amvwizard wrote:I hear people talk about it taking them 2 weeks to make amv's. Its kinda werid cause i compare my videos to those people and it only takes me like 4 hours and i think mine are just as good or better.
DriftRoot wrote:Editing time also is heavily skewed towards one's experience in making AMVs, which generally boils down to how good you are with your chosen editing program. I have spent six hours creating an effect that I can now duplicate in under 10 minutes, just because I didn't know what the hell I was doing the first time around and learned the hard way that there was a much better, more efficient method for achieving the result I was looking for. This happens to me a lot - when the heck am I going to learn that trying the simplest way first is the way to go?
Some people also don't count the footage collection process when giving their "this is how long it took me to make this AMV" figure. I just spent about 95 hours collecting my footage and getting my AMV off the ground, (sad, but true) and for most of that time I knew what I was doing. Missing from that figure is all the time I spent screwing around, trying to fix mistakes and learning from my own ignorance, which would boost my total to easily over 120 hours. In addition, if you're making an AMV from a movie that's an hour and a half long, vs. an AMV from a series that has 50+ episodes (latter is me, stupid stupid me!), the sheer amount of time devoted to culling through footage and handling that footage is drastically different.
And yes, I have a life, so 95 hours wasn't amassed in the last three weeks or so. Try the last three months. At this rate, my AMV plans are going to be keeping me busy for the next decade or so.
When I see someone say they've created an AMV in under 10 hours (I'm being kind), I automatically assume what they've done is nothing I want to watch - unless I know the editor is experienced and isn't holding up this particular project as their ultimate achievement.
LOL! I did the same thing. -100 speed makes footage go backwards! I was spending forever cutting the scene frame by frame and reordering them to make it go backwards...that was years ago. But I still remember my folly back then.DriftRoot wrote:Editing time also is heavily skewed towards one's experience in making AMVs, which generally boils down to how good you are with your chosen editing program. I have spent six hours creating an effect that I can now duplicate in under 10 minutes, just because I didn't know what the hell I was doing the first time around and learned the hard way that there was a much better, more efficient method for achieving the result I was looking for.
Twenty hours? Yeah, lately that's at least the amount of time I spend just grabbing the footage I need.Larcabre wrote:AMV's take time. I'd say in my own experience taking up to say twenty hours is pretty fast.
