AMV Hell Championship Edition

pat_hulse · Post by **pat_hulse** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:30 pm

Congrats to AMV Hell 3 for winning the VCA for Best Multi-Editor Project!

*party*

Strawberry Key · Post by **Strawberry Key** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:29 am

pat_hulse wrote:Congrats to AMV Hell 3 for winning the VCA for Best Multi-Editor Project!

*party*

Woo, party indeed! ^___^

Yukitosan · Post by **Yukitosan** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:47 am

sigmatron wrote:
MeetSpecialEdd wrote:I'm still pretty new to making amvs, but what program should I use? I don't really like Windows' Movie Maker.
WOW!! wrong place a ask!!

BUT HERE are a list of video eneter

the really bad one's are marked with (#F)
the good and stable one's are marked with (#pass)
the very good one's #good

Adobe Premiere Pro #F
Adobe After Effects #F
Adobe Premiere Element #F (a cheaper ver. of Adobe Premiere Pro)
Sony Vegas Movie Studio #good
Ulead VideoStudio #pass
Ulead MediaStudio Pro #good

Sony Vegas Movie Studio or Ulead MediaStudio Pro the best

Normally I wouldn't respond to stuff like this but I cannot agree with Sigmatron's ratings of the Adobe video editing family. All three are excellent tools and make video editing much simpler and more convenient, if you know how to use them properly. Adobe Premiere Pro is an excelent program for taking various clips and aranging them in order with simple effects and transitions. Elements is an even more powerful version of Premiere with a lot more transitions, special effects and the like. If you don't plan to do anything truely spectacular, I would highly recommend Elements. After Effects, though it is very complicated and difficult to use, is the most powerful video editor I've encountered. AMVs like Zarxrax's "Surfing on the Blocks" (Which I highly recommend - http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=49915 ) are close to impossible without a program like After Effects. While I wouldn't recommend After Effects for most lite video editing, I certainly wouldn't discredit it. Honestly, I have only worked slightly with MediaStudio and haven't used the others, so I won't discredit them, but I certainly would not underestimate Adobe.

Szwagier · Post by **Szwagier** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:37 am

sakuraslight wrote: Why do you need a lossless anyway.

Its not like we are making IMAX movies.

and the answaer is:

Zarxrax wrote: Keep in mind that all entries will be included in compilation videos, so be sure to send the highest quality version you can.

ChaosProjects · Post by **ChaosProjects** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:01 am

pat_hulse wrote:Congrats to AMV Hell 3 for winning the VCA for Best Multi-Editor Project!

*party*

Heh..nice..AMV Hell 3 won Best Multi-Editor project...that was another fun project to participate in. Who though you could pull together 60 plus people to make a video..but Zarx the man pulled it off and had it for delivery at AWA time...was the best hour I had at that con last year...and i am glad i get to participate in this one too..lol..

ngsilver · Post by **ngsilver** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:24 am

sakuraslight wrote:Why do you need a lossless anyway.

Its not like we are making IMAX movies.

Considering it is quite possible for a judge to have to make a choice on a better video based off of quality. The higher quality video that is just as funny as the lesser quality video would most likely win, because it looks better. It's always a good idea to send in the best quality you can, which is why lossless codecs are nice... I just don't recomend using them over the internet, as file sizes can get quite large ^^() (typical Huffy 4 min encoded AMV can run about 2.5 gigs)

sigmatron · Post by **sigmatron** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:02 am

OK!!! If you take a AVI and put it in video editer. Then output it for some thing as a xvid/dvix it loses quality. if you do it 3 or more time there's ~65% quality loses.

so if you keep it lossless for the editing then convert it you'll get better quality!!

ever time you convert some thing it loses quality

And professoins use raw uncompression video. much bigger

p.s. DO NOT SEND IT LOSSLESS

Strawberry Key · Post by **Strawberry Key** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:44 am

sigmatron wrote:ever time you convert some thing it loses quality

Which sucks for me, because editing with iMovie pretty much requires a conversion of footage before even getting started. It won't take anything other than DV, so it'll convert whatever it can to DV when you put clips into the program. And since DV is so grossly huge (just a 15 second entry for me is on average between 45 and 65 MB), it's not smart to put up a DV entry over the internet, so it pretty much has to be converted to something else. On the advice of the iMovie guide on the org, I use D-Volution to convert to AVI.

princess_ookumae · Post by **princess_ookumae** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:26 pm

I' m feeling good about this round, I already have one possible entry done but I have another idea or two still that I want to do....I need a beta any volunteers? No.../cry

LOL

Squancho · Post by **Squancho** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:14 pm

ChaosProjects wrote:Jo' congrats Haunter!!!

And who said that you wouldn't win again..heh..what is that 2 or 3 wins now..

I'm a little confoozed. Is this for challenge 14 or 15?

I entered in the latter challenge and wondered if I still had a chance. If it's already been decided, I apologize for being a bother.

*goes back to read main post again*

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