Mixing video file?

Lorensschoolofart · Post by **Lorensschoolofart** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:51 pm

I think this is where this post would go. I wanted to ask about mixing a video? I made a video, I don't know how good it is, but I think I tried quite hard with it, but mixing it into a file is quite difficult, it looked very neat and glossy as an mpeg, little did I know it was 160 meg O.O, I can't upload that! I tried a few other formats, none really worked. I have the video as a wmv file up here, but the quality is so awful ><, I dunno, I think I stink at mixing it all together, I have no clue why I'm asking for help, I'm not sure if I can be helped, but I thought I'd try, its a shame to do so bad at the last bit, any ideas?? Thanks.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:33 pm

Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a>
you should read that whole thing, but the part you want is here

Lorensschoolofart · Post by **Lorensschoolofart** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:35 pm

I can only compress in DV, mpeg and AVI, and I can't seem to deinterlace it. ><

Lorensschoolofart · Post by **Lorensschoolofart** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:14 pm

The editor I'm using is Magix Edit Pro. It's an odd program O.o, but is okay for me since I'm new with editing, how do I compress properly on that program. There's so very few options with it.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:18 pm

no idea, never used magix.
you might have some luck asking in the "other video editing systems" forum

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:55 am

What version of Magix Movie Edit Pro are you using? Versions 10 and 11 offer export in AVI (which can be configured for a variety of output codecs), DV-AVI, MPEG, Magix, Quicktime, Uncompressed, Windows Media, and Real Media video.

You'll want to choose AVI and choose the Advanced... settings to select either Huffyuv or Lagarith as recommended by the guide Kariudo linked to. So far, my experience is that Magix doesn't like Lagarith for imports, I get the occasional garbage frame. I've never tried exporting Lagarith from Magix so it may not exhibit this problem for this step.

Remember to select the proper Resolution, Frame rate, Aspect ratio, and Interlaced mode (Important! If your footage is progressive, select progressive on export).

Lorensschoolofart · Post by **Lorensschoolofart** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:28 am

Finally it's suddenly starting to make more sense to me. I'm not mindful like that. I'm curious as to how you know whether the footage is progressed or not, or the other two options of interlaced.

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:18 am

Lorensschoolofart wrote:Finally it's suddenly starting to make more sense to me. I'm not mindful like that. I'm curious as to how you know whether the footage is progressed or not, or the other two options of interlaced.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... deo2.htm#1
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... etb2a.html

Basically, you'll have to look at it frame by frame. Most DVD footage is at least in part interlaced (and at least on the disc, all interlaced).

Virtually all downloaded footage is progressive. Or at least nearly all the stuff I've seen from the internet.

As for top or bottom field interlaced: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... ocId893860
Certain types of footage will always be one or the other, but it is recommended to remove interlacing before editing the footage so you always edit with progressive video. It makes things look better and makes exporting so much simpler.

Org Profile · Post by **808-buma** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:56 pm

Willen, as usual, is correct. I normally export as some form of lossless AVI format (I now use Huffyuv but I use to use Lagarith until I too am encountering garbled frames, but only since the newer versions of the codec - may switch back to the one in the original AMVAPP as I don't remember having problems with that).

From there, I normally take it into VirtualDubMod and do my final prep (cropping the edges of the vid, resizing and other such funness) and use that to export my vid as an xvid encoded AVI file.

(now however, I'm becoming intrigued with the mp4 / h.264 codec combo)