Guides and AMVapp Public Alpha/Beta Test

billy_wires · Post by **billy_wires** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:57 pm

I was about to mention that. I found that wonderful. AbsoluteDestiny has converted yet another to DGIndex.

WilLoW :--) · Post by **WilLoW :--)** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 9:28 am

Small mistake in http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... xport.html
?

This will output a DV file. It is lossless, so not as good an export option as Huffyuv

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 9:33 am

Good to see that people are actually reading these things

Will fix on next update.

WilLoW :--) · Post by **WilLoW :--)** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:30 am

Are some of the pages in their "final" (or almost final) version ?
I'd really like to translate the WMM related pages and the XVid encoding guide into french ASAP, as some non-english-speaking people over there really need those

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:41 am

I just don't know... probably.

However, it is very likley that new things will be added as and when I receive feedback about them... but I think they work now so I don't see any major reason not to translate those parts now.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:42 am

p.s. : I think the xvid guide is the more compelete as I've already made revisions to that.

WilLoW :--) · Post by **WilLoW :--)** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:00 am

Ok. We'll probably have a french translation of the old guides, including the new XviD encoding guide, as the one on the old guides is completely obsolete.
I think other things in the old guides are still "true", although things like DVD2AVI have changed to DGIndex... so well, french creators (that do not speak english) will use the old AMVApp as long as we do not start translating the new guides

... no specific problem with that ?

(a bit OT here but it is still about the large differences that might exist between the old and new guides. In other words, I hope all previous techniques are not obsolete)

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:05 am

Well.. the difficulty is that theold guides are all avisynth 2.0x and the new is 2.5 ...

including dgindex and dgdecode.dll

So... dunno really, we'll see

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:01 pm

In the beta gudie there is a typo:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... etb2a.html

well luckily I've included a little helper function in the AMVapp to help you - add this cpmmand to the end of your avisynth script in VirtualDubMod and press F5:

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:52 am

another little typo but it makes it confusing.
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... etb2a.html
Temporal Scanline Blending, sentence 2.

However, as the image being sampled is changes this causes the field being sampled to blend into the next image

also, the dv-avi export from wmm2 can be really nasty.

first, unlike the wmv export, the avi export messes up framerate i think. (it turned my 5:08 project into a 4:50 avi, i had to redo the timing in the project and speed the audio).

second, a lot of wmm2 users report really ugly video quality at parts. i've noticed it can be bad at transitions, even straight cuts. (it was by luck that my last project produced a clear looking avi, past projects have failed to do so. also a few wmm2 users seem to be able to produce clean looking avis, but most don't.

third, the directshowsource command won't work on the dv-avi wmm produces. the problem is that wmm produces dv type-1, which combines audio video in one stream or something. avisynth doesn't support dv type-1, but supports dv type-2, where the audio and video are separated into two streams and fortunately there are free dv type-1 to dv type-2 converters available online, like http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=195

i really don't know what's goin on with the first two problems so if you have an explanation or solution for us, could you tell us? otherwise post a warning that dv-avi doesn't always give (relatively) great results.