Bleach AMV

[gogwarts]

Please watch video....
First AMV
Please add comments
Help develop skill

Video: Bleach AMV Conchise (http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=178367)
Song: Conchise
Artist: Audioslave

[Fall_Child42]

Well there you have it.
I will post and comment since you asked so nicely!

A few things I will tell you that will help your final output include technical details and pace.

The technical details are the easiest to mess up especially when you are a first time AMV maker. There is a guide on the org read AbsoluteDestiny & ErMaC's Technical Guides to All Things Audio and Video but it can be a bit intimidating if you don't know what you are looking for so I will point you to specific problems I saw that this guide will help you with.

Problem #1
You used downloaded footage. The guide contains a section telling you how to rip a DVD, when you rip DVDs you get higher quality video to workwith, and you don't have to work around subtitles.

Problem #2
Aspect ratios. These are a tricky subject to wrap your mind around. The simplest explination is that Computer and TV screens are different, and if you don't account for that with your video It will look squished.
The section on aspect ratios will tell you more about how to tell what aspect ratio your source is supposed to be in and how to adjust it so that it looks right.

As for the actual editing, I saw that you have a good sense of timing and internal synch. There were a number of parts that fit very well with the music.
For example, The way you handled the opening, esp. when Ichigo's eyes moved, and the first cymbal crash after the music picked up.

The only thing that I would like to see improved upon would be the pacing, through alot of the middle of the video, the song is going very quick but the scenes you show are very slow and don't quite match. Use your sense of internal synch and make the scenes go a little faster when dictated by the music.

All in all I can see that you have a pretty good sense of timing to start off with you just need a bit more practice and to learn some of the more technical sideds of this hobby.

Also if you are going to get into this more may I suggest a better editing program,
If I had to hazard a guess you are using Windows Movie Maker?
I would look into
Magix Movie Edit Pro,
Sony Vegas
or Adombe Premiere

All three have different price ranges
Magix being a very good low cost Video editor.
Vegas and premiere being a more powerful but also much more expensive software.


I hope I helped!

[gogwarts]

Thanks for the comment dude. Yeah I am using WMM since its all I have. Well, the current technique I'm using is not really the pacing the video, its much more showing what the singer is singing. Like when is says, "while you been coughing", I showed Hitsugaya on the river bank struggling to get up. Or when the first chorus began and the lyrics "go on an save yourself, and take it all on me" I showed the Gotei 13 and Masumoto, and the "on me" part" I showed Hitsugaya. The movie is about him being blamed as a rebel. But I thought the middle of the music was slow paced.

[gogwarts]

I'll use the tips that you mentioned esp. the dvd rip. and also the video size tip. Thanks man, I'll work on my third video using this tips but I'm still gonna use WMM since its free.

[TritioAFB]

Question: Do you like to edit upbeats songs?

[gogwarts]

ah sure, I also have a master exploder bleach amv, but for some reason, after I upload it, it can't be found. Its not like I'm crazy over bleach, its all I have for now. Did you like the video I uploaded

[gogwarts]

I uploaded a different version of my first AMV. Well, its basically the same, I just subtrated and added some new scenes. Please comment on it

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=178378

[TritioAFB]

I asked that because by judging your style, you seem to. Before telling you my answer, its that one your first?

[gogwarts]

nope, I did a Master Exploder Bleach AMV. This is my second

[Nicotin]

bad, very baaad