Video: Electropop!
Anime: Shugo Chara!
Song: Electropop
Artist: Jupiter Rising
Creator: Whispers Reloaded
Comments: I know that the initial thought when you see "Anime: Shugo Chara!" is "Oh, God, not another one." Well, even an overused anime can make for an excellent amv when it's used correctly. I want honest opinions, regardless of my choice in anime. This is a series that I followed from almost the very beginning, and for that reason, I'm still rather fond of it, despite the overflowing poor usage of it in the YT community.
Electropop!
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Electropop!
Last edited by whispersreloaded on Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:00 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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mirkosp
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Re: Electropop!
Uhm, a Re-Evo member...
/gets
EDIT: I'll be honest, I did like this one. Nothing too extraordinary, but it was a good one.
I liked what you did with the sync in quite a few points, but I have to point out that that flashes (both white and colors) got annoying after a short while. You used that vegas dot effect or however it's called at 01.04... don't think you used it in other places, but damn, even once it's just such an annoying effect >_< might very well be a personal taste, but I dislike that effect with a passion in general, can't just seem to find it fitting in any video. The main issue, however, was the lip sync. You just had a lot of lip sync that slowed down and made it boring... the lip sync abuse is a bad thing imho, slows down too much the pacing and doesn't really allow for much sync to go on. Masks alike, those huge masks that cover the screen just detracted from the flow of the vid. So yeah, I guess this is worth checking out, but it could have been much more enjoyable if you had just actual beat sync through cuts and internal sync for the whole thing instead of lots of masks and lip sync. 3/5
PS: As for the quality, the wmv on LOCAL actually looked fine to me. Some parts were slightly blocky but nothing too bad. I'd still suggest you to try and compress in mp4 with the Zarx264gui, you'd get a much smaller filesize without that slight blockiness here and there.
/gets
EDIT: I'll be honest, I did like this one. Nothing too extraordinary, but it was a good one.
I liked what you did with the sync in quite a few points, but I have to point out that that flashes (both white and colors) got annoying after a short while. You used that vegas dot effect or however it's called at 01.04... don't think you used it in other places, but damn, even once it's just such an annoying effect >_< might very well be a personal taste, but I dislike that effect with a passion in general, can't just seem to find it fitting in any video. The main issue, however, was the lip sync. You just had a lot of lip sync that slowed down and made it boring... the lip sync abuse is a bad thing imho, slows down too much the pacing and doesn't really allow for much sync to go on. Masks alike, those huge masks that cover the screen just detracted from the flow of the vid. So yeah, I guess this is worth checking out, but it could have been much more enjoyable if you had just actual beat sync through cuts and internal sync for the whole thing instead of lots of masks and lip sync. 3/5
PS: As for the quality, the wmv on LOCAL actually looked fine to me. Some parts were slightly blocky but nothing too bad. I'd still suggest you to try and compress in mp4 with the Zarx264gui, you'd get a much smaller filesize without that slight blockiness here and there.
Last edited by mirkosp on Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Electropop!
Well, so far I always seen good stuff from people in your studio, so that got me interested in checking the vid out.whispersreloaded wrote:sorry, but I'm confused.
how is my studio relevant?
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Re: Electropop!
oh, alright then ^^ I'm glad you enjoy our stuff, and I hope I won't ruin your expectations XDreismirkosp wrote:Well, so far I always seen good stuff from people in your studio, so that got me interested in checking the vid out.whispersreloaded wrote:sorry, but I'm confused.
how is my studio relevant?
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Re: Electropop!
Check out the edit to my first post, you have your reply just there.whispersreloaded wrote:oh, alright then ^^ I'm glad you enjoy our stuff, and I hope I won't ruin your expectations XDreismirkosp wrote:Well, so far I always seen good stuff from people in your studio, so that got me interested in checking the vid out.whispersreloaded wrote:sorry, but I'm confused.
how is my studio relevant?
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Re: Electropop!
ah, thanks for the feeback X3 I'll be sure to work on all those things!reismirkosp wrote: Check out the edit to my first post, you have your reply just there.
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AimoAio
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Re: Electropop!
First saw this on YT and I really like it 
It's nice to see an SC vid that's actually got some proper editing and not just lip synched and effect whored to death.
Also I agree with Mirkosp about the white flash getting boring and irritating after a while and another thing that bugged me slightly was the green blur around some masks,just didn't look right to me.
But other than that,I enjoyed it!
It's nice to see an SC vid that's actually got some proper editing and not just lip synched and effect whored to death.Also I agree with Mirkosp about the white flash getting boring and irritating after a while and another thing that bugged me slightly was the green blur around some masks,just didn't look right to me.
But other than that,I enjoyed it!
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whispersreloaded
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Re: Electropop!
I'm glad you enjoyed it, and I really appreciate the feedback! ^^ *takes notes* easy on the flashes, no newsprint, no colored shadows . . .AimoAio wrote:First saw this on YT and I really like it
Also I agree with Mirkosp about the white flash getting boring and irritating after a while and another thing that bugged me slightly was the green blur around some masks,just didn't look right to me.
But other than that,I enjoyed it!
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Re: Electropop!
I dled this because my mom listens to this song.
hmm.. liked and did not like this all at the same time.
the lip sync is all very cute, bleh , but those flashes got pretty annoying and felt some scenes didn't fold together all too nicely. Maybe this isn't my type of amv.
2.5/5
hmm.. liked and did not like this all at the same time.
the lip sync is all very cute, bleh , but those flashes got pretty annoying and felt some scenes didn't fold together all too nicely. Maybe this isn't my type of amv.
2.5/5
