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Well now we're going into a
very new world, the one of alchemy from Fullmetal Alchemist! It's new
because this isn't your average series about magic and monsters... Licensed
by FUNimation in 2004 and aired on Cartoon Network [Adult Swim] in 2005,
it's now available on DVD too, but the otaku fans could already know all
the series thanks to the fansub community. The anime, composed of 51 episodes,
is an adaptation from Hiromu Arakawa's manga of the same title, still
ongoing in Japan, and got a sequel "Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror
of Shambala" (alternative title "Hagaren - The Movie"),
premiered in Japan on 2005/07/21 and winner of the 5th Tokyo Anime Award
(Animation Of The Year). Let's see what can we offer here on Dragon Ball
Arena...
by Veggie
People cannot gain anything without sacrificing something.
You must present something of equal value to gain something...
That is the principle of equivalent trade in alchemy.
Then we thought that everything followed this rule.
Fullmetal
Alchemist - The Story
This is a series that will inevitably keep viewers hooked from beginning
to end, because of its web of eerie revelations and mysteries. In the
storyline a major element is Alchemy, a science of manipulating substance
and changing it to another. But this manipulating process doesn't come
without a cost, because alchemy operates on the theory of equivalent trade:
you must present something of equal value to gain something...
This is the place where our protagonists, the young brothers Edward and
Alphonse Elric, come into play. At an early age their father goes away
and leaves their mom Trisha alone to take care of those two little boys.
When they lose their mom too to a rare illness, Al and Ed attempt to bring
her back using the most forbidden of alchemic practices: the Human Transmutation.
But they fail and the price is very high because Edward loses his left
leg and Alphonse his entire body... Ed is able to graft Al's soul to a
huge suit of armor at the cost of his arm. Years later, Edward, outfitted
with two new metal limbs (that's the reason he'll soon be known everywhere
as the "Fullmetal Alchemist") and Alphonse, still sealed into
the armor, embark on a journey to find the legendary Philosopher's Stone,
an artifact that is rumored will increase its possessor's power and can
reduce the cost to manipulate objects greatly.
So, the two brothers, with their absolute and unwavering reciprocal love,
carry on searching for the stone that can restore Ed's limbs and reunite
Al's soul and body...
by Veggie
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Nostromo_vx
nostromo@xost.fr.st
Note by the author
For this AMV I decided to try working with motion blur associated
with lip sync to make it looks very natural. The hardest part was
to find the right scenes to mix this techno song and a quite serious
anime in order to make it really fun and original and I've put quite
a bit of work to get all the timing and flow right. I also used
different motion effect to give the AMV a much more 3D feel and
to kept up the high impact mood of the vid.
Please submit your opinion at
www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=67050
(where you cand find the HQ version in Avi DivX format 2200 Kbps
of the vid)
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High Res Music video
640 x 480 - 1100 Kbps
Title: FMA - Always Hardcore
Artist/Band: Scooter
Song: One (Always Hardcore) LYRICS
Footage: Fullmetal Alchemist
Size: 30,4 MB
Time: 3:35
Player: Windows Media Player (AVI DivX format)
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Codec DivX 6.5.1
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zeugma440 zeugmaonline@hotmail.com
Note by the author
My personal 'ambition' on this one was to release a thrilling (i.e.
not boring) instrumental AMV while getting back to the action genre.
"Of Human Ambition and Divine Power" has been my biggest
project so far. The dates don't mean anything since I had been obliged
to stop working on it because of schoolwork. Just consider speedwatching
51 episodes with virtualDub and browsing through 388 selected excerpts
during each editing session! :)
Before starting the main editing job (i.e. after working on the
transmutation FX that you have seen in the trailer), I have taken
some time to study and learn from successful videos. I have identified
several "rules" that one has to apply to get a sexy footage.
Those rules in mind, and my epic idea in ind, I started to build
the video, not step by step, but more like a jigsaw puzzle made
of images, feelings and sounds.
You'll see that the AMV is more or less divided in two parts. Here
are a few comments on how they have been made.
- Part 1 -
In other words, the Miracle. This part is more like an extended
version of the teaser, with a fast-paced rhythm and an epic soundtrack.
I wanted to show one of the most important sides of the anime :
all that the stone has triggered, because of the humans' twisted
ambitions.
I have tried to keep the messages as short as they are evocative,
the images as intense as the building up symphonic climax.
- Part 2 -
Part 2 starts with a release of tension. As a mysterious atmosphere
builds up, Edward remembers who he has become, and prepares for
confrontation.
This is a more 'traditional' footage, with several innuendos referring
to the series storyline. FX usage follow a crescendo, starting from
blunt crossfadings to a complex "assimilation" effect!
:)
The whole AMV has taken approximately 20 hours to make (without
counting the time spent in extracting scenes from the series), using
VirtualDub, Vegas Video 3.0, Corel Photo-Paint and Nero Wave Editor.
Please submit your opinion at
www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=65763
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High Res Music video
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Title: Of Human Ambition and Divine Power
Artist/Band: Yasunori Mitsuda
Song 1: Omega
Song 2: The Miracle
From: Xenosaga OST
Footage: Fullmetal Alchemist
Size: 36,1 MB
Time: 4:28
Player: Windows Media Player (AVI DivX format)
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Codec DivX 6.5.1
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Kiarrens Riikos_Knives@hotmail.com
Note by the author
Disclaimer: I would like to start by saying that I made a vow when
I began making AMVs NEVER to make a Linkin Park video, regardless
of how much I enjoy their music. However, I was searching for an
appropriate song for Fullmetal Alchemist and happened across "Somewhere
I Belong" in my audio files... and I knew that the vow must
be broken. The song fits Edward-kun perfectly. This being said,
I realized that I'd have to make the video as good as it possibly
could be to counter-act the overuse of LP, hence I've spent well
over a hundred hours on this video.
The first incarnation of the video I finished in about 10 hours,
then tried to export. It wouldn't work. I discovered that because
half of the fansubs I was using to edit were XviD encodes, the B-frame
decoder lag was at work, and none of the clips I had used from episodes
1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 16 would export. I gave up on the video
as a lost cause for about a week, then decided that it was just
too good to give up on and began re-encoding all the XviD episodes
as DivX. I realized that this would result in quality loss but decided
that it was worth the risk. (All subtitles were cropped out using
the crop line of AVS script.)
After a good 10 hours of encoding, I was ready to replace all the
clips I had previously used with the nex DivX ones. This took another
5 or 6 hours. Then began the process of refining and re-drafting.
I also found that the version of the song I was previously using
was awful quality, so after searching our entire campus for someone
with the CD (unsuccessfully) I drove to Newbury Comics and picked
up a copy. I'm chalking up the 16$ as a reasonable expense. ^^
Many, MANY thanks are in order to DOKool, who watched versions 1-5
of this video and pushed me to make it better each time. He also
helped me immeasurably with the "scratched" section of
the song, which I found that I just couldn't read.
I also nearly had a mental breakdown when I realized that my FPS
settings in premiere were incorrect, and that I was editing in a
different fps than the video files I was using. Finally, after countless
hours, two moments of near insanity, and 5 drafts, I feel that this
video is ready to be put up for download. I hope that you enjoy
it, please leave an opinion and let me know if you do - or don't!
^^
Please submit your opinion at
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High Res Music video
352 x 240 - 1100 Kbps
Title: Alchemist's Trade
Artist/Band: Linkin Park
Song: Somewhere I Belong LYRICS
Footage: Fullmetal Alchemist
Size: 33,0 MB
Time: 4:01
Player: Windows Media Player (MPEG format)
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Fuze fuze824@gmail.com
Note by the author
In this video I tried to show Ed and Al's mistakes done in the series
(example: transmuting their mom). I also tried to show how Ed felt
"guilty" about putting his brothers soul into a suit of
armor and how Al felt empty inside about not remember how he was
when he was human.
In this video I used different effects as you may notice. There
were mainly 3 new effects. One which I used at the beginning and
through most of the vid where 1/4 of the video showed that matched
with the piano keys. The second is where the screen zoomed in and
shaked. The third were the cut-outs. Enjoy! ^_^
Please submit your opinion at
www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=91185
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High Res Music video
464 x 352 - 1200 Kbps
Title: Guilty - Remake
Artist/Band: The Rasmus
Song: Guilty LYRICS
Footage: Fullmetal Alchemist
Size: 37 MB
Time: 3:46
Player: Windows Media Player (AVI XviD format)
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