Simplicity vs. Frills: What makes good editing?

[dokidoki]

I defined a type of 'perfect' AMV as one that put a single cut with a single song, and required no editing to work well

I've heard that the Happy Days theme song goes really well with the Assemble Insert OP.
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[Nightowl]

"Failed Experiments" is more like a short film than a music video. There's a BIG difference there. It's about flow, not sync. And there is still no such thing as "timing."

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[epic minds]

A good video doesn't need fancy effects.

A solid concept makes a good video regardless of what gimmicks one chooses to use.

Both of these are true but,

Won't the need for special effects be proportional to how creative the idea is?

When i say special effects, i mean more than just cheezy transitions and simple compositiong.

One of my quams with most music videos is their simplicity. Although there is nothing wrong with simplicity, when you have 50 to 100 AMVs of the same series, whatever made one "simply edited video" unique gets repeated and lost in all the other videos that were edited in the same manner.

What makes an AMV unique is the concept. But what makes that concept unique and truly stand out are the se of effects.