Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

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Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby James Sharp » Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:15 pm

First i would like to say i posted this same topic in another thread. but i get the feeling i posted it in the wrong spot. so to correct my mistake i am posting here. With that said i will go into my original question.

Hello all thank you for taking the time to view this post. I have been a long time member of the site and i have even had my hand at a few videos. However most of my videos have been painfully simple as both life and my own limitations have kept me from becoming decent at making music videos.

However I have recently come across quite a bit of free time and i am looking to become very skilled at video editing. As i begin to embark on this journey of mine i have a few questions i would like to first ask. and hopefully the wonderful community of these forums will be able to assist me on my journey to becoming a good amv creator.

My first question is this. I would like to know if the software i have is still acceptable to make a decent video. here is a list of what i own.

Adobe premier pro 7.0
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional
Adobe Photoshop cs 8.0

The good news is that i got all of these programs for about 200 bucks from a pal of mine who was using them for school.

the bad news is im not sure if they are even half decent to make a good music video that can stand up to todays standards of the amv site.

So if you dont mind please let me know if my software is currently up to date enough for the job.

Also i would like to know if my comp can handle the work. here is my comp specs.

Amd athlon 64 x2 3800
2 gigs ddr
80 gig hd
ati radeon hd 3850

so ya.. if im good to go please let me know.. if i need an upgrade also please let me know.

Thank you all very much for your time and hopefully i can see yall around in the future as im sure i will have many questions.
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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby Otohiko » Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:39 pm

I think "acceptable to make a decent video" hasn't really changed in the last 5 years, the only real question is speed and features.
You're good, really. To save yourself some headache, I'd get some more storage - that way you don't have to bend over backwards to save space, and can just edit as you need. My older PC which I still mostly edit on is pretty close to what you have here (Athlon 64 x2 4600, 2GB RAM) but I have about 1.2TB storage on it which lets me not worry about my footage/project previews etc. Seeing how cheap storage is these days, I'd say that'd be the most worthwhile upgrade.

Otherwise upgrades are always good, but there's nothing you urgently NEED, really...
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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby Fall_Child42 » Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:48 pm

better then what I got ...

except HD space... you should invest in another HD ... they arn't too pricey.
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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby Panky » Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:21 pm

Cap'n Toddenfreude wrote:better then what I got ...

except HD space... you should invest in another HD ... they arn't too pricey.


Pretty much this, I've got 3gb ram, nvidia 6600gt and I must say that everything works flawed enough. HDD amount necessary depends on how much source you're going to rip, but if you have around 70gb you should be just fine. You would better need good ideas than software/hardware to make a decent AMV (unless you had a really bad rig, but yours seem like would work just fine with pro 7.0 and PS 8.0).
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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby Pwolf » Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:56 pm

pfft, 80gbs... back in the day i edited with <20gbs on a 600mhz laptop... uphill, both ways, in the snow!

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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby NS » Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:15 pm

Yah I remember wrestling with like 12 GB for the longest time, and this was back when I actually edited.
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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:20 pm

As cited, most of those software packages don't exist (except as mis-attributed pirate copies).
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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby Castor Troy » Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:54 pm

My first video was done on a 3GB HD.

I remember spending $100+ for a 20 GB and being amazed with all that space!
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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby NS » Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:55 pm

Castor Troy wrote:My first video was done on a 3GB HD.

I remember spending $100+ for a 20 GB and being amazed with all that space!


I remember my dad telling me this same thing :amv:
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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby Enigma » Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:14 pm

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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby Knowname » Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:18 pm

yeah I made my first vid on 4 gigs, but I'd estimate about 20 gigs to make a clean video using lossless clips, 80 should suffice as long as you only work on one thing at a time (and don't game too much, leaving at least 20 gigs to work with). The MOST I ever used on a single project was like 700gigs. That involved recording 30-40 hours of videogame footage (all for JUST a few minutes of final footage~~) in semi-lossy codecs. Man I hated that project lol but give big respect to gmv editors that use IN GAME footage.

The thing I'm worried about is your operating system. There is no Premiere Pro 7.0, Premeire went up to 7.0 but the Pro version only got up to 2.0 before they started calling it CS#. The only reason the Pro version is named 'Pro' is cuz it works on Windows XP. I'm not sure if the regular version does or not. THUS IF you have Premiere 7.0 AND use Win9x than I'd be VERY concerned lol. Not for performance sake (well may be some compatibility issues... but you can still get by not using IE8), but for security and crash issues sake. Well perhaps performance if you have over 4gigs of ram... but. Anyway if you have anything other than XP 32bit I'd suggest upgrading.

And if you did you may have to upgrade your Premiere version as well :/.

Just my opinion, you can get by with what you have but if you wanna save yourself some headaches you may want to update a little.
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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby Knowname » Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:31 pm

Bottom line though, if it works on your current setup than your good to go! Heck it's better than some of the WMM made videos out there so if you follow Read ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides Lovingly Overhauled Largely by Zarxrax and other guides nobody will complain if you don't. Others get by on worse. I'm just saying... does that there version even work on your current machine? Don't know if you even have those installed or not so maybe they don't work any more since you got XP/ Vista.
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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby ngsilver » Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:46 am

Pwolf wrote:pfft, 80gbs... back in the day i edited with <20gbs on a 600mhz laptop... uphill, both ways, in the snow!


Wow, better then what I used to edit on.... P1 133mhz, 5 gig hd.......
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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby Nya-chan Production » Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:19 pm

5GB left free ftw.

Every time I rendered I prayed to have enough space left ^^
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Re: Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

Postby Otohiko » Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:30 pm

Oh you can definitely edit on very little space. It's just a question of having your footage and previews the way you want versus the way your HD lets you. You can bait-and-switch on almost nothing or you can subclip your footage to oblivion so that you only save the scenes you'll actually use. But NOT having to do that lets you have swathes of footage and more choice in your subclipping. And more time for editing.
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