SFU avi files

AerithReborn · Post by **AerithReborn** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:37 am

I was a good girl and got all of my episodes in line that I wanted to use, then went over to the Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a> guide (or whatever that Bible is called). I followed the instructions up to the avisynth part. I can't get Vegas to use it (even though I loaded Wax). It suggested also making AVIs for it, but I don't have that kind of massive hard drive. Each episode was looking at around 6GB each for 6 episodes. I've only got a 60G HD (with about 15G free), so that wasn't really an option. I tried making it lower quality, but that got me to around 3G or so.

I got frustrated and did something that's probably unforgivable... I went to my VOBs and renamed them to AVIs. It worked well enough in Window's Media and in Zoom Player, but get it into Vegas 6 and everything falls apart. The video is going about 10-15% faster than the audio, the interlacing is burning my eyes, and I'll randomly get everything turning into pixels. Now, I was able to put something together for about 56 counts or so that worked relatively well. I did a little fading and a little speed changing and it worked in the preview window. I went and tried to Preview in Player (small avi render of selection) and all I get is gibberish. It begins right, but come the transition to the second clip, it starts spasing out and renders something entirely elsewhere in the episode (the cut to credits thing... totally not desired). I tried to load it in WMM2 and that didn't even register the video in the timeline, nor did it make clips.

I don't know if it's because I renamed my VOBs or if I've got bad AVIs or if there's something simple I can do to fix it. I really wish that the Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a> (video bible) would've included more about Vegas....

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:07 am

You could always clip in Virtual Dub, that way you're working along the same line you had first intended to, but with far less in the way of HDD space for footage.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:10 pm

AerithReborn wrote:I was a good girl and got all of my episodes in line that I wanted to use, then went over to the Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a> guide (or whatever that Bible is called). I followed the instructions up to the avisynth part. I can't get Vegas to use it (even though I loaded Wax).

Did you try using DGVFAPI for the AVISynth scripts? Everyone says that works.

Here's two threads on the topic:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... 251#760251
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=60777

(... will someone please make one of the relevant threads a sticky?)

AerithReborn · Post by **AerithReborn** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:00 am

Thanks, guys. I don't quite understand what you're talking about, Scintilla... not quite yet, anyway ^^;. I've bowed down and have taken the walkthrough STEP BY STEP and am making clips which is working out pretty well, but SLOW! Gods, it's slow. Haha... the easy part of all this is the construction of the vid itself, hmm? The hard stuff is just getting set up >.>; Thanks again!

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:25 pm

Set up the clips to run in batch mode. That way you can make all the clips you want with little downtime and encode them while your out / asleep / etc.

AerithReborn · Post by **AerithReborn** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:53 am

Nah, that's not the slow part (I shower during that time... and make a sammich) It's the actual choosing of the clips that takes forever. I have officially watched the entire series in no particular order just to find clips hahaha. It's all good... and about 75% constructed....

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:42 am

AerithReborn wrote:Nah, that's not the slow part (I shower during that time... and make a sammich) It's the actual choosing of the clips that takes forever. I have officially watched the entire series in no particular order just to find clips hahaha. It's all good... and about 75% constructed....

Well, that's usually how the process works... On the bright side, putting your video together will take somewhat less time because you won't have as much footage you don't need to search through.

gangstaj8 · Post by **gangstaj8** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 5:06 pm

Just cause no one else has mentioned yet...

AerithReborn wrote:I got frustrated and did something that's probably unforgivable... I went to my VOBs and renamed them to AVIs.

Yeah, that's pretty much a no no. I'm surprised it worked at all. Renaming the files extension doesn't acutally convert the file, if it were that easy, we wouldn't need guides. Anyway, good luck with the rest of your project.

AerithReborn · Post by **AerithReborn** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:49 am

Mmmmm... that's what I thought. I won't do that again. Thanks for answering about that.

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