Yeah, I'd agree with Bakadeshi (well, at least the first sentance... I didn't read passed that ;p sorry), you gotta take this video like alot of my own videos are. Not looking for quick actioney cuts but LISTENING to the words. Also it would REALLY help if you'd seen this. Not much, but you'd just get it THAT much quicker.XenoDrake wrote:I really hate doing this, but im afrade it wasent all it was hyped up to be. for a starter video, the encoding mistakes can be overlooked, however, things like clip selection cant. sadly, the footage is mostly very long clips with little editing, clips and footage are reused, and though most of the footage has an overall mood in synce with the song, the lack of any effort to do more then that is very apperent. for example, you use the same footage of the stair way alot, this is not a bad thing, but letting just one long clip of that same scene drag on and on wasent. however you show great talet in being able to lay out a compleat AMV idea from start to finnish, as the mood and flow do follow through. what you should work on is more footage hunting i call it. though i havent seen the anime myself, what research i did of it wile it downloaded shows a very diffrent story then the one you show here. this is the makings of a very talented editor, you took and idea, and made it compleatly your own. the video was lack luster however, take more time to watch and re-watch an anime show, pick out clips and scenes in the anime that grab you and wright them down in a note book or something. alot of times youll start with one or two clips that you had in mind for the song, and just let the time line do the talking from then on as you place clips that flow with your first idea. though this is a way of keeping with an idea, your video shows you have talent enough to go beyond this rather mechanicle process of editing, into something more fluid and dynamic. picking clips that everyone will think wile watching it "wow, that came from out of nowhere, awsome!"
~XenoDrake
oh I beleive she did ;p I really do -_- infact she possibly OVERthunk it like I do sometimes.my advice is to take more time to plot out the footage, you have the ideas, now dig and scratch at the footage untill every single frame of the AMV is exsactly what you want it to be.