the most time spent on an AMV

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 11:52 pm

Counting planning time and research time, my next video could take maybe 500 hours. Considering I'm reading two books as part of the research phase.

Already spend an estimated 20 hours planning time on it.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 12:07 am

I don't even want to say how many hours I spend on my Transending Love video... It took over two months of planning alone....

Vlad

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 12:14 am

I've been working on Video 5, [unbearably long title], since about July. (Not continually, of course; on average it's probably about 2 or 3 hours a week.)

With no end in sight. Ever.

What's sad is that it's not even going to kick much ass when it's done. I'm just really slow and really bad.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 12:41 am

My next video will take one... MILLION hours to complete.

Actually... no, not really. I can't back that up.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 1:54 am

dokidoki wrote:My next video will take one... MILLION hours to complete.

Actually... no, not really. I can't back that up.

Sure! I guess will see it come about the turn of the next century.... Hmmm... Hopefully we won't have to pry it from your fossilized hands...

Vlad

Ashton · Post by **Ashton** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 3:28 am

alternatefutures wrote:Well, not counting what I'm currently working on, Light of Day was created over six work intensive months. 48 hours for five seconds of footage was rather common in that vid.

Yeah, but most of that work was on CGI (I'm guessing) which is non repetative.

My AMG video "Lies" took about 80 hours of work in the editing and output, but the real kicker is in the After Effects work. I spent 10 hours of honest to God, frame by frame repetative work on 1 second of footage (I removed the background from around a character.) The one that really hurt was the 7 hours I put in on another full second of footage doing the same thing that I decided to scrap before the final version

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 9:27 am

Sappy Self-Indulgence took about 6 weeks, working several hours each night. Though I think I took a 1 or 2 week break in there to loathe the video and ponder giving up on it. I've never counted hours spent on a video, though. I just edit a little here and there at random times, so keeping track of hours would be impossible.

alternatefutures · Post by **alternatefutures** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 11:06 am

See, that's a big misconception of the video, Ashton. The rendering part of the video did not take all that long. However, building the model, importing and texturing it, building the various scenes (one scene took me three weeks to set up), rendering previews, adjusting movements, previewing again, adjusting movement again, rendering a final version five times (background, ship, matte, two exhaust layers) and then compositing all four frames together in Photoshop (I didn't have After Effects). It's 48 hours of work for that five seconds of footage.

FirestormXIII · Post by **FirestormXIII** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 11:19 am

I spent about three months working on a video that no one will ever see because I think it blows

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 11:34 am

CaTaClYsM wrote:The reason it is taking me so long to do this one is that I am not just removing subtitles, but I am removing them from a scene with fucking ROLLING CLOUDS IN A CGI SEQUENCE! (Metropolis) its a royal pain in my tiny white ass...

Believe me, I feel your pain- except I'm not removing subtitles, I've got about 15 seconds of footage that I need to remove large overlaid titles in CGI cloud scenes. Thank kami I finally finished up isolating the fog. *shudder* There are times when I wish I wasn't so picky. I wish more more that I had known more and not started and gotten a number of effects done in 30fps before realizing that I really should be working in 24fps (as the footage I'm working with, also Metropolis primarily, was film originally). Not only would it look better, but I'd have 20% less work when I have to go frame-by-frame.

I second AD, though- find some way to get footage off the DVDs. DVD-ROM's are pretty darn cheap these days.

DVD-ROM drive: $30
Metropolis DVD: $22
Not having to edit out subtitles frame-by-frame: Priceless.