PrincessMareep wrote:I have a question (and please don't take it as rude)
Why would you go through all the editing and masking you did.... just to have the watermark be shown in your amv still? That just kinda ruined the experience and illusion of the crossover for me.
Haha, no worries, I get it. You're not the first person to call me out on it.
There's a long and short answer to that.
Short Story: A combination of laziness, and a complete -- honest-to-goodness -- accident.
Full Story: I was planning on getting rid of it altogether (slightly sizing up the final AMV and then cropping edges to minimize loss of quality from the process) before I even started the project. When I finished editing and having spent a little over half-a-dozen hours rendering (also a long story, but multiple project files, multiple renders, extremely large files in AE), I realized I couldn't do it, because of a few specific scenes. The "video-cam" flashback of six scenes -- if I went with my initial approach -- would have half of the /important-ish/ text stuff cut off.
So I had a few options: one, I could delay the release and spend two days going through each project file (I had over six in AE/Vegas) and scaling every scene with the logo up. Two, I could just cut off those parts of the six scenes and have that look messy/incomplete. Or, three, I could just leave it.
I was kind of exasperated by this point (also, I had thought I was going to die by tornado and as pathetic as it was, my biggest regret was not having the stupid AMV done) and went with option three. In retrospect, I really should have delayed it. It was my mistake, for sure.
On the bright side, I'll never make that mistake again. orz
