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Squalexy
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Summertime Alive

Post by Squalexy » Tue May 13, 2014 4:59 am

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YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMk8lGirtQs

Hello everyone! I'm new here. I hope you'll like my very first entry there and have the first feels of summer :D
I've done some video games footages and this is my first anime footage using a large number of tools, codecs and so on (maybe that's why the quality of my video is kinda bizarre).

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Re: Summertime Alive

Post by pan_dbgt01 » Tue May 13, 2014 11:24 pm

Very nice after such a long winter :D

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Re: Summertime Alive

Post by hello_kitty33 » Wed May 14, 2014 9:44 am

It looks really nice :)

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Re: Summertime Alive

Post by Squalexy » Thu May 15, 2014 9:08 am

Thanks a lot both of you :)

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Re: Summertime Alive

Post by Bollocks » Thu May 15, 2014 3:13 pm

A technical point first, this video has a fair amount of interlacing and frame blending going on throughout. I'd highly recommend sorting this out for future videos, as it's really quite distracting.

The video itself was pleasant, with a nice mood going on. I felt like some of the clips you chose (To be specific, the clips involving Karen and Hachikuji from monogatari and some of the Naruto clips) didn't really fit with the rest of the video, and I felt that the typography in the second chorus didn't really add anything to the video. But, overall, this was a pretty nice video, let down somewhat by the technical aspect.
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Re: Summertime Alive

Post by Squalexy » Sat May 17, 2014 10:22 am

MouseBollocks wrote:A technical point first, this video has a fair amount of interlacing and frame blending going on throughout. I'd highly recommend sorting this out for future videos, as it's really quite distracting.

The video itself was pleasant, with a nice mood going on. I felt like some of the clips you chose (To be specific, the clips involving Karen and Hachikuji from monogatari and some of the Naruto clips) didn't really fit with the rest of the video, and I felt that the typography in the second chorus didn't really add anything to the video. But, overall, this was a pretty nice video, let down somewhat by the technical aspect.
I understand, thanks for the comment!
As for the interlacing and frame blending, it wasn't a problem as I was editing. I guess next time I'll be more careful on the codecs and compression I choose :)

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Re: Summertime Alive

Post by Pikapwn » Sat May 17, 2014 4:41 pm

Squalexy wrote:
MouseBollocks wrote:A technical point first, this video has a fair amount of interlacing and frame blending going on throughout. I'd highly recommend sorting this out for future videos, as it's really quite distracting.

The video itself was pleasant, with a nice mood going on. I felt like some of the clips you chose (To be specific, the clips involving Karen and Hachikuji from monogatari and some of the Naruto clips) didn't really fit with the rest of the video, and I felt that the typography in the second chorus didn't really add anything to the video. But, overall, this was a pretty nice video, let down somewhat by the technical aspect.
I understand, thanks for the comment!
As for the interlacing and frame blending, it wasn't a problem as I was editing. I guess next time I'll be more careful on the codecs and compression I choose :)
Were you editing with Sony Vegas? Because if you have the preview window set to "Preview" (instead of "Good" or "Best") blended frames show up as fine when they actually look very bad. If there are multiple sources with different framerates, the blended frames don't show up in "preview," so that might be one possible cause of you not seeing it while you were editing.

I did enjoy the video, though. It would be even more enjoyable if all the technical aspects were sharp.

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Re: Summertime Alive

Post by Replay Studios » Sat May 17, 2014 7:40 pm

nice summer amv ^^

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Re: Summertime Alive

Post by Squalexy » Tue May 20, 2014 1:39 pm

Pikapwn wrote: Were you editing with Sony Vegas? Because if you have the preview window set to "Preview" (instead of "Good" or "Best") blended frames show up as fine when they actually look very bad. If there are multiple sources with different framerates, the blended frames don't show up in "preview," so that might be one possible cause of you not seeing it while you were editing.

I did enjoy the video, though. It would be even more enjoyable if all the technical aspects were sharp.
Thank you so much, now I know where the problem comes from!
I was also editing with 720p and 1080p footages, somehow that made the quality a bit weird.
I always set the preview windows to "Preview" because I can't see how smooth my video is when it's set on another quality :( I guess I'll have to work with both next time.
nice summer amv ^^
Thank you :)

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Re: Summertime Alive

Post by seasons » Fri May 23, 2014 11:55 am

This is just my opinion, totally personal, take it or leave it.

I didn't like the text and would have preferred an AMV without lyrics. They only showed up in one part, which felt a little strange. The text itself felt kind of static. I think, that if you're going to use text and put lyrics in a video, you've got to have it be a reoccurring theme or it just feels strange for it to suddenly begin about halfway through the video.

I like the mood of this video, overall.

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