by BishounenStalker » Wed Feb 05, 2003 3:45 pm
Well, I technically wouldn't call this stupid piece my first AMV...it was more like just playing with downloaded Eva footage and a Wierd Al song to get a feel for how Premiere worked. And yes, it turned out awful. No transitions, crappy pixelled footage, HORRID lipsynch (don't ask me why I bothered), really bad MP3 sound encoding, and an enormous file size.
For my first real serious AMV, the three major mistakes I made were 1) ripping the FF7 videos in Cinepak (worst .avi codec ever written) and REOMPRESSING them with the same damn codec for the "final" cut, 2) layering fullscreen scenes over the ending sequence footage without clipping it, and thus magnifying the black bar distraction (if you've seen the end of FF7, you know what I mean), and 3) no compression whatsoever of the audio. When I look at the original version, I laugh at myself it's so bad.
To me, there isn't much wrong with using uber-high-quality DivX source, especially if you don't have the hard drive space to support all HuffyUV source clips (I'm only going to have about 15GB on the new laptop I'm getting, so I'll have to use either DivX or MPEG-1 source clips). The only problem I ran into with that is that Premiere HATES the combo of DivX source and pre-made transitions. But I easily solved that problem on my second AMV by using the rubberbands for fades (which look cooler anyway).
-- Rachel the Demon, Resident Quoter of Obscure Nostalgia
"Great. He can pick his teeth when he's done with us!" - Marina,
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