bout 10 gig left to store some backup stuff.

If by "less" you mean "take up less space", then you can always compress your footage with a lossless codec like HuffYUV: it'll be smaller than uncompressed RGB without any quality loss.

Uh I think he is, since he mentioned using vicbonds guide on ripping DVDs to huffyuv.

Personally I take a totally different aproach to it, I rip the entire DVD to the HD in VOBs using DVDdecruptor, and just edit to the avs files directly, using DGindex and Avisynth method. I pop the entire episodes most times into premeire and just scrub for scenes as I need them. If the series is long, IE 26 episodes or so, I might watch the entire series over again, thinking of my video idea, and noting down where important things happen in the series so I know which episode to scrub through for a particular scene I need. Often times my AMVs are not planned to a great extent, I only have an idea of what I want the video itself to show, and I just look for the best scene to depict it as I get to that point in the project.

[CHAMELEON_D_H]

You can also time the audion im your editor and look how long does every part takes. I you need 3 secs of, lets say, "cats bitting sakaki" there's no point ripping ever scene that has that happening - just pick one that fits.

[Keeper of Hellfire]

How do you plan youre video and choose the clips needed, to avoid this because I suspect things will get messy once I have them on the comp and to tell the truth Im sceptical If 316 gig will do as I saw a 23 sec clip take about 600 mb (using the guide VicBond007 put up on ripping DvD footage and the oh so famous huffyvuffy codec... you know which I mean).

Either you haven't compressed with HuffYUV or you use HD-Footage. 23 sec DVD-Footage compressed with HuffYUV schould be between 200...250 MB. 16 GB should be more than enough to do an AMV with making clips. With some preplanning you need 1...2 Gig raw footage per minute of your song. This means you have 1.5...3 times as much footage as the AMV will need.

[Odi]

Either you haven't compressed with HuffYUV or you use HD-Footage. 23 sec DVD-Footage compressed with HuffYUV schould be between 200...250 MB. 16 GB should be more than enough to do an AMV with making clips. With some preplanning you need 1...2 Gig raw footage per minute of your song. This means you have 1.5...3 times as much footage as the AMV will need.

Checked out again and It turned out as you said. 23 sec taking 200-250 MB that is. Still I have to scale down on the shots in some way.
Ty... was relly unshure how mutch space a vid really took.

(Shots, maybe, but scenes?)

Shots - scenes - acts - episodes, same shit different name ^^.

The vid is like one slow "character profile/story" and one fast paced "dance vid" overlaping eachother. But yeah Il think il try what you said. Ty

Brr brr the Hooray! <(^^<) <(^^)> (>^^)>brr brr !! O.o OiPloj

Ty for ya replies. Been a great help

[SarahtheBoring]

Shots - scenes - acts - episodes, same shit different name ^^.

Errr, no. They're very different. You might not know that yet, and that's okay, but they are different.

[Odi]

Shots - scenes - acts - episodes, same shit different name ^^.

Errr, no. They're very different. You might not know that yet, and that's okay, but they are different.

Nah... I know exactly what they are and what purpose they serve. Just pulled a lame joke. ^^ allso just said wrong in the original post...
No frigging edit button. Gaah!! Am i blind or just stupid O.o