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• Member: Unfound
• Title: Angelic Ballad
• Premiered: 2004-05-01
• Categories:
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Serious
  • Trailer
• Song:
  • ADV Films RahXephon Trailer Music
• Anime:
  • Cowboy Bebop
• Comments: Well, I started this video today and I finished it about 8 hours later. (Don't be discouraged, its only a 51 second video). I basically played around with some trailer ideas, since I had heard the song used in an ADV Film RahXephon trailer and it sounded like it could work with a number of serious animes. I decided to stick with Cowboy Bebop, and, to make it a bit more challenging, I used only one episode out of the few I have on DVD. So I went to work at about 10:00 this morning.
  
  Footage Used:
  DVD - Cowboy Bebop - 1st Session
  Episode - Ballad of Fallen Angels
  
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  Programs Used:
  DVD Decrypter (Ripping the VOBs)
  DVD2AVI (Creating the .d2v file)
  Virtual Dub Mod (For final compression and creating the AVISynth Script)
  Premiere 6.5 (For editing)
  Photoshop 7.0 (Creating the title background and text)
  
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  Editors Notes:
  
  0:13.04-0:37.02: I decided to use stilled images created from the footage and made into Black and White and make it more symbolic then action-orientated for that section of the video because that's how I perceived the song.
  
  0:40.18-0:44: There is a Japanese women speaking in the background, however, it is not from the Cowboy Bebop DVD, this is from the actual music I ripped off of an ADV Film DVD Preview of RahXephon, so, if you recognize the voice, its probably from that anime. (I've never seen it myself)
  
  0:45.08-End: The Title was created in Photoshop by using Clouds and Gaussian Blur filters.
  
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  Codec Used: Xvid
  Duration: 0:51
  Size: 9.31 Mbs (Again, its a 51 second video, so don't be discouraged by the small file size)
  
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  On a more personal note, I'm glad I was able to make a video like this because I was frustrated by making the same action video over and over again, and even though it does have a bit of action, its more meant towards the relationship between the two men (Vicious and Spike). Also, the song's original duration was 1:00 exactly, however, there was a man screaming in the beginning (Due to the fact that its a preview), so I sliced off the first 9 seconds of the audio clip so all the video clips would fit.