A whole bunch of Questions about Sony Vegas Pro 8.0

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Re: A whole bunch of Questions about Sony Vegas Pro 8.0

Post by AimoAio » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:06 pm

.wmv is lossy.It basically means data is lost through compression so files sizes tend to be smaller.

Huffy and Lagarith = lossless

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... meth1.html

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Re: A whole bunch of Questions about Sony Vegas Pro 8.0

Post by angelchanx3 » Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:35 pm

AimoAio wrote:.wmv is lossy.It basically means data is lost through compression so files sizes tend to be smaller.

Huffy and Lagarith = lossless

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... meth1.html
Grrr...so i'm not supposed to use MPEG-1 it alway's seemed fine too me.

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Re: A whole bunch of Questions about Sony Vegas Pro 8.0

Post by ronyap » Wed Jun 03, 2009 11:46 am

I'm not an expert but:

You use Huffy and Lagarith when creating your clips (this will result in huge files, but there is hardly any loss in quality which you want). ONce you've created your AMV, you can convert it back to your formats, like divx/xvid/mpeg. Then you can delete all the stuff you used to create it. Ive only created one AMV, and the clips added up to a total of about 3-5GB

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Re: A whole bunch of Questions about Sony Vegas Pro 8.0

Post by angelchanx3 » Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:09 pm

ronyap wrote:I'm not an expert but:

You use Huffy and Lagarith when creating your clips (this will result in huge files, but there is hardly any loss in quality which you want). ONce you've created your AMV, you can convert it back to your formats, like divx/xvid/mpeg. Then you can delete all the stuff you used to create it. Ive only created one AMV, and the clips added up to a total of about 3-5GB
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Re: A whole bunch of Questions about Sony Vegas Pro 8.0

Post by NeoQuixotic » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:18 am

I'm lazy, I just convert the entire episode to lagarith. Right now I have a 13 episode series in 720p encoded to lagarith using 81 Gb. But when 1 Tb drives are less than $100 who really cares. But realistically, planning your AMV and making clips can save a lot of time during editing.
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Re: A whole bunch of Questions about Sony Vegas Pro 8.0

Post by ronyap » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:27 pm

anubisx00 wrote:I'm lazy, I just convert the entire episode to lagarith. Right now I have a 13 episode series in 720p encoded to lagarith using 81 Gb. But when 1 Tb drives are less than $100 who really cares. But realistically, planning your AMV and making clips can save a lot of time during editing.
1TB less than $100, that's less than £60 in the UK 0_0 That's cheap.

I don't get how you plan your AMV. That means you have to watch the anime all over again just to find one specific scene which is suitable? That's long. I just pick randomly from video, and if it fits, it fits, if not, pick again. Prolly why my AMV is rubbish :P

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Re: A whole bunch of Questions about Sony Vegas Pro 8.0

Post by spk1983 » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:26 am

ronyap wrote: I don't get how you plan your AMV. That means you have to watch the anime all over again just to find one specific scene which is suitable? That's long. I just pick randomly from video, and if it fits, it fits, if not, pick again.
Well, I'm now starting off (started doing video editing less than 3 weeks ago), but that's what I've been doing, it helps if you've seen the anime once (or 100 times) before, just go through the anime one more time and take notes on a specific scene, as to what general part of the song I want it done to, like for a specific line in the song etc.

I'm doing that specific method for my next AMV, watched though the series in one sitting one night, watched through random episodes over the course of a week, and then started watching each episode, noting possible scenes to work with a specific part of the song. It's time-consuming, but I hope it would mean that I've picked the best scenes possible to use for editing, before actually starting the editing itself. It could save you a lot of trouble in the long run.

Of course, everyone has their own method, but that's what I've basically picked up as my method.

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