Getting ready to edit

DooKi` · Post by **DooKi`** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:28 am

Since I started editing last week, for some reason I can only do it after 8 pm and with a cup of tea to really get any productive work done. I was wondering if anyone had any SPECIFIC habbits they do before they can sit down and productivly start anything.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:39 am

procrastinate for as long as possible THEN work on video

Krisqo · Post by **Krisqo** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:58 am

JaddziaDax wrote:procrastinate for as long as possible THEN work on video

2x... just add about five hours of a-m-v.org forum lurking

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:11 pm

Krisqo wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:procrastinate for as long as possible THEN work on video
2x... just add about five hours of a-m-v.org forum lurking

Yeah, I tend to do this too. And, when I edit, I drink lots of water. Like, several bottles' worth.

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:28 pm

CrackTheSky wrote:
Krisqo wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:procrastinate for as long as possible THEN work on video
2x... just add about five hours of a-m-v.org forum lurking
Yeah, I tend to do this too. And, when I edit, I drink lots of water. Like, several bottles' worth.

Yeah some drink water some drink beer or wine while editing. I use to edit after 8PM too. It´s my every day freetime.

Falconone · Post by **Falconone** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:15 pm

Hm, I work on different times but most on the weekend and after 8pm.
To drink something by the editing is important for me and also to stand up and go down to my parents and talk.

dj_ultima_the_great · Post by **dj_ultima_the_great** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:36 pm

Heh... if The Chosen Two is anything to go by, apparently I edit quickest and best when I have no internet.

Nighttime and a dark environment tend to put me into the mindset for editing. Also, I get the urge to edit when I've just listened to the song for the potential AMV. Looming deadlines seem to make me the most productive, as far as videos are concerned.

Something that applies more to writing than AMV-ing is exhaustion. I get really fucking loopy when I'm dead tired (think: chattering happily with myself, giggling uncontrollably, unbridled - but amused - sarcasm... stuff like that). When I get loopy, I put out some of my best work. I haven't been loopy in a long time...

- Jen

XiaoMovieMaker · Post by **XiaoMovieMaker** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:01 pm

for me, i usually work around 12 - 2 AM [because my parents hate anime for some reason TT_TT]

usually it's on weekends with a bag of fat free goldfish and a bottle of vitamin water XD

CorpseGoddess · Post by **CorpseGoddess** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:16 pm

I have to wait for the "muse" to hit me---I write down ideas as I get them, but I can only sit down and edit when the mood strikes me. And then I have to blast through it until I'm done---I can't work on something for more than a few days.

-Nfp · Post by **-Nfp** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:28 pm

I usually work around 7pm- till about 9 pm