July 7 2018 was the day I finished editing my first AMV. I had literally just learned to use Adobe premiere the previous month, and I chose a 7-minute instrumental post-rock song set to Your Name for no other reason than that's what I was vibing to at the moment. Took me almost a month to edit, and when I completed the timeline I was so relieved to be done I didn't even go back and review it or anything, and promptly uploaded to YouTube and cataloged to a-m-v.org. That was one of the many editing mistakes that made it's way into the final video. Since then I've edited 40 more videos and learned a lot of what makes a good edit, and what not to do. Half the reason I made the re-edit was to fix those issues with the experience I've learned. Some editing things I tried to apply to this new edit:
- have less hard-sync
- use more internal sync
- use match cuts
- smoother transitions
- play around with opacities and layering clips
- take a few days to review the finished video
the original video for reference --> https://youtu.be/Mxy7aNooEdM