Noob video help

[Pollyester]

Hello all, I hope I'm asking in the right place. This is my first attempt at making an AMV and my primary question is what dimensions of an wmv do you use for the standard AMV video ie. 320x240 ? I'm converting from AVI to WMV the clips from several videos, roughly matching them to the parts of song I'm using, combing the clips, then stripping out the original audio, editing the video further to match the song parts and than overlaying the song. I'm probably going about this all the wrong way but is way I'll feel most comfortable with. So any advice would be appreciated, in additon to my question. Sorry in advance if posted in the wrong place

[Melanchthon]

Hello all, I hope I'm asking in the right place. This is my first attempt at making an AMV and my primary question is what dimensions of an wmv do you use for the standard AMV video ie. 320x240 ?

The files currently in my AMV folder range from 320x220 to 848x480, with 640x480 and 512x384 being the most common. I don't think it matters all that much as long as the width and height are multiples of 16 and the ratio is as close to 4:3 (or 16:9, or whatever) as you can get it, and the file size isn't obscenely huge.

[BasharOfTheAges]

I'm converting from AVI to WMV the clips from several videos

Why on earth would you do that? Converting from one lossy frame inaccurate format to another is innane. (I'm making assumptions here because you don't actually list the codecs you're using).

[Hellmaster Inu]

Hello all, I hope I'm asking in the right place. This is my first attempt at making an AMV and my primary question is what dimensions of an wmv do you use for the standard AMV video ie. 320x240 ? I'm converting from AVI to WMV the clips from several videos, roughly matching them to the parts of song I'm using, combing the clips, then stripping out the original audio, editing the video further to match the song parts and than overlaying the song. I'm probably going about this all the wrong way but is way I'll feel most comfortable with. So any advice would be appreciated, in additon to my question. Sorry in advance if posted in the wrong place

640x480 is my standard and will probably always will be when I'm using 4:3 footage. I haven't made any AMVs yet using any 16:9 footage, so I can't say anything about that. You shouldn't be converting your AVI clips to WMV by the way. You're only making the video quality worse. If your AVI clips are encoded in DivX or XviD, just encode them using HuffVuy(did I spell that right?) or Lagarith, which are loseless quality codecs, meaning you won't lose any quality when encoding with them.

[DJ_Izumi]

Why on earth would you do that? Converting from one lossy frame inaccurate format to another is innane. (I'm making assumptions here because you don't actually list the codecs you're using).

Both formats are frame accurate.

[devilmaykickass]

I'm converting from AVI to WMV the clips from several videos

Why on earth would you do that? Converting from one lossy frame inaccurate format to another is innane. (I'm making assumptions here because you don't actually list the codecs you're using).

Hahaha oh wow.

[Pollyester]

Sorry for the late response, but thanks guys for your advice. Again this is the first AMV I've attempted and I just wanted to try to make one no matter how crappy it would turn out I've nearly completed it now (everythings synched up to this point and I'm just wanting for a certain episode to be released today to finsh it). Yeah, I don't know what AVI codec for the episodes that I downloaded it in but I saved the clips I wanted to WMV video for broadband NTSC 384Kbps. (It's just that I do it this way because everytime I try something else it screws up and I'm sticking to what works for me) Yeah I know each time you convert anything to another format you lose quality but I was wondering if I took the entire AMV I has saved in WMV 384 and converted in higher quality ie. WMV 1500Kbps would the synch be messed up and/or would lose more quality? I know you guys take your work seriously, so excuse this clueless noob still using win98 with limited hardrive space and Blaze media Pro. Thanks in advance, now you can really pity this fool