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What editing Techniques Would be Useful to Learn?

Postby Slywolf15 » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:57 pm

Well I have been making amv's for around a year now. I use Vegas and I want to know what editing techniques would be best to try and learn. Since my videos really don't have any pazaz. So any opinions are appreciated.
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Postby Scintilla » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:05 pm

Scene selection... timing... knowing when to <s>hold 'em, when to fold 'em, when to</s> cut and when to fade...
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Re: What editing Techniques Would be Useful to Learn?

Postby NS » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:05 pm

Slywolf15 wrote:Well I have been making amv's for around a year now. I use Vegas and I want to know what editing techniques would be best to try and learn. Since my videos really don't have any pazaz. So any opinions are appreciated.


Your own, special technique would be great.. although rather rare.
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Postby taifunbrowser » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:41 pm

Since the only rationalization for your creation of this thread could be to gather advice, I'll add that you should ignore "good" and "best" export methods in vegas: "preview" is perfect quality.

Trust me. I tested it. Good & Best just means that they add a gaussian temporal blur to everything - which you DON"T WANT for music videos. I'm pretty sure draft would be fine too, but I don't risk it.

I found this out on kimi wa suteki when I had 2 doors sliding together, and the gaussian blur made the mask slide over before the clip actually progressed, so there was a really bad looking single frame that was like, ugly. Worked fine in preview mode.
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Re: asdf

Postby Kevmaster » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:29 am

taifunbrowser wrote:Since the only rationalization for your creation of this thread could be to gather advice, I'll add that you should ignore "good" and "best" export methods in vegas: "preview" is perfect quality.

Trust me. I tested it. Good & Best just means that they add a gaussian temporal blur to everything - which you DON"T WANT for music videos. I'm pretty sure draft would be fine too, but I don't risk it.

I found this out on kimi wa suteki when I had 2 doors sliding together, and the gaussian blur made the mask slide over before the clip actually progressed, so there was a really bad looking single frame that was like, ugly. Worked fine in preview mode.


wtf no
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Re: asdf

Postby Banass » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:03 pm

Kevmasterflashdeluxe wrote:
taifunbrowser wrote:Since the only rationalization for your creation of this thread could be to gather advice, I'll add that you should ignore "good" and "best" export methods in vegas: "preview" is perfect quality.

Trust me. I tested it. Good & Best just means that they add a gaussian temporal blur to everything - which you DON"T WANT for music videos. I'm pretty sure draft would be fine too, but I don't risk it.

I found this out on kimi wa suteki when I had 2 doors sliding together, and the gaussian blur made the mask slide over before the clip actually progressed, so there was a really bad looking single frame that was like, ugly. Worked fine in preview mode.


wtf no


I have to agree with that.
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Postby post-it » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:59 pm

.. if you can keep it simple and not turn it into a Strobe-Lite Factory of fading to
black/white then it should be fine ^_^
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Postby Kevmaster » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:01 pm

post-it wrote:.. if you can keep it simple and not turn it into a Strobe-Lite Factory of fading to
black/white then it should be fine ^_^


shaddap Strobes/flashing FTW!
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Re: asdf

Postby taifunbrowser » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:01 pm

Banass wrote:
Kevmasterflashdeluxe wrote:wtf no

I have to agree with that.

this is distressing indeed.

Vegas version? and so you haven't noticed that higher than preview mode applies temporal blurs to all keyframes? (should be discussed in new thread probably)

ok, after re-reading the title my suggestion is to play with when to change a frame before the beat, and a frame after, because I found subtle changes during regions of an amv to be effective... Also, be very deliberate about crossfades.
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Postby Slywolf15 » Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:04 pm

Most of what has been suggested I sort of picked up myself. Although thank you anyway for the time you took to reply. What would be some effects that would be valuable to learn also?
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Postby Kevmaster » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:44 am

Slywolf15 wrote:Most of what has been suggested I sort of picked up myself. Although thank you anyway for the time you took to reply. What would be some effects that would be valuable to learn also?


As far as effects go, make ur own. That's always better than copying other peoples effects :)

Both some effects that are very usefull to learn to use correctly are definitally Glow, Blurrs and movements/shaking with pan/crop, probably grain/Noise also. Those are effects that can always do something good to the video :up: Just play around with those and see how you can use them most usefull.
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Postby Shinodude » Wed Sep 26, 2007 6:23 pm

learn to mask! masking is awsome and videos with masks are always insta win... well not really.... but if you are good enough at masking and use masking in a good way your video looks sexy... well sorta... you still gota have good editing all around but you get mah point
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Postby JaddziaDax » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:05 pm

Scintilla wrote:Scene selection... timing... knowing when to <s>hold 'em, when to fold 'em, when to</s> cut and when to fade...


wut he said^
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