Just Another Generic Amv Question

[[Mike of the Desert]]

It shouldn't take any longer than your source footage, so if you're editing a two hour movie it should take two hours. Less if you're skilled.

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I plan to do an Advent Children Video someday, even now I'm thinking to make a little "M.E.P." inside my studio, and I'm sure it will take more than 1hour and half.

[requiett]

1 to 3 months.

[celibi87]

depending on the vid i usually can take up to 2-3 days or a couple hours.

[x_rex30]

For me it all depends.. I've been spending more time on getting everything to work just the way I want than actual editing lately. Recently I've finally started to edit.. but back when my ideas shined brighter, I didn't ever seem to spend much time editing. Maybe it was just a lot easier to edit since I never added effects or anything.. and back then I averaged under 8 hours of actual editing.. now that I'm starting to work effects in videos and that my ideas are not as clear as they use to be.. it takes a lot longer to make them.

[jubjub2]

It depends on how much I want to put into it. If I want to Photoshop the thing to death, or really script it out, it can be in the 80+ hour range. I also spend a lot of time pulling clips from sources, and organizing those.

Work? I have been a product designer for the pharmaceutical industry, had a lot of marketing experience (radio, TV, promotions), and currently work from home as a freelance illustrator and muralist. In addition to all that, my most important job is being a mom.

[Otohiko]

I'd say my average is about 3-5 hours of pure editing per minute of video, but of course there's more tasks than that associated with making videos.

I'd figure that in total though, I spent no more than 150 hours on my own AMV projects over the last 2-odd years. That translates into about 10-15 minutes a day...

[Beowulf]

All my videos have taken between 6 days and two years.

Asking how much time you spend per day on a video is an innocent question, but a very silly one as well. If you have done anything creative for any period of time you would know the results vary so much that its impossible to answer definitively. Some videos flow out of you like water, letting you put 6-10 hours a day into them. Some videos are like pulling teeth were you get exhausted after editing for 15 minutes. Some videos are so satsfying that they practically edit themselves. Some videos fight the editor to the very end.

It doesn't really matter how much time you spend on it. If you have fun editing it, people will like it. That fun and excitment translates into the .avi file. I don't know how, but it just does.

[RolltheStampede]

I found i can edit for more than 3 hours in a given span. So videos i have done in 5 hours some in the upper of 4-5 months in spurts of 3 hours a day. Iwork an engineering job 8-5 m-f so after work i have time and saturday/sunday mornings if im not at a con or hanging out

[BunofGovt]

I found i can edit for more than 3 hours in a given span. So videos i have done in 5 hours some in the upper of 4-5 months in spurts of 3 hours a day. Iwork an engineering job 8-5 m-f so after work i have time and saturday/sunday mornings if im not at a con or hanging out

Same here - I work usually 6:45-4, 4:30, so when I get home, I'll try to get in 3 or 4 hours evenings on editing. Weekends I have more time, or holidays. I bring my laptop with me if I can when I'm traveling on business and in the evenings I'll do an hour or so in my hotel room. But working on an amv for me can spread out over a month or two, at even a few hours a day.

[Ojamajo_LimePie]

Preparing the source footage can take anywhere from a couple hours to a week. Sometimes I think ahead of time about exact scene placement, but not very often. I tend to marathon the actual editing; an average video is 6-10 hours worth of editing.