FINALS: Phamus vs Darkshadow

[Nager]

Okay great^^ i can't wait :3

[Phamus]

Best Of Phamus

[MxZz.]

Grr, Pompilio! Not pimpilio. <:

what an epic edit you did there. You're definitely in my fav editors now.

[Tg]

holy shit.. that was awesome!!! awesome editing!

[Syny]

Fucking loved both entries 
Good luck boys.

[AristoCracKeD]

Both of the Entries were fuckin epic !

[PtRvY]

A tight finale - doubt we have ever seen a more exciting round-off in SA ETs before. (Except maybe the showdown between iCy and myself 2 years ago... good times).

In my honest opinion D4rksh4doW has the edge here and has been a little more consistent throughout the tournament, so my vote would go to him if I was a judge. However, Phamus has made a hell of a breakthrough on his own too.

So, my sincere congratulations to both of you, for proving once again that we should never underestimate the less known editors. Well done... well done.

[Kukiel]

Darkshadow:
First of your trailer. Little intro of it was great. All effects were really awesome too. It was fast and exciting... and nothing like trailer. You showed a few stunts and that's it. Don't get me wrong, as a separate entry, it would be neat. But considering the fact it was meant to be a trailer to an actually entry it was a little off challenge.
Now, getting to your final entry. I actually loved the fact you somehow manged to put together entry with trailer, creating this short intro. It really was a nice touch. And then, fast-paced editing part - mind blowing. It was truly amazing. I loved the twitching and fast, black flashes. It must have taken a fuckload of time to do. Good camera works as well. I dislike usage of text (lyrics) in editing but it was minor flow. The fact you used that computer generated text just like you did in trailer, added to resemblance yet again. Now, the calm part. Great camera works, lovely looking sun, well picked soundtrack. A pleasure to watch. Ever since 2:50 though, you did one thing I can't really understand. You used this effect (simple velocity i suppose), that makes everything look smooth and a bit fast. But it doesn't fit the track at all. Also the very ending seems rushed, like you ran out of ideas. Thankfully, the song makes it actually quite reasonable to do that.
Overall, quite disappointing trailer, especially since no stunts from trailer were used in actual video. Solid entry though, that started out fairly amazing and ended a bit oddly. But editing itself was pretty damn awesome.

Phamus:
Now, that's a proper trailer. It certainly lacked some excitment at the end but it was kept in trailer-fashion. Good camera works, everything fits with the song. Good start.
The entry. A bit cliche of an opening with those quotes but it builds some tension, making you want to view the rest. Fast-paced part was quite enjoyable. I disliked two things about it. You used daytime and made camera works a bit too close to the player. Darkshadow used nighttime in his entry and it fits this type of editing better in my opinion. Also, he managed to make exiting editing while keeping camera works clear. Next, you did this videogame type of thing. It was awesome. Really, at first I thought it would be pretty cheap but it turned out just great. Something fresh and outside the box. Very nice touch. The calm part. It was nice. I really enjoyed a little beach intro, looked great. That part was a bit boring at some points, camera works were again a bit unclear at times but in general it was very cool. Then there was that short, third part. Nighttime! But camera works, well you know. It was nice but boy, did I expect an explosion of editing after the "Best of Phamus" text. Outro had this really nice quality. I loved the background generator and the font too. The text itself was not to my taste, very cliche. But I'm not the one to judge that.
That was some fine editing. Trailer as well as entry. Just like darkshadow, you made ending of the video a bit boring but still, thanks to great previous parts I can say with all honesty that it was really awesome.

Congratulations to you both, you made it to the final and you proved that you're some of the best editors on this forum. I'm really glad you both put a lot of heart into this final piece of tournament. It's really difficult to pick a winner. I'll go with the one I think did better job in editing matter. My vote goes to Darkshadow, as he seems to have excellent taste in editing. But your entry was almost equally awesome Phamus. Good job both of you!

[Nager]

Best Of Phamus

Oh god! Phamus, i really really Love your edit  One of my Favorite Editors from now! ^^

//Edit: Thanks Kukiel

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Belive me or not, I have exactly the same opinion as Kukiel, it's not because I'm lazy as shit to write I'll just change some of the words with mines with red

Darkshadow:
First of your trailer. Little intro of it was great. All effects were really awesome too. It was fast and exciting... and nothing like trailer. You showed a few stunts and that's it. Don't get me wrong, as a separate entry, it would be neat. But considering the fact it was meant to be a trailer to an actually entry it was a little off challenge.
Now, getting to your final entry. I actually loved the fact you somehow manged to put together entry with trailer, creating this short intro. It really was a nice touch. And then, fast-paced editing part - mind blowing. It was truly amazing. I loved the twitching and fast, black flashes. It must have taken a fuckload of time to do. Good camera works as well. I dislike usage of text (lyrics) in editing but it was minor flow. I fucking loved that, and the pacman eating CJ was funny as fuck The fact you used that computer generated text just like you did in trailer, added to resemblance yet again. Now, the calm part. Great camera works, lovely looking sun, well picked soundtrack. A pleasure to watch. Ever since 2:50 though, you did one thing I can't really understand. You used this effect (simple velocity i suppose), that makes everything look smooth and a bit fast. But it doesn't fit the track at all. Also the very ending seems rushed, like you ran out of ideas. Thankfully, the song makes it actually quite reasonable to do that. Maybe a good ending would've been awesome with some angles all over the city, like with a night time and the daytime as you did in all the parts, just my opinion
Overall, quite disappointing trailer, especially since no stunts from trailer were used in actual video.For me it was good that he didn't used the same stunts as in the trailer, I don't really know I suppose it's because the ethic between trailer and final entry, because if he used the same stunts as in the trailer (since they were already kind of fully shown) it would've been boring as hell. Solid entry though, that started out fairly amazing and ended a bit oddly. But editing itself was pretty damn awesome.

Phamus:
Now, that's a proper trailer. It certainly lacked some excitment at the end nah it fucking rocked but it was kept in trailer-fashion. Good camera works, everything fits with the song. Good start.
The entry. A bit cliche of an opening with those quotes but it builds some tension, making you want to view the rest. Fast-paced part was quite enjoyable. I disliked two things about it. You used daytime and made camera works a bit too close to the player. Darkshadow used nighttime in his entry and it fits this type of editing better in my opinion. Also, he managed to make exiting editing while keeping camera works clear. Next, you did this videogame type of thing. It was awesome. Really, at first I thought it would be pretty cheap but it turned out just great. Something fresh and outside the box. Very nice touch. The calm part. It was nice. I really enjoyed a little beach intro, looked great. That part was a bit boring at some points, camera works were again a bit unclear at times but in general it was very cool. Then there was that short, third part. Nighttime! But camera works, well you know. It was nice but boy, did I expect an explosion of editing after the "Best of Phamus" text. Outro had this really nice quality. I loved the background generator and the font too. The text itself was not to my taste, very cliche. But I'm not the one to judge that.
That was some fine editing. Trailer as well as entry. Just like darkshadow, you made ending of the video a bit boring but still, thanks to great previous parts I can say with all honesty that it was really awesome.

Congratulations to you both, you made it to the final and you proved that you're some of the best editors on this forum. I'm really glad you both put a lot of heart into this final piece of tournament. It's really difficult to pick a winner. I'll go with the one I think did better job in editing matter. My vote goes to Darkshadow, as he seems to have excellent taste in editing. But your entry was almost equally awesome Phamus. Good job both of you!
I would just say fuck it and let's go and search some cheap slutts, but I will choose PHAMUS!!1!!4
I think he has the biggest potential over here, tons of ideas, lovely taste in songs and a great skills in eveything. I feel really sad about not choosing drakshadow, since he also seems to be the same as phamus, a great taste in songs, awesome editing skills and not even forgetting these little touches that you both gave to your vids, like computering coding shit in DS' entry or the big variety of CC's in phamus entry.

Great job to both of you, your race till this place was nothing easy and I see you will both success in eveything you are going to do, both have potential, motivation and a godlike skills and you shall not waste 'em. Love you guys xoxo

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fuck shit this post..

[XTO --]

Sorry guys, I had no internet for a whole week (RAWRWARAWR)

I'll edit in a sec with my vote. Also happy birthday to me

[MxZz.]

Sorry guys, I had no internet for a whole week (RAWRWARAWR)

I'll edit in a sec with my vote. Also happy birthday to me

AND YOU COME BACK ONLY FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY?!?!

Happy Birthday!

[XTO --]

Now that's a fucking tough match D:

Darkshadow:
To begin with the trailer. Well, there were a few downs. The fact that you showed the stunts from the beggining to the end wasn't a good idea, nor the fact that you didn't use the stunts from the proper entry itself. But still, it had a trailer feeling [atmosphere]. Was good, but I would change a couple of things there.

As for the entry, oh well, it was pretty amazing. As a whole, it was quite exciting and good-looking, specially the fast-paced part. Camera works were cool, I liked the "freeplay" touch in it, but it could've been less used. Some of the unique effects and particles created were well-fitting and some others did not. The part that Kukiel mentioned, fast black flashes with cromatic aberration and blurs were flawless.

As for the atmospheres:
Calm - Could've been better. The excessive usage of freeplay angles were a let-down; good, but not perfect.
Fast-paced - Perfect. It had no failures IMO. Great camera works and colors.
Third part - Same atmosphere as the calm one, but looked WAYY better because of the actual camera work, instead of freeplay usage.


Phamus:
As for the trailer, that would be something I'd do. I really enjoyed it, and the few bad aspects of it are not worth of mentioning.
The beggining of your video was Cliche, as Kukiel said; But I don't really care about that, since you made it up in the main part of your entry. The first part was unique. Filled with different mixtures of effects and maskings. Pretty awesome AND good-looking. Camera works were pretty decent. A few lazy angles here and there, though, but nethertheless it had more pros than cons. Second part was good + it was better than Darkshadows for the camera aspects I mentioned in the other part of the review. It had more cameraworks [and quite good ones] than Freeplay stuff. It was a really eye-pleasing outcome. Not much to add, the color corrector was good, the camera works were good and the lack of effects fitted the song you picked for that. As for the last part, you returned to the excitement it was before. It was a nice 'comeback' to the original fast-paced style. The colors were pretty awesome and good looking. Overall, it had the same feeling as the first part, so I don't have much to add.


Overall: Darkshadow and Phamus gave us the best match in the tournament. It was really awesome to watch both entries and see the best of you both. Despite the whole issues to get those done, you did a really awesome job.

Unfortunately we can't pick both of you, even if I wanted. For that reason, I'm voting for Darkshadow. His entry, despite the not really good trailer, was pretty awesome. A few more bad aspects than Phamus', but he did include some additional stuff that -after watching his entry- I missed in Phamus' entry.

I wish you both the best of luck now that you built yourselves a name among our community and I honestly hope you both succeed iin case you decide to go pro. You surely have the capabilities to do so.

Good job to both of you. You did awesome and killer stuff!!

[Nager]

Thanks XTO