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Postby Silenkiller » Fri Aug 02, 2002 11:04 pm

Hello! My name is James. Well, I recently obtained adobe premier 6.. (piracy baby) :twisted: lol.. anyways, so, ive been tinkering with the program for a while, and ive come to the point where i see that you have to drag and drop clips to the video timeline... 8) ok.. well, where the hell do i get the clips ?frames? to put there? :?: I hear about getting dvd's and "Captureing" the video.. ehm :shock: .. how the hell do i do that? What program captures it?

Yes, if there is some help tutorial that explains this, please, can i get a url to the location? Im not looking for a personal tutor or for anyone to whipe my ass for me, i just want to be pointed in the right direction. :D

Im not really looking to be flamed for this.. :D hmm.. 50 bucks says im flamed.. :cry:
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Postby alternatefutures » Fri Aug 02, 2002 11:20 pm

Well, you'll be flamed for admiting to software piracy, as you should be, considering a-m-v.org does not condone that behavior. Now, as for your question, read the many and wonderful guides on this site and you will find the answers you seek. (Go to the menu and click the link that says, oddly enough, "Guides")
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Postby trythil » Sat Aug 03, 2002 12:10 am

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Who needs flames when you have nukes?

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Seriously, though, I've stated my position on software piracy elsewhere -- go search the forums. And read the guides.

It might also help you to read

http://www.aluminumstudios.com/digitalvideo/index.html
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Postby Silenkiller » Sat Aug 03, 2002 1:35 am

Heh.. ok, thank you.. lol.. i sure bet adobe is CRYING over their massave loss from me not buying their program for 550.00.. lmao..
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Postby trythil » Sat Aug 03, 2002 1:50 am

It's not so much the loss of Adobe's profit that concerns me, but rather the fact that piracy gives governments an excuse to clamp down on our rights. And God knows they don't need another excuse, manufactured or real.

That, and proprietary software is meant to be bought; if you don't like it, don't use it. You can use free (as in free speech and free beer) software, too.
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Postby Silenkiller » Sat Aug 03, 2002 2:51 am

Well, ive been reading most the things on this site.. (still have yet to find where it explains how to pull frames out of a dbz ep) and ive come to the conclusion that man.. this is insainly complicated! I mean, im so blown away by all these tech terms and advanced crap that im finding myself lost while im reading these things. Is it really that complicated or am i just to stupied to understand all this?
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Postby Silenkiller » Sat Aug 03, 2002 2:52 am

By the way.. ive never ever done anything (other than watch) with any type of multimedia (unless paint counts..) :D
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Postby trythil » Sat Aug 03, 2002 3:31 am

If you take the time to seriously sit down and read the material -- perhaps pull out a few references here and there -- learning basic DV definitions and techniques really isn't much different from any other activity.

The advanced stuff is just that -- advanced -- but once you get past the basic definitions you'll find that those topics really aren't too bad either. You'll also find that, given the advancement of the technology of DV tools, the amount of time you'll spend directly fussing with such things will decrease. (Though this is no excuse for not knowing about such topics.)

But if you just want to rip some frames from a DBZ episode, read the Guides.
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Postby Silenkiller » Sat Aug 03, 2002 3:44 am

Alright. I found a manual for the program and im reading it now. Jesus, this stuff seems like its gotta be insainly time consuming... still, its worth it. Thanks for the help.
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Postby trythil » Sat Aug 03, 2002 3:46 am

Let me expound on some of that:

In my experience, the "advanced" stuff, while it is important to know, really doesn't come into play unless you notice that there is something obviously very, very wrong with the sources that you're editing.
If the red and blue components of the video you're editing are swapped, that's pretty easy to fix; if the video is vertically flipped, that's pretty easy too. If you're getting funky frame problems like flicker, that's a good indication that (1) you didn't deinterlace or (2) you have frame-rate mismatch problems. Both problems, thankfully, are relatively easy to fix thanks to modern DV tools, even though there's a number of ways to fix them.

And so on.

So don't worry. DV really isn't that bad if you don't let it be that way.
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Postby Silenkiller » Sat Aug 03, 2002 4:47 am

trythil wrote:Let me expound on some of that:

In my experience, the "advanced" stuff, while it is important to know, really doesn't come into play unless you notice that there is something obviously very, very wrong with the sources that you're editing.
If the red and blue components of the video you're editing are swapped, that's pretty easy to fix; if the video is vertically flipped, that's pretty easy too. If you're getting funky frame problems like flicker, that's a good indication that (1) you didn't deinterlace or (2) you have frame-rate mismatch problems. Both problems, thankfully, are relatively easy to fix thanks to modern DV tools, even though there's a number of ways to fix them.

And so on.

So don't worry. DV really isn't that bad if you don't let it be that way.



lol.. this is gonna sound lame.. but man, im like wha..

ok, whats deinterlace? and what is this.. red and blue components of the video ? lol.. and im guessing DV means digital video?
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Postby jbone » Sat Aug 03, 2002 10:52 am

That's why you need to read up on this stuff and lean more, killer. :-)
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Postby Wonka » Sat Aug 03, 2002 5:30 pm

alternatefutures wrote:Well, you'll be flamed for admiting to software piracy, as you should be, considering a-m-v.org does not condone that behavior. Now, as for your question, read the many and wonderful guides on this site and you will find the answers you seek. (Go to the menu and click the link that says, oddly enough, "Guides")


Oh shut up. He posted a simple honest statement not trying to insult anyone and you come back with an abrasive and sarcastic remark just to show how much of a tough guy you are by starting shit with the new guy. Lemme tell you how cool that shit is, and how much we all think you are just "the man" for conducting yourself in this manner.
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Postby mexicanjunior » Sat Aug 03, 2002 5:34 pm

Wonka wrote:
alternatefutures wrote:Well, you'll be flamed for admiting to software piracy, as you should be, considering a-m-v.org does not condone that behavior. Now, as for your question, read the many and wonderful guides on this site and you will find the answers you seek. (Go to the menu and click the link that says, oddly enough, "Guides")


Oh shut up. He posted a simple honest statement not trying to insult anyone and you come back with an abrasive and sarcastic remark just to show how much of a tough guy you are by starting shit with the new guy. Lemme tell you how cool that shit is, and how much we all think you are just "the man" for conducting yourself in this manner.


Violent Wonka emerges!!! :lol: BTW, the fat guy on the road trip with us already called shotgun. =P
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Postby klinky » Sat Aug 03, 2002 5:38 pm

No this is a classic case of someone doing something they have no idea about and of course not investigating before they DOWNLOAD their illegal software, and then expect us to bail them out.

It's like saying "Iam a idiot who downloads stuff I have no intention of learning how to use.."


:roll:

Sometimes you're on your own...

Basically I wouldn't even be capturing in Premiere, I'd use a program like VirtualDub. Second, does he even have a capture card in the machine? He's better off getting a DVD drive and some anime DVDs? For that matter will he blather about how he got HK DVDs real cheap off of eBay.

Now go ahead and pirate all you want, it's just any monkey with half a brain can do it and it's not really something everyone wants here about. Kinda like if you had a friend who deals with hookers and drugs, somethings are better left to the imagination.




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