u_queen wrote:Nice video for being your first one. Just check a little the lip flap, and I don't think it looks good using lip sync in Arcuied when the singer is male. Well, is my personal taste. Anyway keep the good work
3/5
Thank you! Well, if with "lip flap" you mean the scenes where the lips movement has no sense, I definitely agree: just at the beginning there's Arcueid talking and it's not synced, but it's because I couldn't find an another scene to fit there... I don't like that chatting either.
Eva-Fan wrote:I rarely post my thoughts on threads but its my favorite anime and your new so wut the hell eh?
I dig the oldies style music, it was refreshing since I haven't heard music like this in a while. The amv wasn't bad for a first amv. You seem to work well with mood sync more then beat sync from this amv anyways. Music pacing kinda set the mood for the video. There's barely any beat sync but i think the mood sync is enough anyways. The lyrics are kinda farfetched for this anime but I get the overall idea you had goin on. You've got promise just learn more with avisynth for video quality and work on trying to find a medium with lyrics/mood/beat.
First amv courtesy 6.5/10
Thank you for the deep analysis. Sure you got it right: this one was a mainly slow, emotional AMV. Music is not punchy, drums are recorded at low level and low dynamics, probably the most "powerful" and incisive instrument in this music is the piano... Therefore most of my fast-paced syncing was with the piano.
Being watching and watching it again, I have surely to admit that it lacks some punch and power, and I fear that most of the audience will just get bored... I don't, because I know what it's all about, I like the little story I could put together, but yes, the next one will be something punchy, with a musically heavier song (I'm happy you appreciated this old piece, I love '60-'70 d.o.c. rock
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Oh, about quality: I'm not using avisynth, just VirtualDub after Premiere, and I set a two pass XviD encoding with a 2000 kbps avg target, and set various options according to many studies on websites/tutorials. I think I can't do much better than this: I didn't rip the DVD's myself, I worked on pre-encoded material, so that's probably why the quality isn't top notch.
Giacomo
