it 13 secs too long

VegettoEX · Post by **VegettoEX** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 12:14 am

trythil wrote:I just use white text on a black background -- it compresses better. It shows the video title, source anime, music, and album for 5 seconds, and then gets on with the show.

You don't really need anything else. The focus should be on your video, not how cool you can make an intro.

I totally agree. I find it's both pompous and irritating to have said bumpers in videos, whether the creator is intentionally doing so or not. It's all about the VIDEO and what emotions that video invokes, not who you are.

I really like just seeing some information briefly at either the beginning or end of the video (song, artist, anime, album, name of editor, maybe something else), preferably just in simple ol' text (as mentioned, white on black looks good). There's really nothing else you need. I understand the desire to set yourself apart from other creators by having neat bumpers, but to me as a viewer... you're making yourself look just LIKE the other people by HAVING a bumper :D.

Not to mention the poor viewers on dial-up that have to download a 20 second bumper to a video they're not sure if they want to watch, anyway... ^_~

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 4:28 pm

TommyRude wrote:I am the bumpmaster, all must bow to my greatness an' bumptitude.
Anyway, my bumpers are around 30 to 40 seconds long, an' no one complains.

Not necessarily so. I made a point of saying I felt your intro bump was too long for "Eva Ep.27" in my opinion there. And it's just about as long for the Love Hina video too, if I'm not mistaken.

It is, to speak for me personally, bordering on overkill. Do you really need 30 seconds to tell everyone who you are, when you've got 3-4 minutes' of AMV work that should speak for itself?

Wyverex · Post by **Wyverex** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 5:41 pm

I usually put my studio's name, the anime and song used in the first seconds of my AMV, mixed to the footage. No bumbers (I find them quite annoying).

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 7:17 pm

That is what I mean by MTV-style titling. It's a good way to go, in my opinion. I wish more people chose to do it.

VegettoEX · Post by **VegettoEX** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 7:26 pm

RichLather wrote:That is what I mean by MTV-style titling. It's a good way to go, in my opinion. I wish more people chose to do it.

Ick, I've gotta disagree with ya' :P

I always see it as somewhat "cheating" when people, during the beginning of the song that they're DOING a video to, put in things like the artist, song, and the footage they're using (like, "Using footage from TRIGUN"... no shit, I can SEE that it's Trigun!"). If you're using a song to do a video, why waste part of that song telling us what song it is?! Heh.

I just find that it heavily distracts from the story and mood of the video if I've got some text during the song telling me what I'm watching. I can find out for myself what it is I'm watching and listening to :P

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 7:28 pm

To each their own. It's worked for me for 13 years.

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 8:22 pm

obey the Saget.

Actually, I love Tommy's bumpers, along with Hypeodermics', because they are the same or very similar for every vid of theirs you download.

Wyverex · Post by **Wyverex** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 5:35 am

VegettoEX wrote:
RichLather wrote:That is what I mean by MTV-style titling. It's a good way to go, in my opinion. I wish more people chose to do it.
Ick, I've gotta disagree with ya'

I always see it as somewhat "cheating" when people, during the beginning of the song that they're DOING a video to, put in things like the artist, song, and the footage they're using (like, "Using footage from TRIGUN"... no shit, I can SEE that it's Trigun!"). If you're using a song to do a video, why waste part of that song telling us what song it is?! Heh.

I just find that it heavily distracts from the story and mood of the video if I've got some text during the song telling me what I'm watching. I can find out for myself what it is I'm watching and listening to

There's still some people who won't know it's Trigun... and if you like the music, you'll be glad to see its title somewhere

.

It's surely distracting from the video but the only important point of that part IS the text. And you can do very cool things with it. Look at "Eden", using Trigun : one of the best part is, for me, when the text "Trigun" appears.

silver_moon · Post by **silver_moon** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 2:28 pm

I personally like to just put my bumpers at the end of the video, where I then say the anime and song used, and then my studio name. If people already know this information and don't want to watch the bumper, then they can easily just stop the video before the bumper plays. I find this much better than having to skip past a twenty second bumper to get to the video.

Even though these bumpers are often interesting to watch for the first time around, I think it's frustrating to have to watch a bumper you've seen twenty times already each time you want to watch the video over.

Wyverex · Post by **Wyverex** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 2:55 pm

But it's not a bumber then...

I do both : integrated credits in the beginning (studio, anime and song) AND a pic at the end showing my nick, e-mail, a date and "Belgium" (since I'm belgian).

I know this is a lot but I try not to make it annoying by really integrating it as in "Eden".