Editing Styles & Influences

[FallenMarvel]

Does anyone have a specific style of editing? Whether it's slow and mellow or fast and exciting, I just want to hear what your preference is. Also, do you get some kind of editing influences from other places like movies, tv shows, etc.  

[Mr_Pilkington]

First I take a nice 2/3 cub of Smirnoff's Twisted Apple, then add 2/3 cup Sour Apple Pucker, 1/3 cup sour apple mix-in; shake vigorously with ice and open Adobe AfterEffects.....

Yeah, so that pretty much summs it up.  

[MalXII]

Speed wise, I tend to edit whatever the anime isn't lately. >.>  

[Desdemona Legardored]

I tend to edit whatever I'm in the mood for. Sometimes I like a nice sappy song and other times I want angy. It all depends. I generally take a while on my vids though because I get obsessed with how I want them to look and the technical aspects behind them.

As for being influenced...sometimes. After I sawa 300 I wanted to do a really awesome action vid. xd But I really suck at action vids...so I generally don't do them.... sweatdrop  

[PyrolordSSS]

Well, I am more a lyrical editor. I try to make my clips match the words of the song. I do like to do comedies, though I tend to fall back into action more than anything else.  

[FallenMarvel]

I understand what you say about lyrical editing. A lot of the times it's tricky to do, but I enjoy editing that way as well. Most of the time I try to give myself a challenge when it comes to syncing clips correctly with the lyrics or even for comedic purposes.  

[PyrolordSSS]

Well, also I feel that the song is far more important than the anime you use, not to take away from the anime part of it. The song however is what sets the mood for the video.  

[Desdemona Legardored]

Kittywitch

I had to think a while before I realized I had a style at all. I try to focus on the sync of the clips to the music, and with the exception of "Awake", which had several fades to white, I tend not to use any effects at all.

The influence was this class I took at Bakuratsu con a few years ago. I hadn't started editing yet, but I was interested and had some ideas.
This guy basically said that effects were the best part of the AMV, Weird Al should die, and throwing random stills you found on the internet into your video was funny. I could barely sit through that class. Then he said he was going to show us a professional animated music video, and once our little egos had burst and we'd realized we would never be as good as that, we'd be better editors for it.
It was not a good AMV. I wouldn't even call it an AMV. It was a bunch of stills of manga pin-up girls bathing, with rather violent and flashy transitions, set to a decent j-pop song. It took me a moment to realize he was serious about gushing about how wonderful this waste of time was.

Since then, I've been trying to make really good AMVs that break every one of his rules.

O.O That guy should be shot.  

[Mr_Pilkington]

I didn't realize they let Add go to conventions outside Georgia.
You poor, poor thing.