When you have such a good idea, you don't want to make it...

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 1:27 pm

Yeah I've had an idea for over a year, but like Zarxrax used to, don't think I could do it justice. More importantly, the scenes I see...I don't think they exist

bum · Post by **bum** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 1:47 pm

yeah sometimes im planing an amv in my head and i end up thinking of scenes that arent actualy in the anime. ya would think its wierd but considering that your practicaly directing something, it kind of gets to ya

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 3:32 pm

I've put off videos when I knew they required some type of editing that I hadn't learned to do yet. Now that I've done frame-by-frame editing I only put off videos when I haven't figured out the 'scenes' yet. I figure - if I have the general idea and it seems excellent, then I'd better have it all before starting. When it's a conceptual issue (rather than some editing trick), I'll put it off indefinitely rather than going on a half-baked idea. Editing I can practice and hold the vid until I learn what I'm hoping to do, but I can't 'practice' a concept into existence.

That's why I save my favorite songs until I know I can do them justice (according to my standards - no one else's).

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] · Post by **Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 1:55 am

I've had an idea for a long time now, that i've been putting off because I feel I still need more practice. Fortunately I havn't lost interest in it.....yet.....

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:05 am

What is worse.. is actually having all the tools, and suddenly realizing that to do it the way you want it by yourself is going to take 6 months.

It's sort of looking at a box of engine parts and thinking... someday this is going to be a motorcycle.

Pyle · Post by **Pyle** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:17 am

Sephiroth wrote:You'll never know until you make it. You shouldn't just give up your videos that easily.My video 'Your World' lasted through 2 hard drive failures where i had to start over again. I beleave all of you can finish these videos. you just have to put your mind to it and keep at it. Well only you can decide what to do. Take care all.

Am I the only person who doesn't have a computer that has a 'PMS mode' switch? Everyone on the .org constantly complains about how their computer crashes and deletes all their files, but I've only had it crash once, and that was before I was even making AMV's.

Hell, I got it down to where I had 301 megabytes left on the HD and it still didnt smoke itself out, even when I was editing.

inthesto · Post by **inthesto** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 8:01 pm

Every computer I touch is doomed to die a horrible death eventually.

My old Pentium 166 croaked hard after my dad tried to install Windows NT and discovered it wasn't compatible.

My next computer, a P3 800, randomly blue-screened one summer day, and after that decided my C:\ didn't exist anymore. You know way back when, if you tried to access the A:\ in DOS without a floppy, it asked you "Abort, Retry Fail"? My computer was giving me that with the C:\ when I booted into DOS prompt. Lost an amazing amount of emulation gaming that way.

Afterwards, we gave that computer a new hard drive. It lasted a while using Windows 2000, before it decided that blue-screening every five minutes was fun.

My current computer, a P4 1.3, is slowly deteriorating, despite the fact that I haven't even had it for six months now. It goes through random fits of slowdown, falls prey to viruses and spyware, and is just an unhappy computer in general.

Granted, I never lost any AMV work over this, but I've only been into making AMVs for a few months now.

fyrtenheimer · Post by **fyrtenheimer** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 8:40 pm

you treat your computer like you treat your women?

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] · Post by **Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 9:40 pm

lol, someone needs to make freinds with adaware, spybot, kapersky, and a good internet firewall ;p

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 11:39 pm

Get a UPS. All those hard drive issues are symptomatic of a flaky power source.

And yes... get the usual spyblocker, firewall, antivirus combo as well.