What's your clip collection method?

giygus007 · Post by **giygus007** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:14 pm

I rip my DVDs to vob files, use AVISynth to make completed, progressive AVIs of the entire DVD, then back the multi-gb AVI onto DVD. This process takes about 15 hours per DVD, but I am running the clips through certain filters while I'm deinterlacing and stuff. This way, when I make my backups, I have finished footage to use on a later AMV. I then use VDub to rip clips as I need them in Premeire.

Of course, it helps to have 3@120gb HDDs on a multi-monitored system. I can use Premeire in one monitor, VDub in the other, and rip clips as I feel I need them in the current project. Yes, searching through VDub for the clips is time consuming, but it is worth it. I made my first AMV in about 10 hours or so using this method (that 10 hours does not include the 40 or so hours for converting the 3 DVDs used into AVIs).

Is this the best method.... hell no! But I feel the loss of time is worth it after considering that I will never have to decode the same DVD again, and will always have the necessary AVI footage whenever I'll need it in future AMVs; just copy it from my backups back onto the HDD, and I'm ready to rock and roll!

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:25 pm

I think I have an interesting way of doing it. I make fake avis of my avs scripts with vfapi and the avs files just has basic deinterlacing methods and frame rate changes.. so they run very smoothly in my video editing program.. when I'm done editing my video, I add already prewriten scripts to my previous scripts to clean up the footage, then I remake the fake avi, then I go back to my video editing program and render my footage. I find it extremely easy this way, there's no stress and my video editing program never crashes(Vegas 6.0).

Another cool thing is that I've got over 160 dvds ripped on my computer.. and I still haven't' took half my space(umm.. yes I got a lot of space).. Most of my clips are on external hard drives and playback is so great in my program and nothing over heats. I'd recommend trying a video that way. You could rip like 60 dvds to an external hard drive with 300 megabytes.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:34 pm

OK nevermind. I was looking at an external hard drive that had a lot of downloads on it.. so all together I'd estimate about 70 DVDs could fit on one hard drive!

Hinano · Post by **Hinano** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:40 pm

Zarxrax wrote:It depends what I'm doing. If I am doing a video with lots of various sources that I'm not really familiar with, I search through for clips I might need, and save them out of virtualdub. If I am working with a really long series that has a lot of episodes, I will do the same thing.

If I am working with a shorter series, or a movie or something, I will usually just put the whole episode into premiere and pick out the parts as i need them.

This is exactly what I do because when I make AMVs I tend to use either the whole series (12-24 eps) or a bunch of animes and by then I can only recall a FEW clips that I want to use so I just go through the whole ep in vdub and cut out what looks useable (based on the lyrics ) , it works well and even tho I end up with footage I don't use it makes selectiong and editing less annoying...

..and if you decide to go this way be sure to rip the clips iwthout audio or premiere will crash

Purge · Post by **Purge** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:28 am

i use the bait and switch method in premiere so i can work with full eps. I encode some low qualatiy eps down to 100meg each and import those. Find the clips i want in premiere and put them in the timeline and do the editing and such. Then i simply replace the low quality encodes with better quality ones and export the project easy.

Hinano · Post by **Hinano** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:55 pm

^I used to that when my PC sucked and premiere crashed every 2 seconds hahaha