How long does it take you to make a 5 min vid?

Noverca1is · Post by **Noverca1is** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:04 pm

Okay this is the rule to put in your answer.

The timeline is exactly 5 minutes.
How long does it take you to create a 5 minute anime music video?

This inclues, after you already figured out what anime(s) your gonna use, and the song. Also with very minimal effects such as (fade in/out, title) anything not to fancy as masking, rotoscoping, technical stuff.

Therefor, you dont know what specific scenes yet or in what order your gonna show it. So how long will it take you to make a 5 min video?

Also include the rendering process.

I only have done 1 anime music video
I did actually "timed" the hours I worked in it

it took me 3 days to complete it but in reality it took me 27 hours if I went non-stop.

day 1 - found the song, brainstorming what anime to use, listening n sleeping to the music

day 2 - the time begins, watching the entire anime movie, keeping notes what to keep that fits with the lyrics of the song.
Begin working on title, and began editing scenes out and figure out how im gonna tell the story. Started working the intro base and the end of the music.

Day 3 - finished the middle gap after dreaming of specific stuff.

please be specific as how you go about doing your music video please.

please include how many days if there was any.
If days are included, can you guess estimate, if you were to go non-stop, how many hours you put in with all those days.
THANK YOU

SuperFusion · Post by **SuperFusion** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:25 pm

Unless you put yourself on a time limit, no one really knows when they'll finish a video.. unless it's just 5 secs away. =/

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:37 pm

My last vid was a little shorter than 5 minutes, and it took me 2 months and 2 days.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:50 pm

My first iron chef video is 2 minutes and 17 seconds long. I finished it in 3 and a half hours. So maybe 8 hours if I worked on the video with the same level of attention non-stop.

Resk · Post by **Resk** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:31 am

hmm....one of my latest videos was longer than 5 minutes, but the first 5 minutes of it took me......I'd say maybe 60 total hours of editing and exporting and such. But it was a complex video, so that amount of time is to be expected.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:07 am

I've never made a 5-minute video; my longest, DV:UI, clocks in at just over 4 minutes. And that took over two months on and off. So.

Noverca1is · Post by **Noverca1is** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:08 am

ok ok, overall, any time limit.. doesnt have to be 5 minutes, how long does it take you to make the vid..

explain level of difficulty:

low - no fancy fx, just typical transition, fades, slow motion, basic,
med - I used, detail sync'ing, multiple anime clips, several sfx
evil - lots of detail, lots of sfx, rotoscoping, very complex to explain

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 2:40 am

Noverca1is wrote:ok ok, overall, any time limit.. doesnt have to be 5 minutes, how long does it take you to make the vid..

explain level of difficulty:

low - no fancy fx, just typical transition, fades, slow motion, basic,
med - I used, detail sync'ing, multiple anime clips, several sfx
evil - lots of detail, lots of sfx, rotoscoping, very complex to explain

It honestly depends on the person - how used they are to the software, whether or not there are any technical issues (AVS filtering, interlacing problems, etc), whether or not they're familiar with the effects they're using, and so on.

I could spend weeks on a 'low' difficulty vid because I wanted to get everything right, but I could spend days on an 'evil' (as you put it) video because I'm an expert at rotoscoping and such.

Really, it varies from editor to editor, from project to project, and the truth is that nobody really cares unless it's for an MEP and you have a deadline.

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 2:45 am

depends on how much time and effort you want to put into it... also depends on what you want to do.. if your going for a lot of effects, it will take a longer time then a video with no effects...

Pwolf

bum · Post by **bum** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:37 am

Time spent creating an amv is meaningless. Sometimes I spend over a week without touching a project, other times I work for hours a day. This is probably prety general, as I doubt most amvs would take the time the creator claims if they works at it daily. Planing also saves a load of time and stress.