WIP! Another Night Lip-Sync

Psygnius · Post by **Psygnius** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 12:33 am

http://www.business.colostate.edu/Allen ... rNight.mpg

The file is 38 megs.

This is a work in progress. Also. I still haven't learned how to use AfterEffects, so anything that requires that, I'm SOL. My current editing platform is Media 100i 7.5 running on OS9.

I'm looking for help with the ending beats... from the fireworks, and everything after that. Here's the problem, the rest of the song is completely different, and the changes into straight bass for another minute, so I decided to try and edit the song and so that's why it kinda sounds like an abrubt ending.

I kinda would like to know people's opinion's about fade outs. What do you think about fading out the audio and the video?

Also... maybe help with either a filler clip or a better syncing clip for the 0:50 second mark.

Need some opinions about my usage of color changes,

Not sure if I want to keep "Pen Pen" at the 1:42 mark since I bring the same clip back (except it's reversed) at the 1:52 mark. Suggestions would be nice.

At the Yuna clip at 2:02, I think I think I will fade the red a little earlier before the clip change.

Thanks in advance for the advice. ^_^

storyteller · Post by **storyteller** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:46 pm

First off I must say good song choice. There is a steady driving beat that keeps everything moving along nicely.

A fade out can be an effective signal, both visually and musically of and ending or a separation between things. Abrupt endings can work sometimes. Some songs just end abruptly. The visual image that you have at the ends, the kind of explosion or something works with the current sound file.

I know you didn’t ask about it, but I want to comment on the lip synch. There is good and bad. First the good, the timing on the lip-synch is really awesome. Second the shapes of there lips is out of alignment with what they are supposed to be saying. Words such as “you” and “true” involve more puckering of the lips to the nice round “oo” sound. The timing is great but the final effect looks a bit off because of the shape of their lips.

The color changes lack any apparent scheme or concise timing. They seem unrelated to everything else that is going on in the scene.

The reuse of the Pen Pen image does not stick out.

What does stick out is the use of different segments of the Electronic Twiser training device from Evangelion. The segments are from different parts of the scene but the look so similar that is seems as if you are reusing clips. [0:17, 0:55, 1:30]