Editing Comforts

[Enigma]

1.)Food
2.)Air condition

[gotegenks]

skittles.

the candy not the vid.

[Force-Attuned_Krogoth]

I have trouble motivating myself when I'm at home. Too many distractions, and I've not been able to make a physically or psychologically separate place for serious activities. Consequently, I do most of my editing on breaks/lunch at work. Strangely enough, my best progress seems to get made on the shorter breaks, whether or not I've been thinking about it beforehand. It helps to have something to ignore, I find. The trick is actually ignoring it.

[Darklydone]

Night time, iced tea, and a free evening. I do most of my clipping for vids while relaxing at a coffee shop.

[macchinainterna]

I recently discovered candlelight and burning Nag Champa incense works pretty well for me. O:

I do most of my clipping for vids while relaxing at a coffee shop.

Jes, if I could edit videos outside of my home, believe me. I would have a ton more videos done |:

[Megamom]

[Infinity Squared]

Mmm... these days it's generally with the speakers on and not headphones... my pair broke and I haven't had the motivation to replace them since. Water bottle on hand is always necessary and something to munch on. Time of day is not really relevant but I do crank up the volume more during the daylight hours.

[Bauzi]

-It's night
-My headphones are next to me (they are not closed ones, because of the comfort and it's quite anyway)
-One of my laptops is conencted to my 26" full HD monitor via HDMI
-TV playing in the background like a radio. I turn it of if I need faster results or need to concentrate more
-some snacks or sweets are fine, but not needed

What's really important to me is the program: Premiere Pro and only Premiere Pro. I really can't imagine to edit a full AMV in Avid and Final Cut Pro defines uncomfortablty to me. This "test" version of FCP 7 is so buggy! Can you imagine to press an hotkey and it doesn't work? That's a common FCP issue and is uncomfortable as hell. The whole handling often wants to band my head on the desk. It really sucks out the fun for me.

@Kionon: Sure you can do great things with FCP really fast, but when I have the choice than I definatly stick to Premiere Pro. In my eyes it has almost the same functions and for sure all I need for amvs.

[Bauzi]

Oh! And for After Effects compositing when I don't need sound, I listen to music. Makes the whole working sexy =3

To all you couch editors:
Are you using your trackpad of your laptop? I can imagine to edit a video with my good built in trackpad on my Macbook, but seriously don't want to do same on most Windows machines that I had and worked with. It's quite uncomfortable for me. I also need to make the raw editing with my mouse. I'm not a keyboard only editor.

[Animated]

Legs on desk.

Oh, and silence everywhere.