A Good AMV Takes
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The Wired Knight
- Joined: Sun Jan 07, 2001 3:22 pm
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-M_X_R-
- Joined: Thu Oct 25, 2001 5:15 pm
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First off your right "AbsoluteDestiny" destiny it is a game, I ment to say how long would it take to make an amv(or should i say a non-amv) about something like ffx. So if the average is a month, then how long would many of you say that you spent each day working on it???, and how many of those day's in a week???, the reason I ask this is becuase when i was using video wave 4, i found my self rushing and taking little time as possible, and now i realize there where many points in my amv's where the sync was really bad, and now i really want to go back and fix those. Especially when i know i could do some much better using Adobe, the way i know this is becuase some of my Cuzn's who are professional's in music videos(not really amv's but similar) told me my concept and presentation where really good and i was lucky to have just even a few sync point's in my amv's...
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klinky
- Joined: Mon Jul 23, 2001 12:23 am
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Most Final Fantasy, Sailor Moon & Dragon Ball Z videos can be done in a matter of minutes.... :p
My basic guess on how long it takes is "until Iam sick of it and put it on the internet half-finished".
Most of my videos were done in 2 - 5 days. My first AMV was done in 14hrs or so. My vids are not horrible, but they're nothing to go bonkers over...sooo you be the judge. If it takes you a month to make a music video and that month was actually used to productivly make your AMV, then it's probably going to be a good AMV, unless you don't know what you're doing.
Also I think it takes a strong mental vision of what you want to do. If you come to a part of a song and you don't know what to put there, it will cause a big hiccup in production since you'll strain your brain figuring out what you should put in there, but forget the solid parts you had envisioned before hand. That's what happens to me alot!! :p
As I said before knowing your tools will certainly play a factor. I can make neat stuff happen within a hour after starting a video that will keep my interest. If you've spent 4hrs tring to get the ~diamond~ transition to work then you're probably going to have a hard time getting the rest of your video done :p
~klinky
My basic guess on how long it takes is "until Iam sick of it and put it on the internet half-finished".
Most of my videos were done in 2 - 5 days. My first AMV was done in 14hrs or so. My vids are not horrible, but they're nothing to go bonkers over...sooo you be the judge. If it takes you a month to make a music video and that month was actually used to productivly make your AMV, then it's probably going to be a good AMV, unless you don't know what you're doing.
Also I think it takes a strong mental vision of what you want to do. If you come to a part of a song and you don't know what to put there, it will cause a big hiccup in production since you'll strain your brain figuring out what you should put in there, but forget the solid parts you had envisioned before hand. That's what happens to me alot!! :p
As I said before knowing your tools will certainly play a factor. I can make neat stuff happen within a hour after starting a video that will keep my interest. If you've spent 4hrs tring to get the ~diamond~ transition to work then you're probably going to have a hard time getting the rest of your video done :p
~klinky
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ShonenDizzyCow
- Joined: Fri Apr 13, 2001 5:40 am
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How long?
Let's see I myself have just finished a FFX vid. ^_^
It took me about......20 hours on Premiere alone, obtaining the clips and converting them into a suitable format took a while longer.
BUT
This video marks the low-end of my time taken per video. It's one of the more straightforward amongst my videos, and I do consider myself pretty fast/farmilar with Premiere already. Fruther more it's a slow song, so the edit counts are much lower than if I had made a fast action video.
My norm is about 10-20 hours per minute of footage. From 10-15 hours right up to over 200 pure editing hours (not including rendering, converting, footage ripping, planning, souring). And I've spent from anywhere from a week to half to 8 months to complete my videos. But note that I've been accused of being obssessive-complusive and the time I spend is probably on the higher end of the scale.
It all ultimately depends on
1. How quick you are when editing (how quick your ideas come together)
2. How picky you are (making every single second and frame, yes frame is well spent).
3. How complex and long the video is.
4. How available are your tools required and technical know-how
I personally feel that it is better to spend more time per video and release less videos than making lots of half-attempts. You'll feel a lot more proud of your work in hindsight.
Let's see I myself have just finished a FFX vid. ^_^
It took me about......20 hours on Premiere alone, obtaining the clips and converting them into a suitable format took a while longer.
BUT
This video marks the low-end of my time taken per video. It's one of the more straightforward amongst my videos, and I do consider myself pretty fast/farmilar with Premiere already. Fruther more it's a slow song, so the edit counts are much lower than if I had made a fast action video.
My norm is about 10-20 hours per minute of footage. From 10-15 hours right up to over 200 pure editing hours (not including rendering, converting, footage ripping, planning, souring). And I've spent from anywhere from a week to half to 8 months to complete my videos. But note that I've been accused of being obssessive-complusive and the time I spend is probably on the higher end of the scale.
It all ultimately depends on
1. How quick you are when editing (how quick your ideas come together)
2. How picky you are (making every single second and frame, yes frame is well spent).
3. How complex and long the video is.
4. How available are your tools required and technical know-how
I personally feel that it is better to spend more time per video and release less videos than making lots of half-attempts. You'll feel a lot more proud of your work in hindsight.
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ShonenDizzyCow
- Joined: Fri Apr 13, 2001 5:40 am
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!#$!%$ typos and errors.
One more point I forgot to add
5. How much source fotoage are you drawing from.
If your source footage is small (ie 90-minute movie or games like FF) then it usually is much easier getting things done than if you are..uh drawing from the entire Evangelion TV show episodes and the 2 movies. ^_^
And yes FFX is on the lower end of the 'footage length' measurement so it should be 'technically' easier and faster to make. On the other hand the lack of enough footage can make it a great challenge if you want to convey much more than what the footage could provide. It all depends on the concept that you want to deliver.
One more point I forgot to add
5. How much source fotoage are you drawing from.
If your source footage is small (ie 90-minute movie or games like FF) then it usually is much easier getting things done than if you are..uh drawing from the entire Evangelion TV show episodes and the 2 movies. ^_^
And yes FFX is on the lower end of the 'footage length' measurement so it should be 'technically' easier and faster to make. On the other hand the lack of enough footage can make it a great challenge if you want to convey much more than what the footage could provide. It all depends on the concept that you want to deliver.
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Sub0
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Paul Kievits
- Joined: Thu Nov 22, 2001 8:50 am
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It really depends, if you plan your video well you'll spend a bunch of time planning and you might slap the video together in no time. Whereas you could do it on inspiration alone and be done quickly or slowly depending on if stuff works and then there's the time your willing to spend fine-tuning. I spent half a year on my only vid and I rushed it to make a con and it still looks like cow turd, so time is no good indication for how good something will be, just start and you'll stop when it's done, easy as pie...
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soulscreme
- Joined: Tue Jul 23, 2002 6:33 pm
- Location: Philadelphia Area, PA
Hey
I'm sorta a enwbie, sorta not. I made AMVs about 3 years ago, quit, and am starting up again. It's a whole new ball game now. The process can be cut considerably if you have the anime on yer HD in DiVX format, you can then use Premiere to clip it right there, no capturing (this is why i got back into it 
) My latest video, A Thoughtless AMV, is what i consider pretty phat, yet that only took 2 days, 17 hours, on a 1.3 GHz machine, yet 3 years ago that would have taken like a week to get shitty draft, like a few months to perfect. It's all about the planning, some plans come to you quickly such as A Thoughtless AMV, while other will take a while to cultivate and will change midway. But if you stumble onto somethign good you'd be surprised how quickly it comes along.
) My latest video, A Thoughtless AMV, is what i consider pretty phat, yet that only took 2 days, 17 hours, on a 1.3 GHz machine, yet 3 years ago that would have taken like a week to get shitty draft, like a few months to perfect. It's all about the planning, some plans come to you quickly such as A Thoughtless AMV, while other will take a while to cultivate and will change midway. But if you stumble onto somethign good you'd be surprised how quickly it comes along.uh... aniem rules only next to jesus?
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drunkencell
- Joined: Mon May 14, 2001 7:24 pm
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It varies a lot for me. The quickest video I ever made took about 3 hours. This was my Kryptonite video, and the reason it went so quickly was because I knew exactly which clips I'd be using, and all of them came from just four episodes of Eva.
The longest it's taken me is about a week. My Steam and Aenema videos took that long, partly because both songs are 6 minutes long.
The longest it's taken me is about a week. My Steam and Aenema videos took that long, partly because both songs are 6 minutes long.