to sync or not to sync??
- staces
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I don't know if my brain is on crack when I'm not looking or what, but I've got a very definite feeling on this subject.
I've noticed when listening to music of any kind, but mostly any music with strong percussion (and piano, a main insturment in many a drama AMV is considered a percussion along with strings) line changes my heart rhythm. I can feel my heart and internal whateverness synchronizing with the music. When the video is synchronized with that musical line it means your heart is also in synch with the video. If your heart is so wrapped up in not just functioning, but feeling, the way that the video is flowing you can't HELP but be affected by it.
This (http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=15086) is the first one that comes to mind because it's one of the only AMVs that has ever actually made me cry. The way that the images go with the music in the climax of the song is just so gripping and in time with the music that you can kind of FEEL it, like literally...
So, yeah, enough of that. Basically I think that synching is ALWAYS important and it's the main thing that I judge AMVs by personally. No synch and no soup for you. And being a fan of drama videos, sometimes it feels like the synch there is more important than in many other genres because the footage can be quite boring otherwise.
Yeah you can have long drawn out emotional scenes in an anime because there's the actual story's atmosphere and dialogue to carry it, but watching those scenes out of context to a new soundtrack can be incredibly dull if left to linger too long. You don't need 10 seconds to see a character crying, you don't even need a full 1.
I've noticed when listening to music of any kind, but mostly any music with strong percussion (and piano, a main insturment in many a drama AMV is considered a percussion along with strings) line changes my heart rhythm. I can feel my heart and internal whateverness synchronizing with the music. When the video is synchronized with that musical line it means your heart is also in synch with the video. If your heart is so wrapped up in not just functioning, but feeling, the way that the video is flowing you can't HELP but be affected by it.
This (http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=15086) is the first one that comes to mind because it's one of the only AMVs that has ever actually made me cry. The way that the images go with the music in the climax of the song is just so gripping and in time with the music that you can kind of FEEL it, like literally...
So, yeah, enough of that. Basically I think that synching is ALWAYS important and it's the main thing that I judge AMVs by personally. No synch and no soup for you. And being a fan of drama videos, sometimes it feels like the synch there is more important than in many other genres because the footage can be quite boring otherwise.
Yeah you can have long drawn out emotional scenes in an anime because there's the actual story's atmosphere and dialogue to carry it, but watching those scenes out of context to a new soundtrack can be incredibly dull if left to linger too long. You don't need 10 seconds to see a character crying, you don't even need a full 1.
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- JaddziaDax
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I'm kinda curious to know what youre working on O.o but you dont have to tell me if you dont want to 

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- Knowname
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that doesn't count though ;p your video is more romance, thus EVEN SLOWER than what I had expected -_-.Willen wrote:You can never have too many fades.
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that gravitation video Staces suggested is a 'better' example.[/url]
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I suddenly have an idea to make a video with one GIANT fade-to-black that lasts the entire length of the song. It will start out at normal brightness and slowly, ever so slowly get darker and darker and darker... It would probably make a nice moody horror/suspense type video. And every scene transition would be a cross-fade - no straight cuts. I'd be surprised if someone hasn't done this before.Knowname wrote:that doesn't count though ;p your video is more romance, thus EVEN SLOWER than what I had expected -_-.Willen wrote:You can never have too many fades.
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that gravitation video Staces suggested is a 'better' example.[/url]
- Knowname
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lmao! your a genius! make it a dance vid though lol. That'd piss off the sync Nazis. They'd be looking for sync when it's almost pitch black in the end lolWillen wrote:I suddenly have an idea to make a video with one GIANT fade-to-black that lasts the entire length of the song. It will start out at normal brightness and slowly, ever so slowly get darker and darker and darker... It would probably make a nice moody horror/suspense type video. And every scene transition would be a cross-fade - no straight cuts. I'd be surprised if someone hasn't done this before.Knowname wrote:that doesn't count though ;p your video is more romance, thus EVEN SLOWER than what I had expected -_-.Willen wrote:You can never have too many fades.
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that gravitation video Staces suggested is a 'better' example.[/url]
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