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  • Thaddeus Christopher
  • User Name: Thaddeus Christopher
  • Member Since: Wednesday, May 14, 2003, 6:59 PM
  • Studio: Pattern, Chaos & Dreams
  • Last Login: 2013-12-31 14:30:16
  • Forum Info: Profile        Posts (1)
  • Usefulness: 173.8 with 5 opinions
    [average 119.3 of 231970 opinions; standard deviation 432 ]
  • Profile: We are electromagnetic deoxyribonucleic robots.

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    For now, you can see some vids and clips that I've done (all uploaded in proper HD) via my Youtube channel:

    http://www.youtube.com/user/ThaddeusChristopher

    All videos I've made have been meticulously edited. This means:

    1) Flawless to-the-millisecond timings (as a percussionist for roughly 15 years, timings are essential to me)

    2) Airbrushing

    3) Both Visual and Audio FX (such as using Twixtor to vector-generate new frames turning a 23.976 FPS into authentic 59.940 FPS, using the Waves toolset on sections of existing audio tracks, tools to compose my own audio transitions between pieces such as in my Higurashi AMV [Pink Floyd / Clockwork Orange] medley, etc.)

    4) Often over a dozen track layers worth of effects (never in-your-face; I like to keep things subtle) carefully merged using the full array of track layering algorithms

    5) Cropping mouth flaps from one frame to another for perfect lip-syncs

    6) Layers upon layers of virtual camera lens filters until every scene "looks just right"

    etc.

    I'm frequently forced to migrate from one project file to another (rendering current project state uncompressed along the way) as all the track interactions, thousands of splits, overlays, FX, filters, etc. become too complex for my computer to process without significant lag.

    My intention has usually been to re-edit specific scenes to the point that they are almost unrecognizable from the originals, yet the average viewer will never even know that it has been edited. This has backfired in the sense that people often never believe a video took me hundreds upon hundreds of hours to create. C'est la vie.

    Regardless, what I output is always a product of months of work, often including several entire days from morning to night forgetting to eat doing nothing but editing over and over again until every scene's contents, order, and thematic purpose is exactly how I had wished it to be.

    If you look at my profile image and compare it to the original Elfen Lied paintings that most of its elements (the bits I didn't paint myself) were taken from, you'll begin to see just what I'm talking about regarding editing things subtly yet significantly, to the point you can't really tell they've been edited without knowing the originals.

global average

  • Count231970
  • Originality8.47
  • Visual Quality8.37
  • Audio9.00
  • Action Sync8.45
  • Lip Sync8.24
  • Special Effects8.49
  • Effort8.60
  • Re-view-ability7.92
  • Overall8.43

average given

  • Count5
  • Originality9.20
  • Visual Quality9.00
  • Audio9.40
  • Action Sync9.20
  • Lip Sync8.00
  • Special Effects9.00
  • Effort9.00
  • Re-view-ability8.60
  • Overall9.40

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10 FAVORITE ANIME

1.
RIN - Daughters of Mnemosyne (TV)
2.
Elfen Lied
3.
Monster (TV)
4.
Future Boy Conan
5.
Urusei Yatsura
6.
Black Lagoon (TV)
7.
Infinite Ryvius
8.
Scrapped Princess
9.
Uninhabited Planet Survive
10.
Kiba (TV)