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  • Member: Vir
  • Title: Kaeuta-hen part 1
  • Premiered: 2007-06-29
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  • Songs:
    • Ichiko Hashimoto 12 Years
    • Shimamiya Eiko Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
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  • Comments: My second video.


    The video has a couple minor spoilers for RahXephon.

    There's no need to read the following, but it here if you go "what the blazes was that".

    Spoilers for both shows follow

    What was I thinking? It probably won't make much sense if you aren't familiar with Higurashi.

    Well, you've family-shattering feuds, you've got the red-headed girl next door who screams at you on a rainy day, the "tattooed" twins chosen by birth and switching places with each other, the miko (shrine maiden) who is only visible to a few special people, characters who are older than they appear to be, time resetting, strange blood flowing in your veins, spiriting away, a shrine containing a big statue-like thingy, a really hot mother who commands men in black, a sexy nurse with hidden agendas (besides pimping ;_;), odd eating and drinking habits, bloody hands, hospitals, grocery shopping, a cataclysmic event, creepy men, it's set in Japan and it has a delicious guy with a car who comes and asks you questions, and a photographer who noses around the village. Ooishi has air conditioning though - Futagami just has a hand-held fan, a hat and breezy pants.

    OK, so Reika was only a miko in the manga version, Akane is below Oni-baba, and Higurashi split Futagami into Ooishi and Tomitake, but otherwise it fits, right?

    Response to quick-comments
    1: Improved video quality a bit.

    2: Ah, what a cute bunny

    3: Thanks for all the kind comments.
    Software

    iMovie HD: Video and audio editing, effects (kaleidoscope effects, noice/static, transitions, colour manipulation on blood and flowers, Ken Burns Hinamiwesterntokyozawa tilt-down, blurs and flashes)

    Adobe After Effects: Rotations, water, layered pan (surreal clocks), moving tilt (Sakura) text, temporal filtering and grain-removal, unsharp masking, final assembly

    Gimp and Adobe Photoshop: Cleanup layers, twins, touchups

    Adobe Illustrator: Original graphics (Title screen, 4-leaf mittens)

    Audacity and Garage Band: Additional audio editing

    You can do a lot with just iMovie, actually. By rendering out portions of your video and re-importing them you can do a lot which would otherwise require other software. I was even able to do some pan/tilt action, but to do slow-moving tilts with moving video as well as rotations I had to go for After Effects.

    Version 2: I cranked-up the amplitude of the unsharp mask, put on some vignetting and disturbed the cemetery in After Effects.

    Thanks to
    metellius, Danner, Dashiva and Totalizator for beta-testing.

    Other editors for inspiration. Those videos directly inspiring this one were the Higurashi opening sequence, Koopiskeva's Euphoria (again; I bet you've never heard about that one before - it has only been uploaded 40 times to every video site out there) and harph's Lucid.

    Friends and family for supporting and inspiring me in other things.

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