Tsubasa chronicles/counting crows AMV

MovieMarc · Post by **MovieMarc** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:05 am

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=113741

Anime: Tsubasa Chronicles

song: Angels of silence by Counting Crows

I dont really care about comments or shit, just enjoy

MovieMarc · Post by **MovieMarc** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:05 am

So my video didnt even last an hour on the new vid on the block spot so Im probably gonna bump this every now and then.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:29 am

MovieMarc wrote:So my video didnt even last an hour on the new vid on the block spot so Im probably gonna bump this every now and then.

please don't. its looked down on around here. be fair to everyone else whos vids are being bumped off the new vid on the block list just as quickly as yours.

I happen to like both tsubasa chronicles and counting crows, so I'll give this a shot.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:20 pm

this was actually pretty good, ignoring quality issues. Infact had the quality been better, aspect ratio been correct (it should be 16:9, or something like 640x360/512x388 for the avi size) and divx logo disabled in the Divx Properties window, the video probably wouldve gotten more response, because you timed things well, the action sequences actually looked impressive, and you did alot of good lyrical sync. I rather liked it.

Next time though, work on the 3 things I pointed out above, and it'll make your videos so much more enjoyable, as bad visual quality due to bad compression techniques can spoil a great video.

Also, please compress your audio to something like mp3, PCM takes way too much space that can be going to bits in your divx encode, further improving visual quality.

MovieMarc · Post by **MovieMarc** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:50 pm

I tried to fix the ratio thing, I cant figure out where to change it in Premiere. When i was making it in wmm it was fine then when i converted it to avi in preimere the ratios got all skewed, even after following the guides.

honestly I think this video taught me that since Premiere is a pain in the ass and that uploading your video to the org as an avi rather than a wmv really isnt worth all the hassle. I mean my best amv, or at least the one others liked the most, is still my first one which was done without the help of Vdubmod or Premeire.

MovieMarc · Post by **MovieMarc** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:51 pm

and as for compression I think its time someone updates those damn guides.

I sat there for hours trying to figure out how to change my settings using the guide, which has you using Xvid 1.0.1 while i was using 1.1.0.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:13 am

if you edited this in WMV, you didn;t need to use premeire at all. Just open the file in Vdub and save it directly to avi there. You can also resize it to the apropriate resolution to keep the proper aspect ratio either in vdub itself, or by using the avisynth command
"Lanczosresize(640,360)". There are other resizers, thats the one I normally use though.

Your biggest problem in the compression is that your audio isn't compressed, I don't think your settings in Xvid are the main culprit in this case. Compress your audio and you'll be able to allow more bits to go towards your video without inflating the filesize too much.

MovieMarc · Post by **MovieMarc** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:04 am

for some reason my copy of vdub wont open WMV's

MovieMarc · Post by **MovieMarc** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:12 am

Virtualdub error: not supported: Microsoft owns US patent 6,041,345 on the ASF file format, preventing third-party applications from extracting data from ASF files. ASF file support was removed as of V1.3d at the request of microsoft and to avoid patent infringment claims, and as such Virtualdub no longer supports ASF, please do not ask for versions that do.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:38 pm

MovieMarc wrote:
Virtualdub error: not supported: Microsoft owns US patent 6,041,345 on the ASF file format, preventing third-party applications from extracting data from ASF files. ASF file support was removed as of V1.3d at the request of microsoft and to avoid patent infringment claims, and as such Virtualdub no longer supports ASF, please do not ask for versions that do.

Yea your right, I was using it for AVI files that use the ASF codec.

However, Doing some looking around and playing with various stuff, I found a workaround. I was able to open it in Virtualdub using AVisynth script's command Directshowsource (instead of AVISource).

make a text file "filename.avs"

put in it:

Directshowsource("Path to Filename.wmv")
Lanczosresize(640,360)

And walla, correctly sized AVI video to encode using Xvid or whatever you want to use. I tested this on my machine and it works. (I don't know if it does for ALL versions of the microsoft asf codec though.)