new and full of ideas :D

[Farlo]

but if u don't use premire what do u use?

ulead mediastudio pro 7

its like premiere, but without the ghey

Does Ulead let you edit frame by frame?

yeah

[Bote]

my gf is mad with me with the stuff that I've been buying since last year

lol Mine actually likes what I'm doing. Since she wanted a Romantic video, I'm doing it.

[lysergic]

thnaks for th help guys, i'll just add one more thing while i'm here, in premire theres a thin lue line and a red line on the top of the time line, i carn't move them and the movie justs cuts as soon as it reaches it?

thanks for the support, making amv's is heaps fun and rewarding

[HeavyMetal]

thnaks for th help guys, i'll just add one more thing while i'm here, in premire theres a thin lue line and a red line on the top of the time line, i carn't move them and the movie justs cuts as soon as it reaches it?

thanks for the support, making amv's is heaps fun and rewarding

Damn dude you bought all that computer equipment and Premiere. Well I've read a lot of Premiere guides and the only red and blue lines I can think of are in the audio track section. Not sure what you meant by cuts though? or the exact location and description of the lines?

There are a lot of other programs out there including the already mentioned Ulead Studio, which even looks like Premiere. A lot of the Adobe programs become the standards so reading a guide for Premiere is like reading one for a lot of other things as well.

Adobe a lot of times costs way more, but can't be beat (not really the case with Premiere, but Photoshop is used by professionals including some manga artist. Though I have heard its is easy to transfer files from one adobe program to another and back.) From what I have seen there is actually a patch, plug-in, or something that is supposed to make Premiere plug-ins usable by other programs. Not sure how cross program effective it is.


Red and Blue Lines in the Timeline
Anyway the red and blue lines are rubber bands for fading audio effects. The Red fades the music in and out and I think the blue fades from the left and right speakers in stereo sound.

If you can't move them check to see if the audio track is locked. The lock should be next to the eye that tells if the track is 'visible' (I guess in the case of audio it is more like active.). Just click the lock to unlock the track so it can be edited. It is usually best to keep audio locked so you don't dice it up clipping video segments.

If that is not it check under Window -> Window Options, or hunt around various settings. If all else fails point at the lines until they give you their name and search for them in the help section.

HDD
As for your hdd vobs only take about a gig per vob. You may have a folder full of stuff you forgot about or never burnt to a CD. Its a pain but you can check folder by folder with windows explorer or do searches for file extensions you commonly have, like .avi, in order to see if any turn up that you forgot.

As for not seeing the effects you may have to preview or use other similar methods. If you are having trouble that seems strange it could be the use of the .avs file.

Make a crap avi copy as suggested in the guide under method 3 and go that route. Just remember to make it lossless. Careful with after effects it will let you use DivX and call it lossless due to other settings. Not sure if it really makes it lossless, but I doubt it.

Easy to make mistakes and misconceptions with the guide.
You are basically editing the vobs.

You save the Project not the file with dvd2avi. It never actually goes to avi.

Then you reference the project file with an Avisynth file. If it helps think of it like a code language along the lines of JavaScript. You can use JavaScript to open and display an image, but the JavaScript is not the image.

Once I get a little better at AMVs myself I plan on doing an email about the guide. There are a few sketchy parts and holes (though not what I put above) the least of which is the misspelling of the word canon (yes one 'n'). Mostly I just thought I would send in an in depth artistic description of why Pan and Scan is an art murdering daemon especially for the way in which anime is drawn. (I've been bitchin' about P&S for I guess five years or so. Long before I even new about AMVs.)

The guide actually mentions a personal preference against Pan and Scan, but doesn't get into it. I've read a lot of art books over the years and until I write it down and make some examples just trust me P&S is an almost sure fire way to kill the art.

'This film as been modified to fit your TV screen.' (subliminal message: because we here at the TV studio are neither camera men or directors and don't understand picture dynamics)

If the guide method and some of its more sketchy areas are pissing you off.
Take some of the technical data and program knowledge from the guide and use dvdx2.2

DVDx2.2 goes straight from vob on the disc to avi on your computer.

By the sounds of it your computer is good enough that you can make the avi directly form the vob on the disc in a short time.

I still suggest a crap but lossless duplicate AVI for editing. Helps with memory and program crashes.

I haven't gotten DVDx2.2 to produce quite as high of quality as the guide method but I am beginning to come a lot closer. Synth may still be worth using somewhere along the way too.

DVDx2.2 is a simpler way to ease into editing. Its disadvantages are a few minor program quarks that may not occur on your system, a little less quality, and the occasion black line to the left of the screen that you have to crop.

Be careful cropping as it can stretch the picture in the direction of the crop if your not careful.

Here is another tip, don't make clips for use later. You may find a better way later and will have wasted time and CDs doing it. I did that with my first video. Since then a computer mess up made me say screw it and stick the whole track on the timeline. It surprisingly made for fewer program errors as it had fewer files to reference and keep track of.

[lysergic]

thanks for the huge reply but i worked out most of that stuff

[Shun]

Welp, everyone has pretty much answered all the questions better then i can .

As for the space problem, I use and firewire, i guess thats considered an 'external drive' *shrugs*. It holds 80 gigs and i use it strictly for AMV purpouses.

Good luck with editing, Premiere is not forgiving

[Shun]

Hmm, i think i bolded the wrong word there, but you get the idea!

[lysergic]

what do u mean not forgiving, i havn't had any to big problems yet?

[Farlo]

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your name makes me want to listen to down's "lysergic funeral procession"

[Pyle]

but if u don't use premire what do u use?

ulead mediastudio pro 7

its like premiere, but without the ghey

Does Ulead let you edit frame by frame?

yeah

FUCKIN A!

I got offered a copy of it for free, but chose fuckin ROXIO instead! And that thing can't do edits under 13 frames

If it didn't hurt so bad, I'd punch myself