AMV Horror Stories?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:05 pm

One time I made this video, and I completely screwed up the aspect ratio all over the place. I even showed the work in progress to a few people and no one mentioned it to me. Then I released the video and everyone was like "u screwed up ur aspect ratios noob!" and im liek "omg how didnt i not see this?"
Wait this was like 2 months ago

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:11 pm

I don't recall calling you a noob, but I can if you want >.>

Yok/0 · Post by **Yok/0** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:14 pm

editing my chocolate Rain amv was a pretty scary expierience for me, next to releasing it on the announcement thread...

doughboy · Post by **doughboy** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:35 pm

I've lost at least four videos to hard drive failures.

One of them I did recreate later, but the rest are forever FUBAR.

Jasta85 · Post by **Jasta85** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:39 pm

i tried making an amv that mixed scenes from the prince of tennis anime with the live action movie, was supposed to have 2 parts, first an intro part then an action part with scenes of their techniques and things. I got the first part all done and it looked great, but no matter how hard i tried i could not get the live action parts to synch correctly with the music on the second part, you can speed up or slow down anime and still have it look good but playing with the speed of live action made it look retarted. so after about 2 weeks of working on the project i trashed it, only figuring out later that i could have probably released the first half the amv that i had already fininshed and it would have been a decent vid by itself. but now it's gone and i cant do anything about it

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:02 pm

Zarxrax wrote:One time I made this video, and I completely screwed up the aspect ratio all over the place. I even showed the work in progress to a few people and no one mentioned it to me. Then I released the video and everyone was like "u screwed up ur aspect ratios noob!" and im liek "omg how didnt i not see this?"
Wait this was like 2 months ago

I've always wondered, when things like that happen, if it's because people assume you know something's blatantly wrong so they don't bother to say anything about it. @_@

Worst moment I can think of is...no...must not mention that must move on, must move on

Um...

Oh, here we go: There's the time I spend about 15 hours on a 1.5 second effect only to realize much later on that I'd synched it to the wrong place in the music and, worse, that the effect was not going to work when I moved it over to where it was supposed to be. I then spent another 10-15 hours in massive denial, attempting to MAKE it work...and it never did, but I had to leave it in the AMV. So that was 25-30 hours on approximately 1.5 seconds of footage that didn't turn out the way it was supposed to and, if I had to do it all over again, I could recreate in about 10 minutes since it's not all that labor intensive. Many of those hours were spent waiting for the wretched thing to render and export, because I couldn't get an accurate look at the effect from within my editing program and it was made up of three nested sequences, so when I changed the foundation sequence I also had to re-render the other two. *ducks head in bucket of icy water*

Come on Jaddzia, just pick one.

Having made lots of AMVs is an advantage - you have lots of stories to choose from. ^_^

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:16 pm

most of them have to do with artifacts in the video that i just get fed up with... (such as jaggedies, and gradients and blocking)... that I eventually come to accept and move on from...

i got hell for my first five videos for two years because they had subtitles... O.o

There was the time my cat turned off my computer and i replaced the clip i made with a beta file hoping no one would notice...

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:17 pm

The first vid I made with WMM 2.0 wouldn't export. Keep in mind the date - there were no guides or help sections or experts on the program back then. I ended up copying bits of the timeline, pasting them into new timelines, exporting them as wmv, importing them into WMM 1.0 (which I knew front and back), and exporting the recombined video from that. It took me hours of experimenting before I figured that little trick out and after I did it, I was so proud of myself for not throwing it away. Then I had to listen - for the next five years - about how bad the video quality was for that vid, and how the timing gets further and further off toward the end of the vid.

The first vid I made using Lagarith in Premiere wouldn't export. I'd used huffyuv before that, but everyone on the forum who knew Premiere claimed Lagarith was much better. It did have much smaller file size for the clips. I had to export a few seconds at a time - to huffyuv. With the parts of the vid that had effects, I had to export one frame at a time - using a picture file because none of the video options worked without locking up. Then I took all those pieces and put them back together in a new timeline and this time it exported the entire vid. It turned out just fine and no one who sees it will know how it killed me. But, wow, I'll never use Lagarith in Premiere again.

Chiikaboom · Post by **Chiikaboom** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:28 pm

One time when i was editing AOTO, i had so many layers, and i accidently switched a few of them around or something cause all of a sudden all my rotos were behind the bg layers. It took so long to fix them all because i had 36 layers going on.. it didnt help that it was also my time of the month, so i was so stressed out, i almost popped.

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:29 pm

There are so many horror stories here's two:

The WMM video that made me get new software AND upgrade my entire PC in order to finish the damn video (actually the 2nd last video I ever made with that fucking program).
I was editing it for almost 12 months, generally I'm a fast editor but after getting 1/4 of the way into the video there were so many cuts/transitions/"effects" (at least what WMM calls effects) that I could litterally only make a single change to the timeline before saving and shutting down the PC completely and then restarting otherwise it would freeze and crash often corrupting the project file in the process, so I had about 50 versions of the project file near the end of it all.
1 change is defined as "drag 1 clip onto the time line" or "shorten(crop) the clip once" or "add a fade out effect". I wasn't edtiing with lossy files either

What would have taken me under 4 hours to do in premiere took 12 months of working every single night in WMM.

For a more recent story:
I was having big problems with AMVapp 3.0 and I had to do and IC match so I made VFAPI's. The lag was so bad that for the first half of the vid I only saw single frames of a clip as it skipped along the timeline, in the second half I couldn't see what was playing at all. So I had to turn off the video layers and set markers along the audio and just add transitions without knowing what was there (I had an idea from when i made the clip but that was all). Editing without playback is SCREWED!!!
I was ready to punch my PC by the end of it, premiere crashed 6 times during playback and took 40-50 minutes to export 1 minute of video :\
My sister didn't believe how bad it really was until she did a practice IC match herself using VFAPI's and I got a call half way through where she was screaming at me on the phone in frustration.
It made the lagggy playback from WMM look fast/good in comparrison.
Anyway lesson learnt I'm sticking to lossless/uncompressed avi's from now on, vfapi's can go die cold and alone in a ditch somewhere.