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[Taite]

Threw together an ugly poster just so it wouldn't look so bland in here.

Second full amv and counting.

This was also my submission to AVCon. I'm not surprised it didn't win, but It's cool knowing it actually played there, even though I didn't get to see it.


The idea of this amv was to make it so that even if you haven't seen the anime, you could understand the story.
The story is that of the anime's. It follows four characters involved in a love.... square.
Please watch the amv first, and if you didn't understand anything, then read the story here after wards.


Special thanks to Darklydone for helping me encode this bitch :O He taught me a lot of stuff I didn't know about zarx, and helped me with what I needed to do to improve quality (including telling me about Media Player Classic, which I will forever use.)
Look forward to better quality vids from me thanks to Darklydone


And let me know how the quality looks. If your eyes are bleeding severely from watching this, then first off, I apologize, and secondly, I will do my best to make another better-quality file. I might be over-exaggerating right now, but it's probably my biggest concern.

Enjoy, and let me know what you think.

[CodeZTM]

OMG. Taite made something!?!?!?!

/ghets for great justice

[CodeZTM]

1) Black Fades.... Just... Please... No.... :_(
2) Sync [excluding the black fades] was actually pretty dang good. Scene selection was pretty good, and you really utilized some pretty great scenes to get your point across. The lip flappage at places could have been prevented, while others were forgivable [like when he's crying and talking, I can forgive]. I think that you could have really synced more to the drum beats thought. Not every drum beat obviously, but at least hit them every now and then.
3) Black Fades... WAI?!?!? :_____(
4) 2:33-2:55 Kind of seemed disjointed and odd to me. I think it's because there's no lyrics for you to sync to, and the beat sync kind of fell flat.
5) The ending was kind of anticlimatic from somebody that's never seen the anime before. It might have had some impact for the anime fans, but for me it was just kind of odd.
6) Looking back, the opening was also a little flat for me. Really, it only starts to pick up at :19 for me.
7) The wintery parade scene was WIN, and made me "WTF" at the AMV, because I realized "OMG THERE IS TWO CHICKS".
8) Conceptually, nothing new to the romance genre. But still pretty good, and the story came across pretty well.

4/5

I can sum up my opinions about the video in 5 words: Pretty-good-damn-black-fades.

[Taite]

1) Black Fades.... Just... Please... No.... :_(
2) Sync [excluding the black fades] was actually pretty dang good. Scene selection was pretty good, and you really utilized some pretty great scenes to get your point across. The lip flappage at places could have been prevented, while others were forgivable [like when he's crying and talking, I can forgive]. I think that you could have really synced more to the drum beats thought. Not every drum beat obviously, but at least hit them every now and then.
3) Black Fades... WAI?!?!? :_____(
4) 2:33-2:55 Kind of seemed disjointed and odd to me. I think it's because there's no lyrics for you to sync to, and the beat sync kind of fell flat.
5) The ending was kind of anticlimatic from somebody that's never seen the anime before. It might have had some impact for the anime fans, but for me it was just kind of odd.
6) Looking back, the opening was also a little flat for me. Really, it only starts to pick up at :19 for me.
7) The wintery parade scene was WIN, and made me "WTF" at the AMV, because I realized "OMG THERE IS TWO CHICKS".
8) Conceptually, nothing new to the romance genre. But still pretty good, and the story came across pretty well.

4/5

I can sum up my opinions about the video in 5 words: Pretty-good-damn-black-fades.

I pretty much agree with everything, especially the anticlimatic parts. You pointed out all of the areas that I had concerns about. And yeah, looking back there were a crap load of black fades xD
Thanks a lot for the crit, and for watching

[Enigma]

Stuff

[LeX]

Soooo....

+

A good lovestory AMV and you edited overall gewd.

-

I just dislike the black fades and Brightest and Blur that you used. It looked for me random!

Overall a great AMV!

Sorry that i can not write so many good points of this Video but I'm not a big fan of lovestory AMVs


4.59876/5

[Taite]

I'm assuming you watched it Enigma, so thanks

Soooo....

+

A good lovestory AMV and you edited overall gewd.

-

I just dislike the black fades and Brightest and Blur that you used. It looked for me random!

Overall a great AMV!

Sorry that i can not write so many good points of this Video but I'm not a big fan of lovestory AMVs


4.59876/5

I'll keep that in mind next time I do stuff like that. And don't worry about it, everyone has their own tastes.
Thanks for watching

[Ikore]

1) Black Fades.... Just... Please... No.... :_(

OH Please! they were awesome xD

I love this amv, I haven´t watch this anime, but I reallly get into the story of 2 lovers , now gonna watch it; beat sync is not my couple of tea for this kind of amv (drama thing), but it was well done, basicly a great amv, my opinion 5 stars, great work Taite!, totally added to my alerts and my personal collection (now I realized no more have been added since a month) and Im even in the mood to left an opinion

emotional, lovely and nicely done

ps. I haven´t feel like this watching an AMV, since koopiskeva´s Momemtum gud gud gud.

[Ileia]

I thought this was pretty well done and that the black fades were executed well. I don't understand this hate for them, it's a pretty common transitional device used to denote the tone/mood or even the passage of time. For the most part, that's how you used it, so I don't see the big deal. I didn't used to really use them much until a few years ago a friend of mine who graduated from film school commented on how I was using them more often and viewed this as a good thing. It's possible that it's personal preference, but even if it was, I was more inclined to take technical advice from someone who does this sort of thing for a living. x: Now if you'd used them for beat sync over a static clip..... that's a different story, haha.

But I digress. Point is, I liked the video as it is, and I thought you did an excellent job.

[Taite]

1) Black Fades.... Just... Please... No.... :_(

OH Please! they were awesome xD

I love this amv, I haven´t watch this anime, but I reallly get into the story of 2 lovers , now gonna watch it; beat sync is not my couple of tea for this kind of amv (drama thing), but it was well done, basicly a great amv, my opinion 5 stars, great work Taite!, totally added to my alerts and my personal collection (now I realized no more have been added since a month) and Im even in the mood to left an opinion

emotional, lovely and nicely done

ps. I haven´t feel like this watching an AMV, since koopiskeva´s Momemtum gud gud gud.

I actually didn't like the anime, but maybe you will XD
And I'm flattered that you added it your personal collection and me to your alerts. I also appreciate the op. Thanks Ikore

I thought this was pretty well done and that the black fades were executed well. I don't understand this hate for them, it's a pretty common transitional device used to denote the tone/mood or even the passage of time. For the most part, that's how you used it, so I don't see the big deal. I didn't used to really use them much until a few years ago a friend of mine who graduated from film school commented on how I was using them more often and viewed this as a good thing. It's possible that it's personal preference, but even if it was, I was more inclined to take technical advice from someone who does this sort of thing for a living. x: Now if you'd used them for beat sync over a static clip..... that's a different story, haha.

But I digress. Point is, I liked the video as it is, and I thought you did an excellent job.

Yeah, for me, I used black fades as a transition to mainly set the mood. It's nice to get a few opinions on it though.
And thanks, I'm really glad you liked it