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Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:04 pm

Ugh. My pianokeys suck ass. I guess I´ll use the deadline extention. Something went wrong witht he fx =/
I will fix it, but how much are you guys bothered about 16:9 that is rendered into 4:3 ? I´m not. Yeah that´s about it xD I think that 4:3 -> 16:9 looks crappy as hell.

Niwa · Post by **Niwa** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:11 pm

Alright.

So I got the ftp working again on my main computer. Still it was strange why my laptop wasn't able to log in. I'l write a comment on each betas tommorow and hopefully I'l make a new beta aswell if I got the time.

meleechampion · Post by **meleechampion** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:38 pm

A beta is up on guy's ftp. It sucks... maybe.

Leave no stone unturned. Even the obvious stuff that needs fixing you should rip me to shreds over. I have a day off Tuesday so write up your "why you fail, melee" report by then. kthx sleeptime

Greggus1 · Post by **Greggus1** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:06 am

Ok, in order:

-Love the way you open it. Transition from first shot to second shot is perfect. Then second shot is too long. Might wanna use that cymbal at 00:03 as a reference point.
-The rest of the editing up to the masks feels too slow.
-The visor thing is kinda cool, but it'd be nicer if you could make it a little more feathered, and more... Integrated. This possibly with effects, or masks that make the shape more appropriate.
-The faces thing is kinda cool, but I feel like, if you're going to make no sense, go all out. Make more crazy stuff happen on there.
-The transition back to the jungle seems awkward right now. I think you're trying to show them shocked at what they're seeing, but it's not really that great of a plot point that you need to go back to them, I think. I would stick to Renton and the old dude who's name I forget, and just make things really crazy.
-The ending can look cool, again with some finetuning.

guy07 · Post by **guy07** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:28 am

@melee: Everything before 0:12 needs to be re-edited, i'd synch it to the "waah wahh waaaah" sound.
And yeah, having those two guys having a 'face' off would be pretty funny. +2 pts for pun!

Also, i'm uploading my final beta to my ftp right now. If u got beef with it, bring it. But i pray to god u don't, cuz i can only listen to that 30 second clip so many times before going insane.

Copycat_Revolver · Post by **Copycat_Revolver** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:17 am

Oh dear Gord, what have I been missing?
Okay, my extra swankified beta (Bauzi Edition Gold) is up on both ftp's. I'll watch all of the new ones now as well.

And this is your last chance if you want a different avatar in there:

WC Annihilus · Post by **WC Annihilus** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:32 am

My current avatar please

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:23 am

@Guy:
00:05 I think you can pronnounce the last beat if you make a short (5fps) fade-in from a black screen transition into the first lip sync part.

Lipsync #1
nahdasdf... I think we get to it. I think that for the last lip sync moment you should use a semi opened mouth instead of the full one.
00:06 "you´re" It still looks a way too fast and controlled here. Seriously. Try some semi opened mouths instead of the full ones.
The rest seams fine for me.

00:14
Awww... You really have bad luck that this scene is so short. Try a simpel crossfade transition into the rest part too?
00:18
Transition works fine

00:21
The rest of the text is fine, but WTF still stands a bit above. You could see it as pronnounciation ( <- kill me for typos please) too. I just wanted to mention that. I don´t really see a trouble here.

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/4208 ... 018ft1.jpg
You see the white lines? Look at them if they´re fixed after cleaning. Would be nice if you could fix that (to be honest: I´ve no clue for that).

@Melee:
- 00:07
Sweeeeeeet. There is just my fetish for colour correct here, but you could ignore it :3
00:08
This mobile suit felt a bit out of place for me. It´s so slow and... gnah. I don´t like it.
00:10
I suggesst to keep on with the transition to the melody here.
00:13
Eh... You could do that, but make it look much more like it is part of the anime:
some technical styled stuff (example amvs for that style: BTB, NTB)
or just some simpel TV distortion (please just more than odd noise thx)

00:15
If you bring up some crazy stuff you´re doing with the background from time to time than I´m completly fine with it.

00:28
Come back to the video distortion here so it fits better to the next scene where they´re looking at it. It brings the memory back to the viewer that this is actually a transmission. Well of course you could keep on the technical/distortion style too, but keep I´m mind that you would need some variety too, to keep up the interest.

00:33
Nearly fine. I think that she should close here mouth at "attention" for a short time.
However I like the scene for it.

@CCR:
Do you know the damn awesome band named CCR? I think they´re wrote that way ^^

00:20 The angels and Ben want some feathured edges.
00:12 Look under her pen. I bet you keyed something out and didn´t rotoscoped. I guess this black line appears because you just add some "stroke edges" effect on it. A "stroke vector mask" effect would be way more controlled.
00:14 Look at the top of her head. Why does this mask move that bad?

I suggest to prepare some frames and just make the animations yourself, because
there aren´t a lot of frames and the animations are repeated over and over again. Ah just do as you like, but the masks look just too uncontrolled.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/PenToolGuide.pdf
(77.8MB PDF)

The pentool in Vegas and AE are the fx-man´s best friend :3

@all: Be sure that you talk to your track neighbour´s about the transitions of the parts!!!

@Greg: You said that I shouldn´t worry about your transition to my part. Are you still the opinion that there won´t be a trouble if I don´t know your idea? Really I´m fine with that. I trust you.

btw.:
Because "The Grandmaster of all Pirates"-Greg asked for it, I finaly made my private tapes open for public. This one shows me and Copy Cat haveing fun =O

Greggus1 · Post by **Greggus1** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:37 am

Ok, in order:

-Love the way you open it. Transition from first shot to second shot is perfect. Then second shot is too long. Might wanna use that cymbal at 00:03 as a reference point.
-The rest of the editing up to the masks feels too slow.
-The visor thing is kinda cool, but it'd be nicer if you could make it a little more feathered, and more... Integrated. This possibly with effects, or masks that make the shape more appropriate.
-The faces thing is kinda cool, but I feel like, if you're going to make no sense, go all out. Make more crazy stuff happen on there.
-The transition back to the jungle seems awkward right now. I think you're trying to show them shocked at what they're seeing, but it's not really that great of a plot point that you need to go back to them, I think. I would stick to Renton and the old dude who's name I forget, and just make things really crazy.
-The ending can look cool, again with some finetuning.

I take the bolded part back. Was not listening on high enough volume. It's good stuff.

Bauzi, will talk to you about the transition very soon.

And Adam, did your synch get messed up? The audio seems early on the video.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:23 pm

@melee
I liked the beginning up to :04, but :04-:14 needs more stuff happening (or at least more sync)

the nirvash looks kinda out of place, it's possible to add things to this part of your segment so that it doesn't look out of place...but it might be easier to cut it out.

I liked everything after :14, might be a good idea to throw some clips in the background...but I'd be happy enough with what you're doing now