Here's my video. This is it. I planned to make an AMV ages ago, and now I finally did it. (will you look at that!)
I'm sorry, when I began working on it, I had no idea that this series is that overused. I actually didn't know anything about making AMVs. That hopefully changed over the past months, because... well, I made an AMV.
Huge shoutout to Nostromo, whose videos kept me motivated till the end. His "Auriga" stunned me, especially because of his use of Twixtor to increase the framerate. I used it for a lot of GMVs and it seemed only natural for me to use it for this AMV as well. The hardest part of course is that in anime the animation isn't drawn every frame, but mostly every 3rd or 2nd frame, which meant I had to go through everything I recorded and remove every duplicate frame manually through time-remapping. It doesn't surprise me anymore that I didn't see a single editor who's done that before ... Another shoutout, this time to Kraddy, because his Tracks are simply phenomenal to edit to.
Also, have some additional technical facts:
Editing-Software: Adobe After Effects CS6
Plugins: Twixtor, VideoCopilot Twitch, VideoCopilot Optical Flares, Trapcode Shine
Audio-Software: Adobe Audition CS6
Information
Anime: Bakemonogatari, Nisemonogarari, Nekomonogatari
Music: Kraddy - Into The Labyrinth
Awards: 2 место, Выбор зрителей на AMV Show 2013 (Санкт-Петербург), Самое оригинальное видео, Лучший монтаж, Лучший клип в жанре Action (Экшн), Лучший клип в жанре Horror / Psychedelic (Ужасы / Психоделика) на AMVNews: Big Contest 2013
To answer your need of a reason for those black lines: I actually put them in on purpose. (yup, insert trollface here) They wouldn't be there since most of the footage extends beyond the frame. I thought it gives the effect more impact. Well it seems like it did. A negative one though...
Also, one question: Isn't the "ride on 4:38", which you listed as a "small detail" under "Interesting Stuff" a "childish, absolutely unnecessary way to sync the video"?
I'll just list all the things that are interesting, good, annoying and god awful. I'll comment every one of them, so it won't be just pointless ranting. So with that said, let's take a closer look.
Interesting stuff:
-60fps. Nothing original to be exact and I simply do not understand the purpose of it in 99% of videos. But here, kudos to you, my friend. It looks amazing. Bakemonogatari itself is a visual marvel, with juicy colours and amazing animation. And here you complement it perfectly, by adding that extra smoothness and merging it with the song even more. Good job.
-The small details. Just the little things, like ways of syncing with facial expressions and that ride on 4:38, hooked me and added a necessary variety for the kind of repetitive music.
Good stuff
-Overall sync. It is smooth where it needs to be, and aggressive when required. It has flow, it is natural pretty much everywhere - I loved it.
-Choice of music. It's not dubstep, it's not some cheesy rock that craves for fanservice, it's not a dance track. I loved it, it absorbed me from the beginning to the end and only thanks to the music I managed to finish watching the video. I'll address that later. Either way - a weird, yet almost perfect choice of music to accompany this already bizarre series.
Annoying Stuff
-Choice of series. Yeah, I know you wrote about it in your comment, I wrote about it in the beginning and everyone here as well. But the elephant in the room needs to be addressed - Bakemonogatari is overused. It was pretty much the reason why I did not want to watch the video in the beginning. Think about it next time and do some research.
-Effects, cache and resolution. Okay, I don't have anything against trapcodes, but come on.. twitch? In these quantities? In our time? Also.. if you took the time to fix most of the artefacts that twixtor produced, why for the love of god you did not get rid of the cache(those black lines)? It better be a damn good reason. And lastly - the resolution. Yes, Bakemonogatari has a lot of cache-heavy scenes. But it is possible to go around that and make a proper resolution, by zooming, cropping and masking.
God awful stuff
Pretty much everything after the 3rd minute. Wow. Just.. wow. Why? Of all the things you could do, why did you go with rewinds? With speed-ups? With zooms? WHY? You had such a smooth flow, such nice sync and now these childish, absolutely unnecessary ways to sync the video. It was really close to ruining the entire video for me, that's how bad it was. You should've ended the video on 3:13.
Now overall I wanted to give it a 3, because of those bad, bad, BAD last minutes and black lines, but.. I'll go for a 4. Now, don't get me wrong, I still think the end is awful and you should dispose of it right away, but the first half is really good. I absolutely loved it. So I just can't bring myself to give this anything lower than a 4. Good job and good luck.
Твикстор и прочие эффекты местами вызывали визуальный дискомфорт но общий подбор кадров и синхронизация заставляла забыть об этом.
Звуки с 34 секунды видел обыгранными иначе чем прсто твичем, под конец эффект мозайки стандартно наложенный напрягал, но в остальном очень даже отличная работа.
5
Ставлю 5 от недоумения
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На 25-той секунде нет еще кислоты, лол.
На вопрос нельзя было дать ответ ибо очевидно из вопросительного ответа что пока рано о чем-то говорить. Нужно увидеть остальные работы участников.
Не думаю.
Разор, ты? Залогинься.
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Weestwoood, ты, кстати, начинаешь раздражать. Я невольно читаю твои комменты и твоя чрезмерная активность, которая идет в перемешку с бессмысленным флудом, просто убивает. Пожалуйста, пиши по сабжу.
защита и нападение... кто же замолчит?
Делаем ставки!
There are other videos that use Twixtor (for example Notromo's videos since Auriga), but their use of Twixtor is quite different than mine. The in-between-frames are rendered only between differing frames, because they left all the duplicate frames in that come from the way animes are animated.
In my case I actually removed all of the duplicates, which made the effect of Twixtor way stronger: It is one fluid movement instead of fluidity taking turns with still-frames.
And because of that, the frames that Twixtor generates are way more noticable, which of course increases the chance to spot artifacts. There are lots of artifacts in other videos using Twixtor too - you just can't see them that easily. Because to my knowledge there are no AMVs using the same technique I didn't have a guideline of how much artifacts are acceptible. So I just minimized them as much as I could and stopped when I had absolutely no motivation anymore. Many are content with it, but there are still some people who are bothered by the artifacts (like you). It's unfortunate, but I still am not motivated to do any more :)
Должно быть ты не понял суть фразы "побочный эффект".
Имелось ввиду артефакты побочный эффект замедления времени.
И должно быть смотрел не внимательно ибо на 25-той секунде это больше чем бросается в глаза.
Ты наверное в будущее заглянул и увидел там все предстоящие работы?
ставь "Media Player Classic" чистое золото!
Кстати, может только у меня так, но
На обычном плеере играет нормально, на KMplayer-е скорость воспроизведения видео уменьшается почти в два раза, с музыкой порядок.
Причем все равно выходит довольно неплохо!
Особенно 0.21-0.34
драмы рулят, типо того чтоль....
режем+клеем Стараемся, стараемся!
будем довольствоваться синхрой и музлом!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoEEFinGN8w&feature=youtu.be
А тут это побочный эффект.
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welivetoday, будем надееться что, кто еще успеет переплюнуть этот амв! почти 200 заявок на БК 2013!
Да, все разом передумали и приползет на кон 10-20 работ)
Победитель в номинации лучшие артефакты?