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Niotex
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Post by Niotex » Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:17 pm

Fan boys beware might be pain full! In other words, get your flamethrowers at the ready boys!

I can safely say that I was not at all impressed by this video in any way. I was on skype with Kristyrat when I was watching this video, and I seriously had to pause it a few times to catch my breath... I mean aside from my hysterical laughter after seeing the "Ayato@web" logo, I had to stop it again a few times to ask what I was seeing was real. I have seen some interesting stuff coming from you, but this has seriously made me doubt your capabilities and sense of style.

For one the lack of font integration was seriously disturbing. I mean the colors don't match at all with the scenery. And the font itself looks like its straight out of a B-Type horror movie poster created by some crack smocking redneck (I'm sure Microsoft had some of those designing some of they're fonts). So basically I question your resources as to find a more fitting font as well. So aside from the font itself and the lack of integration (*cough* blending modes might help a little if your lazy *cough*), the texts in the actual video them selfs were simply put really fucking lame. The focus is completely taken away from the actual "essence" of the lines, simply because of the barbaric use in this case. 0:43- Then one proceeds as to make a completely static mask. Showing this kid crying for 3 full seconds, while the rest still is synced behind it. I mean seriously can someone get this emo piece of shit off my for ground? I want to see the video damnit. Then the lame text comes popping up again. I was already coughing really fucking loud at this point btw. I mean seriously how am I seposed to take those lines serious when I'm cracking up over the font... Anyway enough bitching about the font and colors and what not. Lets go into the scratching section over here shall we? 0:57 - Enjoying your delirium there I see? Nothing wrong with using plugins of cource but none the less. Do you really think that such a grungy distort (video malfunction) go's along well with the audio? One would be better off with actually scratching the actual scenes with a heavy motion blur on it. Anyway let us continue with the child labor.. uhm I mean lip syncing... I mean how long can one look at one angle of someone's chin? Despite the fact that I absolutely hate the use of lip sync in here I still have to question its variety. Along with that that the masks are not at all color corrected and still show traces of they're background. But oke I'm getting in way over my head here.

Wait... Oh Snap!
What The Fuck is that?!?
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I mean I don't know if its bad encoding or bad re encoding but damn. Along with that there were some serious macro"flooding" area's in the video. And you know what? I'm actually going to call it a day. I got people coming over early tomorrow so yeah. Hit me up on skype sometimes so we can actually get into things more. Since this seems a rather one sided discussion right now. And I haven't gotten the chance to talk to you at all for a long time. Along with that I'm expecting allot of "fanboy burn" from this alone.

Inoltre appena fra voi e me, sono lontano dal fatto da con le mie osservazioni su questo. Poiché se la conservazione dei capretti che lo elogia senza qualcuno che tratta alcuni punzoni voi non progredirà mai. Aka - Gotta love crappy translation programs =/
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Post by Szwagier » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:08 pm

I usually really like your vids, but this one didn't work for me at all... :<
It's just my opinion, but Lip sync + too much text + "fillers" having nothing to do with "Main theme" - Rock lee, ruined this vid. Still it's far from bad, I would rather call it mediocre (only in my opinion ofc)
3/5
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Post by Prodigi » Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:42 pm

I agree with Mitch about the comments on the fonts. I think the text was in good use in the very intro, but at other places in the video became redundant. Plus the font was.... yeh : \

The lip-synching was way over the top. Half of the time it was impossible to see what was happening in the background, because half of the screen was blocked by Rock Lee singing along. And many of the expressions and formation of the mouth really didnt match the tone and implications of the lyrics, particularly at the end when he's smiling.

Generally I think you're a decent editor, but this video just really had no appeal to me.

2/5

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Post by Shinodude » Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:24 am

I liked the video but took awile to get used to rock lee singing and also so much lipsynch wasnt needed other then that tho I like it

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Post by [Mike of the Desert] » Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:59 am

@Niotex

Woha, you've destroyed it piece by piece.. :/
Well, if you don't like the Font, I can't do nothing about it, lol. :P
For the rest let me see what can I say.. Because style for me is really important:
The kid crying for the infamous 3 seconds is there just because the part is finishing and since that was the past and
he was just remembering it, I wanted to show the fact that we were going to change clip to actual present time, that's all.
So, this is what I can say about 00:43. About 00:57.. Yep, here you're wrong, here it's sure, you made an error.. :idea:
I didn't use any kind of Plugin here :O By the way.. Indeed I thought in the beginning that the Lip Synch could have been a problem, I thought that the viewer could have not knew exactly where to watch, and in the end you made me notice that maybe the enviroiment could have been done better, here nothing to complain,
you've probably right. :?

That screen.. Ein?! There's nothing like that in my compressed video, could it been the upload? Nah..
Does all of your players show that shit?!
For your offer, hey man here I am I'd love to have a good talk with you, I love to receive this kind of replies to my videos, surely is the best way possible to know every single bad point of them, even if after a good read I find them destroyed piece by piece. It hurts. :O

But..
I didn't got a thing from that weird translation program, though.



@Prodigi

Aaarrgh, ok, don't trying to post anything more about the post (It's been an insuccess, I see =\), I just can't be here quiet reading what you said about the lip synch, beware, you didn't got the final messagge of the video. "...didnt match the tone and implications of the lyrics, particularly at the end when he's smiling", try to see it that way, in the final part of the video Rock Lee has successfully done his operation, being able to surpass his injury, he's fighting again for his dream, finally.. That's why he's smiling Prodigi. Gotta? :)

Too bad the video didn't have appeal on you, I'll try with the next one.


Ok, guys thanks to everyone who posted! I really appreciate your comments and the time you used
to write them here, don't stop to let me know what you think of it!
Incredible noone still threw me rocks for using LP!!! :lol: :P
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Post by SuperFusion » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:36 am

I thought it was a fun vid to watch. Good job

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Post by Unlimited Rice » Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:00 am

It started off like.. ok.. pretty cool. I kinda liked the flashing text at first.. but then.. I just thought it got really lame.. especially like... "Bone Splinter".. that definitely ruined it for me at that spot..

the lip sync was ok, but for the most part, I don't think it really helped at all. Actually it hurt, especially with the Gai face and what not, but I can see what you were trying to go for though..

well, anyways, iono man, I think ur first DOL tops this one easily.

oh, and I'm not docking off points on audio source, actually, that's an :up: from me :)

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Post by Magnus » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:05 pm

pretty damn nice dewd ;D

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Post by Scintilla » Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:59 pm

Michele wrote:That screen.. Ein?! There's nothing like that in my compressed video, could it been the upload? Nah..
Does all of your players show that shit?!
You didn't use "Packed bitstream" when encoding, did you?
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Post by [Mike of the Desert] » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:21 pm

Scintilla wrote:
Michele wrote:That screen.. Ein?! There's nothing like that in my compressed video, could it been the upload? Nah..
Does all of your players show that shit?!
You didn't use "Packed bitstream" when encoding, did you?
Nope, I Didn't use that.
Packed Bistream was a clearly unchecked box.
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