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my first amv on this site

Post by Shinodude » Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:45 pm

hello i just finished uplodin my first vid on this site lol

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=70138

its about shino.... its probly not that good :) but i dwnloaded some of the stuf so there are few subs :(
but if u have time plz view my first vid.... thnk youy an bye

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Post by Shinodude » Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:59 pm

soory that sounded worg ok i doawnloaded most of the episodes so there are subs:( but if u download it please leva an opinion an tell me what i should do to make it better :)

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Post by Arigatomina » Sat Apr 23, 2005 11:54 pm

You know, I had to actually watch this vid *looking* for subtitles to notice them. They aren't in the 'video proper', so you don't really need to mention them. The ones at the 'end cap' scene fit with a character-vid, they're explanatory, so they could have been kept intentionally.

As for the editing...hm. I didn't like the transitions - the wipes, they were blatant and made me wince. I tend to shy away from transitions like that, they just break the flow for me. I'm not sure about starting out with a grayscale, but it did make me appreciate the clear color that follows. That repeated scene was a little odd, but it fit the lyrics, and it's a good shot for Shino's expression there - he doesn't show expression that often. The general action sync was loose for the most part, but it's your first amv, and far too short for you to have really gotten much experience working with it. I don't know if you had footage of it, but you could have used some of the shots from Shino and his group in the forest, or more of his first match - it would have given you more clips to work with than just the fight with the crow.

I'd recommend playing with beat-sync - line up your scene changes to match things like drum beats. If you have wmm 2.0 those should show as spikes on your audio timeline (I think wmm 1.0 is the only editing program that doesn't show the beats).

The quality wasn't bad considering the source. The worst was a few really blocky bits with that green background when the crow is flying toward the camera. Raising the bitrate should help that (unless it was in the original footage). I wouldn't recommend wmv as a distribution codec. If you're using wmm 1 or 2, then you have options to convert your vid to mpg or xvid. If you're using something else, it probably has mpg as an option, or huffyuv (preferred).

I liked it almost purely for the Shino footage, so I'm biased. It reminds me how much I want to do something with his character. Thanks for that. ^_^

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Post by Shinodude » Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:44 am

lol thanks for the tips

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