Instrumental Anime Project

[Otohiko]

AFAIK = As Far As I Know

(the more you know )

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I'll check out the new version of Third Stone shortly, too. We'll see how the titles work there - might give me some ideas. My current idea is to use some fancy filtered font which has a separate moving shadow layer for effect (I have no idea whether that'll actually look good... but it looks good 'on paper'). Currently fixing up a couple of nags in the later segment, then reordering the last quarter of the vid.

Rants aside... I gotta try the money order thing sometime too. If only I knew how it worked

[bubblehead]

Oh - I forgot this one with my last post:

Any ideas on what timeframe we should be putting on this thing? I'd like to set some sort of target date, but would like to know if anyone:

- Wants to make another video beyond what they've already started.
- Wants to make a video, but hasn't posted anything yet.
- Is a busy student who'd like to have a bit of time after school breaks to finish up their project.
- Really just wants to get this done.
- Has anything else to say on the matter.

...well...

I've been mulling over various ideas for instrumental music amvs for a while, but I'm not sure if I really want to do it, and anyway it would have to be after the video I'm working on now, so at any rate, don't wait for me, but since you wanted to know...

at any rate, I'll be watching the project progress with some interest.

:goes off and "mulls" further:

sorry if you feel I've wasted your time by being so unsure...

(flame retardant)

[downwithpants]

i would like to try another video - if i can come up with an idea. i'll probably watch fantasia this weekend or so, and maybe dl some more songs. thursday will be my last exam (and the most painful one) until finals (middle of may).

i'm glad to see new people showing interest in our project. the more diverse the video, the better.

[rose4emily]

New participants - yeah!

There is no "experience" requirement. The videos do have to be approved, but that's more along the lines of making sure no one does anything really ugly or disguisting.

As to the "Third Stone" video:

The first line of of the text is from FLCL's intro. Everything else is from Jimi Hendrix's original "Third Stone from the Sun". I used the lines, in order, and only cut out one that really didn't fit ("grass of green" after "strange, beautiful"). I just hope I can find a way to get the actual text to look better on my final encode.

The slow parts do still drag. I still plan to do the overlays to help fix that (I think that'd be much better than a bunch of cuts to different scenes in those sections), but am holding off on that until I find the source of my text and timing problems on the encode (or give up on finding the source of my text and timing problems on the encode, I might just make a few compensatory adjustments at the three points where the timing issues really wreck things - the cut from half of Naota's face to half of Mamimi's face, the "light-up" girders on the bridge that should be coinciding perfectly with the guitar, and the two explosions at the end, which should be falling right on the beat).

[Bote]

Stop using those eyerolls damn it!

[DaPatches]

ooh ooh ! I wanna do one!! ::runs to look at her music::

[Otohiko]

Well, I've finished my re-edits on Ararat, just titles left now - I should have more WIP shortly.

The one thing I really couldn't do much about is tweaking out the EQ to tone down the rhythm section in the early bit - too tricky, since the rhythm includes all sorts of frequencies, so whatever I do, the violin is still sort of 'buried' under it. Can't turn one up or down without doing the same to the other

The rest is good though, following up on the titles. New upload tonight.

[Bryal]

Ok, yeah - anyone know who the Inu Yasha vid came from? It'd be nice to have a name to go with it like the other segments being posted.

what song is it? i might be me

[Otohiko]

Alright - heads up, new version of Ararat should be uploaded within minutes. Changes include minor tweaks, the added/restructured segment towards the end, and the use of titles.

Tell me how close you think it is to final, Pen-Pen

[Otohiko]

Oh yea, quick note - update the track assignment file, seeing how my Kashmir video is almost done, yet it's not even mentioned as assigned there.

As for my next video - I'm thinking that to work against what I've already done, something humorous and acoustic would be nice.

...considering.