Old School editing vs seizuretiffic and effects

[BasharOfTheAges]

But yeah, he says it pretty nicely....

But it doesn't really matter what I want, so when you make a video, make it however the hell you wanna make it, be it flashy or simple. That's all that matters.

People have preferences (as I have stated mine), but ultimately it comes down to this.

Points out irony: "Do it how you want... i'm not going to watch it if it's a certain way, but have fun and do what you want - ignore the fact that the only reason you'd post it here is to get people to see it thing (else why bother wasting time with the upload process) and we're all set."

[Castor Troy]

I personally like drama videos without much effects or any at all. I tend to prefer more subtle effects like masking and overlays rather than shit all over the screen timed to all the beats.

[Metro]

I enjoy motion graphics and special effects because its a way to add my own content to a video. Rather then just editing someone else's footage to someone else's music, I want to bring something new to the table. Its really cool when you are able to bring your vision to life, and often for me at least, it requires "effects" to do so.

[Ileia]

Every thread is about Euphoria. And Beowulf.

[lynit]

I'm not really an effects guy, but I more or less prefer both. I do agree with Katie bringing up the point about effect whored videos being more popular, this pretty much means most of the audience is into the effect-whoring videos, which just pisses me off. I really hate how people seem to hate effects-plain vids (Or as someone would call it old-school), just because they have no effects..

I remember someone telling me (It was a few months ago) that most people who use effects now generally use it to coverup bad editing (I think he was referring to 25% of the Org editors and 98% of the boochsack editors). At this point, I'd have to say I agree.

[Beowulf]

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[otbwavelength]

I like videos that have cool effects, or make a really amazing sync with the music. Plain videos are just boring to me.

my viewpoint exactly.

Again.

YOU CAN HAVE GOOD BEAT SYNC AND HAVE A GOOD STORYLINE WITH LOTS OF EFFECTS.

This goes for ALL genres.

[Malificus]

I like videos that have cool effects, or make a really amazing sync with the music. Plain videos are just boring to me.

my viewpoint exactly.

Again.

YOU CAN HAVE GOOD BEAT SYNC AND HAVE A GOOD STORYLINE WITH LOTS OF EFFECTS.

This goes for ALL genres.

Why is good story paired with effects?

[EvaFan]

The anime has to match the song in some way either with beat sync or lyric sync. Preferably both.

Why?

Seems so limiting.

how is that limiting? IF your not syncing to the beat or lyrics then what the hell are you syncing to?

Melodic motion (which isn't covered by strict beat-counting) and/or lyrical progression (which isn't covered by strict phrase-matching), to throw out a couple. Different methods to map those to visual motion.

Of course, if your definitions of "sync" encompass everything that might be in some way related to their generalizations, then there's no point in mentioning additional drivers.

Melodic motion? LOL? Seriously, did you just come up with that to try and proove a point or something? I could of seen you coming up with "mood sync" or even "emotion sync" or something but melodic motion?! Wow you have more then prooved your point seriously. Motion being matched to a melody is most definitely NOT beat sync at all. Even if you had listed mood sync or emotion sync instead, I think those are like a combination of lyric and beat sync. If the music is slow your using slow scenes and matching words like sorrow, depression, anxiety, etc with its anime counterparts of the source you are using.

I believe my so called "Reductionism" is right here.

You know what say you are right, even if you aren't using beat sync or lyric sync and some how conceived an AMV. Would anyone enjoy it? Would you even enjoy it? I don't think I could possibly enjoy an amv that doesn't have beat or lyric sync at the very least. "Melodic Motion" or whatever you were trying to proove, possibly being 3D motion synced to melody, at any rate if thats all you were doing in an AMV I don't think it would be very enjoyable if it wasn't an anime with clips matching the music is some way other then just 3-D motions. BTB was a perfect example. Didn't really like it. My one opinion doesn't matter though, do what you want to do.

[JaddziaDax]

melodic motion sounds like "syncing to the melody or the vocal line" which is usually what i do...