The First Tribute

[xenosteel]

First off, this being my first post:
Hello Everyone! How ya doin'!



A few fun facts:

• This is my first AMV, but not the first time video editing.
• I put a lot of heart making this. Like when baking a tasty carrot cake after honeymoon.
• There are a few director's quirks probably never been done in an AMV yet.
• There may be more AMVs to come, since I only covered the first arc in this AMV. But that depends on mood and motivation
• What motivated me? Well, Hunter x Hunter brought back a lot of sensational memories to me. To make this short, I was pretty much like "Gon": Honest (to a fault), naive, and loyal.

Anyway, hope you enjoy the video! And please do comment (or criticize) once you see it

Edit: A few more important points...

• It's designed in mind that someone familiar with the anime, Hunter x Hunter, will be watching it. Miscalculation here!
• It's about 10 minutes long
• It's not sync'd to music. They just float together, like cheese and toast
• There's quite a lot of cropping, splitting and whatnot in the video, but it was made to be unnoticeable. In one of the scenes I removed about 7 seconds of dialogue, but the end result was as if he didn't speak at all. Again, you'll need to be familiar with the anime to notice that..
• It's 320x240 resolution, 18.6 MB in size. I could make it a neat 70 MB file with decent quality, but my connection is horrid when it comes to uploading unfortunately. Another miscalculation here since people now expect HD quality out of everything.
• I wish I didn't see one of the top 10 AMVs on this site, "Spoil" in particular was like dropping an ACME Anvil from the top of Burj Dubai on my Hope of becoming at least half-decent in video editing...

Now to offtopic:

I'm 24 years old, male, and living in a country called Bahrain. A tiny island off the shore of Saudi Arabia, and really hot and HUMID. I've been told its like Tampa Bay here, I personally think its a living sauna here. I'm also a local, which might explain my somewhat odd English.

I also possess a rather wack personality, and other social attributes that, for some reason, I can't think of a good way to express in this sentence

I'll be honest, I really appreciate all the love and effort put together to make this website, especially the back-breaking effort of maintaining it. Although I don't have experience maintaining huge video servers, but all that content constantly flowing back and forth.. I sure hope you get enough donations to cover all that (no offense ofcourse). I've personally never donated before, but if I do, you guys will probably be at the start of my list.

I'm proud of this site, one rarely comes across very well-thought things in life. Keep up the good work!


PS

I'm rather new here and er.. pretty much lost in all the menus and stuff.. Where do you think I should start? There's a lot of confusing things around.

Hmmm... maybe this is a good website suggestion, to have a guide for newbies like myself. At least to point people in the right directions.

(Sorry if bad English took the cake)

[L.Fist]

First of all, welcome to "the org"(I believe that's what most to the people here call it).

You're video was somewhat pixalated in certain parts, but not so much that you can barely see it on fullscreen.

I guess because it's a tribute, there isn't much need for syncing the right scene with the music played. I could be wrong.

The video ran on a bit longer than it should of for any regular video. I was about to shut it off halfway through because I was starting to get tired of it. However, I made myself watch the whole thing, so that I can give you an aproperiate opinion.

Subtitles seem to be a problem for some people, because it distracts you from what the video is trying to show. Not me though.

What video program did you use by the way? And did you purposely leave the sound from the anime to fit the music?

I guess I'm just into videos that get your blood pumping, but that's just me.

3/5 It was ok. I still looking forward to your next work.

[xenosteel]

First of all, welcome to "the org"(I believe that's what most to the people here call it).

Thanks =)

I guess because it's a tribute, there isn't much need for syncing the right scene with the music played. I could be wrong.

Yeah I didn't go with pin-point syncing with this one, but that's just my way of doing.. Not because I was lazy.

Also, I'm getting a feeling that most AMVs are sync'd to the core. I guess I'm old fashioned then :p

The video ran on a bit longer than it should of for any regular video. I was about to shut it off halfway through because I was starting to get tired of it. However, I made myself watch the whole thing, so that I can give you an aproperiate opinion.

Gomen Gomen! ^_^ I was driven by emotion to make it that long and slow, maybe I should be more careful next time. Thanks for watching the whole thing

Subtitles seem to be a problem for some people, because it distracts you from what the video is trying to show. Not me though.

I had no choice there, fansubs were the only thing I could find at the time. But since the video is somewhat slow, don't you think the subtitles are complementing the scenes?

What video program did you use by the way? And did you purposely leave the sound from the anime to fit the music?

Cyberlink PowerDirector 7. Good program, fabulous interface, but crawling with annoying bugs. I'm going to buy Ulead VideoStudio the next time I decide to edit videos =.=

And yes, I intentionally left sound (at varying levels) in some of the scenes

I guess I'm just into videos that get your blood pumping, but that's just me.

3/5 It was ok. I still looking forward to your next work.

Excellent! I'll be sure to make something worthwhile next time then =)

And thanks !