This is a new video i just put up. I finished it quite a while ago but am just now getting around to entering it here. The overall theme is seperation, i worked on this after my then gf moved away to college, we have since broken up, so be warned the sap factor is pretty high.
The music is from a band out of Tyler TX called Eisley. They're up and coming and friends of mine. The song is I wasn't Prepared, if you want to hear more Eisley drop by my fansite www.straylight6.org
Hope you like it!
http://www.straylight6.org/vids/vdstar_ ... epared.mpg
Voices of a Distand Star / Eisley I wasn't Prepared
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Hey! Neat! Another Eisley fan 
I've actually been pushing around a video idea to Marvelous Things. Such a good song.
Anyways, it's a nice little video. A few things I'd point out though.
First off, the video quality could certainly be helped. I'm assuming you used the DVD. Did you follow <A href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/">ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Guides</a>? If not, try following some of their steps to get a really gorgeous looking video.
I thought the use of the dub track was pretty clever, and in this case, it did help the video tell it's story. However keep in mind that if you ever plan on submitting your videos to conventions, some of them will disqualify the video if it uses anything from the English dub.
You didn't seem to put a whole lot of effort into the timing of the video. Some scenes seemed to just drag on unneccesarily long. One in particular was from 01:57-2:07. It was just a still shot of the classroom for 10 seconds, while there is stuff happening during the song. I know that for a song like this, you want to keep the transitions limited, but not so limited that the video suffers. Also, for the last 1:09 of the video (2:38-3:47), you kept it in the same scene (you might have done some cutting in this part, but it doesn't really show, since it's basically the whole bus stop scene). Try to switch things up a bit. Keep the video's story going by showing new things. And not just random things. You want to find scenes that either reflect the mood of the song, the lyrics, or help tell a part of the story that you're trying to tell.
Anothing thing is the timing of the video. When you did do transitions, most of the time, there didn't really seem to be any kind of reasoning for the scene change. Like, they would happen pretty randomly as opposed to being timed to the music. Remember, when the music changes, it's a good idea to have the video change as well.
Anyways, I hope these comments help. I don't mean to discourage you at all. I always like to see people using new/un-used music in videos, and you seem to have good taste. Now to work on your actual editing If you ever need any advice or anything, or just want to talk music, my AIM window is open.
I've actually been pushing around a video idea to Marvelous Things. Such a good song.Anyways, it's a nice little video. A few things I'd point out though.
First off, the video quality could certainly be helped. I'm assuming you used the DVD. Did you follow <A href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/">ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Guides</a>? If not, try following some of their steps to get a really gorgeous looking video.
I thought the use of the dub track was pretty clever, and in this case, it did help the video tell it's story. However keep in mind that if you ever plan on submitting your videos to conventions, some of them will disqualify the video if it uses anything from the English dub.
You didn't seem to put a whole lot of effort into the timing of the video. Some scenes seemed to just drag on unneccesarily long. One in particular was from 01:57-2:07. It was just a still shot of the classroom for 10 seconds, while there is stuff happening during the song. I know that for a song like this, you want to keep the transitions limited, but not so limited that the video suffers. Also, for the last 1:09 of the video (2:38-3:47), you kept it in the same scene (you might have done some cutting in this part, but it doesn't really show, since it's basically the whole bus stop scene). Try to switch things up a bit. Keep the video's story going by showing new things. And not just random things. You want to find scenes that either reflect the mood of the song, the lyrics, or help tell a part of the story that you're trying to tell.
Anothing thing is the timing of the video. When you did do transitions, most of the time, there didn't really seem to be any kind of reasoning for the scene change. Like, they would happen pretty randomly as opposed to being timed to the music. Remember, when the music changes, it's a good idea to have the video change as well.
Anyways, I hope these comments help. I don't mean to discourage you at all. I always like to see people using new/un-used music in videos, and you seem to have good taste. Now to work on your actual editing
If you ever need any advice or anything, or just want to talk music, my AIM window is open.