@Karidu:
is it "happy"? (I realized after I told sky I'd join that I hadn't done a happy vid yet)
What is happy? k... let me explain it: My avatars are it xD
jk I know it is hard to make it happy with this song. When I listen to eat my mind hits me with a hammer while saying "drama drama drama". I don´t associate something happy with the first song. More romance, but not happy. To be honest: I would really need to try hard to make it look happy there.
let´s analyse scenes!
00:06
-left top corner
Little chick dancing full of drugs in disco. jk
OK I haven´t seen the anime. She looks like a girl that´s kinda dancing or whatever. She´s kinda waiting hopefully for something. There is a lot of drama in her eyes. --> Not happy
-middle
Yes this is happy. Sense of love in the air :3
The middle scene at 00:05 is ok in my eyes too
-right down corner
can´t see something from her, can´t say something
-background
Absolutly ok. I think about thoughtful scenes at the background (like you did) and about happy things or romance thigns that she and this guy had as smaller clips in the front.
00:09
-middle
Yes he´s smiling, but what the fuck? He looks like a countless coal miner. He would be a NPC of a mass in an RPG.
00:10
-middle
Aha... he is waving to the music? Sry: wtf - feeling for me.
00:12
-background
Fun and joy in her face while she does something. This is happy
~00:15
-middle
ok they to something together, but... what´s left? I mean... he cleans something looks threw a hole and that get´s a bit shocked and that´s it. If they would laught together at the end, because of it or something else "happy", it would make sense.
Now... it´s like a joke without punchline.
-background
it´s good
00:21
-front scenes
ok it could be that it is timed correctly. I don´t know and can´t say it. I think that this resizing (ah... blame my English, but you know what I mean) is disturbing. Simpel fades ins to "Calling - your - name" would be better in my eyes, but show me the contrary =P
-background
I don´t know. A motorcycle is comeing and you don´t see who it is. Isn´t too bad, but I think it has a better effect, if you would see the person
00:22
-background
Damn it. The way she hugs me is happy yes, but this guy screws it with his shocked look. I think it can work so I don´t give up this scene.
-clips
ok he lights up the candles (maybe for her?), BUT you don´t show her long enough to give the viewer a clue. Show her longer with the passion in her eyes. You don´t have to hard cut her out so fast. Keep it there and fade it out slower or whatever you would like to do.
00:27
-background
I see happy faces. Good so
-clips
She saves him. I think it´s good, but show the final scene for longer
The rest (final)
If you only think about the scenes: It´s ok in my eyes
do the switches I make between external and interal sync work, or should I work on that?
I don´t understand the grammar in this sentence. Can a native speaker please answer the question? I don´t have an idea.
any advice for effects I should try to pull off? (using after effects 6.5 pro)
I think you should try to create your own custom fade in/out effect for your scenes you put into the front.
Bauzi, not too sure what you mean by it looking "too average" at :24, I could try to make the lights at :16 brighter (as long as I don't have to do an inhuman ammount of masking)
I´m nitpicky at some things. "Too average": Some amvs just look like all the others with the same footage. There is nothing special about them and a own colour setting could be the character of an amv.
http://accel14.mettre-put-idata.over-bl ... _23887.jpghttp://wallpaper.narak.com/albums/userp ... ess_13.jpg--> Awesome colours. Just looks great. AE is like Photoshop, but just for movies. All the things (I think so) the wallpaper maker do, you can do in AE with videos. I recommend to read wallpaper tutorials, but to bring up the next point:
[vidid=141420]
You see the special colour settings? Damn I hate it to don´t know how to do it, but well it´s an example on how you can make footage look more interessting. A lot of mads give good examples to:
http://stage6.divx.com/Japanese-Mad-Mov ... ve/videos/The MADs are a extreme example, but you know now what I mean.
I could try to make the lights at :16 brighter (as long as I don't have to do an inhuman ammount of masking)
Lights + contrast do a lot of things. Play a bit with the layer properities in AE too (Add, soft light, hard light...)
Take it easy on her guys, it's a early beta, i'm sure it'll be fine.
I believe in it too