My first post! Ergo&Theory

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My first post! Ergo&Theory

Post by Fatelogic » Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:01 am



Mina Irasshai!

After a long time thinking about it, I decided to join this forum to share my videos with people more experienced about this topic than the average spectator 8-) , so here is the last AMV I´ve done... I made some other AMVs before, but this is the first one done using a more complex edition program than "Windows Movie Maker"... I´m talking about "Adobe Premiere Pro CS3", which allowed me to handle it more freely.

I hope you enjoy watching this AMV as much as I enjoyed making it, and I would really appreciate your comments, from mere opinions and/or cheers (or not :lol: ) to more developed critics.

I´ll see ya´ on the next AMV!

Mina Ganbatte!

Sayonara!

--Fatelogic--

P.d: By the way, I´ve done this video before joining this forum and reading it´s rules and recommendations, so I didn´t knew that the title of the AMV should be different to the "Anime/Music" names that it contains, sry about that. :wink:

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Post by Emotive » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:51 am

My biggest complaint with this is the total lack of a creative concept or one that is related to the song in any way. The synch of the scenes with the action was alright, but there was no lyric synch whatsoever - the song talked about something completely unrelated to what you were showing, and in a concept/scene choice based amv like this, this was a big "turn-off". It did seem like you had a storyline going on, but it just had nothing to do with the song.

Other than that, the synch was ok, it's nice to see you're synching to the music with your scene choices rather than specific instruments, though really, I just can't get into this kind of amvs if there is no relation of the footage used with the song lyrics.

Your quality also needs much improvement, whether it's badly ripped/converted footage or lack of general exporting/converting/getting ready to upload knowledge - Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a>.

Other than that not too bad for a newcomer, I'd expect a first amv with a new program to be more experimental, maybe. Good luck with premiere and stuff.
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Post by Fatelogic » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:06 pm

Yeah, I know what you mean... to tell you the truth, I´ve put more interest in matching the scenes with the rythm of the music than show a relation between the video and the lyric... I think there is an strange reason to this, though... you see, even if I know english very well (I suppose... otherwise I couldn´t reply this), my native, original language is spanish, and the people who saw this AMV in other forums was mostly "hispanic-speaker" (I don´t know if it´s the right term, sry)... this allows us to concentrate more in the concept of rythm than in the lyrics, so we don´t give it that much importance... but I´ll try to improve in this area anyway... I felt the same as you about the lyric...

About the quality, I knew there would be complaints, and that´s because, since I´m new to this program, I had to stretch the image for it to fit in "full-screen mode" ( I think that it´s because I wrongly selected the size of the screen on which it was going to be played at the beggining of the proyect ), and because the final product obtained was an .AVI file extremely heavy (around 860 Mb :( I haven´t understood the reason of this yet...), so I imported this file in the "Windows Movie Maker" to resize it to 33,5 Mb... which reduced a lot the quality... (you know, I used WMM all my life, so it´s a bit confusing all the "technical language" that AP CS3 contains... for a newbie like me :lol: )




Anyway, I appreciate your critic, and I hope it helps me understand some of my mistakes a bit better... I´ll read the guide to see if I can improve the conversion process... thank you!

--Fatelogic--

P.d.: I hope you understand all my babbling XD

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Post by Fatelogic » Sun Apr 20, 2008 1:34 am

Hmmm, let me see if I got it right about the quality problem...


..I should have used something like VirtualDubMod to compress the original AVI file (the one of the 860 Mb´s) to reduce the size without loosing so much quality?

Sorry if I´m making a mess with all of this, but you know... this is my first time using any other thing besides WMM... :?

--Fatelogic--

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Post by Emotive » Sun Apr 20, 2008 6:02 am

Fatelogic wrote:Hmmm, let me see if I got it right about the quality problem...


..I should have used something like VirtualDubMod to compress the original AVI file (the one of the 860 Mb´s) to reduce the size without loosing so much quality?
Exactly, or you could have used its script editor to create a script and compress it as a .mp4 with zarx264gui. There's more than one way to do things, mp4s seem to be the new trend - good compression, good quality.
If you need more info I'll be glad to sort of help, pm/im me.
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Post by Fatelogic » Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:33 pm

Thanks, I´ll have your offer in mind :wink: I´ll begin with the testing at the next AMV.

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