Newbies: How to make your first AMV

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Postby Righteous_Pugs » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:15 am

hey guys, I was wandering, since yall are all so 'mature' in the amv workings, Why don't people use slow songs for there amv's, it just looks like people who have done so have done good but a very few have acually done so. I was thinking of doing a song with a slow pace and just wanted to know if it was a good idea.
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Postby Scintilla » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:22 am

Righteous_Pugs wrote:hey guys, I was wandering, since yall are all so 'mature' in the amv workings, Why don't people use slow songs for there amv's, it just looks like people who have done so have done good but a very few have acually done so. I was thinking of doing a song with a slow pace and just wanted to know if it was a good idea.

As long as you can match the pace of the scenes and editing to the pace of the song, I don't see why not.
(And by that I mean don't use things like high-energy fighting scenes and lots of fast cuts. Basically just common sense.)

Just use a <i>good</i> slow song, so you don't land in the "the audience is now asleep" category. :wink:
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:29 am

I actually found it infinitely harder working with a slow song than fast songs. Though I should clarify that it's not all slow songs that are technically hard; it's the ones where there's no well-defined rhythm section (straight-cut bass and drum beats). Mood-wise, it's just a bit tougher because you'll generally be using slower, longer cuts to the choice of which the audience will pay more attention. But, as with any vid, it's all a matter of good planning and/or good on-the-spot creative and technical thinking.

Anyways, look around, there's plenty of slow videos that have been done.
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Postby WanderingWombat » Mon May 02, 2005 12:54 pm

I'll take that challenge.

Yes, I am rife with n00bity, but I am a quick learner, and have about 50 albums withsongs I'd like to see done as AMV's.
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Postby Deadeye100101 » Wed May 04, 2005 1:50 pm

hey i am trying to make a music video for a computer class. I have to use widows movie maker and i was wundering if there is a person that can help me out. for there help i will do something like pay them. So if some one could help id apreaceat it.
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Postby Deadeye100101 » Wed May 04, 2005 2:01 pm

Never mind
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Slow Amvs

Postby SharinganKakashi0 » Wed May 04, 2005 11:33 pm

Im no expert on slow ones but if you would like to talk to someone who does some slow beat songs talk to AMVfreak he made some pretty good ones slow and fast
Learning Adobe Premire V6 still have Windows movie maker so dont be too harsh on me
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Postby dbzpride » Mon May 09, 2005 10:23 am

i get newbies askin me stuff about amvs all the time =P
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Postby Kenshinluverr » Tue May 10, 2005 3:28 pm

Well, this was the first place I looked for help on how to make an amv. I don't like wasting time asking questions and I'm really glad some one made this topic. It really helps though I still don't think I could possibly make one. I don't have any anime dvd's and I don't know where you could download clips, and I'm not sure if I have the right stuff to make a video on my pc. lol. (I borrow all the anime I see from friends, or watch it on cartoon network....which is kinda sad....) lol anyway...yeah...so I'm not stupid. I know to look before I ask! :P
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Postby Corax_Gump » Wed May 11, 2005 4:43 pm

Meu ingles é péssimo por isso num vou nem tentar... Pra fazer um Download eu tenho que mandar um amv primeiro?
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Postby Hitman91788 » Thu May 12, 2005 10:38 pm

what program do you have to use to do this?
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Postby yahiko1993 » Fri May 13, 2005 9:58 pm

OmniStrata wrote:DOH!

Looking back, there's a typo, the Hanaukyo Maids eps I have are around 12 mins each and round in at like 120+ Megs per ep...

DOH!

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Postby snipe » Sun May 15, 2005 4:20 pm

Haven't worked on a vid in such a long time, and just reformatted computer. Now I got a problem that makes me feel like a newbie myself.

I got the vob files on computer with dvddecrypter, DVD2Avi'd them to D2V files. I installed Avisynth, and have an AVS file with the following code:
MPEG2Source("E:\Movies\GTO\Episode1.d2v")
(On install, it says to NOT put in the Loadplugin line, or else it could crash)
Now when I open it up with VirtualDub, I get the following message:
"Avisynth open failure:
Unrecognized exception!
(E:\Movies\GTO\gto.avs,line 1)

Could I have wrong version of the plugins? It used to work when I did it for my last vid, but since reinstall, it doesn't :(
Anyone got a tip, or link to plugins that work?
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Postby Creative Name » Sat May 21, 2005 1:03 am

30 pages? I guess I got a lot of reading ahead of me. At least I'll always be an awesome AMV watcher. I know nothing, but this thread looks like a good place to start.
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Postby jbone » Sun May 29, 2005 7:37 pm

Can someone please update or delete that first post? It's so out of date, it's not even funny.

I just had someone e-mail me to ask where he could find DivX 3.11a, and then if I could hold his hand as he used it.

No, I have not read any of the posts preceding what I'm typing now, nor will I be reading anything afterward.
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