First AMV Announce! Why Shuichi is Gay (AKA DKH)

Nekotic · Post by **Nekotic** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:51 am

o_o; My first AMV announcement. I'm a tad anxious to reveal this, but eh, what better to jump on in and get it over with.

Have fun watching. XD; Ah... Sucky banner thing, i'll try and make a new one sometime.

Ingow · Post by **Ingow** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:19 am

actually that banner isn't all that bad :p

the video gets better by the minute and turns into a real nice feel good AMV to the end. you were pretty original with your intro/outro as well as with the main concept, it could've been better executed though (meaning stupid cutouts for attention whoring lulz, no but srsly IMO the connection between the two main animes wasn't obvious enough yet in the visuals alone). Though I also think that it doesn't really matter all that much because the good vibes just make up for it, it's too rare for me to enjoy a new AMV these days so it would be way too harsh for me to dismiss this just because of some little tweaks and details. Oh but next time you might want to think about filtering your footage or in some way increase the video quality.

So yeah overall pretty interesting video, keep up the good work

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:28 am

fun video

OhmGautama · Post by **OhmGautama** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:07 am

That was pretty neat. Good editing and synchronization. My only negative comment would be avoiding the lip synch in the beginning. Overall good job though

Nekotic · Post by **Nekotic** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:38 pm

n_n Thank you for all of your opinions! I'll make sure to keep them all in mind when I make a new AMV. Glad you enjoyed it overall.

Panky · Post by **Panky** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:05 pm

Since you use Adobe Premiere as I do, I'll tell you the best way to compilate ( and easiest, to my way ) is exporting as an uncompressed video from Premiere, then picking it up with AVIdemux, and from there apply the filters ( don't even have to learn those filters ). Something that may happen with a video exported with adobe premiere and then picked with that program ( or to me, I guess ) is that the colour of the videos change to another, but if that happens you can re-encode with virtualdub with codec <none>. I always tought .gui programs like this sucked, but this is really good, you should try it out, it's free to.

Anyway, going to the video, I didn't see those anime, but the only recommendation I can give you is to not lip-synch like that

The way you lip synched I did it once, and then ( after some people said ) I noticed that it was for real. The best way is choosing natural video that actually synchs the lyrics. Also that happened at the end.

Anyway, as the another people said, the overall of the video was very good, go on

Nekotic · Post by **Nekotic** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:12 pm

I'm also hoping to install and get the new Premiere for CS3. Maybe it's a bit different, i'll find out soon enough. (But as it's adobe who knows, they'll prolly stick to it closely.)

But I used to be rather dim to codecs ect...

So when I looked up how to export rather well I was hit by a lot of technical terms. Not fun when you just want the answer in english "How the hell do I make it smaller in size but pretty f.kjhgdsf;kFG;L!?".

But thanks. I'll be sure to do that next time!

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:54 pm

Amusing, but quality hurt my head.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:22 pm

Fun, but the intro and outro audio should have been a lot louder.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:10 pm

Fun video, aside from the tech issues

just in case you're unaware of it, theres a guide on the org that has detailed step by step explanations on steps to get the video to look good, including screenshots and all. It does have alot of technical detail, but even if you don't get it all, you should be able to follow the screenshots as far as settings go to get a pretty nice encode even if you don't know what each setting actually does.

The common and probably best way is to export from premeire via Lagarith or Huffyuv codec (since uncompressed would be too large in most cases) both of which are included in the AMVapp if you download it from that same guide page (at the top), then

Use virtualdubmod (also included) to make an AVS script (which uses AVIsynth, also included in the app)to apply the common filters:

I like to use:

Deen("a3d",2,3)
awarpsharp()
crop(4,0,-4,-0) *This is to crop out the green bar that awarpsharp leaves on the 2 sides*
lanczosresize(640,480) *for fullscreen or*
lanczosresize(640,362) *for widescreen*

For this particular video probably should also add:

Crop(0,40,-0,-40)

To get rid of those black borders at the top and bottom taking up extra bits in the codec ;p (40 may not be enough, adjust as necessary )

as my typical script which I may alter when nessisary, but I find this works well for most sources.

compress it to Xvid (again included in the app) using the settings explained in the guide, remembering to compress also your audio to lame mp3 (also included in the app)

Upload to the org ;p

You can also choose the X264 method, but there are no current guides for that yet to my knowledge. If you want to play with it, theres a link on that page to the Megui package which will automatically install everything you need to make good mp4s.

I'd recommend reading the entire guide especially if your not too tech savvy, as it will educate you some on things necessary to get good quality in your videos, even if allot of it confuses you.