Selecting Scenes

Unrul3r · Post by **Unrul3r** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:55 am

I was wondering, how does each of you select your scenes for your amv? Is it by seeing the whole series/movie again and take note of the scenes you want? Is it by jump-seeing them? What's your way of selecting them?

This comes out of curiosity cose i usually see the whole series/movie to get a better grip on the scenes.

So, whats your way?

PS: I hope this is in the right section

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:59 am

i usually scan through the video files and select the ones that look like they can fit, then later decide which ones to use

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:41 pm

What I used to do:
Work on the video. Remeber the stuff that I had in my mind. when it doesn´t work or when I needed a scene I thought about alternate scenes and swifted threw if I didn´t found one.

Today:
I swift threw all the episodes and cut out possible clips and place them in one of my Premiere Pro sequences. Sometimes I use one layer for one anime, episode or movie to make the duration not too long.
The beginning is kinda frustrating and boring, but in the end I can use my old method on a clip pool of amv worthy scenes. It spares time for me.

For every (seriously) amv project I discover and improve better working methods, I won´t be surprised when I come up later with new ideas and work flows

DeinReich · Post by **DeinReich** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:50 pm

I think it is best to have as much footage as you can have available to edit and sift through it in your editing program as you edit. It's always better to have more than you need then to find out you don't have enough.

Unrul3r · Post by **Unrul3r** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:16 pm

DeinReich wrote:I think it is best to have as much footage as you can have available to edit and sift through it in your editing program as you edit. It's always better to have more than you need then to find out you don't have enough.

Yea, i agree with you. Last amv i had tons of footage left over.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:55 pm

I used to spend about 10+ hours just scrubbing through footage and setting clipping points. After I got a lot more HDD space to work with and a decent system to run on i started dumping entire series to disc and transcoding it for later use. This only works for relatively small sources (I wouldn't recommend doing it for more than 10 hours of footage unless you have a lot of free space to use).

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:52 pm

I love my 1tb external >.>

Being really familiar with your source really goes to help...

for one of my videos, since ripping 7 seasons, 26 episodes each season, hour long episodes sounded really crappy, I watched the source and took notes on which scenes and clips i wanted... everything from what episode they were in and which dvd they were on...

however if you are only working with a short series or a couple of movies, I would hope that you don't need to take too many notes.

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:31 pm

I rewatch all of my source footage, usually on fast-forward so it takes less time, and write down times and a short description of any scene I might want to use. Then I drop the song into the editor, and drop markers on any point where I want a change of scene.

I make a list of the times for each marker and the lyrics at those times, and then take both lists and start matching scenes from the first list with times on the second until I've filled at least half and usually three-quarters or more of the song. At that point, I clip the scenes I've chosen and many of the potentially useful scenes from the scene list and edit the parts I have chosen together. I use the extra scenes that I clipped to fill in the gaps.

I then export a first alpha and look for scenes that don't work together, bad transitions, mistimings, and whatever else might be wrong, and try to fix those before I start shopping a revised beta around for advice.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:46 pm

I usually don't start with a large pool of clips, I'll have a few specific scenes in mind when I start a project and then decide what clips to pull from my source as I edit based on what I think flows with the current section I'm editing.

That ends up taking a really long time because I'll end up scrubbing through multiple disks multiple times every time I want a few new clips. Once I put clips on the timeline I don't like to change them (because of the amount of work it takes me to find a new clip)

I need to change my ways if I want to get amvs out in under a year >_>

Farlo · Post by **Farlo** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:58 pm

after dumping vobs to my hdd i just get general clips i want to using vdubmod.

i can trim down the rest and get em timed how i want once they hit the timeline.