What does everyone think [of digital effects?]

Unlimited Rice · Post by **Unlimited Rice** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:31 pm

i like them mostly to techno-music..

Maverick-Rubik · Post by **Maverick-Rubik** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:23 pm

For me, a "Digital Effect" is anything that can be done to visually manipulate the footage at hand through a computerized editor. Editing frames in an image editor and reprocessing them is a digital effect. Masking is a digital effect.

As for what I think of them in videos... terrible, unless you're doing something I have never seen before (and I don't mean masking something different... but maybe masking in a different aspect). If it's used well, and it hasn't been run into the ground by other editors (for instance: masking out characters, overlaying footage in bars, etc.), I like it. But if you're going to make a simple edited video I may not be too crazy about it. The more unusual something is to me, the more interested I am.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:44 pm

digital video effects are pretty dandy these days. without them, i would be less able to produce a music video that matches what i envision for the video. with the development of more complex effects, i imagine editors will go into their planning stages with more elaborate and perhaps more clear video ideas in their heads.

the use of digital effects is not always conducive to the quality of the video. see sarahtheboring's graph. http://uvl.iwarp.com/fanmedia/junk/fx-axes.jpg

FoxJones · Post by **FoxJones** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:01 am

Effects are a nice filling but bad frosting.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:44 am

FoxJones wrote:Effects are a nice filling but bad frosting.

And they make an even worse cake.

JCD · Post by **JCD** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:48 am

Bote wrote:This has been debated over and over again. Certain people know how to implement effects to add to the video others just use them for the sake of it. It's strange though, all the people who posted up till now and aren't in favor of using effects are actually people who never learned to use them.

x2, I see it pretty often that people who bash down effects are people who seem to have never even tried making a good use of them or failed doing so

(no offense)

LCY84 · Post by **LCY84** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:04 pm

JCD wrote:
Bote wrote:This has been debated over and over again. Certain people know how to implement effects to add to the video others just use them for the sake of it. It's strange though, all the people who posted up till now and aren't in favor of using effects are actually people who never learned to use them.
x2, I see it pretty often that people who bash down effects are people who seem to have never even tried making a good use of them or failed doing so (no offense)

X3
Those ppl seem usually to be envious

requiett · Post by **requiett** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:07 pm

They're a good excuse to bash my videos.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:16 pm

They're good to add in crappy videos, so that when people complain about it, you can say it's because they just hate effects.

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:37 am

Scintilla wrote:
FoxJones wrote:Effects are a nice filling but bad frosting.
And they make an even worse cake.

Mmmmm. Frosting Cake. *drools*

My favorite effects (and my most liberal use of them as it would be) are the ones that nobody notices unless they really know a show to realize, "Hey! THAT's not what I remember that scene looking like!" It's actually kind of fun to have checked the 'Digital Effects' box in the video entry and get reviews that say, "Sorry but I had to give you a low score on effects because I really didn't see any."