Quality or Quantity?

[Knowname]

It also seems alot of people are thinking that quantity = crap.

I don't think Quantity is a bad thing. I look at some creators and see the massive amount of Quantity they have, and it's good quality over all.

Take two creators, one (Creator X) who has only 1 or 2 high quality videos, and another creator (Creator Y) who has 20+ videos that are all pretty good, but just not at the same 'quality' as Creator X.

I've been looking at it from the extremes. People who have actually specified I'm just going to put out as many videos as I can usually do have bad vids, but people who say I wanna put out the best video I can do have great videos.

For someone to have alot of good videos, I think that just means they've found a good balance between the two.

I could probly make a bunch of mediocre to good videos based on their merrit and the minimal preplanning I do just by playing the song in the background, all I'd have to do is skip the three month polishing stage that I typically have, yep a video a week max, sometimes 2. Will they be good? will I be proud of them? Is a fly proud of each and every one of it's maggots??

Answer- of coarse, but that is not the POINT. If you feal differently then I'm all ears, but I have tried it both ways and, frankley, I get more satisfaction knowing I did my BEST rather then just releiving stress. Yes, like Castor Troy, I have a billion ideas swimming through my head and I REALLY would love to release the stress just by spitting these out, but if you ARE truley doing this for yourself and not for recognition, take your time, buy a notebook.

As Arigatomina brought up IF there were less creators around here maybe I'd feal differently... but I see no shortage...

[Knowname]

it could be that the low quantity creators have these things called lives.

or at least pretend to....

[Pwolf]

i don't nessesarily think an editor who makes a lot of vidoes in a relitivly short period of time, compaired to one who doesn't, will make lower quality videos. look at Steakslim, the guy is a machine. i think just about every video he pumps out is amazing in its own right and he pumps these things out like nothing...

same goes for the visa versa. i don't think someone who spends more time on a video will produce something "good". but i think about 90% of the time, the more time spent on improving one's video by either looking for better scenes to use, checking your timing, editing the audio, using effects, and even just spend the time to make sure your source is the best it can be will create a better, more enjoyable video overal.

But there is only so much time you can spend editing before your just wasting your time. at some point durring the edit process you have to say "i'm done". weither thats after 4 hours of editing or 4 months of editing. either way, the end result can be "good" or "bad".

There is a completely different factor that comes into play to determine weither or not a video will be "good" or "bad" based on time of completion. I'm not exactly sure what that is, but i'm thinking it's a combination of how complex your concept/idea is, how much experience you have editing, and how well you can execute your concept and ideas in the video. if you have all three of those down, you'll probably make a good or decent video in a short amount of time.

i think it mostly comes down to experience. if you don't have a lot of experience editing, the complexity of the video would probably slow you down a little and will effect how well you can exicute your idea. considering i don't do a lot of effects, an effect video would take a lot longer for me to finish then someone else, say, Zarxrax. i'd spend more time figuring out how to make the effect then making it fit with what i'm trying to accomplish. i'd probably either give on the effect or release the video with a halfassed version of it which would created a less the satisfactory video("when knives and waffles meet" anyone?). but if i had spent more time on trying to learn the effects and making it look good and fit my concept, the video would probbaly be much better.

anyway, those are my thoughts on the subject. i need to stop typing before i realize i'm late for class >.>


Pwolf

[Scandia]

I usually go for quality if I really like the series. Otherwise quantity if there are a lot of ideas inside my mind but none of them stands out.

[JaddziaDax]

There are notable exceptions however, such as WTF by Fluxmeister that was made in 2 days and is quite possibly the best video in history.

it could be that the low quantity creators have these things called lives.

or at least pretend to....

I dont think it really matters how many "days" a person spends on a project mostly because for me I can do a project in a day, and it turn out atleast somewhat decent... BUT it all depends on many factors:

1. do I have a very clear idea of what I want to acomplish? (aka planning)
2. do I know how to do the effects I want?
3. do I have a life, a job or a distraction keeping me from working on the video? or do I really WANT to work on this video?

I recently scrapped a video I have spent several hours on (in the span of several weeks) because I really didnt want to work on it... if I wanted to finish it then it would probably be a neat video, but since I didnt want to work on it it would more than likely turn out dull..

in general I dont have a life so I have been known to finish a video in a day or two, because I have nothing else to do cept work on my video... granted at the same time my videos dont really have really any big super duper special effects, but at the same time I think that a song dictates that... most of my songs lately have been pretty simplistic.

but I have noticed that with more and more videos I have done the more "fine-tuning" I want to do as well.... and even then it wont be till after a project has been done for a couple of weeks that I will notice other "errors" or things I could have done differently... and instead of Remastering the video I would rather work on a new project.

[[Mike of the Desert]]

you're attempting to classify a really subjective topic with only two variables... I'm shocked at all the long-ass responses to this thread. I thought you people were smarter than this.

And if you'd bother to read any of those long-ass responses, you'd see that people know this is a subjective topic with two variables, and each has opinions about it. The topic is as intelligent or unintelligent as the discussion dictates, and when people like you come in and shit all over the place, it's bound to be unintelligent. Intelligent conversation usually starts with a generalization, and then people pick it apart.

It's already been stated in this thread several times that "quality" can be different for different people.

x2

I think the same as Pwolf, between Quality and Quantity, I would of course choose Quality. But.. What Quality means heavily depends from multiple factors. And about this Pwolf said my opinion, I have the same thoughts. Everything is been already said here, I will probably only repeat. In fact, I quote surely some thoughts that are been posted here, the more time a video is been planned, the more time the video is been edited, the more it will be "Cured", this don't exactly means "Good", and I think "Cured" it's not the right word to tell what I want. Sorry about that, but I'm searching a term to say something like an expansion of "Take care", sorry Probably I've this lapsus because I'm sleepy. :'(

But the most important thing I want to say is that everything HIGLY depends from the experience of the creator.

[Koopiskeva]

Qualintity |:

[Castor Troy]

Qualintity |:

In chinese, they use the same word for Quality and Quantity.

[Koopiskeva]

Qualintity |:

In chinese, they use the same word for Quality and Quantity.

Does that mean that they don't care? Or care too much? Or is Osaka really mega man and Jesus is also the incredible hulk? |:

[Castor Troy]

Qualintity |:

In chinese, they use the same word for Quality and Quantity.

Does that mean that they don't care? Or care too much? Or is Osaka really mega man and Jesus is also the incredible hulk? |:

I think the word is "bootlegging".