And the recommended Advent Children amv's of the week are...

sayde · Post by **sayde** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:49 am

Flint the Dwarf wrote: From what I've heard, there's not that much good action footage.

The majority of the movie was composed of action sequences. Seriously. It felt like 60 minutes of action, and 30 minutes of story. And I'm not sure how everyone else feels, but I thought each second of action shown was great and very amv worthy.

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:04 pm

oh lord! a 60 minute action amv!! Heck I bet Beowulf or Otohiko could easily stretch that out to 1 hour without anybody noticeing a difference!!

Pie Row Maniac · Post by **Pie Row Maniac** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:36 pm

What sayde says is true, a large portion of the movie is action. The thing is that the action does a lot of "moving" (quick cuts, camera zooms, etc). The fights actually play out as if they're edited like music videos, which is kinda funny. Because of that though, it makes it possibly difficult to use if you're relying more on your own editing techniques rather than the movies own cuts and edits.

Digital Mantra · Post by **Digital Mantra** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:10 pm

Pie Row Maniac wrote:The thing is that the action does a lot of "moving" (quick cuts, camera zooms, etc). The fights actually play out as if they're edited like music videos, which is kinda funny. Because of that though, it makes it possibly difficult to use if you're relying more on your own editing techniques rather than the movies own cuts and edits.

It worked in my favor albeit some of my own meticulous placements. It's quite obvious that the song I selected (with its constant beats) would definitely naturally sync with certain attacks.

I've been watching the amvs with provided links in this thread. I'm impressed thus far. Although I think we've all pretty much milked the cow with this cgi/anime lol. Then again, I have no idea how many amvs are made per anime. Personally, I think I'll move on and start watching other amvs for now

sayde · Post by **sayde** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:12 pm

In regards to what Pie Row Maniac posted, I must say, this movie is a godsent to people who only use WMM. lol

Tsunami Jones · Post by **Tsunami Jones** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:26 pm

I've created a thread to recommend all videos Final Fantasy here:

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=57374

sayde · Post by **sayde** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:04 pm

Thanks a lot for comming through on this one.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:55 pm

sayde wrote:
Flint the Dwarf wrote:From what I've heard, there's not that much good action footage.
The majority of the movie was composed of action sequences. Seriously. It felt like 60 minutes of action, and 30 minutes of story.

Bolded for emphasis. As Pie Row said, it can be difficult to use lots of the footage available.

sayde · Post by **sayde** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:25 pm

Your right. It can be difficult to use all the action footage in that movie. But it's not because there's only a few good action scenes and clips available. In fact, it's actually on the contrary. (You might feel the same after/if you watch the movie for yourself) There's an abundance of great action scenes to use. The problem comes in with using just the right clips of these scenes to fit the song your using. (Certain camera angles/zoom in effects, etc, just fit certain parts of various songs better than others.) It does'nt mean that all the other action scenes suck though. lol

I'll give you a short example from my own experience. The last fight in that movie was 5 or so minutes of absolute bliss. I've never witnessed a better looking fight in my life. But in my amv, I did'nt even use a full minute of footage from that fight. (I would've liked to though) o_0

Anyways; I can't speak for everyone else, but I personally loved every second of action in that movie. The person that must've told you there are only a few <b>good</b> action scenes out of the entire movie must have some pretty high standards. (Or I have some pretty low standards.)

*shrugs shoulders.*

I'm going to admit that making a decent AC amv is pretty easy. There's a lot of good material to use. The fact that there are so many AC amv's being made lately should be a testament to that. lol (To be more specific, it should be a testament to how much good material there is to use.) Cause there definately are'nt many decent AC amv's being made as of yet.

Don't get me wrong Flint the Dwarf, I don't want this post to come off as though I'm angrily arguing w/ you. Just expressing my point of view. I actually have nothing else to say on the issue. In the end, it comes down to personal opinion as I'm sure we all know.

Sephiroth · Post by **Sephiroth** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:14 pm

actually the diffuculty of Advent children will come from the lack of any real connection between any of the action. Its bam bam boom. There's nothing behind whats going on other then to look cool which when it wears off will leave AC as what it is a hollow movie.

As far as the action being the best ever, no. That's the final fantasy fanboys acting up cause they finally got to see a high rendered version of Cloud fighting Sephiroth. As time goes by something else will do what AC did but alot better and people will make vids of that.

At the very least mabye this will slow down the Naruto videos for a bit. Still i bite my tumb at thee square.