I'm back after being away from anything electronic for the past 4 days...
You should probably check with someone more qualified like Akira for the title. I just heard that as a translation from a friend so I'm not all that sure
Hahah, yeah. I was a bit iffy on going with the name, and then I just thought "the hell with it" and used it. I didn't really make a direct correlation anyway... So maybe I fooled you all and just happened to like the title "Cold Shadow".
Of course, voiding that I gave myself away in my first post...
I liked the character intros thing, personally. Even though it did seem kinda drawn out. The combos seemed a bit too similar at points. Singing Nanaya was.... uh... I don't know. Rest of it was good, however.
Thanks. =) Like I said, gonna make sure to get more footage of combos to use, rather than having to fill up space.
IMO, you need to watch more combo movies for more influences instead of taking from MTP only.
That's true. I guess I tried to make this vid a bit too AMV-ish?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYDrOjUmlqs <- Another combo video using the same song.
Take note of where they cut stuff in the middle of song(look at 2:12 and how the superflashes sync to lyrics), and how combos tend to start almost mid-action and finish before the characters fully recover. This is one way how fluidity is achieved,
Ahahaha. I remember this video. So very cool. I'll definitely remember that tip. Don't have to wait for the opponent to recover. But I was still killing space in this video, so...
Won't do it again, I promise. When I made SSBM combo videos, me and my friend record for so long that I can get plently of combos and stuff.
As for the pre-fight loading screens..its good but you're definietly overdoing it; it doesn't even sync with the song properly. Same for the pre-fight 'introduction' scenes.Look at this vid for how its done tastefully imo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH-o3m3Y5NU&mode=related&search=) For similar effect you could do fast cuts involving various Nanaya superflashes.
It syncs better in the original version, I think. I felt it lag a bit when I uploaded it to youtube.
And I feel now that perhaps I had the vs screen flashes go by too quickly, making it difficult to see, and hard to sync.
As for the combos themselves... I guess they're MTP style, bordering on practicality.
I can't say he wasn't a big inspiration, hahah.
Its hard to make a combo video without content!
:'(
Perhaps you could do some 623c loops or xx j.bc j.bc airdash j.b airthrow stuff? What about counterhit combos? Or choreographed 1p/2p sequences?With the new function in 1.03 that is definitely possible now...
orz Need to learn more advanced techniques...
All in all, lots that you can improve. Please do better next time^^
Thank you very much, and thanks for your comments!
lol, i really liked it. I thought that was Genius when i saw it.
I'm so glad you liked it. Totally made my day. ^_^
The prefight stuff, with the chara intro's and what not were a lil overdone. bit too much IMO.
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Pretty good for a first vid, i must say o_O
Thanks! ^_^
...only gripe being how choppy-ish it was.
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It isn't Melty without Janne Da Arc lolol.
I don't think i've seen a vid use Romance or Love is Here. Although those aren't really 'fast moving' well, Diamond Virgin isn't all too much i guess but, yeah. I'm going off tangent here
Kyuseishu Messiah might make for a good one. Unless somehow, someone used that too.
Hmm... I like the song Sister and Junky Walker. Hell or Heaven is pretty cool, too, and Mr. Trouble Maker. Hehe, Janne Da Arc has a lot of good songs.
Ahahaha, perhaps Mr. Trouble Maker would be a more fitting song for Nanaya. xD
Here's another combo vid that came up as a related video to one of the ones Karp linked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMqZWpeWpk&mode=related&search=
More syncage of things with the music. (which I'm also betting is where you got some of your inspiration from, song-wise and all)
I have seen this video as well... And while I didn't think of this video when I made mine... I think maybe I did get some subconscious inspiration for the music sync. o.o
And a personal favorite of mine (probably because I'm a KohaHisu player and this is a KohaHisu vid) that shows an insane amount of editing and syncage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN6tGuhYQpo
Combo videos are half art and half skill showcase. Either way, it's 100% showing off, so put out the best stuff that you can.
Woah, that was a very impressive video. o.o Maybe I can learn some stylistic things from it. Sure as hell not learning any combos... Those are way over my head. @_@
Oh, couldn't you speed up the massive character intro bit at 1:35 so the start of the fight against White Len synced up to the lyrics coming back in?
Unfortunately, at this point I can't.
I'm at college right now. I made the video on my desktop computer, which I didn't bring to college, rather I'm using my laptop. All the raw files I used to make the video are on the desktop computer, and I didn't transfer them to my laptop because all the raw files together totalled around 10 gigs or something crazy like that.
So I only transfered over the finished video, sorry.
Not meaning to go off topic, but son of a bitch, I didn't know Kohaku had invincibility frames during her 22C! *shelves that away for future use lawl*
EDIT: Wait, it's Ver. A... will it still work for Ver. B?
FYI, Windows Movie Maker absolutely sucks for syncing. It's render process isn't good enough.
This is from watching tons of videos made by our "video team" at church, and video projects from school.
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Windows Movie Maker is all I have. PC video editing software is such crap compared to mac video editing software... And I have neither the money to buy anything better, nor the resolve to download the software illegally (I once downloaded Adobe CS2 and deleted it the next day... >_>)
For my purposes, Movie Maker does a decent job, I think. o.o But thanks for the advice!
When I used to toy around with videos, Abode Premiere and Sony Vegas were my weapons of choice. Initially, it was Premiere, but then I lost my old version, and the new one (at that time) was a complete bitch about importing stuff, so I switched to Vegas. God tier stuff.
Thanks for the tip!
Lastly, here's a download link for who ever cares, or wants to take me up on my claim that the video sync is better on the original.
http://rapidshare.com/files/51550837/Nanaya_CMV_Cold_Shadow.wmv.html