-Attention- New video (Stairway to heaven)

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:33 pm

OK guys, let's stick to comments on the video.

Paulo: Don't worry. One day you'll learn to not bite when Cat gives out his flame bait. Take it in your stride... eventually you may notice that those posts are actually very funny

Cat: just try and keep them out of video announcements made by new members, ok?

Katsumi_AMVs · Post by **Katsumi_AMVs** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:38 pm

Ok AD , well sorry if I misundertood something , but that problem with new members

, I just can't keep my mouth shutted

*BACK ON TOPIC *

I saw your vid MR MAkaveli
, well , I like the song choice , and some of the lyrics sync , but unfortunately , to make AMVs , would be better if you choose shorter songs , or edit the song to make it shorter , because , yeah 8 minutes it's a bit too long , and I guess that problem with the duration of the song makes you run some clips for too long , shorter songs with faster editing it's something that I recommend you to your future vids.

One more thing , you've forgeted to deinterlace your clips , since you're using WMM , I recommend you to deinterlace your footage when you encode the clips from the VOB files , but if you figure out how to change WMV to a video file that virtua dub can read , you can erase that problem with better results. ^^

MR MAkaveli · Post by **MR MAkaveli** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 7:20 pm

i tried to deinterlace the movie file but it wouldnt let. It said something about a patent problem so i couldnt do it but believe me i tried. Also I wanted to get the full feel of the song so i didnt cut it and thats why it was so long.

inthesto · Post by **inthesto** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 7:38 pm

Wow, that video gave me a lot more than I expected.

Your video quality is a little variable, but that's the only glaring problem I can see.

I agree with you completely that songs do not deserved to get cut up for the purpose of the video. And despite the fact that you had eight and a half minutes to deal with, I think you did a pretty good job of it. The first seven minutes, and even the guitar solo are slow, but after the guitar solo, your video breaks the chains and picks up. I suppose most people would criticize you for having a ridiculously long introduction to the high-speed action, but I think that having a longer slow sequence makes the fast-paced sections more powerful.

My only personal complaint is that we never got to see Spike's famous "Bang." I think it would have fit in well at the end.

Still, a thumb and a half up.

MR MAkaveli · Post by **MR MAkaveli** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:04 pm

THANK YOU INTHESTO, That is exactly what i was going for in this video I wanted the slow start to get the fast paced scenes more powerful. i really apperciate the comment

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 11:40 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:OK guys, let's stick to comments on the video.

Paulo: Don't worry. One day you'll learn to not bite when Cat gives out his flame bait. Take it in your stride... eventually you may notice that those posts are actually very funny

I know. I'm a fucking comedic genius.

MR MAkaveli · Post by **MR MAkaveli** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 10:23 am

How I got my footage for this was I ripped individual episodes from my DVD's. Then using DVD2avi I created a d2v document. After this I had to use VPavi because AVIsynth does NOT work on my computer. After creating the avi I used WMM to create an episode of this movie because if i didnt the the movies would run together. All this would take me at least 2 hours per episode of Trigun and Cowboy Bebop.

LuluandAuron · Post by **LuluandAuron** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 10:45 am

Hey there, one common mistake resulting in low resolution of video clips is running them through multiple processes ............as you compress them to something different you lose quality and if you keep changing their format the result is what you see so obviously the way to use the clips is as untouched as possible......personally we only uncompress the peices we need for a video. But you will need at least 20 to 40 gigs of free space on your HD. One easy way to do it is to use DVD Decrypter and then either DVD2AVI but one of my new favs is MPEG Mediator, an awesome file converter. Well we hope this helps you out.

~A&L~
Peace

MR MAkaveli · Post by **MR MAkaveli** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 10:48 am

thats one of my problems i only have about 15 gigs of free space currently and also my computer came with only 20 gigs on it so theres not much i can do except by another hard drive but i dont have the money

LuluandAuron · Post by **LuluandAuron** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 10:59 am

Try using DVD2AVI and change it to Divx and cut it up in Virtual Dub. Then change it to whatever format you are going to use for editing the video together. Btw, what format of clips do you use and what editing program are you using?