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Postby Argentumfeles » Sat Feb 08, 2003 6:14 am

Now, I watched some more vids out there... there are 2 things that in my newbie's opinion should never ever be done:

1. Showing characters 'talking' without making it a lipsynch. It takes you out of the rhythem.
2. Not showing any actions when the music becomes stronger or slower.

In my first AMV I explicitly did not do that. For instance fighting scenes become elevated when the music does, and I did my best not to pick scenes where the characters are talking because I still have no feel for lipsynch.

Do you guys think the same??
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Postby Cloud_bg » Sat Feb 08, 2003 11:50 am

I have watched many videos many times before start making my first movie video. I have also read some guides about exporting and editing.
Compared with others FIRST videos I think I dont have na major mistakes. The movie is bad but first AMV I think that it look quite well:

http://info.datacom.bg/Cloud/AMV/Cloud`s%20-%20Kiss%20from%20a%20rose.avi

If anyone want to see it.

I also want to see others first AMV I u still keep them post them here:))
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Postby SQ » Sun Feb 09, 2003 12:25 pm

My second AMV ever: Iria to "Devil's Mask" (techno music)

HUGE mistake: Using a camcorder to get the footage off the DVD, but leaving the subtitles on and recorded the top half of the TV and the wall. I'll get a screen shot some time soon. Boy is it ugly :lol:
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Postby SQ » Mon Feb 10, 2003 5:29 pm

And here it is in a nice animated gif. Make sure you look at the top. You can actually decipher what the stuff on top of the TV is!

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And if it doesn't appear here, I have this.
Just ignore all the text, it was automatic.
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Postby BishounenStalker » Mon Feb 10, 2003 5:40 pm

Holy crap! You weren't kidding! ::damns Tripod's lack of hotlinking::

That's nuts!
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Postby SQ » Mon Feb 10, 2003 7:09 pm

Yeah. So, for my first AMV that I wanted to show to people I made sure I was happy with it. ALL of it. So.. To me.. 100% downloaded footage (A Part fo FFIX) was WAY better then the top of a TV...

Kind of weird, though. My first AMV I didn't have any trouble with the top of the TV (it wasn't AS bad) but in my second one my hands must have gotten REALLY tired or something 0o
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Postby SQ » Mon Feb 10, 2003 9:27 pm

I now have a backup page in case the other one is suspended. Again, ignore all the dumb text, it's automatic and I'm too lazy to delete it all...

(This si to view th Gif that I made of the horrible camcorder mistake)

Ah, I'm only going to allow this to be up for a short while.. Willt ake it off on Valentine's Day... Because it's suspending all my sites now 0.o
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Postby V3n0m » Mon Feb 10, 2003 11:32 pm

Newb Mistake for me was using to many transitions... it looked like shit altogether i think
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Postby SQ » Tue Feb 11, 2003 3:55 pm

I'm in the process of teaching a firend, Raven(dunno what her screenname is here, she told me once, but I forgot ><) how to make AMVs. She made one of Ayashi no Ceres downloaded footage because her computer doesn't have a DVD-Rom. Aside from the subtitles, the song was set to "crawling" by Linkin Park, and it was really pretty good. But the thing that RUINED her video was the transitions. Oh man, she had like a transition for EVERY scene! She used so many weird transitions.. I mean.. I didn't even know premiere HAD that many.. I told Raven what I thought and she said "Oh, but most of them were from the show, and I like how they look."

Maybe I'm just one fo those people who don't find special transitions all the good. For my first AMV with Premiere I didn't use ANY transitions. Went heavy on moving credits, though. -sigh-
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Postby Wonka » Tue Feb 11, 2003 5:06 pm

Takeing my DivX source, compressing it useing the Indeo Codec set to 70%, editing, exporting using Indeo set to 70%, then compressing in TMPEG...... the horror..... oh the horror.
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Postby Leanan » Tue Feb 11, 2003 5:47 pm

This is my old way of creating footage:

rip dvd, use flaskmpeg with Indeo, export from premiere with Indeo, tmpeg. :? It looked like vhs
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Postby dokidoki » Tue Feb 11, 2003 8:30 pm

ShonenDizzyCow wrote:
Castor Troy wrote:Capturing in 15 fps, exporting in cinepak, and using Xing mpeg encoder.

This sounds almost like what I used to do 4-5 years ago.

Same here (15fps Cinepak), since that's all my P100 could handle in mid-'98.

I think the dumbest things were while making my Virus video. As I recall, the captures were done at 704x480, but I somehow managed to run out of HD space along the way, so the pictures for the text portions were done at 320x240, as was the end result. (I could redo them, but I don't feel like it)

Also I'm lazy and hadn't read the Premiere manual, so I put hundreds of images on the timeline and changed them to two frames in length by hand. I didn't know about the "import numbered stills" option. :)
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Postby Chaos Angel » Tue Feb 11, 2003 8:57 pm

There's an import numbered stills option?

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Postby dokidoki » Tue Feb 11, 2003 11:01 pm

Heh, yeah, but even for those without Premiere, recent versions of VirtualDub do it now.
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Postby TaranT » Wed Feb 12, 2003 12:12 am

dokidoki wrote:Heh, yeah, but even for those without Premiere, recent versions of VirtualDub do it now.


Will Premiere let you set the default duration (frames or sec's) of each numbered still?

The only time I used that option, it made each still 1-frame wide and I think it turned the whole batch into a single event; couldn't access each still. This was awhile ago. I'd try it now, but I don't have Premiere loaded anymore.
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