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• Member: Drake264
• Studio: Evolution Inc.
• Title: Metallic Insanity
• Premiered: 2007-08-21
• Categories:
  • Action
  • Instrumental
• Song:
  • M83 Run Into Flowers (Abstrackt Keal Agram Remix)
• Anime:
  • Immortal Grand Prix (IGPX)
• Comments: Metallic Insanity
  
  Programs Used:
  
  Virtual Dub Mod
  Sony Vegas 7
  Avisynth
  Zarx264gui
  
  Honestly IGPX is a very underrated anime, with a nice collaboration of action, speed and character development. It's definitely been in my top ten, since way back when, when Toonami aired the original miniseries. The racing concept made it all the better in my opinion. But that aside, it being a virtually unknown series on the major face of the anime world I wanted to make a video of it. I plan on making more with differing themes. This video's very existence should be credited to the creators of one of my favorite AMVs of all time. Reflections Of Style 3. After hearing the song there I had to have it for myself. After listening to it a couple of times I though the trance flair and the nice flow would work well with a mech theme.
  
  Not to mention the multi-layered beat, if you listen to most music you hear more than one line of beats. Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Bass are all different layers to a song. In Run into Flowers, there's the synthesized scratches and the bass heavy beats. I decided to work with the scratches for the most part because it felt like the harder of the two. Sync has always been my favorite part of AMVs so i've tried to get better and better with my own sync over the course of my own videos. So syncing with the synth scratches, sounded and looked great.
  
  I think my favorite part of the video has to be the slow downs. By the way I used them they kinda look like I was using an effect. But no, IGPX was gracious and stylish enough to include the slow downs in the show. To emphasize good hits and close calls, not only did it really work and make the show look amazing but it managed to do the same for my video.
  
  I've been hassled about my video quality and my lack of audio compression. For the longest of times I didn't even know how to compress audio. But I seem to be learning something new with each creation. Now after finding the Beta to AMVapp 3 I can compress the vid into MP4 thusly compressing the audio. I also actually bought the IGPX series so I ripped all the episodes straight from the DVDS so they look great as opposed to going out and finding them, then having to compress them two more times and lose even more quality. So I think this should easily be my best video yet. I really hope you like it.
  
  Feedback welcome.