I'll type a bit more tonight, but after a long time away, I have two new videos up. I'm still firmly in the amateur/newbie status and make no pretensions otherwise, but Hallucinations is the most involved AMV I've attempted, and after five sleepless nights of crazed editing, I'm mostly proud of it. The anime is The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and the song is Hallucinations by the Raveonettes (no, the sound quality's not bad, the song really is raw and echoey... that's part of what gave me the idea).
Hallucinations (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) and...
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DF Ash
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Hallucinations (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) and...
Last edited by DF Ash on Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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DF Ash
- Joined: Sun Aug 07, 2005 6:38 pm
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(This message copy/pasted from my explanation in the Ops thread, to make the video's nature clearer, and to try to spark some kind of discussion on it.)
It's a WMV file, largest and most detailed file size possible, but in order to pull off some of the fades, multiple save/loads were needed, and that washed out the fades and diminished the video a bit. I don't like it, but it was either that or start from scratch and lose a whole lot of syncs that would've been nearly impossible to recreate, so I went with just having lower quality. This isn't a con video, and I'm not pretending to be an experienced AMV editor, just one who edits for fun and hopefully has a penchant for original song ideas.
The song itself is echoey: I mention this because two of the three friends who previewed it responded with "the audio sounds distorted", and it's not: the song actually is distorted (the response of one of them after that was "oh, then I hate that song," so be warned :p). That echoing, warbling sound and the feedback distortion is what made me think of the empty eeriness of closed space, so it's actually part of the video's plan. There are two distortion moments in the song near the end that sync up oddly with the video: at first I thought the clips just weren't muted properly, but checked and no, those same sounds really are in the original song. It's just an odd coincidence, and "fixing" it would've meant messing up the flow.
There are no visual effects apart from fades, and a partial fade sequence in the middle. It's part of my video editing philosophy, I'm just minimalist in visual style. I need to master simple, cut and fade videos before jumping into digital effects: to do otherwise would be relying on a gimmick.
There's no lip synching, though there's one brief part that does match lip flaps and lyrics decently. It was originally a coincidence, but once I noticed it, I kept it in there and worked with it.
The concept of the video's explained in its page description, so no need to repeat it here, and make a rambling message twice as rambling.
It's a WMV file, largest and most detailed file size possible, but in order to pull off some of the fades, multiple save/loads were needed, and that washed out the fades and diminished the video a bit. I don't like it, but it was either that or start from scratch and lose a whole lot of syncs that would've been nearly impossible to recreate, so I went with just having lower quality. This isn't a con video, and I'm not pretending to be an experienced AMV editor, just one who edits for fun and hopefully has a penchant for original song ideas.
The song itself is echoey: I mention this because two of the three friends who previewed it responded with "the audio sounds distorted", and it's not: the song actually is distorted (the response of one of them after that was "oh, then I hate that song," so be warned :p). That echoing, warbling sound and the feedback distortion is what made me think of the empty eeriness of closed space, so it's actually part of the video's plan. There are two distortion moments in the song near the end that sync up oddly with the video: at first I thought the clips just weren't muted properly, but checked and no, those same sounds really are in the original song. It's just an odd coincidence, and "fixing" it would've meant messing up the flow.
There are no visual effects apart from fades, and a partial fade sequence in the middle. It's part of my video editing philosophy, I'm just minimalist in visual style. I need to master simple, cut and fade videos before jumping into digital effects: to do otherwise would be relying on a gimmick.
There's no lip synching, though there's one brief part that does match lip flaps and lyrics decently. It was originally a coincidence, but once I noticed it, I kept it in there and worked with it.
The concept of the video's explained in its page description, so no need to repeat it here, and make a rambling message twice as rambling.
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning, he found himself transformed into a giant pigeon!"