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It makes me happy that AMV Hell has kept going. As cheesy as it might sound, I think AMV Hell has evolved from being a project (which can die) to being an idea (which never dies). However 6.66 is a little, I don't know, weak? I smiled maybe 5 times, and giggled twice. Plus it recycled songs from pre...

Castor Troy wrote:I have problems getting dropbox links for some reason.

Alright, there's a local download option now.
Stupid FTP...

Castor Troy wrote:Any way you can upload the video to here or youtube?

Why, does the link not work?

191826 It's been a looooong time since I made an AMV. My first few were atrocious, I made some semi-decent ones afterwards that simply never got finished and unfortunately got lost... then years passed (who knew the military takes up a lot of your time?). But I finally managed to create this on my ...

I'm sure it's easy as hell on a PC, but I'm using a Mac here, so I suppose it'd be different. I'm using DiVA to convert the .VOB files to other files that iMovie can read, if that helps. But I can't seem to find a way around the interlacing effects that ruin everything. Can anybody give me solid, sp...

If you're not familiar with Clip Creator, it's a mac-friendly software that takes video clips and cuts them up into segments (you can cut them up manually, or automatically). It's essential in my situation, because I'm making a Totoro AMV, and when I ripped the DVD, it all came out in one piece (no ...

Wow. I was a really loud forum ass when promoting my first AMV, and then I humbly promoted the following AMV. The first AMV got more hits, more opinions, and more overall attention than the second one. I think I just blew a bit of logic out of the water. Maybe I should stick with my first technique.

Yep. We don't all use PCs, like some people think.

70509 [Lain] No One Sees Her Cry by aielI_Ileia is actually quite good, even though it doesn't appear to be very well-known. Why? Well, for one, the digital effects are pretty nice. By that, I mean the effects are nice, and not crazy, excessive and redundant. As for the actual AMV, most of the inte...

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Earl6282 wrote:Damn, Earl, that AMV sucks

Well, no. But the video quality did suck a bit. There was a a lot of interlacing (did you IVTC or just deinterlace?), the aspect ratio was off, and there were a lot of compression artifacts. I just saw that you used the cinepack codec to compress. That's very bad. So, Read ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/
and do what they say. If you won't or can't use DVD footage, you can still get better quality than this at a better filesize. At 66mb your video can look as crisp as a DVD (or a DVD-rip, at least).

I liked the lip-sync at the beginning, it's a shame you didn't follow through on it. There was some nice sync here and there, but as you say, it's just a lot of violence. I would have liked a bit more of a concept or a story.

It's a shame you didn't use the Clockwork Orange dialogue at the end for something. Maybe not full lip synced video, but at least some credits or something.

I should also confess that since I've just done an Akira vid myself, the footage may not have the impact on me that it does on someone who hasn't seen every frame 10 times already.

Man, it is seriously impossible to please people on a-m-v.org when it comes to the graphics. It's not enough that the quality is good enough that you can actually see the faces of the people in the anime, nor is it good enough if the quality is just as good as it was from the actual DVD. I mean, it's one hell of a step forward from the quality of my last AMV. Now THAT was god-awful. Yeah, I used Cinepack. That's because it was my only option when I was using iMovie. Most of the other compressions were fine, but in the end, the video would end up really fucking huge. This is seriously the best I could do. And that link you supplied didn't exactly help a lot. Most of the information was about how the codecs work, maybe some history on them, but it provided very little info on file sizes, and pretty much NO direct insight on which codec I should use and what settings to use. God, just give me one codec and one set of settings that is high-quality and small-size and I'll use it for all of my amvs. No need to make me waste time reading about the in-depth aspects of every last codec.

As for the aspect ratio, it didn't appear very off to me. If it is, it's not all that noticible. Faces still seem in-proportion, so it's good.

And yeah, full lip sync WOULD be cool, but if the whole song was lip-synced, there'd be no room for the violence.