Gentlemen, Gaze and Behold!

[jamespenguin]

Oh ok, just started looking at the forums, so please forgive this announcement for a video I posted a week ago.

Anyway, it's my fourth shot at making an AMV, and I'd appreciate any comments or criticism.

[Flusel]

fourth try and still wrong aspect ratio? You sure need to learn the basics first. Video was nice though. For me it was to few syncing to the music. But you are on the right way.

[jamespenguin]

The whole aspect ratio thing has been giving me problems ever since I started working on this AMV. I ripped my source material and converted it to huffyuv, but when I started working with it in premiere with square pixels it would export video with bars on either side. So I set premiere to use NTSC 4:3 which seemed to look OK, but then when I transocded my final master with MeGUI, it decided to change the aspect ratio (or so it looks that way.)

In the end, after hours of running around in circles, I just decided to give up and just roll with what MeGUI spat out.

[Autraya]

>.<
When you made your huffyuv's you should have fixed the AR then and there using a resizer in .avs .

Then when you make a new project in Premiere go to custom settings and typed in the resolution that corresponds to your huffyuv. And make sure that your export settings also coincide.

And then make sure you aren't changing the AR in megui <--- I don't know that program tho so that's just a general statement.

I also thought gurren Lagen or how ever you spell it was 16:9 but that's based off a few vids I've seen as I've never watched it. *stabbs MD to death before he can make me watch it*

It's really not that hard once you get the hang of setting up projects properly and know what not to do.

[nZen]

i dont see what worrying about the AR is all about, but that's just me.
i thought that the first half of the video was like a good or bad acid trip.
and the second half was really cool, i got the feel with the music and footage.
either way i still enjoyed a clean video

[LeapofFate]

The AR is 16:9

Anyways, I didn't really like it.

It felt bland.

I also didn't get any feeling between the source and song.

I guess it isn't for me.

[Sephirothishere]

I agree with Zen, u should fix your ar, but that's something u'll learn without having much criticism, dunno why everyone is mocking u with it, one comment about it is enough.
Anyway, i liked how u started the vid on the slow part, it went pretty well with the song. Some parts and scene choices here and there worked really nice with the song. But, other then the editing needing perfectioning, i think your build-up wasn't a great matching to the song: the song has that heroic build-up and feeling, all converging on the song's deepest and most powerful moment, that is the end. U should have planed it more well and make a reasonable and understandable connecting between all the vid and the last momento. That means, everything that u put through your vid should be like a "preparation" and lead toward the last part, other then what u did, u mostly picked scenes about Simon and the other two (i can't remember their names sincerely, i suck at remembering japanese names). Anyway, it's kindda okay.
Keep it up pal

[Autraya]

I agree with Zen, u should fix your ar, but that's something u'll learn without having much criticism, dunno why everyone is mocking u with it, one comment about it is enough.

1. I don't see an "everyone mocking him" he wrote in his post about the process and where it was incorrect AR, I pointed out what he needed to look out for and where it could have gone wrong. If I was mocking him it'd be an extreemely different post. And Leapoffate was confirming a portion of my post about it being 16:9... also not mocking. x_X

2. *slaps sephy upside the head for never making his gothik2 segment*