How long does it take you to make a 5 min vid?

Blackroses_hack001 · Post by **Blackroses_hack001** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:02 pm

You're totally right...
It all depends....

I wonder....where do the newbies go
to post an intro..?

And..where do you go to make fc's....?

And how come noone's here..?
(looks around)

Infinity Squared · Post by **Infinity Squared** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:47 am

Well, here's my experiment on just such a topic:

Reason

Basically it took me a straight 5 hours to make this basically 5 minute video.

I did this in one go, though I would have to add maybe an hour or so to that time due to of course the preprocessing and final rendering. The whole purpose of this video was plain and simply to see what I can achieve with me clicking away as fast as possible.

Now, the other video in my account is something that I made in approximately 1 week (compressed together, but maybe about a month in total uncompressed). And that video is getting opinions and has won an amv competition but ironically is getting less hits (I would attribute this to the fact that I used a relatively little known anime).

So I guess you can make any inference there if having something done as fast as possible is any good compared to something that a great deal more effort was invested on.

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:26 am

I am well known for putting projects off. Right now(tm), inside the spanned dynamic volume Izanagi on Dordray. Let's see "ls".

I have papers on information cataloging, etc... tons of papers I need to published to Animetheory, but it's hard to get Sharepoint hosted blah blah. 300MB of unorganized Macromedia Flashes and equally Adobe PhotoChop. And then the gem.

A project I've wanted to do was the organization of animes using a standardized scene language, to allow easy searching for useful clips. It's a hopeless project, except, I have GBs of AVI files... in folders by anime... and I don't remember what they are sometimes

and After Effects project files with about the 60-second climax of a song done, and nothing else. That portion of the video is likely revised about five times and a decent addition to a killer video. But has no substance by itself usually.

maybe the problem is that there's a less active or repeated part of the song... I have to learn how to use StainBurp CuBaseless' wave editor to cut the boring parts out... 5min is waaay too long for my attention span :S

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:36 am

danielwang wrote:maybe the problem is that there's a less active or repeated part of the song... I have to learn how to use StainBurp CuBaseless' wave editor to cut the boring parts out... 5min is waaay too long for my attention span :S

Why would you "have to" use Cubase for something like that? I'm sure something like Audacity or WavePad would work just fine...

LuluandAuron · Post by **LuluandAuron** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:45 am

For me Lulu, it takes anywhere from 2 - 5 months....and then lots of prayers on the final export in hopes that Adobe doesn't spit it back at me.
A good topic for those of us with crappy computers would be, how many days did it take you to get Adobe to agree to export your video without crashing....my record was 4 days.