Nothing kills the desire to do AMV's

AMV_4000 · Post by **AMV_4000** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:13 am

gurukast wrote:when your hard drive crashes and terminates over a years worth of AMV development. Gah.

Was working on three (AMV) videos -
Appleseed - (bridge to nowhere) Incert Coin (local band)
Wonderful days - My immortal - evansence
and Vampire hunter D - The Clay People (Disturbed, Static X, Slipknot) - Awake.
as well as a MMV? movie music video of Equilibrium to Linking Park - somewhere I belong

Sigh. The Equillbrium and the Appleseed were done, finished. The other two were on their third draft ( i normally do a "four pass" on my videos.. sometimes major changes happen on passes!). Feels liks 2004-2005 was a big fat waste.

All i have now are third draft for appleseed,wondeful days and equillbrium, and 1st draft of VHD that i had throw on a flash drive to show some friends. They "fine they great as they are" but dammit, as the author, you know when somethings complete and when is not.

heh. on the upside all i do is sleep now. plenty rest.

I can prob stamp that and create some direct links if anyones interested in what "could have been" - i'd say 90% complete. All xvid/mp3 i believe

times like this i wish i smoked weed

my hard drives crash all of the time... I have lost TONS of amvs and betas... about 12 videos of mine are lost forever.. so i know where your comming from... all i can recommend is that you get a DVD burner and make backups of your vids...

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:12 am

bum wrote:You lost a years worth of work because you couldnt backup some project files that weigh in at less than 100k each?

what good would backing up the project file be if the clips are gone?? and for that you'd typically need at least 4 gigs for a huffyuv edited video (not includeing the draft of coarse...).

I back up my computer pretty much once every 3 or 4 months.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:48 am

Knowname wrote:what good would backing up the project file be if the clips are gone??

If you rip the dvds by VOBs and don't split them you can easily recreate your footage.

i.e. I rip the main title track in its entirety. From those I make d2v files and mjpegs in their entirety. If I lost anything I can simply rip the primary title track in its entirety again and recreate the d2v or mjpegs again.

gurukast · Post by **gurukast** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:36 pm

Knowname, Corran is right - the project files are most important - i don't clip out an anime, i tend to rip the tntire movie/ episodes etc i want.. Doing wonderful days required 18 gigs, as i ripped them into 2 gig segments..

I posted up the two videos i did in the AMV announcemts forum tho - so you can see for yourself.. Too bad equillibruim isn't considered anime

did a vid for that too would have like some thoughts on...

Pie Row Maniac · Post by **Pie Row Maniac** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:06 pm

It happens. If you can't recover it, just gotta bite your lip and face the next day.

Cry or wail if you must, just don't go breaking stuff.

FoxJones · Post by **FoxJones** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:14 am

gurukast wrote:when your hard drive crashes and terminates over a years worth of AMV development. Was working on three (AMV) videos

This is one the reasons why I work on only one project at a time..

tuniki · Post by **tuniki** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:34 pm

you could do it a bit more professional like and have a external drive that you put all your stuff on.

My Editing professor was telling me thats how he does it.
That is, if you really are gonna be doing this relgigiously.

Even go so far as to make a computer Stickly for your AMV making. but that might be taking it a little far.

oldwrench · Post by **oldwrench** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:00 pm

You could always try these guys, http://www.ontrack.com/ If you really absolutely need it, and have deep pockets.

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:09 am

Corran wrote:
Knowname wrote:what good would backing up the project file be if the clips are gone??
If you rip the dvds by VOBs and don't split them you can easily recreate your footage.

i.e. I rip the main title track in its entirety. From those I make d2v files and mjpegs in their entirety. If I lost anything I can simply rip the primary title track in its entirety again and recreate the d2v or mjpegs again.

see... thing is, I don't have enough hd space for 26 vobs ;p. But I see what you mean in regards to a movie or even a short ova.

gurukast · Post by **gurukast** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:17 am

heh lack of HD space what hesitastes me doing a bleach AMV
but now the 63 special RAw... yummy

oldwrench: youch! not so much neeed, as in want

and we often don't get everyting we wont right? move on to bigger and better...

FoxJones: When my mind is verlaoded/stuck on one, i tend to start another...

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