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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Sage » Sun May 20, 2012 3:41 pm

Guitar fapping & Head bobbing... Epic.
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Radical_Yue » Sun May 20, 2012 3:45 pm

SagexAMV wrote:Head bobbing


Kisanzi's first reaction: "Is Mark (TsunamiJones) in this?! O_o"
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Ileia » Sun May 20, 2012 3:49 pm

Radical_Yue wrote:
SagexAMV wrote:Head bobbing


Kisanzi's first reaction: "Is Mark (TsunamiJones) in this?! O_o"


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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby CodeZTM » Sun May 20, 2012 4:10 pm

Group E:

General: I was really impressed. Not the videos I was expecting. Actually, I was expecting 6 Code Geass videos. XD

King of Hearts: The mood was spot on and did a really nice job of capturing the emotions of the characters and their inner troubles.

Ringo Days: Gorgeous. <3 Favorite of the group. The concept was clear/strong and well executed. Minior editing problems that I didn't care for (lip flap, some odd cuts/fades/longscenes), but the overall AMV was well done and well executed.

RAWRAWd: Troll entry? Sorry, didn't care for it at all. The head bobbing just wasn't funny after the first 10 seconds. What's worse is that you actually had a really good video hiding in here!

St. Ryuk: This was the kind of video I was expecting. Felt like you had a good AMV here, BUT the scene selection was all over the place, and the story was out the window after the first of it. Akward audio cut was also very akward.

The Quackening: Ehhhh. While I personally didn't care for it, I thought it was a clever use of the song. Plus, it was nice to see something unique with it. It also was kind of a sad realization of Excel's life being somewhat tragic. :( Adorable scene selection. Nice job with the audio though.

I Was The King: I was a little confused as to the context of the story, but still had good editing and a solid mood. Some of the scene selections did me in though. Could have been better in that regard.

CyberVidja: Now this was a source match made in heaven. Good scene selection and a nice job of utilizing the scenery to match the flow of the music. Wasn't sure exactly what I was watching, but the abstract nature of it made me enjoy it. Didn't care for the live action integration though.

Wars Dimension: I was really confused with this video at first. I also feel like you could have sped up the story a bit and gotten to more of the "meat" of the AMV. The difference between the two sources also made a very harsh transition between the two different anime. Overall, it felt like two AMVs. I think you could have gone with the second anime only and done this a lot more justice.

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Also, can you please start putting names with these file names? I'd like to know who's editing what?

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My picks for top 4:

King of Hearts
Ringo Days
Quackening
CyberVidja
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Sage » Sun May 20, 2012 4:34 pm

Ileia wrote:
Radical_Yue wrote:
SagexAMV wrote:Head bobbing


Kisanzi's first reaction: "Is Mark (TsunamiJones) in this?! O_o"


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Lol that's some hardcore walking...
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby MimS » Sun May 20, 2012 4:53 pm

Hahaha The Quackening, cool one \o/
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby kireblue » Sun May 20, 2012 9:26 pm

I think that group E has the best batch of videos so far. I do wish that somebody had made a Yu-gi-oh AMV with that song though. The combination would have been absolutely perfect.
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby pacotacoshell » Mon May 21, 2012 9:39 am

Woot, go group E!
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby FadingSundown » Mon May 21, 2012 11:48 am

Ringo Days was my entry, you cant believe how happy your comment made my Code xD. I totally agree on your feedback and thank you for pointing them out ^^. Im trying to post my AMV on YouTube but the song is very very copyrighted, I wonder how Ileia got it up on YT ><
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Ileia » Mon May 21, 2012 11:49 am

FadingSundown wrote:Im trying to post my AMV on YouTube but the song is very very copyrighted, I wonder how Ileia got it up on YT ><


Last week it was blocked, this week it wasn't. I didn't do anything. :sweat:
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby SatoshiSakura » Mon May 21, 2012 1:38 pm

CodeZTM wrote:
St. Ryuk: This was the kind of video I was expecting. Felt like you had a good AMV here, BUT the scene selection was all over the place, and the story was out the window after the first of it. Akward audio cut was also very akward.



I agree with you, it was completely all over the place, I lost my patience with it after a while. :sweat: Death Note was my 3rd source choice after Kuroshitsuji and DRRR didn't work out how I was expecting them too. As for the audio, honestly, instrumental is my main enemy so I was trying to do anything to avoid it, the cuts don't sound too awkward once you've listened to it over 9000 times in a week. :ying:
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby RAWdangers » Mon May 21, 2012 2:07 pm

CodeZTM wrote:Group E:

General: I was really impressed. Not the videos I was expecting. Actually, I was expecting 6 Code Geass videos. XD

I Was The King: I was a little confused as to the context of the story, but still had good editing and a solid mood. Some of the scene selections did me in though. Could have been better in that regard.


Yeah, when i was watching my render i realized some of the scenes didnt work and were really static, but my render finished like 30 minutes before it was due so i didnt really have time to go change it x.X I had meant for the video to be longer and come to a good ending but i ran out of time as you can probably tell X.X Oh well. Thanks for the compliments though!
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Kinematics » Mon May 21, 2012 7:58 pm

Nothing wrong with any of the video this time. A few did 2-pass instead of CRF, but given the low complexity of all the videos it didn't hurt them any. Reviews will focus on the editing and thematics instead.



King of Hearts - Tie with the basic lyrics of the song was fairly loose, but overall theme fit wonderfully. Editing was fairly simple, but is just what was needed for this video; the focus was on the characters and the story, not the effects, but at the same time avoided dragging anything out.

Felt a bit too literal with the broom during the "sweeping" part of the lyrics. That was the only bit that really caught my attention, though.

Overall, excellent video.

Ringo Days - Matching the lyrics with the anime here is a bit of a stretch; I can see where it's drawing from, but overall fit is kind of weak. Stronger focus on effects than the King of Hearts video, and partly felt like that was to make up for weaker scene selection options. Use of black & white felt inconsistent.

Happened to watch this one with a friend of mine who's a bit of a film critic. His main complaint was excessive use of fade out/fade in. While the use of various effects in AMVs are often for a different purpose than for film, on a second watch through I can see where he's coming from; it did seem to draw away from the focus of the video, and became a bit of a distraction (too much black over the course of watching).

Minor lip sync issues (eg: ~0:34).

Generally good, but weak in a few noticeable areas.

St. Ryuk - Serious Title is Serious - Audio edits hurt it; they were very noticeable, and pulled me out of the video. Overall theme felt workable, but scene selection felt weak. Hard to pick out specifics; just didn't hold together very well.

Cybervida - First question: Is there a penalty for use of live action (ie: the original music video)? Contest rules, article 3, 4.4: "The video entries may only use Japanese anime...".

However, as an abstract video, it was pretty cool. Can't really comment on theme and such since it doesn't really apply. All I can say is that what it does, it does very well.

I Was the King - Not familiar with the anime, so I'm sure there are subtle references I'm missing.

Seemed to take certain lyric references too literally, in matching up video for it.

Ending clip and fade felt very out of place, used only to fill the time requirement.

War Dimension - Technically very well done, but really felt like the song and the video had almost nothing to do with each other. Very difficult to critique beyond that.

No idea what to make of the intro anime segment. The brief colored segment in the middle seemed like it would have done well as the intro while keeping the anime consistent.


The Quackening - Solid match for general concept. A couple of the lyrics/effects seemed to be taken too literally (eg: shattered windows; the default effect is pretty bleh, but I know it's difficult to find a good effect of that type), but at the same time somewhat appropriate, given the source.

Good integration of secondary video sources (eg: Saki, Utena). Nifty underwater interlude.

Overall, very well done.

RAWRAWd - Had about 20 seconds of actual video? With the rest being the headbobbing background track. Not a withdrawal, but sadly probably should have. The handful of effects seen indicate it could have been a pretty good video on technical merits, though.





Top picks:
King of Hearts
The Quackening
Ringo Days

Runner up:
Cybervida (a top pick if not penalized for live footage)


CodeZTM wrote:Also, can you please start putting names with these file names? I'd like to know who's editing what?


Yes, a standard naming format would be nice. Something like:

Editor - Title [Round info].ext

EG: "Cecco - Magicarl Dansen [Quickening 1.D].mp4"
instead of "magicarl Dansen.avi-zarx264gui.mp4", or whatever other random bit of text is thrown together.
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Ileia » Mon May 21, 2012 8:02 pm

Kinematics wrote:The Quackening - Solid match for general concept. A couple of the lyrics/effects seemed to be taken too literally (eg: shattered windows; the default effect is pretty bleh, but I know it's difficult to find a good effect of that type), but at the same time somewhat appropriate, given the source.

Good integration of secondary video sources (eg: Saki, Utena). Nifty underwater interlude.

Overall, very well done.


The overly-literal lyric sync is intentional. :aimkissyface:
The shatter effect was not done by me, it's in the source. Aside from a few zooms/fades, the only "effect" I did was masking near the end.
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Kinematics » Mon May 21, 2012 8:05 pm

Ileia wrote:The overly-literal lyric sync is intentional. :aimkissyface:
The shatter effect was not done by me, it's in the source. Aside from a few zooms/fades, the only "effect" I did was masking near the end.


Heh.

Obviously it's been way too long since I watched Excel Saga, then. Luckily this provided a bit of impetus to rewatch it with a friend :)
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