Be My Friend - Final Fantasy VIII AMV

This video is a first for me in two areas; it is the my first attempt at a romance video as well as the first time I used Full Motion Video from a video game, rather than anime footage.

I was lucky in that a friend of mine gave me a copy of FF8 for the PC after seeing my Seifer cosplay. The FMV was pretty easy to rip from the game CDs and was in 640x480 format, rather than the PS1's 320x240. This gave me considerably better source to work with.

One of the main challenges of this video was that there wasn't a lot of sentimental romantic moments to work with. I used some layering and in a few places used action clips in order to move the video along.

I really debated about some of the special effects. In a few places they may have ended up being more distracting, but I also wanted them to be consistent.

In the end, I hope I conveyed a sense of romance/sentimentality in this video. I'm really curious if I was successful, please let me know what you think...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• AMV
• Anime
• Music
• Video
• Final
• Fantasy
• Eight
• FF8
• Sia
• Breathe
• Me
• Studio
• Hybrid

[Treefox]

Omg, you did this song (and game) justice. I love you. Great video!! Can I ask what editing program you used?

[Kagatoamv]

I do all of my video editing in Final Cut Pro on the Mac.

I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

[Kobocha]

WOW! Another very well done AMV! So great!

The song kinda had to grow on me(wasn't digging it at first) but I really liked it by the end~

Awesome FF VIII love~ <3

(Five stars~<3)

[Elvendur]

squall is a emo loser who is unfit for leadership.

now, saying that:

i loved FFVIII, but vii beats it hands down :P

[andytheanimefreak]

Ok first thing you took the best game in the world...second the love between Squall and Rinoa is nothing short of breath taking...and that song fits perfect...wow thank you for bringing this beautiful video to us all 5/5.

[RedShenDragon]

God I love that game, most people hate it for the reason I love it... the LOVE! come on geeks can show love, let it out like me you'll feel better!

[AmayaSauda100]

^^ Never heard of this song..it sounds so unique. :3 lol in a good way. ^^ I think it goes well with the footage. =D

I've never played the game either =[...they're love truly seemed "tragic"..;-; how sad.

~Zanny

[dracossaint07]

ok i wana say this now

u have insppired me to try harder then ver on my amv's.honestily i hate all my amv's but if uw ana look anyway ur welcome to anyway.also write poetry too,yet i hate that too even though ive won editors choise to yr's running for iternationakl society of poets.ironic eh?

[trifanfool]

the love is tragic XD

[KatDrama]

so sad!  I've never played FF8 so I have no clue about the storyline, but your made it seem like there love was so tragic

[IchibanCourtesan]

I love this video (and all your videos, really). It's really well made and the song is so pretty. Plus, FF8 doesn't get enough love :D.

[IsrafelMNG]

It makes me sad that I missed this at ALA. I couldn't go. However, this year I can so hopefully I'll see one of your amvs there!