irriadin wrote:Here's a good middle ground for solving this problem. Find editors that you like, that make videos you enjoy. Try to get these editors to beta test your video. Take the advice they give you, not ALL of it, but listen to what they say. Others can spot issues in your videos that you may never see. You don't have to sacrifice your style because people don't get it; your style just needs a bit of refinement.
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I still wrestle with optimization and picture cleanup. I've used all kinds of sources but I never can get them as sharp and vibrant as what I see is some of the entries I've viewed. I've read all the tutorials. I know all about the cleanup processes with avisynth and I even experiment with them a lot but they're always just missing that one thing that makes them look outstanding.
That and I really need to work on my frustration with doing masks properly. I fucking HATE masking animation, so time consuming for just a few frames of animation. If done right they look great but man it feels like watching paint dry sometimes.
I also kinda want to experiment with text effects next. I always liked how they were done in videos like Weird Al's "Stop Forwarding that Crap to Me" or Jonathan Coulton's "Shop Vac." Course with that practice makes perfect. I want to get the morphing and blurring effects used in that stuff down. When I try it, they look like anal leakage.
Gimme a minute, I'll make a cool one....