ErMaC wrote:Thanks very much for the praise. Hopefully TommyRude won't find his way in here and flame you for being an ErMaC Fanboy.
I don't think there are really any "secrets" exactly to give out. Basically I just make videos. I think that if you come up with a good concept, flesh it out, and stick to it, you're set. A good concept not only involves the actual song/anime choice and possible plot, but also the editing style. I think consistency of editing is important, although this rule can be broken with good reason (take the last portion of "The End of Me" for example).
That is one thing worth mentioning too - any "rules" that people can come up with can be broken under the right circumstances. Most of the times the "rules" are there to keep people from being stupid. Take the rule "don't combine letterboxed and fullscreen footage in the same video." A very wise rule, I would say, and 99% of the time it's right. But Kevin broke that in "Engel" as an effect during the solo section, and it worked, because he knew what he was doing and broke the rule on purpsoe. Same thing with the "Use good source footage" rule. MeriC broke this bigtime with "All-Purpose DBZ Music Video" but he did it for a reason - he even tripped out the analog tracking on his VCR to make things look WORSE.
Anyways just sit down and edit. If I were editing music videos for other people all the time I wouldn't still be making AMVs. All of my good videos are videos that I would want to watch again. In fact I still have all my AMVs with me here in Japan (the ones encoded to XviD) because I enjoy watching them. If you can make a video that you still enjoy watching a year after you've made it then you're doing something right.
I agree. I only make videos because it's enjoyable to me, and I like doing it. I don't care if other people don't like my vids, I make videos for personal enjoyment.
