I'm seeing a pretty steady increase in stuff like this. It looks like the overall PMV community has improved tremendously over the hiatus. I can't wait to see what they produce once we start getting some new content to play with.
You can find this madness after the break!
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Yay! :D
Rarity is the Element of Marshellow, lol
O_O
Also, Rarity = Element of Marshmallow? XD
thats quite some 100 subscriber celebration
neato
MMmmm...marshelade.
Really nicely structured...seriously.
Scary Celestia at 1:38
That was so COOL!
and also, LOL marshmallow....
Not available in my country.
What?
I loved this music already. Now ponies made it even better!
Ohhh it didn't end with the best part of the song.
ah mah ghad I could clop to this.
@Flatterscheu
Deutschland?
Some people... knows thier stuff...
Yes... Just yes...
@Jett
dat radio edit
@jrk08004
Yes.
I feel slightly out of breath after watching that. Most intense PMV ever?
Pony and The Prodigy in one!?
AWESOME!!
and whats up with the random Norwegian flag Twilight in the middle?
That was really fast paced. This must be how a music video edited by Rainbow Dash would look like.
It was a little too much for me, but it was amazing.
LOL Rarity!
Awesome choice of track and really great editing on this one. It's nice to see a PMV that goes beyond the already-exisiting-footage mashup and tries new things with VFX and filters.
Everything was synced perfectly to the tempo/beat and the randomality that ensues with the videos just fits in. It's hard to explain, but it simply does.
This is the kind of PMV that will get you listening to the music even if you're not a fan of the genre.
Am I the only one who thought this was just... really badly done? It's like the epitome of what makes a PMV bad, he just slapped on a ton of effects, made a crap ton of vectors fly everywhere to random music with no purpose other than being obnoxious and didn't go anywhere with it.
Unless of course that's the joke :\
Neat.
*click*
This... was... AWESOME!
That song is always a good choice!
@Basharoonskis
While I do agree with what you're saying and I too enjoy a normal music video with a matching song more, the idea behind this is just how much editing magic was put into it. He picked a fast paced song so he could show more scenes fast and the whole thing was to show off his editing. I do think these skills could be used to make a great PMV to a song that matches, have scenes that match the song and have some of the overscreen effects too.
Loved it, one of the rare ones where all the randomness actually works, and it fit the beat extremely well. Loved the ending too!
Show off.
Holy sh*t. That was friggin' amazing.
@Basharoonskis
I didn't really want to comment, but since you've already done so, I'll come out and agree. To be honest, I'm a bit disappointed at the apparently implications in this post - I would wager that my last PMV required about as much effort as this video due to the very extensive lip syncing required, but because it had "just" lip syncing as opposed to a ton of flashy effects, it was just another video on the pile. I worry that this could lead to many more videos that favor an overuse of effects over meaningful content. :( I hope my worry is unfounded.
Oh god, somepony is going to write a cupcakes follow-up starring Rarity and call it "Smores"
Actual reaction to seeing title of post: "Oh god, YES!"
Actual reaction while watching video: "Can't...stop...watching..."
Actual reaction when finished watching video: *speechless, mouth agape*
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THAT WAS BUCKING AMAZING. YOU HAVE JUST WON THE INTERNET.
This is pretty awesome
Element of Marshmallow* (fixed your spelling dear), indeed!
Anyway though, I'm inclined to agree with some others above in that it did feel a bit loud (for lack of a better term) and disjointed and gaudy in some aspects, though there's not necessarily anything wrong with that seeing as how that's probably what they were going for. But that having been said, it is certainly an impressive display or video editing skills.
*of, pardon. =^_^;=
Eh, they were all the more basic editing tricks. :P But it was certainly fun to watch. I like random crazy mashups sometimes. :)
Rarity Marshmellow was funny...but then you realize it's just paper cut outs flying around the screen to some Prodigy and become bored and unimpressed.
That was intense.
OH HELL YEAH!
@Basharoonskis
I totally agree. I was very excited to watch this PMV, and all it seemed to be was a load of flashy effects and vectors thrown around. I enjoy the music, but I'd much prefer a video that does good lip syncing and meaning rather than FLASHY FLASHY SEIZURE TIME.
Pinstar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caY23bHsXqA
Hail to the Princess, Baby!
I thought the quick motion blurred transitions from scene to scene were nice, but the vectors flying about lacked the skill necessary to pull that sort of thing off. It was very basic motion tweening in after effects (I'm assuming AE, because I know AE can do everything in this video).
I also, personally, dislike the part at 2:03, with the video layers becoming a cube. I don't think it's a good idea to form it against a black background, it makes the viewer aware they are watching a video and disperses any immersion the video may create. Though I'm sure others may disagree.
Once the cube of video layers has formed with the Nightmare Moon segment, it works, but waiting for it to form is tedious, and as I said, immersion breaking. I get that there is a lull in the music, but I don't think it works.
It's not a bad PMV, it does have some merit, but Seth's post left me expecting more than this, to be honest. It's mostly the vectors that bring it down.
Perhaps the editing skills seemed impressive to me for the simple reason that I don't know the first thing about video editing. o_O Hmm..
I am also now wondering why they are each introduced along with a respective cupcake form.
hmmm
Intro vectors... Look a lot like my vectors used again...
You could at LEAST drop a note to pony about that y'know ¬.¬
http://fav.me/d41nylf for reference
FYI, I fixed the Rarity one lat week, she has fluting on her horn now.
Ponies....plus....PRODIGY?!
SO. AWESOME. :D
As soon as I saw it was invaders must die, I knew it would be epic. I was right. Seth- +1 internets for you for posting this as an individual PMV. +9001 internets for the guy who made this.
OMG! I made it to Equestria Daily! Thank you everybody for subbing to me! I made this video in Sony Vegas Pro 10 if anybody wants to know. It took about 2 weeks to finish and a total of 7 hours to render. At those who think the video is just vectors. It is. It's around 150 vectors moving independently throughout the entire video with a bunch of effects. If you want something better get my subs to 500.
As we say in the NAVY, this video is pure MOTO. (motovation) ;D
@Kybdi
Done and done, you has talent brony!
just make sure you give credit to other bronies if you did use any of their vectors
awesome vid.
I cannot stress how hilarious it is that Rarity was the Element of Marshmallow.
Prodigy is freakin' awesome and so is this video.
This was a nice PMV, but was it really necessary to insult people who make other types of PMVs in the intro post? I don't want the fandom to go down this road where doing a video "this" way is the "right" way and doing it "that" way is regarded as lesser or lazy or something. (Sidenote: lip syncing videos is not easy, it's a giant pain in the ass to do well.)
Some of my favorites animated music videos are ones that, yes, "only" have lip syncing and scenes from the show.--the PonyCraft 2, the Weird Al videos, and the Watchmen trailer, for example. Also, what style a person uses depends on what they're going for. Dramatic effects are great for some songs that mimic music videos in style (like this one or that almost seizure-inducing G3 video of "I'm Still a Rock Star"), but would be completely inappropriate and jarring for other songs.
@Kybdi
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"If you want something better get my subs to 500"? Really? :/ Make videos because you like to and feel inspired, dude. Video editing is an art like any other, something that comes from the heart, not just a thing to be held hostage in order to get something you want. The true measure of a work of art is its heart, not outwardly impressive numbers.
No offense, man, but while this video is technically impressive, I can't shake the feeling that it's emotionally dead, and your post here and the statements it implicitly makes about the craft of video editing is basically doing everything it can to convince me NOT to subscribe to you.
(I'm not fooling myself into thinking that this is going to have much effect, considering that I know very well that this is exactly the kind of thing that the masses tend to eat up... but still, after reading this post I just couldn't stay silent.)
I'm sorry that video was awesome but all I could think about was MLP + Duke Nukem = Confused(Me).
100 subs? not anymore
@Kybdi
Oh! You're the person that did Scootaquest! Awesome! Alright, consider yourself subscribed XD
Also, @Simplydone... Yeah, I'm right there with you...
Editing's nice, the whole thing... seems sort of pointless.
I agree with the people who didn't really like this, I've never been a fan of overly flashy vids which seem to be made just to show off a series of effects. Sure it may be impressive looking, but you're left thinking "What was the point?".
When I hear this song, it makes me think of Ender's Game.
>Seth thinking making vectors fly around and glow is harder than actual lip syncing.
Lol nope.
Gotta agree with the negative crowd here.
It just wasn't pleasing in the things I look for in a PMV.
For a minute I actually thought this was some sort of game or anime intro parody and that I just didn't know what it was myself. So in a way I'd call that a success for the creator.
Anyone who thinks that lip-sync videos are easy should try doing one sometime. It's a LOT harder than you'd think, but then, most crafts are easy if you're not the one actually doing them (and easier still if you have zero clue on how to do them).
Anyone who thinks that "one of every transition and overlay that my pirated copy of AfterEffects has" is "good" should take a film editing class sometime. Simple editing and transitions done correctly are absolutely superior to all flash and no skill. Hint hint: it's not the software, it's the person using it. You can do profesional-grade wonders with Movie Maker, ffmpeg, Virtual Dub, the Gimp, and Audacity if you know how to use those packages and the principles of video editing. CS5 will not save you if you don't.
And... don't diss the people who are sending in the submissions. That's just plain insulting and world-class stupid. ES's readers are here for the submissions, not the admin-snark, and being insulting is a good way to get people to not send submissions any more.
UGHH... Why does everyone hate on this for lack of lipsynching. The PMV does have lipsynching if any of you people payed attention. And though there was a lot of VFX they were implemented well enough and were timed almost perfectly.
@gamejunk88 No one said they hate it because it doesn't have any lip-synch, the comments about lip-synch were in response to what Seth said.
It is nice, but it seems to overuse some content. It is not that there is filter overuse, but that it gets booring watching still pictures spin around that much. And I feel that there was too many of those nice screen transitions. They were getting worn out by the end of the video.
Alexander, i love you forever for FINALLY finishing this <3
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