ARGGH!!!! HOW THE HECK DO YOU USE ADOBE PREMIERE????

[Captain Dynamite]

This thing is SOOOO complicated. I downloaded a trial version today, and I have NO IDEA what the heck I am doing. I want to know the following:

1.How you rip DVD footage with this thing.

2.How you rip the footage you want.

3.How you edit the footage, because there's some stuff that got recorded from the TV onto the DVD before I pressed play on the VCR.

4.Add text in the the lower left corner near the beginning and near the end of the video.

5.How you save the video you edited in Premiere.

[Captain Dynamite]

Also, how do you reduce the file size? I don't want nothin' over 100 megs. In fact, I don't want it more than 90 or 80 megs.

[burntoast]

Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a> (not to be taken offensively)

[WilLoW :--)]

1.How you rip DVD footage with this thing.

2.How you rip the footage you want.

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

5.How you save the video you edited in Premiere.

I'm not sure you can do it with the trial version...
there should be a file-> save menu for saving the project, and a file -> export menu to save an avi file.

Also, how do you reduce the file size? I don't want nothin' over 100 megs. In fact, I don't want it more than 90 or 80 megs.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... xport.html
and
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... video7.htm
and
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... io6.html#1

To sum it up :

Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a>

And you should ask that kind of questions in the Help forums

[bubblehead]

1.How you rip DVD footage with this thing.

2.How you rip the footage you want.

Yopu don't rip using premiere, you rip using a program such as smartripper. See the guide

3.How you edit the footage, because there's some stuff that got recorded from the TV onto the DVD before I pressed play on the VCR.

go to import, drag it to the video editing tracks, and cut it up and move it around using the tools on the left

5.How you save the video you edited in Premiere.

one of the menus has an option called "export video" even in the trial version

[Captain Dynamite]

Okay, now how do I know what I'm ripping, and how do I save it in the format I want (I want one that doesn't use alot of hard drive space)

[burntoast]

After you rip the vobs from your DVD, you should be able to edit them directly in Premiere by creating an index with DVD2AVI, and using Avisynth as a frameserver (If you read the Guides, that is). But if you do need to convert your vobs anyway, use Virtualdub in and an intraframe codec such as Huffyuv or Lagarith. Again, this is also explained in the Guides, under "Method 1: Creating Clips for Source Footage".

[Maverick-Rubik]

And keep in mind that within editing your video, you're going to have big files (~1-4 gb) no matter how hard you try; unless you want the video looking bad.

Huffman YUV (commonly referred to as HuffYUV) is a compresser that is lossless; and has practically no degradation whatsoever. However it's size can be large. You should use this compresser to compress your source files, so things are pretty. Leave final exported files to a much more reasonable compresser, such as XviD or DivX

And while I'm on it, I'll tell you to never compress with premiere when making your final video. Export to huffyuv like with your source files and bring it into a program called VirtualDub; which will allow you some pretty decent compressing and resizing (filtering, too... but I'd leave that to a program named Avisynth).

This is all digested information. You should head to the guides the others courteously posted before me for pure, bonafide, unabriged guidelines to editing an AMV.

Of course, you can ignore all this complex information; but you'll just end up with a crappy first video like me.

[godix]

For future reference these types of questions belong over <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... 3">here</a>. Others have pointed you to the guides which can help but it sounds like you may want to read <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... 3">this</a> as well.

[Captain Dynamite]

Damn, ripping DVD footage should be alot easier than this... And I mean ALOT easier....