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Re: Kenzichu-Duet With Me! Dedication for my Sister

Post by CodeZTM » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:40 pm

Kenz, darling, you are now my offical go-to editor for Romance videos. I have a favorite editor for every genre, and I've finally found somebody that does the Romance genre so much justice. [Pwolf is sentimental, doesn't count. xD] :D :up:

Praises:
1) You've done a GREAT job getting your visual quality up and above what you've previously had. :D Still a little iffy on a few of them, but how can I possibly complain when they're all watchable.
2) Integration of Elfin Leid footage in a romance video without it being ironic. :up:
3) The scene of RomeoxJuliet embracing while their swords are clinging in the background? That is SUCH A CUTE concept! :D
4) Fruits Bsaket was given so much justice.
5) 2:45 and everything after that was just done SO WELL. The scenes and music melded so well together. :)
6) The atmosphere in the video was so compelling, I had to watch it a few times through before I really started seeing the few critiques I wanted to make. And it's a video I can watch the entire way through without intteruption. :up:

But here's my general critiques.
1) A little too much focus on RomeoxJuliet in the middle for a multi-source AMV. It was almost an entire chorus just for them.
2) Zero no Tuski's segment was a little too fast in terms of sync.
3) 2:39 the drum beats? Those were pretty bad off sync and looked sloppy.
4) The scenes chosen were kind of the "default" scenes in every anime that gets used pretty often, but it was still done in a compelling way, so I can't really complain, just pointing it out.
5) Grey effect at beginning was cute, but because it was nixed in the rest of the video, it probably could have been cut and done with something more flow-fitting. :D

I'm also gonna copy/paste this and give this video a well deserved OP. :up:

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Re: Kenzichu-Duet With Me! Dedication for my Sister

Post by godix » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:38 pm

I'll usually beta test pretty much anything if someone asks; however, unlike most vids I beta test, I really like this one. Most romance videos are slow, boring, and little more than people staring at each other so they tend to come off rather emo like. This video had a nice flow of movement and kept a fairly upbeat/happy feeling through it. It felt like a celebration of romance instead of a dirge.

There are some obvious tech problems, although perhaps I notice that more because I spent some time last night trying to improve the tech as much as I could. A few fairly minor mis-timings here and there, again perhaps I notice more because I spent some time going over the video last night. But still, this is one of the better romance videos I've seen. Enough so I'm keeping the vid, which I almost never do with romance vids.
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Re: Kenzichu-Duet With Me! Dedication for my Sister

Post by Knowname » Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:59 pm

Code wrote:3) The scene of RomeoxJuliet embracing while their swords are clinging in the background? That is SUCH A CUTE concept! :D
yeah I wanna add this to my op. Though it wasn't too clear to me WHO was fighting lol... it only showed swords o.0 it was pretty cute... I guess.
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Re: Kenzichu-Duet With Me! Dedication for my Sister

Post by Kenzichu » Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:57 pm

*cries with joy..*I hope more ppl watch this. I mean, godix is keeping it, which he never does..omg~~ omg~~!! Everyone loves it! I still gotta show it to Whitney! ><!!

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Re: Kenzichu-Duet With Me! Dedication for my Sister

Post by NS » Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:17 pm

Taylor swift is an attractive lady, therefore I shall get this video.

edit: you became a pretty decent editor pretty quickly.

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Re: Kenzichu-Duet With Me! Dedication for my Sister

Post by Tearx » Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:10 am

This had me going "awww" a lot. :up:

it's good that your sis is back =D
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Re: Kenzichu-Duet With Me! Dedication for my Sister

Post by Bauzi » Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:25 am

It's okay. Well it's nice. I like that it is simple beside this random texture effect that didn't made any sense to me.

I give it 4/5

To be honest... I stopped the preview after 50% because I felt like... wasteing my time? Oh that sounds a bit too offensive. Let me explain it: I'm not into the song, theme and didn't had the feeling that the upcomeing scenes will be any different from what I've seen before. So why wasteing my time if I don't enjoy something? Exactly. That doesn't mean that I can't give it 4 stars because it wasn't my cup of tea... :)

While Godix metnioned some misstimeings: Well I saw nothing wrong in the editing.
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Re: Kenzichu-Duet With Me! Dedication for my Sister

Post by Emotive » Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:23 am

Oops, guess my own feedback came in a bit late, sorry. :sweat:

It was quite an enjoyable watch even though I find the song rather boring, but the fact I enjoyed it either way does say something. I liked it a bit more when it mixed some hard cuts in the first half though, and the flow got a bit sloppy towards the end (the song sounded the same but everything got faster).

Still pretty good overall, way better than expected. You really did grow into a decent editor in a short amount of time.
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Re: Kenzichu-Duet With Me! Dedication for my Sister

Post by Kenzichu » Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:43 am

thank yall so much! Please keep the comments coming! ^_^ I've never felt happier

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Re: Kenzichu-Duet With Me! Dedication for my Sister RAVE REVIEWS

Post by kenisama » Sat Jan 23, 2010 7:49 am

Really good romance AMV, enjoyed watching the "whole" thing :mrgreen:

No complaints about it from me, other than the technical issues already mentioned, keep up the good work :up: :amv:
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