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• Member: MetalWolf
• Studio: Metal Wolf Productions
• Title: Against The Wind
• Premiered: 2001-08-01
• Category:
  • Drama
• Song:
  • Bob Seger Against The Wind
• Anime:
  • Record of Lodoss War (OAV)
  • Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight (TV)
• Comments: (December 24, 2022)
  
  This is my 4th AMV that I have revised since July. Of the AMVs I have revised this was probably the easiest one I have done. Outside of updating the video quality to at least semi HD quality since only the OVA is on bluray not that much has changed with this AMV from the original. It is too bad that I still cannot avoid the Japanese credits in a lot of the shots I chose but it is what it is.
  
  It is funny looking back at what I said below 19 years ago in that I made this AMV to show up someone else. I guess this was where my insecurity set in around this time when I started to let other people's opinion affect making AMVs purely for myself. While I am not going to entirely argue with the guy now I do think 19 year old MetalWolf did make a pretty good AMV with this one. Outside of a few bits all it really needed was a face lift of sorts.
  
  I hope that at some point I can put it up here maybe.
  
  (October 13th 2003)
  
  This idea came along when I decided to do an action AMV based on a character no one has ever made an AMV to but I wanted to start that AMV in November so I had a month to spare. I already had the anime for it all on DVD and since I was remaking many of my old AMVs I thought I would go ahead and remake one that I guess was sort of doomed to really be as good as I had hoped it to be. When I made the AMV in the beginning I knew it was a good idea but it was more a less a wanted revenge on Popndeth for saying that I wasn't very good. He was nice enough to host my AMVs but it more th eless an excuse to prove to him and to myself that I could make good AMVs. Anyways when I made the original AMV I had a good concept but it was my lack of experience and help that made it not all that good. This time around I felt I had the experience to make this a great AMV and feel I did just that. It seems that every time I make a new remake I learn sokmething new. With this AMV I learned how to use AVIsynth. For the longest time i could never get it to work nor I had the patience to do so but going into this AMV I learned how to use AVIsynth so this AMV is without a doubt the most nicest looking of my AMVs picture wise. Sound wise I had to use mp3 format because I didn't own the CD nor the musically impotent CD stores had any Bob Seger so I had to get the best mp3 version I could find and I thought it was a good version that was clean and clear. I spent 12 days editing the AMV as much as I could and 6 days in I finished the hard copy of it (first draft) and I guess you can say it resembled the original in most main ways and still does but
  it lacked something. I continued to watch it and the some scenes just didn't seem to flow well with the AMV. The AMV had alot of weaknesses from a creative view, as from editing there was none or at least none to me and I have watched the AMV many times over trying to find the editing flaws. Over the 6 days after watched it over and over and changing anything that seemed wrong with the only thing that came to mind as a good idea. By today so to speak I can look at the AMV and smile because its better than what I had originally wanted it to be years ago. In this AMV I edited the music and cut the song short because I felt that the chorus at the end ran to long and I didn't want to drag on the AMV just for the music so I set my clips where i wanted them and ended it how i wanted it around the $;30 minute mark of the song give or take a few seconds or so. The AMV is 5:01 minutes long. However there are a few problems in the AMV that I couldn't aviod nor I felt I shouldn't
  
  WEAKNESSES
  
  The japanese letters in the intros of the OVA and the series are shown in the AMVs, I had to use them since the DVDs didn't offer textless intros and many of the scenes in the intros were vital to the AMV so at times I tried to refain from using them all that much and tried to to use other clips instead like using the almost same clips shown like intro that are shown at the conclusion of the OVA. I only used it once because the normal intro covered the wholescreen with japanese letters and it didn't look good.
  Also the clips look a bit dark but thats because thats how the DVD footage was taken and when I lightened or gvae more gamma it didn't look better either ways even wehn I adjested the brightness.
  One frame is out of place in the AMV which is near the end of the AMV. I deleted all my raw clips after I "thought" I finished the AMV however after reviewing it many times I seen that wrong frame but it was too late to remove it and keep all the quality as good as it is. I tried rehashing it through adobe, TMPEG, AVIsynth without the wrong frame but all that happened was it made the video quality and the audio quality very bad. So I left it alone I dont beleive it would cripple the AMV however it might to those critics who expect perfection (but ther eis no such thing as perfection).
  
  Those are minor weaknesses anyway that they shouldn't cripple the watching factor. I love this video more now than I did when I first made it and I hope you like it too.
  
  (August 1, 2001)
  Well my last chance to make a slow sort of love song is put into this song. I don't really feel much when making or trying to make love AMVs. This one has come out to be more of a video about Parn and his relationship with Deedlit. If you are a fan of the Night Moves video I am sure you will enjoy this video. But this video is pretty different, so you can say this video is a bit of a drama. One thing I couldn't do was get the japanese or chinese lettering off some of the clips, but that doesnt really spoil the video.