What is the average amount of time to make an amv?

amvwizard · Post by **amvwizard** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:58 pm

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.

mikestrife · Post by **mikestrife** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:07 pm

if you take, preplaning, ripping, exporting and encoding into account. I think it's impossible to make a good amv in 4 hours.

Best case, lets assume you know your anime really well and it's a movie or really short series and you know exactly what you want I suppose the editing can be done that quickly.

But still, people will spend weeks/months/years getting their AMV's to a point where they are happy with them.

It really depends on the creator.

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:39 pm

Sure, it really depends on the creator.

But do a video in 4 hours is impossible, in my opinion. My first videos at least took one day. But I'm talking about my FIRST ones. Now I usually have a work time that goes from one month to three. The minimum can be a week, but it's a lot of time that I don't get really far in that amount of time.

I would really like for example to start a project, if only my computer would like to work.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:00 pm

IRON CHEF!

Pyle · Post by **Pyle** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:04 pm

An amv?

An hour.

A good amv?

10,000 hours.

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:16 pm

My more involved projects have taken anywhere from 80-100 hours of work. Truthfully, I'd rather use that time to put out one video that I'm truly happy with than four quick but mediocre videos. Quality over quantity, as it were.
That's just my pace. Of course, there are some who can do some outstanding work very quickly (I'm looking at you, Hsien

). Still, that seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:21 pm

Pyle wrote:An amv?

An hour.

A good amv?

10,000 hours.

An amv? Even 1 minute. Did anyone discovered here that Windows Movie Maker have an option that create in Automatic an Amv?

Crazy.

Seriously, man, crazy.

I've tried a rock song with Naruto, I was Amazed.

JaddziaDax
PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:00 pm Post subject:
IRON CHEF!

Just what I thought before.

Anyway, amvwizard, it really depends on the creator, every one has his time. It really depends also from the concpet you have, the objective you have.

But generally, as Mikestrife said, people generally spend weeks/months/years for an Amv.

This don't means you are wrong if you end yours in four, ten, or two hours, don't misunderstand our answers. Every creator has his times, but the results usually depends from the time/effort you put in the video.

*inverse* · Post by ***inverse*** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:56 pm

It really depends on how motivated I am to finish an AMV. If I'm really into a project I can finish editing it within a couple weeks, - but that doesn't include the time it takes for ripping, converting, and compressing.

I guess the length of the song comes into account as well

anneke · Post by **anneke** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 6:06 pm

I've made videos that took weeks/months, and they have been beautiful pieces of flashing strobbing eye candy. Then I've spent a few hours on a video, and despite simplicity, I've won awards with such. I've actually done better with my 'simple' videos then my 'non-simple' videos. It depends on the concept. What are you trying to do? You put the hours in that are required for that concept. If you put in less hours then is required, you'll have a video that may not be as good as you would have liked, but still has most of the concept you wanted. If you put more hours into the video then the concept requires...your a perfectionest, or have over complicated the video.

When making my 'list' of video ideas, I actually rate them Light / Medium / Hard. Based on how much time I think the idea will take. Some of my ideas I think will be Hard and turn out to be a Medium time video. While some of my 'medium' ideas turn out to be 'hard'. Light = 2-10 hours. Medium = 40 hours. hard = 80+ hours.

Current video, I estimated as Medium/Hard so about 60 hours. It's now in the high end of the 'Hard'. How many hours... I don't know, but then I don't keep track.

Some people are lucky that they can spend large chunks of time on a video, while I can spend only an hour or two at a time. So I'm having to spend alot of time getting back into the flow of the video each time I work on it. So there are lots of factors towards how much time goes into a video.

-Anneke

amvwizard · Post by **amvwizard** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 6:15 pm

i don't get it.... mine don't take long at all it might be that i rush or something i don't know someone download this video of mine and tell me if it seems rushed

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=83909