If memory serves correctly, I agree, there aren't that many vids that incorporate special effects and various synchings and such, and even fewer that take effort to develop that cohesively into their presentation. That said, several good videos have tight, solid, or creative editing, with some isolated special effects, and sometimes synching, but it's often just good editing, or special effects for the intro/outtro or for specific clips. I wish more vids spent time on thinking about that stuff, I think more cool ideas could come from it
So commenting purely on use of effects in creation and presentation...
take a look at Falcon by sigma, Ashes to Ashes a roy combo vid (good editing), Convictus a luxembourg collab combo vid, crazy little jungle (tech video), Eggstinction 1 & 2, the AXE effect, Perfect Dark a fox combo vid, Shadow Claw IV (great editing), So much style (mango) by sigma, TAI-tipping an ilusion (great music syncs), The minds of the amazing, Var-ious Aggresion (possibly the best edited melee vid ever) and watch the entire Starchaser series (amazing music, and some of the jankiest combos-ever)
hope this helps
Nice choices, I definitely like a lot of those vids myself, and their solid, typically creative editing too. #
Falcon by SigMa I like, and also
Ashes to Ashes: A Roy Combo Video by Sethlon.
So Much Style by SigMa is on my favorites list, but also probably because it's all clips of Mang0. My suggestion for another vid in this vein would be
Rule 6 NorCal Regional by Achilles, with its 90s video tape feel (the editor's first video too). There's a couple more on that list that have more flowing editing that I remember... though I hadn't really heard of Starchaser before, cool. I remember AriqueNuubs having some glow effects, but just more or less flowing... along very similar lines actually, Perfect Dark is definitely a great Fox video, but the effects are minimal I think, and it's also set to Sandstorm too.
As for specifically special effects and creative cuts, the
most effects I've seen done well in a video goes to an early Brawl video,
Enter The Triforce by Izaw. It's actually a tad effect-heavy, but oh well (plus it's brawl pshhhh). (There was also a Brawl vid before that that was one of the first vids to really implement the 'zoom-in' effect, and there were some other cool effects, and that was done by the editor for DBR, but Izaw's video was longer and done better.)
Technically, the Melee video Armada: The Beast Is Unleashed has the most 'effects' (production) in a smash video ever, but it's nearly half an hour long, and suffers from some major presentation/design flaws, so I don't recommend (for effects' sake - it's fine otherwise).
For Melee, one video that does effects well is
-French Fast Fallers- by Chikusho. I recommend.
For isolated effects, one recent video that has a couple tricks is
Pandemonium: A mini TAS Montage by Wak, starting around
1:15. Another sweet effect I saw... that actually may have just been a Melee hack, but looked sweet and tastefully done anyway... was turning
Falco's up+b blue in Ashes to Ashes.
I guess I can't really get around agreeing with Sixth-Sense, yeah, I think Varia-ous Aggression is probably the best edited melee vid ever, if I do say so myself
