There is just two types of editing:
For your aimed audience and not for your aimed audience.
If you make a synctarted, strobflashlight, crappy effects video for a TV documentation about cheese than you fail hard.
Advice:
Don't give a shit about other peoples advices if you don't like them. I think you came to a good level to have a good own editing style. Remeber: Effects can always be better and scene selection and stuff. That's far easier to critic in an objectiv way than your level of editing. The critisimn to your editing will be most of the time subjective unless you do something really wrong and awefull...
So it comes down how much percentage of the org editors you can please with your style. You can't please everyone and yes it is hard to get known and to make something epic.
I can't remeber for 100% about my former advices to you. However you know that I'm hard to please.
I think this quote comes from Beo:
It feels like amv editors found a certain formula to edit popular amvs. Now they use it to death.
Something like that...
Reminds me that I should start my editing experimental video.
I just want to create something that is: "fucking in your face and I hope you get eye and ear cancer because it's not bad, but a hell different from what you're used to."
I just don't feel that all that fancy editing isn't really necessary to make a video enjoyable or otherwise.
I suggest to watch some old good videos. From the early 2000. They're fairly differently edited than nowadays and still look great. Especially some comedy videos out there.
I know what you mean. We're surpressed by stupid expectations and guidelines like syncing bullshit (syncing isn't bad, but people often seam to blindly follow stupid beats). However... There are basiscs and everybody has to know them to make something good (well most of the time).
As I somehow said: At your level most of the critic you get will be subjectiv and not about basics anymore.
Pas wrote:Somewhere along the lines I think you forgot this is really just a hobby. People don't have to like it, as long as you enjoy what you do, why let any one else stop you? If what you fear is rejection or criticism, then this is certainly not the right place for you. If anything you'd be better off showing your video to friends and family, perhaps they'll learn to sugar coat it.
I think it's more about people who don't apprecite different editing styles that might not adopt to certain editing trends wich are above basic editing rules.
Pwolf wrote:damn dude, no one here is telling you to conform to anything.
Sorry dude, but the org really feels like it. About conforming an editing style from different groups (effects-, riot gear whores, syntards, no effects, cheesy effects, anti lip sync, beat sync, external sync, inner sync...)