Are you a winning procrastinator?

[Zarxrax]

I started something big back in late July, did a good 200+ hours of preprocessing work and have sat idle ever since. My timeline has 8 seconds on it, and the deadline for the con is coming up fast. There's no way in hell i'm going to be able to pull this off in a day or so, but something on this scale being pulled out of my ass in a week is a distinct posibility.

Haha, this is exactly what happens to me. I will spend a huge amount of time preparing my footage for editing, and then I never get around to actually making the video, or I edit a little bit and give up. It really sucks -_-

[Devil^Shin]

Have you ever just twiddled around your chair, laughing away in IRC or Skype while that AMV competition's submission deadline that you so wanted to send something to crept even closer?

kahahahahhahahhahahha that sound so familiar
I'm not very fast editor, these year i make only 4 amv's, but i have ideas for 10 but actualy i have many other things to do - go to drunk with friends, go to dates, practice martial arts, play some freaky game and so. Becase of that i didnt edit offten and i'm little lazy But when i star new project i finish it sooner or later

[dokool]

Yeah, I've done about 50 or so hours of 'prep' work for my next vid but haven't touched the timeline (or the prep work) in a couple weeks. I'm about to go to Best Buy to get the disc I need to really <i>start</i> the project, so here's hoping...

[Castor Troy]

I started an 8 minute video back in the spring, finished a minute of it, and haven't worked on it since. I wanted to get it done for the Otakon and AWA fan parodies, but I'm thinking of trashing it now to save space.

When it comes to opening premiere or playing the wii, it's not too hard to guess which one I'll pick.

[Infinity Squared]

That's basically my AMV hobby in a nutshell. What most people could pull off in a few days takes me weeks. The shortest I've ever taken to edit something was two weeks (The Chosen Two) simply because I was just playing around with my new editing program and had no internet for two months. My current project has taken me over a month to just finish a minute - not because it's complex, but because I have trouble actually sitting down and doing the editing. Seriously. If we would just invent telepathic editing, I'd have a hundred videos done by now.

Haha... you know, so many times, I have to say I blame the internet for so much time wasted. Whether it be chat programs or just forum trolling, the internet consumes more time than I sometimes care to admit and I've been able to pull together videos in a lot faster time when I actually decided that I will go totally offline while I'm working on something... makes me wonder why I created this thread when I have a deadline tomorrow

[guy07]

In a word, no. I never enter compitions so i never have to sweat stuff, as for MEPS, i usually get it done in time. What's weird, a video i made in WMM 2 years ago with 2 naruto episodes to a distubed song that i put together in like two days is getting a way higher star avg then my Pot one, which i spent 4 months on with over 30 sources.In short, if u want to win a competition overnight: naruto :0
Doesn't effort count for anything these days?

[The Wired Knight]

I'm more the opposite. I keep procrastinating to open AP and get to work, but once I actually open the thing I sit there for hours editing. It's just a matter of getting motivated enough to open the program.

[DriftRoot]

I started something big back in late July, did a good 200+ hours of preprocessing work and have sat idle ever since. My timeline has 8 seconds on it, and the deadline for the con is coming up fast. There's no way in hell i'm going to be able to pull this off in a day or so, but something on this scale being pulled out of my ass in a week is a distinct posibility.

Haha, this is exactly what happens to me. I will spend a huge amount of time preparing my footage for editing, and then I never get around to actually making the video, or I edit a little bit and give up. It really sucks -_-

I third this. After much introspection, though, and this has to do with many other things in my life, I've come to the realization that I LOVE to plan, prepare, scheme and dream my way to big, huge projects ... only to lose all enthusiasm once it's time to hit the grindstone. A lot of it is that, if it's in my head, it's perfect, but it's almost impossible to reproduce that perfection in real life, so I get discouraged.

I nearly fell out of my chair while reading that the longest someone's worked on an AMV is three weeks - you consider that a long-term project?? Good God! I've been working on one of my AMVs for TWO YEARS. I'm not sure whether I should be proud of the fact that I'm still interested in finishing it. 'Course, I had computer problems and a little thing called "school" get in my way, but still. I couldn't finish an AMV in two weeks if someone held a gun to my head.

[Unlimited Rice]

It's just a matter of getting motivated enough to open the program.

yeah, that's probably the biggest thing for me

[Scintilla]

I have had at least one video sitting on my computer unfinished since almost the beginning of the year, only making very sporadic progress in very small steps.

I have countless AMV ideas of varying merit backing up in my mind and not getting worked on.

For the first time since I started making AMVs, I have gone an entire calendar year without releasing any.
(Which of course means that I had nothing for the 2006 convention circuit.)

I'd say that qualifies me pretty strongly as a "losing procrastinator".