"Half Day Closing" Naruto + Portishead

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:42 am

Ingow wrote:1.If your AMV only takes you 1-2days it's either bullshit or you're the most talented editor on this whole website.

I have seen videos that I had a blast watching and had great editing in it, then later found out it took like.. 6 hours. Then I've at times saw a video and thought it was soo shitty, then latter found out it took 6 months. So your theory strikes me as, shitty. I can even gather good specs that show a lot of well known editors have made something that is well received and even won awards at cons, yet were made in the course of 2 days or less. So.. yeah.

Yeah, I think that's about it. :\

Ingow · Post by **Ingow** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:06 am

x_rex30 wrote:Yeah, I think that's about it. :\

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind once I make my next 2 day video since I'm known to do all my videos in a very short period of time.

BauziOLD · Post by **BauziOLD** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:13 am

wtf dude i didn't know you were into Portishead...

Well I didn´t know the band and the song at all, but it is easy to imagine a good amv with it. ^^'

I think someone should give the amv the time it needs. Crack the sKy makes awesome amvs for spending not many days, weeks or hours for his amvs, but overall: The more you concentrate and spend time on an amv the more should (as said: should or could) it get better.

Another big point is beta testing.
It happens quite often that you don´t see ridicolous and bad things in your amv. Testers can give you a better idea how it could look like or wich scences and things could look much better.

Zatoichi1800 · Post by **Zatoichi1800** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:10 am

Man this is a great forum. Not like other ones with all ego fat heads and stupids annoying trolls posting. More adult in here.

Thanks again for the replies. You make good points Ingow. I never even thought about playing with the contrast or brightness for the entire clip. Obvious maybe playing with the levels and channels could have helped the mood better. Oh BTW I am using Premiere 6.5 not that crap WMM. I began using WMM and after 5 min I got fustrated I couldn't do anything like extra video overlapping and audio.

I just saw another AMV on this site and I totally feel the idea of me having a lot to learn sinking in big time. Like most things, I will not be a good AMV creator from the starting gate. I have been checking some other AMV creators that have been more than a year and they all started the same.

Well I will lay Naurto + Portishead to rest now and concetrate on other projects. It was my first one so I will just take what I can learn from it and apply to the next one.

Thanks, I am indebted to you all...

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:25 pm

Ingow wrote:Thanks, I'll keep that in mind once I make my next 2 day video since I'm known to do all my videos in a very short period of time.

Sorry if I was being a bit mean there. I was just trying to make a point that what you said is not always the case.

I'll probably check out the vid latter and then update this post.