Crimson (or Otohiko goes berserk + metal)

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Tue May 16, 2006 12:29 pm

awsome video, but the ending would leave people who didn't see berserk going "wtf?"
(though the normal ending was wtf anyways unless you read the manga instead)

Kitsuner · Post by **Kitsuner** » Tue May 16, 2006 1:35 pm

I am so getting this when I get home.

supersayian313 · Post by **supersayian313** » Tue May 16, 2006 7:04 pm

wow that was impressive. the quality was flawless and the music and sync flowed nicely. i really liked the creepy ending.

Warheart · Post by **Warheart** » Tue May 16, 2006 7:35 pm

Why the hell did I miss this thread ? It's already on page 2

. Well I love Saxon and Berserk so hell yeah I'm getting it right now.

Beowulf · Post by **Beowulf** » Tue May 16, 2006 8:58 pm

This video rocks! It was a rocking good time, with a traditional ending done very well. Videos with this concept are a dime a dozen, but this one was made with such care and taste that it not only pulls through but pulls YOU through.

:acdc:

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Tue May 16, 2006 10:13 pm

Otohiko wrote:
The only thing I could think to complain about is the fact that the pacing is kinda slow to begin with, but there wasn't any change in pace from start to ending, to kinda keep me from loosing interest in the video. This could just be due to the nature of the song though. I started to get distracted towards the middle of the video unknowingly ;p
Just curious, what do you mean as pacing?

I certainly understand that the song itself is somewhat evenly structured, but... well, at least from the editor's perspective, there was a huge difference in the pace between sections. The middle 30 seconds took about 5 times longer to edit and the clips there are at least 10 times shorter on average. I was hoping that'd translate into good pace buildup - or is that another kind of pacing?

I actually ment more like the video seem to just go along at a slow pace without getting my addrenaline going, wich I guess I wasn't expecting for a metal vid.

But I misjudged it yesterday anyway.... part of this is because I just watched the video when I was tired and half falling asleep from a long day at work... remind me not to comment on vids in that state again ;p

Theres nothing realy wrong with the pacing, in fact the middle picks it up quite a notch with that awesome synchage in the solo section, which I think I dozed off a little through when I watched it yesterday and thought I just got distracted. wouldn't be the first time thats happend to me

While the rest is so smothly edited along with the smooth flow of the music that it seems just perfect. I was just to tired yesterday to notice it. I also noticed this time around a few accurances of scanlines or static or whatever you call those things that you often get on either the top or bottom of a scene on a scene change in older anime. I had to edit alot of those out of Ranma footage also. normally just cutting out 1 or 2 frames before and after the scene change gets rid of those.

Ignore my first post. that was a great vid. ;p

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:16 pm

I think those little distortions are something inherent to cel animation. They were in Eva as well, last I recall...

Guys, sorry I can't address each one of you right now due to shortage of time, but thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it!

It might be extremely lucky that I released it instead of holding off for more betas. Today, about 24 hours after I uploaded the video, my computer fried

(don't know if the HD survived yet or not).
$400 down the drain, but the rawk lives, etc.

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:58 pm

Cool stuff...and with a song that doesn't rape my ears to boot :O

Tormentor · Post by **Tormentor** » Wed May 17, 2006 11:44 am

Flint the Dwarf wrote:You have done well in representing metal in AMVs, my good man, and I salute you.

x2

I thought your sync was strange though. I especially mean the passage when you synced the rhythm guitar instead of the drums. I would have prefered if you had used dissolves instead of cuts in a lot of passages. The song is to be concidered as a meatl-ballad. I think the cuts were too hard and abrupt for it.

Warheart · Post by **Warheart** » Wed May 17, 2006 2:53 pm

Yeah, now this is nice. Pretty simple not very flash but the combination works suprisingly well, since actually you really found the fitting scenes for the song actually one of the best lyricsyncdriven amvs I've seen in a while. The editingsync is a bit weak from my point of view but I'm for 100% sync so don't be bothered by that but in some places I really tought "how can you leave out that drum roll it would have been so much fun to sync it". Still I have to say that the charme of that song no matter if original or cover didn'T lose any of it's appeal. Btw. where did you cut the audio, the albumversion is 6:00 and without searching for my CD I can't tell, so I guess you made it quite good (it just seems that you cut something at the beginning). Yep I guess I'll keep it for a while, and just to let you know it's my faves since Wasteland. Keep up the good work

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