We could set a minimum of 30secs and a maximum of 1:30.CrackTheSky wrote: If you're saying that the person whose turn it is to edit gets to choose how much they want to edit, that COULD work...my only fear is that based on what else you said, people would choose short tracks and all your fears about 30 seconds not being enough would be realized.
I don't really see why it has to be one week in that case. If there'd be like a list at the beginning making pairs on who gets what song everyone would be editing at the same time. And I don't see why a MEP that takes more than a week should be a problem considering the months all the others take. I know, it's good to see things finished the fastest way possible but 2 weeks for a track segment between 0:30 and 1:30 minutes should be doable as a main concept without taking too much time. I mean if I'd think of it myself even if I'd get a completely complex crazy techno beat audio track I could still decide whether or not I'd want to keep it down to 30secs and if I'd choose that I could spent 2 weeks on working on all the needed sync. And on the other hand slow songs that don't require much sync/editing would be pretty bad in 30seconds, because how much possible cuts are that in a drama video? Like 4, or something? In that case the person editing it could easily go ahead and edit 1:30 and that way both videos would balance each other out.CrackTheSky wrote: My other concern is that, because of how this project works, much more than 30 seconds and it's going to start taking people too long to edit their tracks. And since quite a few people seem interested, at 10-20 editors in the project this is going to take a while to complete already with a one-week limit per track. Editors cannot start editing until the editor before them finishes, to prevent people from giving someone a crap song and then dropping themselves. The way this is set up, editors have to edit something before they can pass on their audio. More than one week or a week and a half per track and the time put into this'll add up quite a bit. I don't want to make people edit a 45-60 second track in a week if that's just something they can't do.
Of course the AMV Hell problem would return if we'd get 30secs tracks only in the end but chances would be higher that the finished project would have a lot more variety. Also, not every right song for this project can be cut into good 30seconds, if the editor could choose which part he could also cut out the part he feels best about editing to so that at least nobody would have to stick to the worst possible 30seconds of a song.
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