oh no another newbie!

[Noverca1is]

Hello all, Well I have done music videos in the past, during my high school days in TV production with old old old linear editing boards and also the INFAMOUS double vhs deck and triple. yes triple! My friends and I were bored out of our mind so we wanted to "perfect" vhs quality and timing so 2 recorders and 1 playback gave us a better chance.

anyways, I have created only 1 AMV, about 2 years ago on my computer.
However, I wasnt much into or informed with codecs, playbacks, after effects and all that crap.
Now the video came out 90% perfect, several barely visible editing mistakes on my part I seen but overal the concept is great. I would love to upload it here but its the direct .avi files from adobe preimere 5.0 which is about 1gig in size for a 5min clip... lol

so yeah, I had it compressed with a encoder, now only 56mbs, the quality pretty much sucks and I REFUSE to put that version up.

so, now, 2 years later, im using Adobe preimere pro.
I really dont understand the program or anything I ever do, I just somehow manage to do it. I was reading the guides and I learned alot of information. Wether I knew them or not, did them properly or not, I would never know.
So im now asking:

PC - Adobe preimere Pro, I really want to make a HIGH QUALITY AMV.
What is needed?
What is the best codec to use when encoding?
I never used avisyth or whatever and any other 3rd party programs.


All i have done was, get the anime footages, get the mp3, slap the mp3 on the time line, get all the footages, start hacking and slicing away it, editing them all together and whatnot, render, view, WAH-LA... the end and didnt see no interlace problems, no wrong sizing, no nothing. When encoded to mpg, everything was squished, rectangular (horizontally). Fuzzy, the anime looked like it was from the 1980s tv cartoon. Very horrible quality, lots of loss.

So, I ask again.
Best encoding tool?
Codec?
What are the 3rd party programs you all speak of?
What is it for, why should I use it?

Also, I have self corrupted my mind already on 1 particular guide.
So now when I use adobe, should I use:

NTSC
or
PAL

16:9 vs 4:3

32 vs 48Hz?

timebase? 29.97?
29.978?
29.976?
25?
24?
23?

I seen all these numbers and have been tremdously confused,


OFF THE BAT INFO:

I DO NOT USE DVD ANIME...
I am a "PATHETIC" person who uses DOWNLOADED Animes...
Yeah yeah, I read the guides and its looked down upon... so what... most of the anime are high quality anyways...
so, in turn, do I ned to worry about timebase now?
do I need to worry about interlace?

WHAT DO I NEED TO WORRY?
my knowledge of adobe has been ruined after reading all those guides and confusing myself!

HELP ME

[dokool]

OFF THE BAT INFO:

I DO NOT USE DVD ANIME...
I am a "PATHETIC" person who uses DOWNLOADED Animes...
Yeah yeah, I read the guides and its looked down upon... so what... most of the anime are high quality anyways...
so, in turn, do I ned to worry about timebase now?
do I need to worry about interlace?

WHAT DO I NEED TO WORRY?
my knowledge of adobe has been ruined after reading all those guides and confusing myself!

HELP ME

If you'd read all the guides, they would tell you the best things to use and why you shouldn't use downloaded anime. AD's guide answers every single one of your questions if you read it carefully enough.

[iluvcinnamoroll]

The guides are kind of confusing until you read them a few times. The codec I use to compress is xvid. It works pretty well. NTSC or PAL is for the kind of dvd footage used. It usually says what kind it is on the bottom right of a dvd case, but since you use downloaded footage, i don't think you really need to worry about that. Thats all I know... sry.

[DaPatches]

I am a "PATHETIC" person who uses DOWNLOADED Animes...

If the animes youa re using are available in the states at all, yes...yes that is pathetic.

And illegal.