I would have left it the above, but as long as we're generating actual discussion, and not devolving into flaming on either side... Silk, please feel free to jump in and correct me if I have mischaracterised you in any way. I think it is important to discuss these differing "philosophies."
Nya-chan Production wrote:And I have to agree with judges and Silk - from my PoV it seems that yours (Kio) vid could've profited from shortening by some 1/3rd - the gazes are fine, but overally pretty long and on this short stage of some ~144s they feel a bit out of place. Not to mention that almost the whole time the scenes out of sync - not only to beats, but even to the sung voice. There was some lyrics sync, but it was just a minor addition.
Nya, you don't agree with Silk. Silk said I stopped editing. You disagree with my execution (which is fine!), don't see what I was trying to do (fine!), and you feel that my message didn't make it through (also fine!), but you don't think I stopped editing and just laid a minute of footage down and called it a day. Clearly, I feel I did have the scenes on a sync, but if I am the only one who can follow the sync, perhaps that is poor sync, but not non-existent sync. You say my editing didn't work very well, silk said after the thirty seconds, I didn't
at all. World of difference between those comments. One is a statement of opinion, one is a statement of a fact that is verifiably false.
Phan's video, OTOH, had not only tight sync, but for me most importantly, his cuts made me feel like there's something happening. I saw the feelings of those two, first the shock of the boy, then the determination of the girl. That's something your video lacked for me and why I consider Phan's video the better one. Your gazes and blushes were good as well, but I suppose they were worse timed or dosed. It just didn't work.
It may not have worked, but you acknowledge that I obviously had reasons for what I was doing. And yeah, I was really trying to get more sync out of the blushes. If you noticed that, then clearly Silk's comment was factually incorrect. Clearly I was still editing.
(Oh, also... it was more close for me because of Phan's horrible ending... in a horrible font D: Had he left it out, it would have been much better)
(And also, IMO, the "style of era one's from" doesn't have to do with anything - I have seen videos from "your era" that could beat Phan in a second - it's the execution of a style where it's in and this one didn't seem that good. Btw, I liked your source, might watch it ;x )
I think you misunderstood me here, Nya. I felt that Silk was dismissive of an entire style as non-editing. You would say that it "wasn't that good of an execution." He would say "that isn't an execution." Again, two different viewpoints entirely.