How do you go about selecting your clips?

[ngsilver]

I guess I still do some kind of clipping. Though I do it in premier. I just pull in the full episodes/movies into premier and I work with 5 timelines.
1 timeline I use to put the full episodes in and begin skimming and cutting clips from.
1 timeline I use to store my clips in a sequential manner according to when I clipped them which generally is chonological.
1 timeline I use to store my betas. I just copy the video timeline and cut up a beta from there.
1 timeline as my final video. this is where I do all of my edits.
1 timeline is my credits/bumper. When I want to render a credited version I just pull this timeline at the end of the video timeline and render.

I usually start the video by clipping certain scenes that I know I want. I then comb the source while listening to the song to find clips that I think I might need. If there is a story I'm telling I'll try to keep the clips in order for the story, if there is no real story and it's mood or fun I'm going for I just pull the clips as I see them. Finally, when I have enough clips to work with I start somewhere in the song where I feel a strong need to work on (usually the beginning or ending) and just cut/paste clips from the clipping timeline to the final timeline and see what works or how the flow feels. If I run out of clips or I feel the clips I have don't work I then go searching through the source for more clips and pull them in as I find them.

Doing it this way at least I can tell when I've already viewed an episode or part of the source and if I've already pulled clips from certain parts since they'll be cut form the source already.

[Phantasmagoriat]

-Load the entire movie/episode/DVD into Magix as a low-quality-but-fast mjpeg.avi
-run automatic scene recognition for about an hour
-pick out the scenes that catch my eye and drag them into the 'Takes' directory [a pool of clips]
-drag everything from the Takes directory back onto the timeline so my chosen clips are all lined up back-to-back
-usually about 1/4 remains ['usable' footage]; I put the rest into a separate directory just in case I need it
-I also keep a directory that holds every scene chronologically for reference
-depending on what I want to do, I may look for common trends in the clips and categorize them into separate folders
-Once I'm satisfied, I begin editing by picking/choosing from my various pools of clips
-I finish by doing Bait-and-Switch with slow-but-high-quality makeAVIS.avi files when rendering the AMV.

-it might be worth noting that before I even touch the video, I slice-up the audio into it's major segments to see the natural breaks

~Phan

[gotegenks]

Whenever i watch an anime, i open up a notepad and type in which episode is which, and the main event in that episode, so by the end of it i have an episode guide.
Whenever i'm editing, and i have to look for a clip, i'll look, but when i find it, i write it down in the episode guide.
this makes things go faster from time to time but i don't always need it.

[CodeZTM]

Wikipedia is a great ally, as it allows me to remember episodes in greater detail. With that in mind:

1) I open up the timeline and pick my song out. From there, I listen to it and visualize the anime I have in mind, seeing which lyrical sections match up with actual anime scenes [although I have a bad habit of inventing eventsi n anime that didn't actually happen].
2) Open up the anime I already have scriped for each episode and V-Dub the clips that I have in mind.
3) Edit the section of song until perfection.
4) Repeat

Really, this has worked pretty well for me over the years, and has been pretty faithful. Especially in IC's when I have the footage already ready, I can just ZIP through it real quick.

[Enigma]

Ok, Actually srs this time

1.Save full episode/make fakeavi
2.Throw it in editing software
3.Look for cool shit
4.make cool shit happen
5.???????
6.finished.

[Koopiskeva]

osmosis

[ExSphere]

If the clip was in a nostromo video, I don't use it.

[Cannonaire]

I'm fairly new, but I've come up with a system that works pretty well for me. From dvd source, I rip all the footage into episodes. I then make a default avisynth script for an episode I know well and clean up all the footage, IVTC, etc. When that's done, I comment out all the slow cleanup lines and use the Trim() command to make script "clips". As far as finding the clips I want to use, I generally have a really good idea for a few or a lot of scenes in the video which I immediately add to my Vegas timeline (but don't tweak to perfection yet) and I watch the series if it's not too long and pick out scenes as I need them. I can remember the episode from which the clips are from.

[gotegenks]

If the anime was in a nostromo video, I don't use it.

fix'd

[Bm-atticus]

Well, for me one of the big things I do is whenever I buy an anime Dvd, I rip it and store it onto an external hard drive and save it as an MOV, just in case. And then, some time in the future, if the mood strikes or an AMV contest is coming up, I have all the footage there waiting.

As far as actually cutting down clips and picking the right one, I try to stick with one anime per AMV to save my brain. Also, I pick an anime I know pretty well.

Of course, it helps if you actually have an idea of how you want the video to go. I agree that sometimes certain lyrics can narrow down clips, along with the length of the song. But I like to look at it like if I can't make the clip fit in there, maybe it wasn't supposed to be there in the first place.

After I have the footage and ideas, I import all of the episode I know I will use and those I think I might use into my editing program and start whiddling down the footage I'm not going to use and placing clips on the time line and cutting them down even further until I'm happy.

So yeah... that was my 2 cents.