Journey of Hearts (from AWA Pro)

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:25 pm

krzT wrote:Thank you, love! Best present ever...

YEY! Forget about AWA Pro - krzT's "best birthday present" award is so much better!

bakadeshi wrote:Hell ya!!!! Got not 1, not 2, but 3 VAT Guest awards (one of them mine) in Pro this year...
Awesome work. One of the best not just KH, but i'd even go as far as to say Video game amvs I've had the pleasure of watching, Hence why I gave it my "Best use of video game footage" guest award at AWA this year.

Aww, thank you so much for that, and thank you also to whoever gave me the other two. I got a kick out of the "Why the hell didn't this win anything, what's wrong with you people?!" award. xD

Coffee 54 wrote:I particularly liked the classic Disney stuff, it brought back good memories from my childhood. I imagine thats part of the appeal of the game, and its what I like to see in the videos.

Yeah, I've always wondered why most KH amvs haven't taken advantage of all the shameless Disney characters. It's definitely one of the things that drew me to the game, and I'm glad you enjoyed this video for it.

dj_ultima_the_great wrote:Heh. You already know my thoughts on this one, since I happened to see it right when it was the new vid on the block.

Thanks for the op! I'll try to reply to it soon.

Otohiko wrote:A very shameless video. In a good way. It does everything well and appropriately, in the right amounts, without taking itself too seriously.

That was pretty much my goal. My friend, you know me too well.

[Kael] wrote:I like very much your work, I like the dynamism of your amv
The video quality is not great everytime but I've taken pleasure to watch it

Thanks! I wish I could've made the video quality a little better too, but there's only so much you can do with captured footage...

Thank you to everybody else for commenting! I'm glad it gave you guys a happy feeling.

And do check out the game if you can. The fun factor is like... this video times 100.

VegettoEX · Post by **VegettoEX** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:56 pm

jasper-isis wrote:Aww, thank you so much for that, and thank you also to whoever gave me the other two. I got a kick out of the "Why the hell didn't this win anything, what's wrong with you people?!" award. xD

It deserved it. Played about a quarter of the way into the game, hated every moment of it with a bloody passion, but was still intrigued and floored enough with the flow, mood, story, etc. of the video that it absolutely deserved something. So great to hear two other people recognized it!

(It also reminded me that I wanted to play another great VGMV, Zelda 64 2.0, at our panel during the convention. So I did.)

sayde · Post by **sayde** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:02 pm

nice amv. Seriously. Two questions though. An undeniable amount of work went into this that you don't see to often in other KH amv's. (Kind of makes me want to make another newer/better KH amv myself.)

Just out of curiousity
1.) what format did you capture your footage in? Uncompressed avi, compressed avi using one of the many codecs, mpeg-2, or perhaps something else?

2.)How on earth did you get the letters in that logo to look so damn authentic. lol.

Tsunami Jones · Post by **Tsunami Jones** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:26 pm

I was really surprised by this. At first, when it came up on the discs, I saw the Kingdom Hearts CG and my reaction was basically "ugh." But after, I really ended up enjoying it with the use cut-scenes and such.

Nice job!

karu58 · Post by **karu58** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:04 am

I love this video, and it was one of the few Pro videos I really enjoyed over and over. It totally should've won Character Profile.

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:58 pm

VegettoEX wrote:Played about a quarter of the way into the game, hated every moment of it with a bloody passion, but was still intrigued and floored enough with the flow, mood, story, etc. of the video that it absolutely deserved something.

I guess the game isn't for everyone. Glad you still enjoyed the video though.

sayde wrote:Just out of curiousity
1.) what format did you capture your footage in? Uncompressed avi, compressed avi using one of the many codecs, mpeg-2, or perhaps something else?
2.)How on earth did you get the letters in that logo to look so damn authentic. lol.

1. DV. I had no video capture card, so I just used a line-in to my digital camcorder. I used the MainConcept DV codec to decode on the computer side. Then I filtered all the footage for cleanup and reencoded everything to Lagarith for editing.
2. I cheated.

There's a nice Kingdom Hearts font that you can download online. Once you have that, it's just a matter of playing with font height, spacing, shading, etc.

Tsunami Jones wrote:I was really surprised by this. At first, when it came up on the discs, I saw the Kingdom Hearts CG and my reaction was basically "ugh." But after, I really ended up enjoying it with the use cut-scenes and such.

Originally I wasn't going to use the CG footage at all. But the music actually comes with sounds of waves crashing at the beginning, so I gave in.

karu58 wrote:It totally should've won Character Profile.

Haha well, I think the category that best suits this video is probably Best Sentimental, but I wasn't nominated there... oh well.

I wonder what happened to the "Best Marketing" category. There were quite a few Pro entries that could've competed in that.

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:30 pm

Best KH video ever. I love it.

Also the best quality KH video ever.

sayde · Post by **sayde** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:14 pm

Thanks for answering my questions. That was pretty informative. I appreciate it.

jasper-isis wrote: I cheated.

heh. Nothings wrong with that.

krzT · Post by **krzT** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:56 pm

jasper-isis wrote:
krzT wrote:Thank you, love! Best present ever...
YEY! Forget about AWA Pro - krzT's "best birthday present" award is so much better!

Hehe...you know it!

I think the thing that impressed me most about this vid was just the overall effort that went into capturing the footage...I mean, having to go through the same cutscene multiple times using different keyblades? Just absolutely gorgeous implementation of everything that the game had to offer and definitely my favorite game music vid out there (though I may be biased...only slightly though

).