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Kevmaster
- Eisenbahnmörser
- Joined: Sun May 28, 2006 12:20 pm
Re: Follow me
Well, I figured I'd rather give bad feedback than none at all.
I felt the video was absolutely trivial. I think I liked it up to 20 seconds because the scenes chosen and the fadeouts worked well for an introduction. It lost that nice touch pretty fast though. It seemed like you just went to include random motion-scenes. This can actually work in some cases, but especially in multi-anime videos you need to have a special theme going on to not make everything seem out of place. I, as the viewer, lost track and was wondering what you were actually going to display.
It went even worse when the actual dubstep kicked in (not only because I barely like that music genre). Your effect usage didn't make sense and were even only preset transitions. These may seem cool for someone who just watched amvs and has never touched an editing program, but to me and probably most other experienced editors these are an eyesore.
In case you want to include visual effects, play with the settings and be creative...and most important: don't make them seem like they've been slapped on the scene. Use them only when they make sense, stay consistent and don't use an effect only once if a similiar beat/part of the song appears. There's a good tip I can give: Don't use effects just because you can and instead use them when it's needed to fulfill your vision.
And for the technical side...please read through some guidelines and do everyone a favour and never ever again use a HD frame size for a video that looks like shit even in 640x360.
Also, no matter what you say, you won't change my mind that this is not a finished amv. Cutting of a song at 1:16 when it just started a few seconds earlier to keep up is just a sign of lazyness.
Either way, good luck upon improving.
I felt the video was absolutely trivial. I think I liked it up to 20 seconds because the scenes chosen and the fadeouts worked well for an introduction. It lost that nice touch pretty fast though. It seemed like you just went to include random motion-scenes. This can actually work in some cases, but especially in multi-anime videos you need to have a special theme going on to not make everything seem out of place. I, as the viewer, lost track and was wondering what you were actually going to display.
It went even worse when the actual dubstep kicked in (not only because I barely like that music genre). Your effect usage didn't make sense and were even only preset transitions. These may seem cool for someone who just watched amvs and has never touched an editing program, but to me and probably most other experienced editors these are an eyesore.
In case you want to include visual effects, play with the settings and be creative...and most important: don't make them seem like they've been slapped on the scene. Use them only when they make sense, stay consistent and don't use an effect only once if a similiar beat/part of the song appears. There's a good tip I can give: Don't use effects just because you can and instead use them when it's needed to fulfill your vision.
And for the technical side...please read through some guidelines and do everyone a favour and never ever again use a HD frame size for a video that looks like shit even in 640x360.
Also, no matter what you say, you won't change my mind that this is not a finished amv. Cutting of a song at 1:16 when it just started a few seconds earlier to keep up is just a sign of lazyness.
Either way, good luck upon improving.