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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby MimS » Fri May 25, 2012 7:28 am

Nah, I meant like adding other audio, the original stays 2 minute long and recognizable so far but it's edited with other songs too, that was the basic idea.
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Radical_Yue » Fri May 25, 2012 8:16 am

MimS wrote:Nah, I meant like adding other audio, the original stays 2 minute long and recognizable so far but it's edited with other songs too, that was the basic idea.



The only time you can use another audio source is if it's for the credits/bumpers. Other than that, it has to be the main song.
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby MimS » Fri May 25, 2012 8:21 am

KK thx for the answer
Too bad : (
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby irriadin » Fri May 25, 2012 8:48 am

There goes my idea of using Celldweller remix stems... :roll:
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby MasterZero8 » Wed May 30, 2012 6:09 pm

When will Group D and C's videos be up? Just curious as I'm really anxious to see them. :P
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Radical_Yue » Thu May 31, 2012 2:21 pm

MasterZero8 wrote:When will Group D and C's videos be up? Just curious as I'm really anxious to see them. :P


Wish granted! Sorry it took so long D:
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby pacotacoshell » Thu May 31, 2012 3:05 pm

I just finished watching Copycat's video. My life is changed.

I'll never look at coconuts the same again.
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby ProjectBarcodeError » Thu May 31, 2012 3:17 pm

Kisanzi wasn't able to finish?

:o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Shin-AMV » Thu May 31, 2012 3:51 pm

When the hell did that pony get there in the banner and why is it farting out the logo.
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Kisanzi » Thu May 31, 2012 4:13 pm

ProjectBarcodeError wrote:Kisanzi wasn't able to finish?

:o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s


Yeah, just moved apartments over the weekend and it took way longer than expected. That didn't leave me much time to make the deadline. :(

Anywho, best of luck to everyone else! I'm liking these round 2 videos so far.
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Kinematics » Thu May 31, 2012 4:18 pm

Some very impressive videos. Group C actually made me like the song, despite my first impressions of it. Gonna take a while to get my thoughts together on them all, though.
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby Kinematics » Thu May 31, 2012 9:26 pm

Group C-2

First note: I really didn't care for the song when I first looked it up (the official video for it got kind of tiresome), but all four of these videos did beautifully at rendering it into something enjoyable.


[Copycat] Reading Material (The Readening)

CRF 18, using a ~3 year old version of x264 (suspect). A few minor, but noticeable and prevalent video flaws (mosquito noise, banding, macroblocking), though I suspect a large part of it is a carryover from the source. The diagonal cuts at ~1:50 were the worst of that.

The random notes were cute, and fit in well with the video. The idea of a "cubic pound" still makes my head hurt, though.

The notes also let you drop in the rather long-winded analysis of the song itself, though, which was really quite interesting.

The masked footage blended quite well with the overall feel of the video.

The only notable flaw I could point to has to do with the intensely saturated colors of the original source. Because of that, you tend to have footage that is either strongly red or strongly blue in tone. However while you generally keep the like tones together, or move between them smoothly, occasionally one of the opposite tones slips through. It doesn't really disrupt anything, but those bits have a very subtle sense of being 'off'. The most noticeable of these were the handful with a stronger green/brown tone (eg: walking on the railway, holding up his fingers for the picture frame).


[GuntherAMVs] Average, Slightly Annoying Life

A few minor video issues (banding, macroblocking) in dark areas, but mostly pretty solid.

Went for a story and kept it on track throughout. Was very easy to follow the story, and it felt 'real', like it could have actually been pulled from the original anime. Good scene selection to match the intent.

Video distraction: the phone pics were a bit *too* clean; they stood out against the more earth-tone feel of the anime itself.


[HaydenST] Time for Life

CRF19 probably introduced a few more artifacts than preferred, but given the final output was on the high side for file size, will let it slide. The 'old film' filters likely hurt the compression ratio a great deal.

More 'pure' relation between the anime source and the song. Mixed thoughts brought up from the commentary in "Reading Material", and really attached it in an emotional way to the anime. That emotional resonance is significant, to me, as there aren't many AMVs that really connect with me on that level.

The fall at 0:49 felt rather out of place; that was the only scene that felt jarring to the overall flow.


[Scoob] Good Days

Unlike a previous round, where the repetitiveness of the song practically begged for multiple sources, this song seems to work best when focused on a single source, since it's largely a story in song form. "Good Days" is the unfortunate one that went the multiple-source route out of the four entries of this group.

The multiple sources caused a lot of lack of coherency. Individual elements generally worked OK, but didn't blend well together because the characters and art styles kept changing, and it lacked a central theme other than generally going along with the tone of the song.

Sync and editing was generally pretty solid, but without a solid core to hold it together it ends up lagging behind the others. I bring up the comparison mostly because of how strongly that weakness stood out after watching the other three (this one being the fourth, alphabetically). Taken on its own it's still a pretty decent video.

Too literal presentation of "numbers", the scene showing the number 3, when it's clear the song is referring to phone numbers.




Top picks:
[HaydenST] Time for Life
[GuntherAMVs] Average, Slightly Annoying Life
[Copycat] Reading Material (The Readening)

Despite what I said in the previous round, about trying to force myself to pick just 2, I'm going to have to fall back on the "I'm not a judge" excuse again. All three of these were excellent, and there aren't any easy-to-point-to technicalities that I can use to justify dropping one of them. The primary distinctions are just the 'type' of video each is, and that hardly rates an excuse for removing one.



If anyone wants a more detailed critique, just ask and I'll see what I can do.
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby lloyd9988 » Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:57 am

Kisanzi wrote:
ProjectBarcodeError wrote:Kisanzi wasn't able to finish?

:o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s


Yeah, just moved apartments over the weekend and it took way longer than expected. That didn't leave me much time to make the deadline. :(

Anywho, best of luck to everyone else! I'm liking these round 2 videos so far.


:( I wanted to see what Kisanzi would come up with.
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby MasterZero8 » Fri Jun 01, 2012 4:01 am

llyod, I love you man! Your video was awesome. :awesome:
Because you used my all time favorite anime as your source. |:>
Its a good thing I'm not a judge, because I would be extremely biased towards your video, just because of the source material. :ying:
Awesome job man, awesome job. :D
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Re: The Quickening - Videos

Postby lloyd9988 » Fri Jun 01, 2012 4:31 am

MasterZero8 wrote:llyod, I love you man! Your video was awesome. :awesome:
Because you used my all time favorite anime as your source. |:>
Its a good thing I'm not a judge, because I would be extremely biased towards your video, just because of the source material. :ying:
Awesome job man, awesome job. :D


Lol I'm glad you enjoyed it xD
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