snapxynith wrote:I will admit that I may just have no idea where the feature is inside Vegas.
snapxynith wrote:After seeing tehninjaness' work it made me realize a few preconceptions that have been holding back my videos due to "classical" movie edits. The video effects are easy enough to deconstruct but that doesn't stop them from having impact. They have pop and good screen presence. Before now I had very little respect for transition effects thrown onto a video. It has made me appreciate and start researching plugins and generated effects to reduce my production time while increasing my quality. My video was primarily custom work, masking, and direct redraws of cells that became added on top of the clean cuts.
snapxynith wrote:I still don't know how you mask quickly theninjaness but I know each frame takes me 20 minutes to go from nothing to a clean, crisp mask for one to two characters. At least, it does now that I've had to do over 200 or some stupid, similar number after this video.
kiarrens wrote:All right, that does it. Justin alluded to this but I'm going to elaborate on it since I don't have to be nice on these forums.
Stop being a little crybaby. For fuck's sake, your video didn't make the cut. Boo hoo. It happens. You've only been editing for a year according to your org profile, get back on the horse and try, try again. Belittling other peoples' videos isn't going to endear you to anyone, and it is in VERY poor form, particularly when those videos are well-edited, funny and have good concepts. If you want pats on the back and "Awwww it's ok your video wuz good" go back to youtube, where the general viewing audience has the mental capacity of a teaspoon full of sea salt.
snapxynith wrote:I have to agree with kiarrens. Getting a video into a contest requires both knowing the audience and knowing the general demeanor of the judges. You have to choose your battles. You'll either need to change your editing style/concepts to be better in their eyes or change to which venues you submit. When the time comes that you can evoke the audience's feelings strongly while doing it with integrity, all of us will thank you for it.

BasharOfTheAges wrote:This thread is full of lulz.
I've never heard anyone suggest kiarrens was cocky - she's one of the most humble editors I know, even though her trophy case could crush a small elephant to death.

L'arc~en~ciel wrote:Congrats to the winners. I myself made it in, came out empty, but as I say to myself, there is always next year. I have a few ideas already, though, since I suck with editing, it will be pretty damn hard for me, but hey... I got a year.
BasharOfTheAges wrote:I think they adjusted the levels to handle softer vocals (so it wasn't just a wall-o-bass like last year) but the volume level was just too high. Saturday's screening was much better than Friday's in that regard though.
kiarrens wrote:L'arc~en~ciel wrote:Congrats to the winners. I myself made it in, came out empty, but as I say to myself, there is always next year. I have a few ideas already, though, since I suck with editing, it will be pretty damn hard for me, but hey... I got a year.
Which video was yours?

L'arc~en~ciel wrote:BasharOfTheAges wrote:I think they adjusted the levels to handle softer vocals (so it wasn't just a wall-o-bass like last year) but the volume level was just too high. Saturday's screening was much better than Friday's in that regard though.
Really now? Makes me regret seeing how it turned out on Saturday. :/ I know all about the issues on Friday, but if the audio stuff was altered on Saturday, I really wish I was able to see if it really differed much. Would be best to know if it was my end, or AB's end.
L'arc~en~ciel wrote:The FMP one.
BasharOfTheAges wrote:L'arc~en~ciel wrote:BasharOfTheAges wrote:I think they adjusted the levels to handle softer vocals (so it wasn't just a wall-o-bass like last year) but the volume level was just too high. Saturday's screening was much better than Friday's in that regard though.
Really now? Makes me regret seeing how it turned out on Saturday. :/ I know all about the issues on Friday, but if the audio stuff was altered on Saturday, I really wish I was able to see if it really differed much. Would be best to know if it was my end, or AB's end.
The volume was brought down 3db - not sure if they did anything more than that. Certain ranges act differently with high volume - especially in a room with acoustics like that.
kiarrens wrote:L'arc~en~ciel wrote:The FMP one.
Ooooh, I need to download and re-watch that one when I get home.
Can I also say that I rather liked the K-ON! one in fun/upbeat? My guy friends have been raving about that show for a year and I'd had no desire to watch it until I saw that video. Super cute, and the story carried SO well, even to someone who had NO IDEA what the show was about.

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