What Type of AMV Editor are you?

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:59 pm

Chaos, but I haven't watched episodes for more than 5x and I really want to spend more time and energy into planning. Chaos isn't always turning out well.

MycathatesyouAMV · Post by **MycathatesyouAMV** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:58 pm

I basically just listen to the song, get an idea in my head of what i need, and then i just go with the flow.

outlawed · Post by **outlawed** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 2:27 pm

Midnyte wrote:How many type are there? In my general thinking I say 2 primary types: The Storyboarder, and the Chaos Engine.

The most important type is AMV Baller.

Phantasmagoriat · Post by **Phantasmagoriat** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:28 pm

If I want to create something... hmm... special... I would storyboard everything.

Most of the time that's not the case.

But at the very minimum, I would storyboard the important parts of the music.
Otherwise it's Chaos all the way

Chez · Post by **Chez** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:42 pm

I just close my eyes and see what ends up on the timeline when i am done.

nommay · Post by **nommay** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:07 am

I'm a dinosaur. rawr

SilkAMV · Post by **SilkAMV** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:48 am

I'm not sure about those two types. I don't have to watch an anime much to be familiar with it. But the best way to get familiar with it is to edit with it. I don't watch the anime 100+ times but I do listen to the song I'm using more or less constantly. Over time as I listen to it, scenes start applying themselves to the song by themselves. I suppose that's like storyboarding but I don't wait for the whole song to be done in my head before I start so in a sense I am winging it chaos style. But I'm definitely not just throwing scenes down so people get the general idea.

When I edit, I proceed assuming that somewhere in the source I am using is a clip that was assigned by God to be applied to this particular part of the video I am working on. No other clip will suffice. It was it's destiny to be applied to this very part of the song from the moment it was animated. Likewise, the song was composed for the very purpose of marriage to this clip. Not only will this clip match the music in both tone and rhythm, it will also lead off perfectly from the preceding clip and into the next one, which will also be a clip of destiny. All I need to do is find it. This will continue until I reach the end of the song. That's more or less how I edit.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:09 pm

I'm the type that makes amvs.

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:32 pm

I think I work in a macro-chaos, micro-storyboard state....meaning my grand plans inevitably implode, leaving me no choice but to bludgeon the remaining pieces into submission and thus achieve a final product that is more accident than happy design.

The real problem is that my imagination is way too vivid - I routinely craft AMVs out of footage that doesn't exist. You can't storyboard AMVs like this.

Actually you can, and it's unfortunate I view creating entirely new scenes from scratch as a viable solution, because this makes for a lot of work.

kenisama · Post by **kenisama** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:56 am

where does "lazy" fit into all this?

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