Symphony of Insanity

[Minion]

i'm actually gonna try to answer this "normally".
he did not use after effects. the entire video was done in premiere.

[x_rex30]

HELL YES!!

I didn't like it at first, but I had no idea the music was going to build up along with your editing.

Where the hell are the videos using songs like this!? It was a lot of fun, this is the type of video I'd like to see more. It become better as the video goes along. One thing I wish more videos did, focus on the art of build up instead of it feeling basically the same throughout. The quality is washed out, you've killed a lot of details in the source, though you did get rid of all the noise so that's a plus, but objects at places look like washed out crap, but I guess the more smooth looking details go better with the music and effects than the sharper details. I'm not sure what I'm going to give this yet but it's going to be either a 3 or a 4 out of 5

[Minion]

blame the washed out look on me. grabbed the script from amvwiki, and i probably should have fiddled with it.

[x_rex30]

blame the washed out look on me. grabbed the script from amvwiki, and i probably should have fiddled with it.

That script is actually really bad. 90% of akira is progressive, only the beginning of akira has interlacing going on in it, the rest is progressive.

[Verses]

Whoah, >_> Thanks for the comments everyone. Didn't expect so many posts, Lol.

And for the seizure comment, YES! >XD I wanted to, I don't know if I told Minion or not but yes, I was seriously going to just for the fun of it. And yes, it was all done on Premieres, if I had the time to fiddle with AE (Which I did not, since my time was limited) I would have altered some of the effects and possibly help the overall presentation.

And again, thanks for the comments, they're very much appreciated.

[Minion]

blame the washed out look on me. grabbed the script from amvwiki, and i probably should have fiddled with it.

That script is actually really bad. 90% of akira is progressive, only the beginning of akira has interlacing going on in it, the rest is progressive.

only used these 3 lines:
deen("a3d",4,7,9)
mftoon(strength=255)
Tweak(cont=1.1,sat=0.8,bright=0, hue=0)

i'm still in awe at how fast you edited this, and it still came out awsome. props again and with that said, this post is no longer a hijack

[Warheart]

Wheee, not bad. I acutally agree with Niotex in most points. To bad the editing good weaker when the music really started kickin' ass. I like the song though the live atmosphere makes it sound pretty epic. And next time, just write the script with the info in the new amvtech it'll help. Nice thingy though.

[x_rex30]

blame the washed out look on me. grabbed the script from amvwiki, and i probably should have fiddled with it.

That script is actually really bad. 90% of akira is progressive, only the beginning of akira has interlacing going on in it, the rest is progressive.

only used these 3 lines:
deen("a3d",4,7,9)
mftoon(strength=255)
Tweak(cont=1.1,sat=0.8,bright=0, hue=0)

Even those settings are pretty bad. They may be pretty good if tweaked a bit.

[Wheee_It's_Me!]

i'm actually gonna try to answer this "normally".
he did not use after effects. the entire video was done in premiere.

I think you missed my point. I was using an allusion, it's a tool often used in film making (although in a different manner). People have associations with certain things, the association with Adobe AfterEffects is that, well, it's effects ridden and often when people get their hands on it they start throwing everything into it looking only at the ZOMG ITZ TEH COOL factor. It's like a new director, once in charge they often go "take happy", take 2, take 20, take 57, take this, take that! Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean that you should or that you even need to.

Obviously though you need to keep your audience in mind. For example if high school kids were your target audience...hey, yer vid would be uber number one popular...but with adults...mmm...yer just gonna give most of them headaches from watching all the inane, senseless flashing.

So it's not really a matter of it's good or it's bad, from the audience perspective, however from a PROFESSIONAL standpoint...it's bad. But hey, even my vids aren't that good from a professional standpoint (mostly because I try to appeal as much as I can possibly stand to the tweenage muppet fuck crowd).

The first thing you should do whenever you make a video is think, "Who is my audience?" After you do that everything should be clear as to the direction and focus you take. For me, I tend to try and go with a broad appeal, focusing mostly on 20 to 30 somethings. Not so young that they can impressed by merely flashing the screen alone and not so old that they can't appreciate a little action.

I've noticed a lot of people who say things like, 'Man I look at my old videos now and they really suck!' Part of the reason is that generally when you don't pick at audience starting out you'll use yourself as the audience, so if you make a video when yer 10 years old, well it'll probably appeal real good to 10 year olds, but to other age brackets...mmm...not so much. And then obviously as you grow out of that age bracket yer gonna like yer work less and less.

[Corran]

mftoon(strength=255)

o_o!


I'd post a script I had for Akira but it is rather outdated... I don't recommend using mftoon on Akira, especially at that strength. Maybe a light use of a temporal Denoiser and fastlinedarken would be sufficient.