Ebb and Flow

[TheNanashi]

So, I'm feeling a bit strange posting on these forums. I haven't really visited this site or been involved with the AMV community in years. It has been essentially 10 years since my last AMV. I haven't watched an anime or gone to a convention in many years. So I guess that brings me to this point. Last year I found a half completed AMV on an old hard drive and it was a video I started in 2006. Creating an AMV is generally an emotional experience for me so I was reluctant to dive back into it. But, earlier this year I began to feel compelled to finish it and so here it is. I hope you enjoy it or at least find it interesting.

Below is the youtube link.

[fixed youtube embed - Kireblue]

[jt_x]

I enjoyed it

[TheNanashi]

I enjoyed it

Thank you. I'm glad you found it enjoyable.

[jt_x]

nice, can you also upload it to the local server ?
If you're too old and rusty and have forgotten already, don't sweat it there's a Tutorial video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fqnI-XmWuQ

[TheNanashi]

nice, can you also upload it to the local server ?
If you're too old and rusty and have forgotten already, don't sweat it there's a Tutorial video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fqnI-XmWuQ

Thanks for the info, I just uploaded it to the local server. It definitely took me a few minutes to figure out how to upload a video here again. Also I had to do some additional compressing on the video to get down to that 100mb limit. I'm not used to compressing videos very much anymore hah.

[jt_x]

Thanks for the info, I just uploaded it to the local server. It definitely took me a few minutes to figure out how to upload a video here again. Also I had to do some additional compressing on the video to get down to that 100mb limit. I'm not used to compressing videos very much anymore hah.

thx I like watching amvs offline, I hate when youtube videos buffers forever. Using 10 bit helps get the size down and also helps with color bending.

[post-it]

We liked it. Did seem a little long for its concept.

[TheNanashi]

We liked it. Did seem a little long for its concept.

I'm glad you liked it. I don't particularly like cutting songs down so I can understand how a 5 minute long song could drag from a pacing perspective. Plus I also wanted a bit of that draining emotion of a relationship/life roller coaster.

[seasons]

This was really unexpected and will need some extra views to completely unpack. The more I watch it, the more I like it.

The 5-minute run time made me hesitant but it actually blew by really fast. Not a lot actually happens in this, not in the way we're accustomed to, but it was weirdly compelling and soothing in a way I didn't expect. I saw a few stock effects in this that I usually don't care for, but I liked how you used them. You went all in on the unusual melancholy/psychedelic combination and I think it was a big success. I also think -- like you need anyone to tell you this -- that this video just isn't going to be for everyone, but in spite of the static scenes that made up so much of this, I thought it flowed really nicely. Good job matching the "build" of the song from beginning to end, I always had the feeling that this video was going somewhere.

[TheNanashi]

This was really unexpected and will need some extra views to completely unpack. The more I watch it, the more I like it.

The 5-minute run time made me hesitant but it actually blew by really fast. Not a lot actually happens in this, not in the way we're accustomed to, but it was weirdly compelling and soothing in a way I didn't expect. I saw a few stock effects in this that I usually don't care for, but I liked how you used them. You went all in on the unusual melancholy/psychedelic combination and I think it was a big success. I also think -- like you need anyone to tell you this -- that this video just isn't going to be for everyone, but in spite of the static scenes that made up so much of this, I thought it flowed really nicely. Good job matching the "build" of the song from beginning to end, I always had the feeling that this video was going somewhere.

Thank you for the comments. I'm glad you liked it.

My intention with every AMV has always been more about emotion and storytelling than pleasing audiences. I am aware this can be divisive and I appreciate that you understand this. I get what you mean about the stock effects as well. I think many of them are cheesy, but they do have their uses. For this video, one of those was the find edge effect. I felt like it made the characters appear incomplete and hollow.

The build up feeling was important to me as well. I think many times our emotions build up over time and have nowhere to go. We internalize and then it becomes self-destructive.