How many videos do you scrap?

CerebralAssamite · Post by **CerebralAssamite** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:55 am

I scrapped a few idea's this year, I've started at least 3-5 that aren't finished yet and still have a multi-editor project on the backburner that I should really get working on again.
I just cant find the time to finish them, its not completely motivation just getting started, once ive started I can't stop.

Coffee 54 · Post by **Coffee 54** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:13 am

My record so far this year (two cancelled to one finished) is pretty bad compared to last year (one cancelled to at least twelve finished). Videos that I finish seem to just flow and with long editing sessions are usually done inside of a week. Cancelled videos tend to take up a whole lot more of my time. They don't flow and I procastenate a good deal with them. Eventually, after a month or more, I realize it's not going anywhere and probably won't ever go anywhere. That's when it's time to trash it.

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:46 am

I do a lot of planning so I've only scrapped 1 video (that I might get back too later). I've finished two and have a few more in the works.

I think part of it is that I can only edit at certain times (usually only when I'm home from college) so I see editing not only as fun and chalenging, but also as a privilege.

JenCM18 · Post by **JenCM18** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:43 pm

Hmm I don't know how many I have deleted. Only maybe 2 or 3 in the past 8 years of editing.

I do end up sometimes not feel like working on a music video. Because I lose motivation for some time. But when I get it back I begin editing again.

temaranight · Post by **temaranight** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:20 pm

The Orphans otherwise known as projects that never made it to the finish line.

I've been finding it harder to actually complete a video..I'm just not getting the "rush" I used to have when I found a really good song/anime combo.

godix · Post by **godix** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:04 pm

When I started I scrapped about 50% of my projects before completion and of the ones I finished there were several that were experiments that sucked and got deleted.

These days I generally don't scrap projects, instead I just let them sit on the HD in a semi-done state for months on end. The other day I started cleaning up HD space and found about a dozen projects I started but never finshed (along with several DVD rips that I finished using last year). What really made it odd was there were several that I don't remember ever having the idea much less actually doing any editing on. It's rather strange to watch something you know you made and have no recollection of doing it at all. Gave me a much more objective look at my work than I usually get and boy do I suck.

KoRn_Child · Post by **KoRn_Child** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:11 pm

I have finished every video I started, even if it isn't turning out too good. No matter how much they suck, I keep working on them, if only for the experience. I just keep the duds in a seperate folder.

Ileia · Post by **Ileia** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:28 pm

The last time I had to format, I was deleting stuff off my harddrive so it'd transfer quicker...
...and...
....I deleted about fifteen projects. They'd been sitting in that folder, wasting away for months, so I decided to put them out of their misery. It was mercy, really. Poor little guys. They were suffering so much.

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:15 pm

My ratio is about 6:1. Six trashed projects for every one finished, or at least mostly finished.

I've found that the 'big' projects that have actual thought behind them, effects, story... all the normal stuff that you'd expect a video to have usually get trashed first. The projects that I started messing with because I randomly picked a song and started messing around stragely do better. I spend a lot of time looking at people's videos at work... so when I go home and work on videos.... it feels too much like work.

SQ · Post by SQ » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:08 pm

Well, I used to be so into AMVs that I kept a damned journal.

Out of these.. 100 ideas, I think, 90% of them have been scrapped before even getting the DVDs/CDs together.

A few ideas actually go into storyboarding because I do not have the footage and/or song handy. This holds true for two AMVs, currently. (Although one of them isn't anime, it's a real video thing that I'll probably never be able to complete).

I also storyboarded a really old AMV of mine called "Challenges", before it went anywhere. Although the storyboards had NOTHING to do with the finished product. So in essense, it was sort of scrapped, as challenges actualy evolved from a totally different AMV idea that was more autobiographical than anything (it was a planned "Last AMV" of sorts).

Recently, however, I have started more AMVs that I scrap after beginning to make them. Mostly this is because I run out of footage.

I think this is in order...

"Story of an Android" was a Earthian AMV to Cell's theme from DBZ. I got half way through it before I decided it was a sucky idea, and too repetative (those who remember betas.. I think only Devolution and YSCTR... will tell you how badly it sucked).

The FFVI Project's "Mog's Theme" using Mokona was scrapped because I ran out of images of Mokona EXACTLY half way through it.

"Underground" was a trigun/Ladykillers trailer and was scrapped because I lost it all in a reformat (:roll:) and I was too lazy to try again. (although I probably will a few years from now, cause I really liked it)

Knives' View was scrapped because I lost everything after the reformat

"Cloud's Sentiment" Was scrapped because the same exact thing happened with a totally different reformat from "Knives' View". (Yet both the betas for these are uploaded)

Wolf's Rain Yaoi AMV was scrapped because I ran out of Tsume x Toboe footage (this was actually going to be a submition for Yaoicon this year).

"Macs" isn't scrapped yet, because I really really like it, but it probably will be scrapped on acount of no footage.

So, the ones I scrapped after they were on the computer I remember. Always. Because I worked hard on them. X|
I have all the scrapped in the idea process written down somewhere. I should take pictures of my AMV Idea journal someday. It's got X's all over it. XD

And you'd laugh at some of the INSANE ideas. =p