Preparing Footage.. You do it?

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:16 pm

I would suggest a my idea, maybe it is something useless, but I never tried something like that:

For avoid the "Oh my god all this pre-work need too much time I am losing motivation", I would suggest to do this.. ->

Maybe I'm an error, but maybe can work: You can actually do the video using the normal non-cleaned episodes, and AFTER all the editing, work on the episodes, give to them the same name of the older ones, change only for the rendering the place of the originals and so place here the cleaned ones. Premiere Should accept them because of the same name-lenght, and so it should work..

Right?

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:21 pm

DaPatches wrote:Oh, my total HDD is only 20Gigs. I have on average 8-10 to work with total for video editing....beat that.

I usually only have 5-7 gigs total to work with for editing.

I've gotten to IVTC'ing and cleaning the footage beforehand (mainly just light smoothing and yellow correction) and then cutting HuffYUV source clips. Usually I end up with about 2 gigs of source, and after exporting, do another light deening for the final distro copy. Whether or not I use a Lanczos or Bilinear Resize depends on how I feel at the time.

Michele wrote:Maybe I'm an error, but maybe can work: You can actually do the video using the normal non-cleaned episodes, and AFTER all the editing, work on the episodes, give to them the same name of the older ones, change only for the rendering the place of the originals and so place here the cleaned ones. Premiere Should accept them because of the same name-lenght, and so it should work..

Not if you IVTC, because the frame count changes and thus would screw up your vid. For the rest of the filters though, I would guess that would work (never personally tried it). This is one of the versions of the bait-and-switch method.

DinaDani · Post by **DinaDani** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:25 pm

Write down what parts you need from what vid, or do it on the fly (play your compressed/dvd file, when you see a good part, set ins and outs on vdub) and export to huffy. Using these smaller, but more numerous files work better with premiere then the scripts linked to massive .vob files.

At least, for me it does.

Scandia · Post by **Scandia** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:59 pm

My capturing device automatically captures them into AVIs. So that saves me a lot. True- video quality is not the best. But I am still a relative newbie and will always have very little patience.

That device did not work to capture PS1 video footage. So I had to rip those and turn the STRs into AVIs. I expect my first AMV using that to look better than the rest. For the PS2 I had no problem capturing analogously.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:19 pm

In my earlier comment I negleted to mention this:

What I do is I first create an avisynth script that removes the interlacing and any black borders. I create MJPEGs with them and afterwards I adjust the scripts to clean up the footage.

Then I edit with the MJPEGs and swap them out with the high quality avisynth scripts when it is time for my final render. That way everything is as high quality as possible and I am not having to worry how fast my high quality avisynth scripts are to edit with.

Procedures on pre-processing your footage and swapping out the video files can be found here.
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... ssing.html
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... meth3.html

...I'm not sure why I bothered to link those pages. I certain all of you are greatly familiar with this guide by now.