Well, as for me, I love music videos in general and enjoy making my own. Who cares if there is a million of them - they all have different concepts behind them, and its hard to use different footage when there are only so many FMVs in a game. Its kind of like fanart - the characters are all the same, but the artists' interpretaion of said characters are all different. In fact, I recently made my own FF8 vid, but I never thought to post it here.

Now, Rampala, as for the video, I don't think it was all that bad. I loved your choice of music, and I think it went well with your footage of the floating Garden shots. Very haunting. I think that the transparent overlays worked well with the tone of the music, but I'd cut down on how often you use them - they began to lose their effect after awhile. As for storyline, I don't have a problem with you using battle images even if this is supposed to be a "romance" video - in fact the tone of music seemed to focus more on the struggles the couple overcame then complete mush. Therefore, battle scenes are appropriate. And no, there doesn't have to be a complex plot, although images shouldn't be completely random either. They should promote what sentiment you are trying to convey, and, as I interpreted it, the conflict which brought these two together was your theme. I got that impression really strongly in some parts of the clip but not others. When making your next one, I'd suggest starting with a theme and then asking yourself, when including each segment, "how is this contributing to my theme?" That should help a lot. As a whole, I found it enjoyable, and not a bad try for a new vid-maker. Good job.

If you wanna check out mine, tell me what ya think: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/memb...fo.php?v=31196