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Daft Punk: Interstella 5555 = OMG! OMG! OMG!
2005-12-09 03:27:17
My wife and I watched Daft Punk's Anime Music Movie Interstella 5555 and all we can say is OMG! It was sooooooooo cooooooooool! The animation was created by Leiji Matsumoto (the one behind the Captain Harlock design) and, man, I tell you we enjoyed the whole thing (as long as you are into electronica/techno). The story is excellent (pure anime) and it flows so well.
If anyone is reading this, it a definate buy! -
Sugar.... so that's what makes it sweet!
2005-12-08 07:29:43
Ok, after about 2 weeks of editing 24 seconds of music video this morning, I decided to check as to why the rendered footage looks so bad. After testing Premiere with AVS pointing to VOB files and VirtualDub'bed AVI files, the output looked exactly the same, very, very blocky, pixellated and major stepping in the gradients.
I finally found out what the problem was. I was rendering to DV quality... it never occured to me until I read the Adobe primer on video compression (no, I didn't understand it, I just like saying it) ;-) . The bitrate is not high enough. I changed this to MiniDV and that was the sugar that made it sweet! 24 seconds = 107Mb (Woa!) But damn it looks good!
24 seconds down 3 minutes and 48 seconds to go. -
Should I give an honest opinion?
2005-12-07 13:42:58
I've downloaded a few AMVs up to now and I've been happy with some... and not with others. AMV.org is asking for my opinion. My delemma right now is this: I've downloaded the Right Now, Someone is Reading this Title AMV, well, I kinda liked it but I didn't care for the scenes of leudness and such and my opinion of it is very low on the content aspect. The AMV ranks high on the satisfaction scale... but it just doens't rank high with me. I'd like to give it 4 stars but now I'm afraid... of what... offending the creator maybe.
Opinions do count... right?
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JH
2005-12-07 09:42:58
@ JH: Remeber: More special Effects does not equate to a better video. The basic structure is the most important part.
Absolutely agreed... I'm trying to avoid the effects and create some fun 'home-grown' slides for the AMV I'm making. Basically layering the whole thing and adding some self drawn cheezy frames. If you've ever seen Mini Goddess Adventures where they do the split scenes, it'll look a bit like that. (Oh shoot, I gave it away!) -
Why not?
2005-12-07 08:52:33
Well, I managed to work on the AMV last night and I'm starting to think that I'm overproducing the thing already. I'm having a heck of a time trying to figue out the best practice to move from one scene to another without looking like the thing just cuts in and out.
Watching Kevin Caldwell's "Engel" over and over for the last month, observing how he put the scenes together and why. That is one of the best laid-out vids I've ever seen;everything flows so well and the song suits it perfectly.
In any case, I need to get my song's second verse planned out in more detail, I have the general idea but now I need to get it down on paper and find the scenes. The first verse was the worst as almost the entire thing is based on frame-by-frame movement and background deletions (what a pain). The only thing for the 1st 24 seconds is to get smooth transitions (without the transition effects from Premiere).
Why not read journal entries? I find reading them very helpful and I get to understand members and to avoid others. Also, some entries are just over-the-top fake that I know some are just looking for attention (no handles will be supplied for this comment). What I'd like to know is if we can look at all the public journal entries for a person (or persons); these may contain great tip for AMV making.
A demain!
JOURNAL: Ayanefan (Jacques (The mighty Carpal Tunnel Lumber Jack) )
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