How long was it until you finished your second AMV?

NS · Post by NS » Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:25 pm

about... and hour and a half of editing, but it was done after a day or so XD.

omegaevolution · Post by **omegaevolution** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:26 pm

1st one: 2 hours
2nd one: 4 hours
3rd one: 8 hours

and so and so

(until my 7th AMV, after that the times aren't exponential)

lol but the motivation back there was just to do something in those boring nights when you don't have nothing to do. (assuming there aren't parties, friends aren't in home, nothing interesting in the TV/Internet, etc).

Fanatik · Post by **Fanatik** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:35 pm

About a week to edit my second AMV. Hour-wise, 15-20 hours, I think...

My motivation was three-fold:
- to continue with my project of making a trilogy using Bee Train's "girls-with-guns" series.
- to make an AMV with what I learned from opinion and quick comment feedback that I recieved on my first AMV.
- to see what else I could learn on Windows Movie Maker... *shutter*

I don't remember have any scrapped projects before my second AMV. One project before my first AMV and two projects before my third...

The end result: worse than my first video. I want to go back and remaster it, but I probably won't, due to lack of motivation.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:55 pm

The day after the first one, and they both took less than a day (four hours each, maybe?). Neither were good, but 1 was better than 2. I'd plotted both out in my head previously, and they were both pretty simple, so it went quickly.

Sometimes newbies start out full of enthusiasm instead of talent.

But I don't think it means you're doomed if you don't agonize over your second video, either. The VCAs have the Most Improved award for a reason, after all.

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:37 pm

my second amv.

well I'm guessing your saying this cuz you just spit out your first amv and want to do really well on your second amv??

well I was just the opposite. Going into amvs (back in July 2001) I didn't have any editing program at all or any clue (this was before video editing got big so Movie Maker wasn't even available yet... well maybe it was in beta with WinME but...) so after looking around I didn't find AMVs.org, I found Doom.net. Doom.net, if you hadn't tried it, is NOT for novices o.0. Anyway after trying to get some tips from there I felt I was stuck with VDub (wich basically I was, at the time, for free), YES you can edit a video using a stopwatch, some intellect, and VDub

So, yeah, my FIRST video actually took me something like 4 months and 100s of hours of learning. And it STILL looked horrible lol.

However after this I found AMVs.org and actually found out how to make an amv the 'easy' way (using Premiere). My next amv was MUCH improved though it only took me 1 week to do.

blabbler · Post by **blabbler** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:24 pm

Heh. Curiously pertinent topic - my first took, ooh, ten hours with premiere (only 40s long though

)
I'm doing what I consider my second grand masterwork now. Not sure that I've scrapped anything, but revisions have been *pretty* major. Try four song and three anime changes...
I think the biggest deal so far has been getting comfortable with the software, now I'm pretty happy with vdub + basic AE, while premiere resides in the bin after 332 crashes too many.

Anyway, give me six months and I'll proudly present something your gran could've knocked out with moviemaker in twenty minutes.

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:36 pm

I see so many people spend less than 10 hours on their second AMV (nevermind any of their other ones). Do you do that because you're supremely pleased with what you accomplished in that time or because you're not interested in putting in every second necessary to make it exactly how you want it to be?

inthesto · Post by **inthesto** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:50 pm

I do it to stop the genocide in The Sudan.

wurpess · Post by **wurpess** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:53 pm

DriftRoot wrote:I see so many people spend less than 10 hours on their second AMV (nevermind any of their other ones). Do you do that because you're supremely pleased with what you accomplished in that time or because you're not interested in putting in every second necessary to make it exactly how you want it to be?

Probably both. Since at their 2nd vid, many people probably still didn't know any better. That and maybe they were so excited about the 1st one that they wanted to immediately make a 2nd. Like a little kid going on an amusement park ride for the 1st time and jumping up and down going 'AGAIN! *^_^*' as soon as they step off of it. At least that's how I was.

Though I think the only vid I did that took less than 10 hours was my 3rd one. Out of drunkenness and boredom. But that doesn't mean that my other vids didn't suck just because they took longer. *^_^*

Malificus · Post by **Malificus** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:02 pm

DriftRoot wrote:I see so many people spend less than 10 hours on their second AMV (nevermind any of their other ones). Do you do that because you're supremely pleased with what you accomplished in that time or because you're not interested in putting in every second necessary to make it exactly how you want it to be?

actually, apart from visual issues, I still consider my second vid to be one of my best.

At that point I was still learning, but the main reason I released it so fast was I was supremely pleased with the result, rather than a lack of effort.