How long does it take to make an AMV? [SPLIT]

Rozard · Post by **Rozard** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:39 pm

Scintilla wrote:
Rozard wrote:
trythil wrote:
flint_the_dwarf wrote:4 feet, 33 inches?
John Cage
I'm not talking about Mortal Kombat

Neither does that link.

/joke

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 12:09 am

6 months and counting for my current flagship (and I use the term loosly) project. I'm 48 seconds into it and only have around 3 mins left to go.

Mr Pilkington · Post by **Mr Pilkington** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 12:46 am

Well, Yatta has been almost 2 years in production. Granted its been off and on, actually its only been 700 hours total work. But that is a rarity among videos. Bounce took less than 3 hours to edit, but its not listed because I haven’t hosting yet, plus a few minor post-production dealies (<==== techy word) to work out. And there is my latest concoction of pure insanity, which is exporting this very minute. Literally seconds less than 2 hours edit time and almost zero post production work.

dji · Post by **dji** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:09 pm

..as absolute said.. "as long as it takes".. For me it's all relative to what I want to accomplish.. and how much effort I am going to dedicate to get it done. I've done projects from 2-hours to 2-months.. it's all relative to efforts and skills.. "as long as it takes".

DrngdKreationz · Post by **DrngdKreationz** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 2:45 am

I think I've gotten to certain areas where I spend I dunno 3 to 4 hours on about 3 seconds worth of video.

I've also spent about 40hours doing 45 frames in photohsop lol

I've also cooked up something for a friend in 15 minutes (it was trashed right after.. may it rest in peace)

Paul Kievits · Post by **Paul Kievits** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:04 am

flint_the_dwarf wrote:
AbsoluteDestiny wrote:It takes as long as it takes.
Hmm... nope. It definitely takes a set amount of hours. I'm pretty sure it's physically impossible to take less than 60 hours on an AMV.

Same for me my first two videos have taken 60+ hours and my newest video has about 20 hours put into it (at the least) for the 51 imperfect seconds I have...

ryouga42 · Post by **ryouga42** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 8:00 am

So far I've spent ~40hrs or so on my AMV. It's in the polishing stage right now. But that time does not include time spent decoding DVDs to DV, or time spent watching the anime.

Maybe it's taken less time than that but it certainly FEELS like it's around 40

Kaji01 · Post by **Kaji01** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 9:17 am

Both of my videos took me a week of solid work to create, the first one took an additional 3 days to rip and convert to DivX to edit with (I'm not doing that anymore, but I was a complete newbie at the time). I'm going through a bit of a block right now, but I've been poking around at some other ideas and experimenting with things on and off...Don't have as much time to sit down and work on things now that school is running full-time

Brain-Carnival · Post by **Brain-Carnival** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:09 am

damn...6 month and more on "1" Vid.....

my latest AMV took me 2 days to complete....i really should put more effort in my work...

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 11:50 am

Brain-Carnival wrote:damn...6 month and more on "1" Vid.....
my latest AMV took me 2 days to complete....i really should put more effort in my work...

No, I've seen your amvs. You're not lacking in the 'effort' department.

Just keep in mind that you can get 48 hrs of editing in a 2 day time period - and I doubt those who spend 6 months on a vid are really putting in 168 hrs of pure editing time (one hour per day) - more likely they count the days they spend just thinking about the video or watching the previews. It's only the vids that require detailed effects (or frame-by-frame editing via photoshop or something similar) that take hundreds of hours - and even then the creators aren't always happy with them.

Time is dependent - there is no set time limit. And don't let 'months' scare you - you can edit one hour per week and have a video drag out for months - that doesn't mean the person spent any more 'effort' on the video than someone who made his vid in a week with 14+ hours per day of editing (pure editing, not including conceptualization/ripping or any of the pre-editing steps).