Barbaric! [programs for Mac]

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Barbaric! [programs for Mac]

Postby TheJadeArcAngel » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:58 am

Hey there!

Allright, up until now ( AKA: reading through this forum in detail ) it seems mre normal methods of captureing footage may seem ... 'primative' or at any rate, way too over complicated

I am useing a Apple G5 w/ OSX 10.4.8. My editing system is Final Cut Pro HD 4.5. At the moment I run a PS2 into a RCA-converter box that breaks out into another RGA cable which runs into my camcorder; ( lol, I know how horrible this must sound? ) The camcorder has a firewire cable that runs into the G5's capture card.

The end result is high quality footage yet it has to be captured manually. EVERYTHING! Thus, things can take a very very very long time to set up for vids.

I have seen a lot of Windows programs available for linking and downloading but since I have a MAC what might people recommend? I have MacTheKnife which is a very good VOB extracting prgram but ... after that?

Any ideas?

:D Thanks to reading!
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Postby TheJadeArcAngel » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:53 am

After being more industrious and searching I came upon a thread that linked to exactly what I was lookimg for. Seriously, no errors, no mistanslations, not even haveing to download a program to find it wasnt what i needed.

So far, things looks great!
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Postby Dime_fan3 » Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:12 am

Would you mind telling me where i can find the thread?? I got a mac only like 2 days ago and i'm trying to look into how to make amv's.
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Postby Qyot27 » Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:00 am

I don't know about Mac, but on Linux it is fairly possible to make AviSynth 2.5 and VirtualDubMod work using Wine (I've not played around too much with this, though), which would do for getting everything filtered and converted to the right format (unfortunately, due to format support, my limited experience tells me that would only be Uncompressed RGB). You could try to get it working with Darwine, which is the OS X version, and then after getting the filtered footage into Uncompressed RGB that way, convert it to a smaller lossless editing format with Quicktime (dunno which those would be, though).

Of course, I'm betting that once AviSynth 3.0 comes out it'll have a Mac port, so it wouldn't be nearly that cumbersome then.
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Postby Willen » Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:17 am

Dime_fan3 wrote:Would you mind telling me where i can find the thread?? I got a mac only like 2 days ago and i'm trying to look into how to make amv's.
You'll want to read this thread first: So You Want To Be An Anime Music Video Editor?

But here's a nice (slightly dated) iMovie guide: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... orial.html and Shazzy's guides may help you here: http://www.ishtori.net/
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Postby Shazzy » Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:16 pm

Qyot27 wrote:I don't know about Mac, but on Linux it is fairly possible to make AviSynth 2.5 and VirtualDubMod work using Wine .


Macs have DarWine, but it's still in the development stage. You can't run Windows programs on it yet.

Since I already had VirtualPC, I tried using that for AviSynth...way too slow. Ended up buying an old Dell for $50 and am using that for preprocessing.
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Postby Qyot27 » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:25 pm

Shazzy wrote:
Qyot27 wrote:I don't know about Mac, but on Linux it is fairly possible to make AviSynth 2.5 and VirtualDubMod work using Wine .


Macs have DarWine, but it's still in the development stage. You can't run Windows programs on it yet.

I mentioned Darwine later in the same post; the 'I don't know about Mac' comment was mainly because I don't have one to test with, especially since my mom's iBook is too old. The Wikipedia page does show Paint and WinZip running. It only makes mention of XP-only programs - and sound - not working correctly (with the additional point that the programs do have to be compatible with Wine). My guess is that for compatibility issues, the best thing to try would be compiling the programs yourself - which would depend on having source code available, something that VDub and AviSynth both do, thankfully. From the WineMine screenshot it would seem that the best bet would be to run it under X11 rather than Quartz, but like I said, I can't play around and test with it.

As it does mention though, it's even more alpha than Wine itself is, so I would doubt the same level of usability if any at all (which is also noted in the WinZip screenshot).
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