What keeps you from quiting an amv?

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:10 pm

Might as well give a real answer. To be honest I typically just enjoy editing so much that it never comes to be a problem. Though if I stop editing for a while (for whatever reason) it takes a bit for me to get back in the mood of editing. Though once I do I keep going, so I guess the straight answer is that I just enjoy editing, even if I feel the video isn't turnout out how I envisioned it. Though in those circumstances I start cutting corners to finish the video.

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:16 pm

If I don't get about half of a video done the first time I sit down on it, I have a tendency to wander away from the concept and forget where I was going, even when I storyboard the video out. For example, I've got a SaiKano video I started about two weeks ago that I haven't touched in those two weeks, and now I have no idea what I was thinking about when I started it. Luckily I'm more than half done so it might see completion. I'll be danged if I can remember the effect idea I had though...

My problem is I'll hear another song and get a new idea for a different video, that will consume me until I hear a song that gives me an idea for ANOTHER video, etc. It's similar to the problem I have finishing RPG video games. By the time I get halfway, I'll start on another one.

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:42 am

well I don't rely on my self discipline lol. It takes me months to do an amv, cuz I usually 'quit' it after 1 month. Spend a month catching up on Naruto/ Bleach whatever than resume. NEVER work on two amvs at once, you'll likeley never resume your other one. ;p Unless it's just an MEP, but I ALWAYS put my priority on my video... like if I feel like working on it, I work on my initial video while the mep sits or even gets scrapped. I try to do meps as fast as I can anyway.

requiett · Post by **requiett** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:09 am

Looking at the fine wardrobe, 2 BMWs, and 6 bedroom house my AMVs have paid for is motivation enough.

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:11 pm

requiett wrote:Looking at the fine wardrobe, 2 BMWs, and 6 bedroom house my AMVs have paid for is motivation enough.

Oh, I figured that the huge payroll and avid following of hot girls flinging their panties at my Maserati like fluffy pink invitations while I drive past would have been obvious. Not a day goes by that I don't think "Damm, I'm making way too much money off these videos". I just figured that it would be such a common thing that nobody even mentioned it.

Shinodude · Post by **Shinodude** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:53 pm

I gess.....b/c I like making them

Ihave thought about stoping but I always relize that if I stop ill be bord as hell

dj_ultima_the_great · Post by **dj_ultima_the_great** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:09 pm

Actually, Dookstar, I really have to sympathize with you. I've been asking myself that same question quite a lot lately. I have tons of ideas - many of which pop into my head as a flash of brilliance - but then I just lose motivation somewhere along the way. So, I posed a few more questions to myself, hoping that they would help to determine the ideas I was REALLY set on doing. Maybe they'll help you, too.

Do you really, truly enjoy the anime/song combination? Maybe there's a few lines (if the song contains lyrics) that just don't quite work, and that's hanging you up.

Could the song you're working with be too long? Maybe you should try a short video or two, or try shortening the song on the idea you're working on. There's a nice guide that talks about audio splicing in EADFAG.

Is your editing program giving you some grief? All too often, I find myself scrapping an idea just because I know my editor can't do it, or I lose motivation because things seem to move at a crawl. If that's the case for you, too, then maybe you should trial a few other programs just for the sake of variety.

I do have to agree with the others who have said that the end result is a big motivator. If something is making you go "What the heck am I doing?", then go back to the point on the timeline where you think you got off track and simply delete everything after that point. Rather than trying to "correct a mistake," this makes you feel like you just have a clean slate to work with again.

Maybe you're having trouble finding some scenes to match the lyrics or the mood. How about just watching the anime again? Find the parts that you really think match what you're going for.

The most important advice I can give is that sometimes an idea just comes slowly. If you really believe it has potential, then it'll work out in the end. Heck, for one of my videos, I had a four month lapse where I didn't even touch it. I was three-quarters of the way finished, but I just could not come up with the motivation or the inspiration to complete it. Finally, one day, everything just seemed to click into place, and I finished the video within two days of picking it up again. It ended up being one of my personal favorites. Inspiration can be funny like that, and sometimes you just gotta let it run its course.

I hope some of this advice helps, and I apologize if I repeated some of the previous comments. I skimmed this thread a few days ago, but I didn't read it as thoroughly as I probably should have.

Damn...I'm rambling. As usual. See ya. >_>

- Jen

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:40 pm

My other hobby has already turned into a full-time job. AMV-ing is the only left.

Dookstar · Post by **Dookstar** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:31 pm

lol, well its not that the song is to long, or the lyrics are screwin me up etc... its just right before i finish a product or something another idea comes to mind.. I guess the best thing i can do is NOT watch anoth anime while makin a video

Thanks for the adice some of its true 0_o

-GfN- · Post by **-GfN-** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:58 pm

well, if it were me, the question never would come to my mind.

that is because, when I have a concept in my mind I'm completely in love with - combined with visions in my head of course - I will start to edit for ages until it's done.
this would be another matter if someone would give me the order or the concept for the video. the thing is, when I'm involved in a creative process in which the only leader is me I don't feel like quitting.
if my idea is worthy and realiseable, I'll go for it and won't quit.

Jannis Nätke alias -Good for Nothing-