What Type of AMV Editor are you?

[Kionon]

Old.

[Pozorrogo]

Im a slap-sticker

I slap clips around until they stick.

[competitionbros]

where does "lazy" fit into all this?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[gotegenks]

I'm a water type... I go with the flow

squirtle-squirt

i'd like to say i'm a little of both, but i'm more of a wannabe of both. I've only watched what i edit with twice at most, and i never really write out stuff, just what i think in my head (which i do try and think things out before i edit, but it's usually lost as soon as vegas opens up) but i kinda just go straight into edits like a chaos engine or w/e

i wish i could call myself a chaos engine, sounds so cool

[OtakuGray]

I'm def. a storyboard type.

at times...it takes me a year before i have a good song/anime pairing and then it takes me even longer to make it...and rarely finish.

[Beowulf]

Editing is like any other creative activity. It helps to plan, but when that magic lightning bolt hits your forehead you have to be ready to throw all your plans out the window and go with what the moment demands.

I still haven't finished watching Boogiepop Phantom, Lain, Soultaker, or FLCL. I just loaded up the .vobs into Premiere and scrolled through that footage finding stuff I liked. During the very beginning of the editing process, it would be very difficult to find anything worthwhile, but after a couple days or scrolling through that footage, it all started to fall into place. I never did any sub-clipping for "Hail To The Thief", and if you watch it with this in mind, its pretty obvious. Most of the sequences in that AMV are just big scenes of the movie that were cut to my purposes. Theres no crazy juxtaposition. During the explosion of the song, we have THE ENTIRE "Asuka gear freakout", cut down to 45 seconds. During the grove we have THE ENTIRE "Eva troops fucking shit up", cut down to about 20 seconds. During the climax we have THE ENTIRE "omg omg omg end of the world" section.

This isn't a bad way of doing things, its just a way of doing things.

These days I roughly sub-clip all the footage and put the subclips in bins that relate to the song. My project window will often just look like 4 bins called:

"Action"
"Buildup"
"Misc Gold"
"Vobs & Song"

I'll start the video with chunks from all the subclips, but by the time the video is done, half of the timeline is sub-clips and half of it is stuff I found scrubbing through the vobs that I never thought I'd need.

[geowil11_3]

I would say a mix. I plan it out a bit then start putting things together, more often then not my first instinct for clip choices is pretty good. I don't spend a whole lot of time on making a video, usually averaging between 6 and 12 hours on a vid.

[GH]

the chaos engine.

although i only watch the episodes once, and i'll usually have an amv immediately decided in my head, sometimes sentimental with a story. but, i tend to never execute those ideas and instead just edit random shit due to lack of inspiration and how faineant i am. but i haven't edited in over a year; so that all is subject to change whenever i reinstall my editing programs and required tools.. and buy new software such as speakers, ram, and a mouse.

[Nira1992]

I tend to think about my good AMVs for a few months before making them. I don't actually plan very much, but I think about what type of clips would go in certain parts of the song, and I listen to the song a million times.

When I'm editing, chaos. Though I'd say Controlled Chaos, more specifically.

[Kristyrat]

I'm a storyboarder on my good AMVs, and a chaos engine on the ones I actually make.

This. You said it perfectly Kit

Also, I'm a terribly slow chaos engine. D: