xnamkcor wrote:Very Good. I watched the series, yet I can't seem to remember most of it. I give it a 4/5
Well, having seen the series isn't crucial, but a lot of the video makes more sense if you know who those corpses were. Oh yeah, you really showed me here...
Moonlight Soldier wrote:Very snazzy audio editing.
That's the part I worried about most. My own familiarity with the song got in the way of me being able to tell how good the audio cutting was.
Pwolf wrote:didn't you just put up a beta on your lj o.O
Yeah, I changed two things about one shot from that beta, and then decided it was "good enough".
Warheart wrote:
a must have I guess
/dls
Farlo wrote:kalium goes metal...
/me watches
I was expecting a couple reactions like that. The only question was who they would come from.
Warheart wrote:There are some technical issues like to much smoothing and flickering borders but the editing is not bad.
Kai's dead on about the issues with Lodoss, I essentially had to choose between all the details with lots of noise or killing the noise with some details as collateral damage. I hadn't noticed the top and right borders for some reason, though. Go figure.
Warheart wrote:I like the use of the song lyrics since it fits good to the anime and most of the atmosphere based sceneselections.
Well, power metal and D&D-type anime make a pretty good atmosphereic match. It's like matching angsty goth metal to Full Metal Alchemist. As for my use of lyrics, well, in some ways I still rely very heavily on lyrics to guide my editing. Longer bridges give me problems, thus the removal of the gigantic solo.
IcyCloud wrote:Like I said before, it's a good, solid vid. Definitely a nice song/anime combination. I'm not usually a big fan of Lodoss, but I do enjoy this vid. Nice work.
When this combination first came to mind, I almost wrote it off as "
someone must have done this already". Imagine my surprise to discover that there's only one other Iron Savior video, and that one made to Samurai Deeper Kyo.
TsunamiJones wrote:I really dig the lyric synch in this. Nice job
For better or worse, it's what I run on. Thanks!
Kai Stromler wrote:I'll concur on 'solid'; at 2:30 it's a lot more focused and watchable than the other video using this song, and the audio editing is seamless. Nice job.
I think that the original song begins to lose focus somewhat when they start in on that big solo. It goes from a cool and semi-serious song to "hey, let's throw in a random solo to show off what we can do!"
Kai Stromler wrote:I noticed the oversmoothing as well, but I pretty much wrote it off as "necessary evil"; Lodoss is one of those old titles that combines a high level of detail with a crappy DVD print, so there's not much to be done in this regard
Don't forget the blended fields, too. Ugh. SmartDecimate can only do so much.
Kai Stromler wrote:At times the scene selection made me think, "you know, that's exactly how I would have done that passage" -- which may be good or bad, or may just mean that your influences need to get out more.
You have the excuse of a job-thingy that I can't claim. Besides, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" - not that it was intentional in that respect.
Thanks for watching, folks!
(On a side note, I think total editing time here is somewhere in the neighborhood of 25-30 hours. I love scene recognition.)
