What editing Techniques Would be Useful to Learn?

[Slywolf15]

Well I have been making amv's for around a year now. I use Vegas and I want to know what editing techniques would be best to try and learn. Since my videos really don't have any pazaz. So any opinions are appreciated.

[Scintilla]

Scene selection... timing... knowing when to <s>hold 'em, when to fold 'em, when to</s> cut and when to fade...

[NS]

Well I have been making amv's for around a year now. I use Vegas and I want to know what editing techniques would be best to try and learn. Since my videos really don't have any pazaz. So any opinions are appreciated.

Your own, special technique would be great.. although rather rare.

[taifunbrowser]

Since the only rationalization for your creation of this thread could be to gather advice, I'll add that you should ignore "good" and "best" export methods in vegas: "preview" is perfect quality.

Trust me. I tested it. Good & Best just means that they add a gaussian temporal blur to everything - which you DON"T WANT for music videos. I'm pretty sure draft would be fine too, but I don't risk it.

I found this out on kimi wa suteki when I had 2 doors sliding together, and the gaussian blur made the mask slide over before the clip actually progressed, so there was a really bad looking single frame that was like, ugly. Worked fine in preview mode.

[Kevmaster]

Since the only rationalization for your creation of this thread could be to gather advice, I'll add that you should ignore "good" and "best" export methods in vegas: "preview" is perfect quality.

Trust me. I tested it. Good & Best just means that they add a gaussian temporal blur to everything - which you DON"T WANT for music videos. I'm pretty sure draft would be fine too, but I don't risk it.

I found this out on kimi wa suteki when I had 2 doors sliding together, and the gaussian blur made the mask slide over before the clip actually progressed, so there was a really bad looking single frame that was like, ugly. Worked fine in preview mode.

wtf no

[Banass]

Since the only rationalization for your creation of this thread could be to gather advice, I'll add that you should ignore "good" and "best" export methods in vegas: "preview" is perfect quality.

Trust me. I tested it. Good & Best just means that they add a gaussian temporal blur to everything - which you DON"T WANT for music videos. I'm pretty sure draft would be fine too, but I don't risk it.

I found this out on kimi wa suteki when I had 2 doors sliding together, and the gaussian blur made the mask slide over before the clip actually progressed, so there was a really bad looking single frame that was like, ugly. Worked fine in preview mode.

wtf no

I have to agree with that.

[post-it]

.. if you can keep it simple and not turn it into a Strobe-Lite Factory of fading to
black/white then it should be fine ^_^

[Kevmaster]

.. if you can keep it simple and not turn it into a Strobe-Lite Factory of fading to
black/white then it should be fine ^_^

shaddap Strobes/flashing FTW!

[taifunbrowser]

wtf no

I have to agree with that.

this is distressing indeed.

Vegas version? and so you haven't noticed that higher than preview mode applies temporal blurs to all keyframes? (should be discussed in new thread probably)

ok, after re-reading the title my suggestion is to play with when to change a frame before the beat, and a frame after, because I found subtle changes during regions of an amv to be effective... Also, be very deliberate about crossfades.

[Slywolf15]

Most of what has been suggested I sort of picked up myself. Although thank you anyway for the time you took to reply. What would be some effects that would be valuable to learn also?