This is an old AMV that has been kicked off UTube by Square Enix, but what they don't know won't hurt them. Anyway. This song is "Dead End Moon" by Kevin Max.
Final Fantasy VII: Dead End Moon (AMV Kicked off UTube)
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guardiansoulblade
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LittleAtari
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Re: Final Fantasy VII: Dead End Moon (AMV Kicked off UTube)
I see you hang around here a bit so forgive me if I'm a little tough here:
What's up with the ultra slowed down footage? The frame rate is so low on those that when watching the preview, I decided to download the video thinking that it may have been encoded wrong for streaming. A lot of the parts where you slowed things down have enough footage for you to let them be normal. So I dont understand why you did that.
The split screens had no purpose. A lot of what you wanted to achieve could've been done with overlays and scene changes. Also, the skewed aspect ratio in them just made it worse. If you really wanted split screens, there was enough room for you to crop and zoom stuff so that the aspect ratio wouldn't be affected.
Why was this video letter boxed? FFVII is widescreen so next time set your resolution to be 848x480 with square pixels. I always find useless letter boxing annoying.
The quality was pretty bad at times. FVII has pretty nice graphics and it got killed by the blocking going on. I know you buy DVDs, so if you dont have FVII on DVD, get it for your next video. If you did work with DVD rips then you really messed up on encoding the movie before you edited. One word/One codec LAGARITH. Encode your clips to lagarith in vdub. Use Vdub as an external trimmer or use Vfapi and make fake avis if you dont want to deal with large lossless files.
Also, I have to question where most of the sync went in this video. The guy sings slow but there is a beat going on in the background. You could have at least changed scenes with the guy's voice or something.
I could see a hint of a concept in the video but it got ruined by jumping around to fight scenes or try to fit in two barely related pieces of footage into one shot.
1/5
I really recommend watching more amvs and trying to learn from them. I recommend going into the top 10% and looking at videos 39 - 56. They're all simple enough and I think you could learn from them.
Keep practicing.
What's up with the ultra slowed down footage? The frame rate is so low on those that when watching the preview, I decided to download the video thinking that it may have been encoded wrong for streaming. A lot of the parts where you slowed things down have enough footage for you to let them be normal. So I dont understand why you did that.
The split screens had no purpose. A lot of what you wanted to achieve could've been done with overlays and scene changes. Also, the skewed aspect ratio in them just made it worse. If you really wanted split screens, there was enough room for you to crop and zoom stuff so that the aspect ratio wouldn't be affected.
Why was this video letter boxed? FFVII is widescreen so next time set your resolution to be 848x480 with square pixels. I always find useless letter boxing annoying.
The quality was pretty bad at times. FVII has pretty nice graphics and it got killed by the blocking going on. I know you buy DVDs, so if you dont have FVII on DVD, get it for your next video. If you did work with DVD rips then you really messed up on encoding the movie before you edited. One word/One codec LAGARITH. Encode your clips to lagarith in vdub. Use Vdub as an external trimmer or use Vfapi and make fake avis if you dont want to deal with large lossless files.
Also, I have to question where most of the sync went in this video. The guy sings slow but there is a beat going on in the background. You could have at least changed scenes with the guy's voice or something.
I could see a hint of a concept in the video but it got ruined by jumping around to fight scenes or try to fit in two barely related pieces of footage into one shot.
1/5
I really recommend watching more amvs and trying to learn from them. I recommend going into the top 10% and looking at videos 39 - 56. They're all simple enough and I think you could learn from them.
Keep practicing.
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Re: Final Fantasy VII: Dead End Moon (AMV Kicked off UTube)
This. Tho I will add, I loved the song. S:LittleAtari wrote:I see you hang around here a bit so forgive me if I'm a little tough here:
What's up with the ultra slowed down footage? The frame rate is so low on those that when watching the preview, I decided to download the video thinking that it may have been encoded wrong for streaming. A lot of the parts where you slowed things down have enough footage for you to let them be normal. So I dont understand why you did that.
The split screens had no purpose. A lot of what you wanted to achieve could've been done with overlays and scene changes. Also, the skewed aspect ratio in them just made it worse. If you really wanted split screens, there was enough room for you to crop and zoom stuff so that the aspect ratio wouldn't be affected.
Why was this video letter boxed? FFVII is widescreen so next time set your resolution to be 848x480 with square pixels. I always find useless letter boxing annoying.
The quality was pretty bad at times. FVII has pretty nice graphics and it got killed by the blocking going on. I know you buy DVDs, so if you dont have FVII on DVD, get it for your next video. If you did work with DVD rips then you really messed up on encoding the movie before you edited. One word/One codec LAGARITH. Encode your clips to lagarith in vdub. Use Vdub as an external trimmer or use Vfapi and make fake avis if you dont want to deal with large lossless files.
Also, I have to question where most of the sync went in this video. The guy sings slow but there is a beat going on in the background. You could have at least changed scenes with the guy's voice or something.
I could see a hint of a concept in the video but it got ruined by jumping around to fight scenes or try to fit in two barely related pieces of footage into one shot.
1/5
I really recommend watching more amvs and trying to learn from them. I recommend going into the top 10% and looking at videos 39 - 56. They're all simple enough and I think you could learn from them.
Keep practicing.
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guardiansoulblade
- Joined: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:58 pm
Re: Final Fantasy VII: Dead End Moon (AMV Kicked off UTube)
Hey, I'm not surprised that people didn't like it, 'cause this is really old and not my best stuff, this is when I first started making these so, all the criticism is okay. At least you guys like the song though. I didn't figure out how to do split-screen right so it looks bad. I'll probably redo this one eventually. When I get my computer back, Hard drive died on me. GRRR!