How do you prepare your footage?

BlindNoir · Post by **BlindNoir** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:52 am

I am having trouble selecting footage from my DVDs and I just want to know how to pros do it, do u guys just take little 2-3 sec clips rip them and put them in the vid or rip long clips and cut them and see where to put them, or do u have every second of the vid planned out on a drawing/ storyline board.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:56 am

Usualy what I do is: I just rip all the episodes I might possibly use (which usually equals the whole series), then edit with AVS scripts. That way I don't have to be careful about planning, because I've got all the footage available for use.

godix · Post by **godix** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:08 am

I personally go through the episodes and rip out parts I need, making sure to rip at least a second or two extra just in case. As far as I can tell I'm an oddball though, most comments I've ever heard people just stick whole episodes into Premiere and scan through them for what they need. Just one more reason I'm not a Pro I guess.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:15 am

i do the automatic break into clips thing in wmm. can't edit without it.

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:16 am

godix wrote:... I personally go through the episodes and rip out parts I need, making sure to rip at least a second or two extra just in case--and scan through them for what they need ...

A few seconds before and after the scene you want is normal. Some people
have not learned "how to extract" only the scene(s) that they need from DVD's
and THAT is their confusion - not ours.
It all depends on the number of Editors that your using

CerebralAssamite · Post by **CerebralAssamite** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 2:46 am

I copy the vob files to my hdd (need a big hdd though 4-5G per dvd of space needed maybe more) from there I use either chopper xp or DVD2AVI to cut them up even more then throw them into a video editor.

taifunbrowser · Post by **taifunbrowser** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 7:46 am

I copy the vob files to my hdd (need a big hdd though 4-5G per dvd of space needed maybe more) from there I use either chopper xp or DVD2AVI to cut them up even more then throw them into a video editor.

Thats what I do, but then I cant deinterlace the clips, so it looks really fuzzy!
I dont think avysynth works on my windows xp, lolz, but I have the amvapp downloaded... oh well,

bum · Post by **bum** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:57 am

i convert whole vob's to a low quality divx (with alot of keyframes. usualy 15) then just edit with that (im just waiting for a premier user to mention crashing with loosy codecs) and then bait and switch with the original vob's when im done.

if you just wana extract a few seconds out of a vob, best method is to open the vob in vdubmod, set the start and end points where you want them and just export it to huffyuv or something.

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:52 pm

I rip pretty much all the source footage there is to use. I never know when I might feel like adding a extra scene here and there, and I like to be resourceful. I rip all the episodes there are and AVS script them. Then I either make ugly MJPEG files and switch em with AVS later, or make HuffYUV files and edit with them. My system doesnt have enough performance to edit witrh AVS smoothly.
Oh, and another reason why I rip by episodes: Its easier to re-rip and fix if I need to go back and do such.

Sir_Lagsalot · Post by **Sir_Lagsalot** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 5:20 pm

I rip the entire anime to my harddrive as vobs, then save low bitrate divx files that I can use to quickly scan through the episodes when looking for scenes (vdmod takes too long to load vob files...). Then I save the scenes I want from the vobs as lossless avi files, applying any filtering needed. Takes a lot of harddrive space, but I think its a lot easier than bait & switch.