When is your Best Time To Edit? / When do you burn out?

genestarwind21122 · Post by **genestarwind21122** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 11:48 pm

Well this most recent amv I've been working on has put some questions into my mind. For the past year now on past amv's I find the best time for myself to edit is usually around 10pm-1am. Do you find yourself more interested to edit at a certain time then others? Where a specific time of the day you can think better on amv's than other times? Also this amv I'm working on right now I have quiet a few ideas for it but it takes me anywhere from an hour to 2 1/2 hours to edit a scene. This includes eliminating choices of clips that I originally thought would work and changed my mind on them. After working on one scene in the video I'm burnt out for editing. Is this common thing that happends? I mean I'm use to getting burnt out after editing 4 or 5 scenes in a 3-5 hour period, but to get burnt out after editing one scene. Well I guess getting 3 seconds done a day isn't too bad. It could be worse, right.

Gene Starwind 21122

lilgumba · Post by **lilgumba** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 12:16 am

I usually don't have a specific time to edit since I got work and I never know when I'm going to be at home all night or not. Well I guess I could eliminate anytime between 2 and 7 am.

How I edit I don't really get burnt out because I still don't know completely what I am doing story-wise. I set up general plots and scenes for particular times but the rest I freestyle. There are times where I am working on one scene and spend a lot of time on it but then there are others where I get into a flow and keep editing different scenes until my brain fries. I do know that if I get sick of a particular scene I will leave it for awhile and not add or take away from it. I will watch it over and over during my time out period until I decide that watching it makes me either want to edit it more or call it quits on that video. The longest time I did this was a whole summer for that Tenchi video I made. I wanted to see more but at the same time I didn't feel like doing nothing with it.

When you feel tired of something you just have to let it go for a bit. It's normal to step away from the video whether its just after one scene or if it's after several.

CerebralAssamite · Post by **CerebralAssamite** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 3:30 am

Normally If I say to myself "Yes" edit today and do nothing else, ill start about 10am and not finished till about midnight, this is no bullshit it goes on for days, which I will say now is not the best thing to do, if you want a good video do little bits at a time, however its just me to try and get as much done in a day as i can.

jethropr · Post by **jethropr** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:24 am

I start whenever I can give atleast 2 hours of work (while being fully awake/not drunk) into the video, and then just go until it's time to go out, or go to bed.

One of my videos was done purely from 12am - 5am for about 3 months, it shows in some places =D

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:15 am

I mostly find time to edit anywhere from 4-11pm, during the semester (have to work around the class schedule). As for getting burned out, it might happen if I'm editing for a few days in a row. Other than that, I can usually keep a pretty good pace going; once I start, I'll usually keep going for the rest of the day.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:20 am

It depends on the vid. If I'm doing something I'm really enthusiastic about, I'll edit any time I can, even if it's just a half hour before I leave for work in the morning. My freetime is completely dedicated to the vid. In that case, my favorite time is after midnight on a Friday or Saturday when I have no other plans - where I can edit for 24+ hr stretches.

Normally I edit when I'm bored. That means at least two hours after I get off work, two to three hours after I wake for weekends. But I'll edit until I can't edit anymore - worknights that means 6pm-3am, weekends I may go 5pm to 4pm the following day. As long as I'm bored, I'll edit till the vid is done. If I have other things I want to do, or the vid isn't holding my interest, I'll let it sit until I'm bored again, even if it means wasting potential editing hours on sitting around doing nothing. Sometimes editing is even more boring than doing nothing. Just depends on how motivated I am to see the video finished.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 1:27 pm

WORST time for me to edit = fall-winter

Best time = Spring-summer

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 2:22 pm

Castor Troy wrote:WORST time for me to edit = fall-winter

Best time = Spring-summer

Mine's probably just the opposite. Leftover Spring Fever, me thinks. This past year was bad though, since I was just tied up with Multi-editor Projects and couldn't work on any new videos of my own, so my motivation just about died after doing track after track after track. Hopefully I can get into editing another video sometime in January and pick back up where I left off last December.

ssj4lonewolf · Post by **ssj4lonewolf** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 2:41 pm

lol whenever school isnt in, like now for winter break, I can finsh my amv i started 2 months ago. Got damn school.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 3:26 pm

tuesday maintenance is the best time. worst time is right after dinner. i get too sleepy z_z

otherwise, how long i go depends on my motivation and the stage of the video. scene sorting is the worse. the initial planning stage and the finishing stages are usually pretty fun and can keep me going for a while.