Making it Flow

Cole · Post by **Cole** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 3:28 am

I've only made a handful of videos (in reality, only two full-length music videos, meaning that they actually last for an entire song). Tonight I was finishing up my second video (that'll hopefully be posted sometime tomorrow) and I could not for the life of me get scenes from different episodes to mix together. My footage is from Rurouni Kenshin, Hellsing, Flame of Recca, and Samurai Deeper Kyo. I ended up just using action sequences from the same episode for each series. I was wondering how some of you deal with that. Is the song a big part of it? I mixed in the theme song from Suikoden III to tie all the footage together, and it just didn't look right for some reason when I tried to mix fights from, say, FoR episode 1 with FoR ep 9. Maybe it was just me.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 10:38 am

You might check the transition between episodes. If the fights involve the same people, or one of the same fighters, you could try to end the first with a close up face-shot and then for the next scene (in the different episode) come out from a similar face shot. Or you could use some flashy transition, if you have a good movie maker.

Cole · Post by **Cole** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 3:43 pm

Thanks, I'll try that out. I'm still learning how to do transistions and get timing down right with the tempo of the music.