Talk about something to be looking foward to.
When making a combo vid. Does it kinda, you know, take up too much time? From like finding music, collecting clip, adding clips, editing and what not.
Never made a vid, so i'm just asking.
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Mm well I didn't have much help making mine (I lied, Scar told me to use good combos and good music and skler said no clips over 10 seconds unless it is continuous hits).
The hardest part about making a combo video is having the clips (imo). You can constantly be thinking about what to put in it in terms of music but editing and sequence and synching the clips to the music requires clips -__-
My advice, again, is to mass all your clips onto one file (I used iMovie so I was constantly dragging matches in, cutting out the combo and then deleting everything else). I had about 8 minutes worth of combos before I started. I was fiddling around though and had some idea as to what I wanted to go where, but then I decided to make a second copy and mass all the clips on the time line (so I could see how many minutes of combos I had).
Deciding music wasn't hard for me, from what I've seen, syncing it up isn't a necessity, but it's a plus. I had to sacrifice some syncing for syncing of another part. Pick a song that you like but isn't very repetitive. Repetition is why I didn't use a house track for my second song, house music is about the beat and dancing, not quick jabs and changes, even though Tavern is house, it's a good exception.
When it comes time to edit, time is proportional to how much you synchronize. A few times I didn't sync and just lay clips down and it took no time at all. Other times though, finding the .1 seconds needed for syncing was an atrocious ordeal. When clipping a combo I suggest you take to much and then cut down when you're trying to fit it.
Another thing I had in mind when making and this is some good advice is put enough time into this. I realized that if I make another combo video soon (another one of my Link), like within 1-6 months, I might as well have either A) waited for what ever combos I would be using for the second video and put them in the first or B) spent that time on making the first one better. There's no rule but don't post your video and then a month later post another one because you have more combos, just put more time into the first video.
ALSO: When making a second combo video, chances are (if you follow the above advice) you will be better because a lot of time has passed between making your last video. I feel like Skler should make another video because every time we play, he just combos me. He doesn't do anything else (like cuddle afterward). What I mean is that, although his combo video is ****, he could make a better one cause he's better. But why explain all of this? Because I feel like when you sit down to make another combo video, you shouldn't be using old combos from the era of the first one.
tl;dr - Incinerate all combos from the first combo video, whether you used them or not. Newer combos (you can see this in my video, first clip and a later clip on a falcon on FD compared to everything with the tag SPifE) will be better then older. I'll break this though, a few **** combos now are getting in I assure you.
A guideline I tried to stick to was to only include combos that didn't show me ****ing up (to bad, if the idea was there but I missed it I kept it), show combos that have an end (don't pop them up and then cut cause you messed up on the follow up, just don't include that combo or cut it sooner), and show combos of 50% damage. I tried to keep it to 0%-Kill% (anywhere from 50-100 really) or till death, assuming it was a combo.
One more, try not to have your opponents sucking to much. It's one thing if they miss a tech and you punished it, but if they consecuatively miss common things (teching, wavedashes and l-cancels) then they're not very good or playing poorly.
This gets into worth of the players you're comboing though and I told myself that it's a combo video, its' you ****** other people. You could show computers, if you're ****** them, but no one wants to see that.
All of that came out of having a combo in which I was 4 stocking my friend and only had 22%, can I include that in this combo video? Maybe, but I didn't want people putting 2 and 2 together and realizing that my friend was not that good, suicided a lot or was sandbagging so I could combo better (he was just bad, I assure you).
MOre story! So then I went on to think, "Well if he's not good enough, then who IS good enough? PC Chris? I don't play him, but I do play a bunch of good people from time to time but dont' combo them..." Anyhoo to cut this short and reiterate, it doesn't really matter who you're comboing as long as your audience can't pinpoint their skill some how.
Also, when you think you're done, don't post it, cause you might have missed something (I would change a few things if I could, but I'm to lazy to).
You asked a few question and you got a guide. I overwrite way to much -_-
