Deku x Ochaco "Baby" AMV

[Hiagoka]

Video: Deku x Ochaco "Baby" AM
Category: Fun, Dance
Anime: My Hero Academia
Song: Baby (Breakbot Remix)
Artist: PNAU
Creator: Hiagoka
Program: Sony Vegas Pro 15

[Kireblue]

Welcome to the Org! The rules of announcing videos in the "AMV Announcement forum" require you to catalog your video first. So please do that as soon as possible . If you don't know how, here is the FAQ post about it http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/v ... 2#p1546652

Until then, I'm going to move your thread to the “Awaiting Catalog Entry” forum. And I can move it back once I see that you've done it.

[seasons]

I kind of want to get the big criticisms out of the way first.

Clips with watermarks/logos on them (0:45, 1:08) and especially subtitles (0:47, 1:25) and credits (1:24) tend to distract the viewer from the focus of the scenes you're using. This kind of goes without saying but I see how it can be easy to get caught up in the process of editing and to give the viewer the benefit of the doubt. True, many viewers won't care about this stuff, but if you believe in what you're making, it's really worth it to yourself and your audience to get the cleanest, most credit and subtitle-free raw clips that you can find. There are ways you can remove subtitles that are very dependent on the clip that you're using and may take anywhere from a few seconds to much, much longer to clean up. It's good to investigate your options, see if there are alternative clips you can use instead, look for ways to remove credits or subtitles (I can elaborate on this in further detail if you'd like, mind you it's sometimes very simple if you have the right tools, or sometimes very complicated), or any way to get simply get clean footage that will make your AMV look that much cleaner and less cluttered.

There's a good deal of lip flap in this video--scenes were the characters are talking. In general, it's good to try to avoid this to an excessive degree, but if a little of it slips in here and there, it's pretty easy to forgive. I kind of like the shots at 1:02 and 1:10, which almost works as lip sync (probably not advised unless that's one of the concepts that you really want to build your video around, but lots of editors drop it in casually and it can often work in little bits if you really want it to). Not sure if this was intended or not. Anyway, there are ways to remove unwanted mouth movements, which can occasionally be tedious, but in general I think you'll notice a difference between videos that address this issue and those that don't. So it's worth paying attention to, in my opinion.

There are other technical issues here but I don't know how into the weeds you want to get with that. I will say that if you're ripping footage from blu-ray or getting high quality footage from elsewhere (we don't really get into discussing that here, for various reasons), you'll have fewer and fewer technical issues than if you're not.

I really love the tone of this video. It's cheerful and fun and has a genuinely sweet kind of feeling that I rarely experience from much more technically accomplished AMVs. It's conceptually simple but instantly easy to understand. I can see how some viewers might see it as a series of random clips, but I think it's a nice little character profile that reminds me of what I love about this series, and hopefully makes it look appealing to people completely unfamiliar with it. You did a great job capturing what makes these characters so likeable and loveable and goofy and worth rooting for. There's not really any big stakes on display here, but I think that pivoting away the dramatic tone that most My Hero Academia AMVs go for kind of helps give it a sense of identity and feels refreshing. I love the cheerful and airy feeling of the song. It's not loaded with innuendo or a romantic power ballad. It's reflective of the innocent puppy love that the characters are experiencing for the first time.

I really love how you cut on the piano notes throughout the first 30 seconds of the song. Especially the first 15 seconds, it's really tight and kind of an interesting alternative to cutting strictly on the beat like a viewer might expect. There's some good internal sync here too, shots where motion on the screen kind of matches the movement of these notes (how Ochaco/Uravity he puts her fingers together at 0:07, her subtle head turn at 0:22, Deku putting on his mask at 0:42, etc.). I love the quick cuts at 0:45 as the next section of the song comes in. The way she shifts her head at 0:47 perfectly matches the bass notes that are suddenly introduced (and again at 0:54 when she's on the phone, I love that kind of thing so much). I love the movement throughout the last third of the video, the pan up at 1:16 and the hand motion at 1:27 go with that little piano riff so nicely. There's a lot of energy and enthusiasm and joy in these scenes, and it's a nice way to end the video.

A lot of these great little moments are undermined by frame blending that smears together consecutive frames into one, which I suspect was either present in the source material you were editing with, or a product of project settings gone wrong or possibly exporting the video incorrectly. I really don't know! Great AMVs are a product of not only having a clear idea and a good understanding of how to visually realize it, but also understanding a lot of technical bullshit that isn't all that fun to learn or have to mess with when you're not in the mood for it. But it goes a long way in helping your ideas come out looking exactly like they should and deserve to look.

Having a proper ending would have been nice, but I appreciated this as a short video that just happened not to really have one. However, I have no doubt that you could have edited this whole song if you really wanted to. You have a good eye for little movements in scenes that match moments in the song extremely well. You're not really cutting rigidly on beat, and that's okay, I kind of like the loose feeling that this has, which is structured around cuts that you're definitely making where it counts most.

Just curious, what program are you using to edit with? Do you know what the framerate of your footage is? Kind of want to know what you're working with, it might help others give you advice as well. Assuming that you're looking for it, but after all you did post in the Feedback forum.

[Hiagoka]

I kind of want to get the big criticisms out of the way first.

Clips with watermarks/logos on them (0:45, 1:08) and especially subtitles (0:47, 1:25) and credits (1:24) tend to distract the viewer from the focus of the scenes you're using. This kind of goes without saying but I see how it can be easy to get caught up in the process of editing and to give the viewer the benefit of the doubt. True, many viewers won't care about this stuff, but if you believe in what you're making, it's really worth it to yourself and your audience to get the cleanest, most credit and subtitle-free raw clips that you can find. There are ways you can remove subtitles that are very dependent on the clip that you're using and may take anywhere from a few seconds to much, much longer to clean up. It's good to investigate your options, see if there are alternative clips you can use instead, look for ways to remove credits or subtitles (I can elaborate on this in further detail if you'd like, mind you it's sometimes very simple if you have the right tools, or sometimes very complicated), or any way to get simply get clean footage that will make your AMV look that much cleaner and less cluttered.

There's a good deal of lip flap in this video--scenes were the characters are talking. In general, it's good to try to avoid this to an excessive degree, but if a little of it slips in here and there, it's pretty easy to forgive. I kind of like the shots at 1:02 and 1:10, which almost works as lip sync (probably not advised unless that's one of the concepts that you really want to build your video around, but lots of editors drop it in casually and it can often work in little bits if you really want it to). Not sure if this was intended or not. Anyway, there are ways to remove unwanted mouth movements, which can occasionally be tedious, but in general I think you'll notice a difference between videos that address this issue and those that don't. So it's worth paying attention to, in my opinion.

There are other technical issues here but I don't know how into the weeds you want to get with that. I will say that if you're ripping footage from blu-ray or getting high quality footage from elsewhere (we don't really get into discussing that here, for various reasons), you'll have fewer and fewer technical issues than if you're not.

I really love the tone of this video. It's cheerful and fun and has a genuinely sweet kind of feeling that I rarely experience from much more technically accomplished AMVs. It's conceptually simple but instantly easy to understand. I can see how some viewers might see it as a series of random clips, but I think it's a nice little character profile that reminds me of what I love about this series, and hopefully makes it look appealing to people completely unfamiliar with it. You did a great job capturing what makes these characters so likeable and loveable and goofy and worth rooting for. There's not really any big stakes on display here, but I think that pivoting away the dramatic tone that most My Hero Academia AMVs go for kind of helps give it a sense of identity and feels refreshing. I love the cheerful and airy feeling of the song. It's not loaded with innuendo or a romantic power ballad. It's reflective of the innocent puppy love that the characters are experiencing for the first time.

I really love how you cut on the piano notes throughout the first 30 seconds of the song. Especially the first 15 seconds, it's really tight and kind of an interesting alternative to cutting strictly on the beat like a viewer might expect. There's some good internal sync here too, shots where motion on the screen kind of matches the movement of these notes (how Ochaco/Uravity he puts her fingers together at 0:07, her subtle head turn at 0:22, Deku putting on his mask at 0:42, etc.). I love the quick cuts at 0:45 as the next section of the song comes in. The way she shifts her head at 0:47 perfectly matches the bass notes that are suddenly introduced (and again at 0:54 when she's on the phone, I love that kind of thing so much). I love the movement throughout the last third of the video, the pan up at 1:16 and the hand motion at 1:27 go with that little piano riff so nicely. There's a lot of energy and enthusiasm and joy in these scenes, and it's a nice way to end the video.

A lot of these great little moments are undermined by frame blending that smears together consecutive frames into one, which I suspect was either present in the source material you were editing with, or a product of project settings gone wrong or possibly exporting the video incorrectly. I really don't know! Great AMVs are a product of not only having a clear idea and a good understanding of how to visually realize it, but also understanding a lot of technical bullshit that isn't all that fun to learn or have to mess with when you're not in the mood for it. But it goes a long way in helping your ideas come out looking exactly like they should and deserve to look.

Having a proper ending would have been nice, but I appreciated this as a short video that just happened not to really have one. However, I have no doubt that you could have edited this whole song if you really wanted to. You have a good eye for little movements in scenes that match moments in the song extremely well. You're not really cutting rigidly on beat, and that's okay, I kind of like the loose feeling that this has, which is structured around cuts that you're definitely making where it counts most.

Just curious, what program are you using to edit with? Do you know what the framerate of your footage is? Kind of want to know what you're working with, it might help others give you advice as well. Assuming that you're looking for it, but after all you did post in the Feedback forum.

Thanks for criticism! Speaking of technical moments, yes, it is my bad for not cutting watermarks or subtitles. I've already done another music video with kinda same mistakes, but now I've downloaded whole series from torrents without watermarks etc, I hope next time it will be better.
And I'm very glad that you understood the meaning of this AMV, I just wanted to show an pure innocence, happiness and fun times of teenagers. Maybe someday I ll make extended version, with much better quality.
I use Sony Vegas Pro 15, framerate of this video was, I guess, 60, but I'm not sure.
Also, sorry for bad English, it's not my first language