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I like this poast :3AtomX wrote:Not to de-rail the thread, but as far as the whole "inner circle" thing goes (and I put high emphasis on the quotation marks), people seem to think that it's some sort of big like conspiracy or something, when in fact, we're just friends with eachother. That's all there is to it. When a friend of yours sends you an IM and says "hey I finished my video here's the link to the forum post," you're probably gonna go and post in it. That. Is. It. If you feel more comfortable using the term "clique" or "circle," whatever. But the vast majority of us are good people who enjoy good AMV's regardless of who makes them.
That being said, yeah, I agree that if this hadn't been Jay's video, the likelihood that the thread would've grown this big so fast is quite low, and I'm sure Jay understands that. But again, people know him, and thusly it's bound to draw an audience. It doesn't mean that videos that don't get 6 pages of replies within a day suck or are any less deserving. It's just the nature of the beast.
I wanna add in on this since this is a topic I've become super super self-conscious about(especially in my last video), but that tension just may be a factor that as either an editor or someone that's become really familiar with the mechanics behind AMVs, that you might be paying a little bit too much attention to the editing, therefore you automatically set expectations on how the cuts/timing "should" be, and when those expectations aren't met, it'll probably upset you a little.vivaldiscool wrote:As to the thing about cross fades, I do see how it's mimicing the series, and it didn't really feel that off kilter since usually it landed on a subbeat, but since the cuts were unpredictable and sharp, it gave a feeling of tension. A fade can be used to ease and release the tension, but, while there was a few, it just felt like a couple extra here and there would ease things up.