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- ReannaKing
- Joined: Thu Sep 20, 2001 2:34 pm
- Location: Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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Thanks for the kind words, everyone!
I'm not sure why the black border is there. It kind of ... materialized when I imported the project into Pro. I wasn't sure what to do about it. I may come out with a remaster eventually.
Again, thank you very much!
I'm not sure why the black border is there. It kind of ... materialized when I imported the project into Pro. I wasn't sure what to do about it. I may come out with a remaster eventually.
Again, thank you very much!
I host the Anime Music Video contest at No Brand Con in Eau Claire, WI.
Get your butt over to cheeseland and show me what you've got!
Get your butt over to cheeseland and show me what you've got!

- ifihadaninja
- Joined: Mon Jun 02, 2003 8:42 pm
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you never know, in a few seconds a camel can jump through my window and stomp on me, but its ok, cause i saw your video already o.oReannaKing wrote:Thanks for the kind words, everyone!
I'm not sure why the black border is there. It kind of ... materialized when I imported the project into Pro. I wasn't sure what to do about it. I may come out with a remaster eventually.
Again, thank you very much!
- Scintilla
- (for EXTREME)
- Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:47 pm
- Status: Quo
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Oh, okay... In that case, just make the project resolution the same as that of all your clips. It doesn't <i>have</i> to be 720x480; it's just that that's what it should be if you're using standard 4:3 DVD footage.ReannaKing wrote:I'm not sure why the black border is there. It kind of ... materialized when I imported the project into Pro. I wasn't sure what to do about it.
Premiere Pro doesn't automatically resize your clips when you import them (though sometimes you have to right-click and do "Interpret Footage..." in the Library in order to make sure everything's being interpreted as having the same <i>pixel</i> aspect ratio); so if you take a bunch of clips that are at, say, 540x360, and throw them into a 720x480 project, you're going to have those borders. So just set the project to whatever size your clips are.
- ReannaKing
- Joined: Thu Sep 20, 2001 2:34 pm
- Location: Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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- Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]
- Joined: Wed Mar 24, 2004 7:59 pm
- Location: Georgia / S. FL WIP: ROS2, VG3, AR2
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Most likely thats it, I had that problem for a while when I first started and had no idea what it was. My clips were at 1:1 square pixels, and Premiere was seeing them as something like 0:9 DV footage. That creates borders on the 2 sides particularly. Also most DVDs come with title safe borders on them already (since a portion of the footage always goes beyond what you can see on the TV screen, you don't have this same problem on computers), Remember to crop those out when you rip the DVDs using AviSynth's Crop() feature.Scintilla wrote: Premiere Pro doesn't automatically resize your clips when you import them (though sometimes you have to right-click and do "Interpret Footage..." in the Library in order to make sure everything's being interpreted as having the same <i>pixel</i> aspect ratio); so if you take a bunch of clips that are at, say, 540x360, and throw them into a 720x480 project, you're going to have those borders. So just set the project to whatever size your clips are.
You can also crop them and resize afterwards, but the borders sometimes affect certain effects you do in premiere, so I suggest cropiing before you import.
Anyways, was cute nonetheless ^^
- ReannaKing
- Joined: Thu Sep 20, 2001 2:34 pm
- Location: Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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AviSynth hates me; I haven't been able to get it to work. You will all chide me for this but:
For ripping I use SmartRipper.
For capturing I use VirtualDub.
And of course, for editing I use Adobe Premiere Pro.
I use what works for me. If I could get AviSynth to work I'd use that, but I haven't been able to work with it at all.
For ripping I use SmartRipper.
For capturing I use VirtualDub.
And of course, for editing I use Adobe Premiere Pro.
I use what works for me. If I could get AviSynth to work I'd use that, but I haven't been able to work with it at all.
I host the Anime Music Video contest at No Brand Con in Eau Claire, WI.
Get your butt over to cheeseland and show me what you've got!
Get your butt over to cheeseland and show me what you've got!

- Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]
- Joined: Wed Mar 24, 2004 7:59 pm
- Location: Georgia / S. FL WIP: ROS2, VG3, AR2
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hmm.. well Virtualdub also lets you crop too, Its one of the builtin filters. If you capture using huffyuv as the codec in virtual dub, its not all that bad, Avisynth just has better deinterlacing and cleanup filters.ReannaKing wrote:AviSynth hates me; I haven't been able to get it to work. You will all chide me for this but:
For ripping I use SmartRipper.
For capturing I use VirtualDub.
And of course, for editing I use Adobe Premiere Pro.
I use what works for me. If I could get AviSynth to work I'd use that, but I haven't been able to work with it at all.
Anyway, if your having a specific problem with getting AVISynth to work feel free to PM me, I'd be glad to help. Theres also the help forum with tons of other people like me that would be glad to help out.
I guess someone should write an "AVIsynth for dummies" guide ;p
(Please don't take that as an insult, its a play off of the "for dummies" line of guide books you can buy in the store ;p I don't think you would, but you never know on these forums ;p )
- ReannaKing
- Joined: Thu Sep 20, 2001 2:34 pm
- Location: Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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As far as huffyuv goes...
I usually export as Microsoft MPEG-1 when I capture from DVDs, but if I'm capturing from lower quality footage like downloaded footage (I know, I'm evil) I use huffyuv.
Ooh, an "AviSynth for Dummies Like Reanna" would be great.
Yeah, I posted a help topic a while ago, but no one really said anything helpful and it got buried eventually.
Once I get Internet back up on my compy I'll probably PM you. I'd love to get AviSynth working-- especially for its deinterlacing-ness.
To get (slightly) back on topic however... like all of my videos there are technical flaws with this new one, but I do think this one is creatively and technically better than most I've done before, so I believe I at least have upped my standards.
So, as the Tortuga Twins like to say, "Up yours!" (Just kidding-- you've all been very helpful)
I usually export as Microsoft MPEG-1 when I capture from DVDs, but if I'm capturing from lower quality footage like downloaded footage (I know, I'm evil) I use huffyuv.
Ooh, an "AviSynth for Dummies Like Reanna" would be great.
Yeah, I posted a help topic a while ago, but no one really said anything helpful and it got buried eventually.
Once I get Internet back up on my compy I'll probably PM you. I'd love to get AviSynth working-- especially for its deinterlacing-ness.
To get (slightly) back on topic however... like all of my videos there are technical flaws with this new one, but I do think this one is creatively and technically better than most I've done before, so I believe I at least have upped my standards.
So, as the Tortuga Twins like to say, "Up yours!" (Just kidding-- you've all been very helpful)
I host the Anime Music Video contest at No Brand Con in Eau Claire, WI.
Get your butt over to cheeseland and show me what you've got!
Get your butt over to cheeseland and show me what you've got!

- Scintilla
- (for EXTREME)
- Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:47 pm
- Status: Quo
- Location: New Jersey
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- ReannaKing
- Joined: Thu Sep 20, 2001 2:34 pm
- Location: Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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