So have you made the videos you have always wanted?

[Taite]

Lack of editing skill + a fairly short attention span + a fear I won't do the concept justice = perpetual production hell.

Pretty much this.

Actually, I plan to hopefully remedy this this next week... >___>

x3 for me.
I usually try to save amvs I have always wanted to do, so then in the future when I've improved, hopefully I can do them justice.

[x_rex30]

i've received good advice about what to do when you get stuck writing, which sounds like the problem you're having with editing.
just write freely without worrying about grammar and making sense and all that. just let all your ideas out on the page. then go back and revise it so it makes sense.

i've tried this a bit with editing, sometimes i randomly throw scenes on to the timeline and it can be turned into an interesting segment of the amv.

but i still have videos i want to make but have yet to make. i'll eventually get to what my free time allows me to get to. but i don't think i'll stop thinking of new amv ideas until the day i die.

If I had your attitude, I know I could excel.

The things I do, I wonder how they reflect me, and I mean everything, even playing a simple game. Kills potential enjoyment in the activity.

I do it in everyday life. Even though I have seen myself excel above others, I have while on the road to being great end up becoming irrationally discouraged. It was from being afraid of the outcome, and what I think a failure says about me. It is what creates "discouragement". Even though there is a light at the end of the tunnel, I make up reasons why I can't make it.. >> How do I get out of that trap I put myself in, so I can start creating the things I was meant for? Anyone? Words of wisdom would do me good right now.

"Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up." Too bad I don't care so much about learning from my mistakes. I just dwell on the mistakes. It's really stupid of me.

Now some people just "don't care". Maybe I need to smoke weed before I try to do the things that I do, so I don't care so much about the outcome.

[Otohiko]

Yes, otherwise I wouldn't be making them. I definitely haven't made ALL the videos I always wanted, or that what I've done was somehow perfect - far from, but I'm very happy with what I got out so far. It was what I wanted to see and in some sense my videos pleasantly surprise me.

[Fall_Child42]

Not only was I able to make the videos I've always wanted, I've made videos beyond my own capabilities. To put it simply, I just never gave up.

And you never let us down.

[EvaFan]

For the most part no because those ideas always require way more work then I'm willing to put into an AMV for some reason. I like this hobby but there is a limit to how far I will go for it, not because I don't like the work but because I just lack the passion to go that far with it.

There is one video from this group of ideas that I am working on and have been for almost a year now. I think that shows why I don't end up doing these ideas. That vid is no where close to being done too and its only a 2 minute instrumental.

So ya, most of the ideas I complete seem to be spur of the moment ideas that seem to work well once I start actually editing them. If they weren't working out well then they end up getting dropped. Can usually tell if I'm going to be able to finish an amv after just a few hours of working on it but a part of me just keeps trying untill I just don't want to work on it anymore and inevitably garbage it.

[Bauzi]

I did made two videos that I've always wanted too and it felt great to finish them. However there are new ideas and wishes that I didn't finished yet.

Some would call it a lack of skill, I just call it being lazy and easly distracted with new ideas. With some more effort I probably would be able to do those videos.

[qyll]

What obstacles hold you back?

Mostly making effects. I'm just not very proficient in that department, but I need them to satisfy a concept that I want to use in a video.

The only videos that I've made that have come out the way I imagined them are the simple ones that took ~2-3 days.

[guardiansoulblade]

Lack of editing skill + a fairly short attention span + a fear I won't do the concept justice = perpetual production hell.

I feel like this at the moment, and my beat sync isn't working out well right now so I'm stuck.

[inthesto]

NOTHING CAN HOLD ME BACK

[Enigma]

Nope.