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Length of time to do an edit.

Sinbad

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I was just curious to hear how many hours,days,weeks,months some faneditors have spent on their projects.  Obviously projects like Adywan's Star Wars revisits take a huge amount of time.  What's the shortest and longest time spent roughly on some of your edits
 
I work for 6-7  hours night or day on fan edits
Mostly on nightshifts at work, but also in my cinema room
How long it's gonna take?
That depends, i work on several projects at the same time so let's say a month 
I could be a little longer......
 
Over four years now and probably another year (?) to go.

It's a complicated edit but also I just have too many other things to do between work and family.  And now I'm old and go to bed early.  I used to edit during the week but I don't have time or energy for it anymore, so I try to get in a few hours on a weekend.  Sometimes I go weeks at a time without opening it.

Luckily there's no deadline and it will get done when it's done.
 
Wow four years so what do you guys do about backing up a project in case your hard disk gets trashed, i back up my project files (which I version in case the latest gets messed up) to the cloud but having massive blu ray images filling up a solid state disc is a bit of a pain.
 
I work always with external hard disk 
I got about 10 in my home and at work i use at the moment 15
i use 2TB, 3TB and also 5
I work for an ICT security company so for me it's easy to get that stuff
I use mostly Seagate expansion, it's a very fine disk.
I put nothing on my local disk everything goes automatically to the external
 
I have two externals for backups, one is a mirror of the other, and I keep one at home and one at work.
 
FWIW, my previous edits have taken far less time.

Ep I - 10 months.
Ep II - 14 months.
Austin Powers - 5 months.
 
Prometheus Unbound - 6 months
Oblivion Redeemed - 5 months
Another Earth - 3 months
Blade Runner: Danse Macabre - 10 months
Warcraft: Prelude to Chaos - 10 months

Lost Anime Project - 12 months
Lost Mix Project - 14 months
 
For me it's similar to what Frink described. Most of my edits have been done in small editing chunks spread out over several months (or years). My Strangers edit only took a few days, but that was a very light edit. Busy work schedule + family time + less energy = slooooooow

I have 4 edits in-the-works now that have been in-the-works for a really long time. They all have heavy color grading, special effects, and/or restoration of deleted material, so most are still a ways off. I'm really hoping to get one released before the end of 2017.
 
Blimey guys I've been on my Bttf tv edit about 3 weeks now and the theme tune is driving me nuts. Been spending 3-4 hrs most days on it, i cant even imagine spending a few months let alone years. That's dedication guys,  I'm impressed, prob best to let em sit a while think of new ideas, I'll put this one to bed and go for a more relaxed spread out approach on the next one..
 
my edits take no time at all, as long as i visit the dungeon every so often to "motivate" the elves.
 
Sinbad said:
Blimey guys I've been on my Bttf tv edit about 3 weeks now and the theme tune is driving me nuts. Been spending 3-4 hrs most days on it, i cant even imagine spending a few months let alone years. That's dedication guys,  I'm impressed, prob best to let em sit a while think of new ideas, I'll put this one to bed and go for a more relaxed spread out approach on the next one..
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We'd all get to that point if we had 3-4 hours every day to work on an edit.

HttF ~ 8 months of off and on editing
SAoHH ~ 2 weeks of actual editing time
RotR ~ 3 months of off and on editing

Workprints/projects:
Indiana Jones and the Lost Sankara Stones ~ 3 months off and on
The Dark Knight Rises Amended (No Talia) ~ 5 months off and on
 
Yes Ive found this one pretty addictive its late at night usually when I make the time, who needs sleep eh..
 
Oh, if I edit at night I'll sleep at midnight.

Return of Sherlock - Three days of actual editing,
Magneto - A week of actual editing, another for polish, workprint viewing, etc.
Hope - So far around 50% done and a week of editing
 
In a lot of cases for me, time varies on the edits.  The Legend of the Magnificent Seven took me several months to do while in some cases, I could have an edit 90-95% done within a month.  It depends on how severe of an edit it is.

There are also instances where I am working on one and it's scattered so much between when I can work on it and getting everything together to edit in or out that I lose steam on it and abandon (see most of my threads/ideas :( ).  My 3-in-1 Star Wars Prequel edit took forever to get all of the footage on the computer and then to go scene by scene and then to look at musical cues I wanted to use and this and that and comparing to others that I just got a little burnt out.

An edit like Darkman took me about 2-3 weeks and then it was done.  Simple cut and paste and convert to black and white.

It really all depends on what you're doing with the edits is what my long winded answer is trying to say.
 
I've only done one edit of existing content (The 1990 IT miniseries) which is now, I believe, complete and will be posted up soon with a request for feedback. That took about 3-4 weeks, but only 25-30 hours of actual editing.
 
These responses are making me feel better about the over-4-years-and-counting it's taken me to work on my Narnia edit.  :D
 
I go through multiple drafts a day of an edit, the rendering sometimes slows everything else down. When you're trying to order a Pizza online, it can hold you up for over half an hour
 
Let's see... My first edit, Casino Royale, I spent about six months spread over a year. For The Alien Costume, about two months spread over half a year. The Dead Are Alive, about one month spread over nine months. Captain America and the Red Skull, about two months total.

I usually like to let edits sit for a while, so I can return to them with fresh eyes later. It's worth taking the time to get it right.
 
Problem Eliminator said:
My first edit, Casino Royale, I spent about six months spread over a year.
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What? You spent over 4,000 hours editing??

:D
 
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