Which Aspect of AMV making takes you the most time?

y2kwizard · Post by **y2kwizard** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 2:26 am

koopiskeva wrote:the sad part is, many people won't know that you placed that teardrop there.

Wow. You're absolutely correct. I would never have known that the sequence was re-animated. Is there no scene in all of Eva that has a tear scene like the one that he showed us?

Also...does losing sleep affect you in a good or bad way when you edit? For instance, I've become absolutely obsessed with a live action music video I"m making for church, and I'm up at 2:00 right now doing it. I'm hoping to be done by 3:00, but no guarantees. when it gets late, I tend to get really weird, and out of that weirdness comes creativity. But sometimes, when it gets late, I get sloppy, and my videos quickly become crap. How does lack of sleep affect you guys?

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 2:40 am

y2kwizard wrote: How does lack of sleep affect you guys?

I see dead people.

They give me ideas.

§_Akuma_§ · Post by **§_Akuma_§** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 3:22 am

oh this question is easy to answer.....ITS FINDING THE RIGHT DAMN CLIPS TO USE!!!! ARRRG! lol still gives me nightmares. and trying to figure out what effects to use is never fun ^_^

podge_again · Post by **podge_again** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 5:09 am

..apart from finding the perfect scenes, i find tweaking the vid after its alpha release takes forever, or often not.

sometimes tweaking is too much hassle, when i'd rather cut my losses and start afresh, cus by the time i finish a AMV i am fully sick of the song im using, and wll not listen to it for months afterwards.

OmniStrata · Post by **OmniStrata** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 10:13 am

Special fx, transparency timing...

Good lord... I've been referred to as an "action-synch" guru in terms of beat matching but GOOD GAWD does it take time...

Finding scenes is easy for me, if it's not exact, it's symbolic... ^_^

What I'm working on now needs a 7 video layers special effect in Premiere! [what's worse is that I have to use the motion filter IN TIME with the beat. at 30 frames a second... /me pulls hair out of skull...]

Ashton · Post by **Ashton** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 10:15 am

OmniStrata wrote:Special fx, transparency timing...

Good lord... I've been referred to as an "action-synch" guru in terms of beat matching but GOOD GAWD does it take time...

Finding scenes is easy for me, if it's not exact, it's symbolic... ^_^

What I'm working on now needs a 7 video layers special effect in Premiere! [what's worse is that I have to use the motion filter IN TIME with the beat. at 30 frames a second... /me pulls hair out of skull...]

Now if only you would stop using crappy fansub footage. I think we all agree you are a great editor, now get with the technical aspects. PLEASE!

SQ · Post by SQ » Fri Dec 27, 2002 1:28 pm

Lack of sleep often makes my editing sloppy, but I get creative with Ideas. I often have a notepad next to my bed when those moments of "I woke up and now i have an idea that I'll forget by morning" comes along, so I write it down and look at it later. I try to stay away from editing at all in lack of sleep through. Creativity during early hours = good. Editing during early hours = bad.

As for overall what takes the longest, I'd say the planning.

I sit next to my stereo and listen to the song loop while writing down production notes. This can take hours, to days and sometimes minutes. At one time, I planned it all in my head instead of writing it down, but then forgot a lot of my original ideas. The only AMV I've ever created without thinking it out first is the one I'm in the process of making now: "The Cat and the Butterfly: 2nd Season" This is because it's meant to be random and funny, so I went into making it that way. . .

. . . . Anyway, I know most people don't do AMVs that way, but it helps me reduce the time it takes to edit. Once, I had an AMV planne dout so well in my head that it only took 2 hours to finish! Despite the obviously bad video quality that I could not avoid(was using a camcorder, didn't have a DVD-rom at the time) it turned out to be an overall good AMV.

Just my Two cents.

Koopiskeva · Post by **Koopiskeva** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 2:45 pm

Are you people nuts? 2 AM is prime time for editing!

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 3:00 pm

2AM is prime time for everything

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 5:14 pm

Koopiskeva wrote:Are you people nuts? 2 AM is prime time for editing!

Sounds about right, that's when some of my best works get done...

Vlad