How many videos do you scrap?

Gallup · Post by **Gallup** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:32 am

Lately I was going over all of my video ideas that i have worked on at some point or another and realized that out of probably twenty or so video ideas that I have tried working with I have only completed about seven, not counting those one or two that i completed and then decided to scrap because I did not like them. Does this happen to anyone else or am I just odd?

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:18 am

I scrap a lot more vids than I finih, and it's getting a lot worse as time goes on. I think this year I've scrapped 9 out of every 10 vids I've started. I don't even bother saving the betas anymore, I just get bored and delete the entire vid folder. Lack of motivation, lack of attention span, boredom and restlessness. I still love each and every idea I've started. I just can't sit still long enough to finish them.

I have the same problem with unfinished stories, but I never seriously thought it would bleed over into my vids. One day I'm loving a 30 second beta on repeat for hours. Two days later I'm deleting it and everything that goes with it so I can start something else. Maybe I just need a bigger harddrive so I can have multiple projects running at once.

*inverse* · Post by ***inverse*** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:55 am

Lately, I'm finding that I'll get halfway through ripping clips I'd like to use and then end up changing my mind. Recently, I began taking footage from my Soul Hunter DVDs to prepare for a video idea. Then it slowly...died.

When I start actually making projects, I usually like to keep the bit that I've put together. I still have those 30-second beginnings to videos I started two years ago, burned on a disc somewhere.

I've had an idea for a video ever since I finished "Love and Joy" and I actually still want to do it. Every time I hear the song I think "Yes, I'll do a video to this...eventually".

Sometimes, there just isn't that "spark" that you need to complete a video.

Warheart · Post by **Warheart** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:13 am

Arigatomina wrote:I still love each and every idea I've started. I just can't sit still long enough to finish them.

Same here. I usually gather the sources and beginn to rip the dvds and after I begann editing I'm already thinking of another idea so I can't complete the current one because the new one does faszinate me even more. And often I have a beta thats like 30 secs long (like my current X one) that gets deleted after I already started another project. And sometimes I just wirte the ideas down so I can revive the project even after a long time (the concept for my current amv is older than 1,5 year). But I never work on more than one project, ok it happend once but everything turned out to be crap cause I couldn't focus on one project.

Nandez · Post by **Nandez** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:26 am

To many its keeps getting worse and worse.First if I have the material I start the vid but I quicky lose the enthusiasm to keep doing so I delete it.Of course I always write my ideas down incase when I have nothing to do I may start it again if I can make myself make it.Of course that hasn't happened yet.

danarchking777 · Post by **danarchking777** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:36 am

i dont scrap anything.if some thing is out of wack and i start being dissatisfied with my project, i just revamp my idea/theme ect. an origonal idea usually is the one that makes the best vids, so hang in there when editing and dont let editors block get you down

Kerydwenn · Post by **Kerydwenn** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:13 am

I haven't scrapped many projects for the moment... in fact, I even revived a project that was 3 years old (when I came back to working on vids a few weeks ago). There are a few things I have "in the works" (as in, I have concepts and I know I can access the sources easily if need be), but nothing sleeping in a corner of my HDD waiting to be deleted. Except for one vid, in fact - something too old that wouldn't be very original nor fun to make now, and for which the little amount of footage is a problem.

Now I don't know if it's simply because I haven't had the time yet to build up many projects and attempts... who knows, in one or two years from nwo on I may end up scrapping lots of stuff too =)

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:13 am

I've only canned two vids thus far. For the first, I realized that the concept just wan't going anywhere, and the second had a lack of footage for the specific character I was trying to profile. It happens, sometimes you just have to cut your losses and move on.

FoxJones · Post by **FoxJones** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:44 am

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=43566

If I get past the idea-stage and actually start editing I'll also finish it. For me there's been only two projects so far that have died in collecting-clips-phase.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:47 am

Too many.

Sometimes I take the scrapped ideas and put them together.