( That's a fully qualified ISO-standard object descriptor, used by PKCS, NetInfo and Active Directory )FN='Wang Daniel' CN='danielwang' SN='Aryo' OU='IFE' C='US' wrote: 2) That's what I'm using now... however it is cumbersome to repeat the steps of, after source rip of entire DVD, seek, isolate, crop, and drag tiny 1-second fieces ov video into AE.
It's less than 1 month into my next AMV and I'm already feeling the frustration...
Isn't it tedious and menial to have to rip the entire DVD's worth of footage, seek to the clips you want, rip, isolate, clip and all the other things such as fixing anamorphic, IVTC, etc? Wouldn't you rather NOT have to worry about your output MPEG's quantize matrix and IBPPBI whatevers?
Here's an idea for a possible app that makes AMVing easy:
Write a program with to integrate VirtualDub, Perfect Audio Copy, AVISynth, SmartRipper, DVD Decrypter, etc. If those apps were .NET compliant, they'd have scripting hooks and methods to input/output data and commands in industry standard format. Unfortunately they're not so let's hope those apps have command line methods.
Develope a scripting method ala AVISynth to run the app and present simple interfacing. Program it with a scalable component-object system that allows for infrastructure expansion (no buzzwords: add capability at a later time)
How it would work:
Hm, let's insert the Escaflowne movie DVD in and get some footage. Windows Media Player pops up and we watch for the footage we want, then pause and use slow seek to try to grab everything we might want.
We click the application, which minizes the WMP windows and uses DCOM RPC whatever scripting hooks to do something like getPlayheadLocation. This method should be supported for each player commonly used (WinDVD, Quicktime etc).
One-click. We rip.
At the end of the AMV, other functions can be performed. For example, if you had to IVTC or you had interlaced (non-progressive, non-film) footage it'll fix that. The app should also perform functions such as One Click Slow My Audio By 4% for those telecined folks, One Click Put It Back The Way It Was, and a variety of other tasks such interfacing to Photoshoppe/AE algorithms for fixing your footage, writing your AVISynth files, encoding and reminding the user that AMVing is supposed to be fun. All of these can be scripted.
If all of the AMV creators used this app (with excellent logging), commonly used apps (with Edit Decision List turned on) and scripted each of their image manipulation, it might even be theoretically possible to store an AMV in 2kb by making the user insert their own DVD and the EDL would rip the footage for them and rebuild. Or not.
It is possible? Would it be worth it? Would it be useful? Or am I just blabbing wishfully?
AE's interface needs a drastic makeover, but that's beyond this scope.
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When I hit the 0 button for preview, it goes ahead and renders all of the scratchspace I put in there... if my song is 5 minutes and I have 3 minutes of footage, there's 2 minutes of black screens. I get an annoying tiny build message and a perverted looking cursor that scrolls... and this is what gets me:
If I adjust the volume with my colume knob on the keyboard, it stops!
I also had this problem with Windows Media Player showing the fulllscreen controls when I changed the volume, but I used TweakMP to set it to only show controls when mouse is at bottom or top of screen. How convenient.
Now I have to use software Volume Controls to change the volume! STUPID AE!
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