AMV Horror Stories?

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:48 pm

I once produced a video at 12 FPS.

Oops.

Kevmaster · Post by **Kevmaster** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:49 pm

I like to fuck up everything with 1 simple mistake.

Cyanna · Post by **Cyanna** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:50 pm

My first few AMVs were made on a laptop using WMM2. I had recently finished "These Angel Hearts" for distro and I decided "I'm going to enter Otakon this year". A week before the deadline, my university-issued laptop exploded before I could make a con-friendly version. Everything...my music, pictures...my AMV project....just GONE.

...sorta

Coincidently, Vicbond was working for the University's tech support crew at the time and he helped recover a lot of stuff even though the laptop was toast. My loner laptop was just too awful to do anything on so Scintilla helped recreate my video in two days just in time for the deadline.

Kevmaster · Post by **Kevmaster** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:56 pm

Haha, I just remember. I once deleted a whole layer of a video when I was almost finished and didn't notice it. Next time I opened the software I found out.

That was annoying.

NS · Post by NS » Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:03 am

The fact That It's been just abotu 2 years since I've managed to create a full vid... and I've actually been trying... -_-

Unlimited Rice · Post by **Unlimited Rice** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:22 am

Kevmaster wrote:Haha, I just remember. I once deleted a whole layer of a video when I was almost finished and didn't notice it. Next time I opened the software I found out.

That was annoying.

I feel ya there. There have been several times where I accidentally pressed a hotkey for Extract(or was it Lift?) in Premiere that ended up wiping half the project and I didn't notice until I went back to it again and saw a big chunk of the middle gone.

Scott Green · Post by **Scott Green** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:09 am

I need to be drunk to open premiere

godix · Post by **godix** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:31 am

Kalium wrote:I once produced a video at 12 FPS.

I've come fairly close to producing a video at 12 frames. Not 12 FPS per second mind you, 12 frames total.

Kitsuner · Post by **Kitsuner** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:23 am

Kalium wrote:I once produced a video at 12 FPS.

Oops.

Psh, all the cool kids use 1fps.

Anyway, if you want an AMV horror story, just look at my profile.

Emotive · Post by **Emotive** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:40 am

Hmm.. I remember losing a whole video once. It was a FF VII amv - my third premiere video or so, I had put lots of effort in it actually (with that time's standards that is) and I had ripped the movie with some program that had split it into a few parts (mind you, it was xvid too, so the editing was laggy and problematic itself), not having thought that I might need to re-export the project or something - this sounds like a rather ridiculous mistake nowadays. So after I was done and had exported the video I deleted the ripped movie - and noticed the video had exported as a "file" file. With no extension. I tried changing the extension to .wmm like it should be, to .avi, to many things - it wouldn't work. And having used the randomly-split xvid dvd ripped movie I wouldn't be able to re-rip it in the same way and re-link stuff in the project file and re-export. My video was gone and I was left with a useless file, trying to make it work for days. >: