QUOTE(Judge Kweh Kweh @ Apr 6 2007, 07:16 PM)

I know both you and aorin are experienced in making amvs and what not. How long does it take for you to complete a project?
I too admit that I've only created 3 proper AMV so far, and anything before that was just fooling around. As for how long it takes for me to finish a project, hard to say actually, but most of the time, one sleepness night would do the trick (maybe 8 - 9 hours).
My work schedule on an AMV is pretty something like this:
1. I would select a song which I would like to see an AMV of it and also, it has to be a song which I actually like (this is important cause I would be listening to the same song continuously for the next few hours, and I need to have high tolerance for it)
2. Most of the time, I would know the lyrics by heart then I'll try to imagine which scenes would be suitable to use (I have a default file in which I've cut out all the Basch x Ashe scenes which I can use)
3. Then I would start out by putting the scenes together and experiment it with stretching. Transition comes next and then if posssible I'll try to overlay some of the scenes.
4. The I'll play around with various plug-ins such brightening, mirrors, shadows, noise, lens flare and some of the scenes are too dark then I'll brighten it or vice versa.
5. The next is the most time-consuming and horrible part of all, it is to create the video file (due to the large amount of functions which I've incorporated, it would take about an hour before the video file is created).
6. If I do see any mistakes, then I'll hope back to step 3 and try to touch up as much as possible. (Even thoug, there is a preview box but sometiems the files can get rather laggy and I wouldn't know the outcome until it is completed)...
For the record, it only took me two hours to complete Larsa x Penelo - I Want Candy but it took me another freaking 7 hours to fix the jerky files and the worst is that many of the files have errors in it thus I have to reconvert the cutscenes again.
So basically, it would take me about 4 hours of creating and 4 hours of touching up for a 4 min + song. Just a brief estimation.
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I downloaded, Sony Vegas. I think its the one the first poster was talking about. I just tested it out and its pretty good.
I'm glad it works well for you.
