AMV's For Dummies

recklez_vegeta · Post by **recklez_vegeta** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 11:10 pm

hey wassup peoples i'm new here at AMV i've seen some of your AMV's and they all kicked ass so it inspired me to start making some of my own. I just finished my first one but when i export it with adobe premiere 6.0 the file size is bigger than 50MB's and i dont know why but i have friends that are A-holes and dont wanna tell me how to make them smaller than 15MB so could anybody out there help me out? thanks.

bloodyfang · Post by **bloodyfang** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 11:14 pm

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Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 11:21 pm

you need to COMPRESS it to a format such as MPEG or DIVX

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 3:35 am

I don't know why you would want it under 15 megs. The compression would be horrendous and quality will be decreeased to almost nill. But anyway that is your answer, to compress the video.

recklez_vegeta · Post by **recklez_vegeta** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 11:12 am

not exactly because i've seen some videos that are about 13 to 13MB's and are as good quality as a video of 35 or 50. But anyways how do i compress it?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 11:17 am

!!WARNING WARNING!!!

Newbie has name of a Dragon Ball character in his name, proceed with EXTREME caution...

You can check the guides out off of the main page, such as ErMaC's, read the whole thing and some where in there he gets around to compression.

Or well you can goto doom9.org, and get VirtualDub & DivX3.11a and install them and then you can figure it out from there...oh we hope you can...

Oh and if your video is only 60MB at the moment then it is already compressed somewhat. Probably in something like CinePack or something... Hmmm. Yes. Well anyways. See if you can figure it out....

Hopefully you know what "bitrate"....

Post again if you continue to suffe-- err have problems...

~klinky

recklez_vegeta · Post by **recklez_vegeta** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 4:36 pm

ok i read some of ermacs or whatever his is's guide i downloaded what he told me but now i cant seem to get to change the things necessary to make the file smaller.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 4:43 pm

if you are using tmpgenc, you need to load the profile called "unlock"

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 5:05 pm

For a beginner it's easier, in my opinion, to make a divx file in Virtual Dub.

First goto File|Open Video File, find your video and hit okay.

Then setup video compression:

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Then audio compression:

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Finally save the AVI file and let it encode the file out, it may take a couple minutes.

Keep in mind that all these values are in "Kilobits". A KiloBit is 1024bits or 128bytes of information.
1 x 8 = 1 byte x 1024 = 1 KiloByte x 1024 = 1 MegaByte x 1024 = 1 GigaByte x 1024 = 1 TeraByte.

You also want to make sure you choose the proper frequency that you exported your audio at.

Just to give you a idea:
Say you have a AVI file with a 600Kbit DivX video stream and a 128Kbit MP3 Audio stream.

600 divided by 8 = 75, so that's 75 KiloBytes
128 divided by 8 = 16, so that's 16 KiloBytes

75+16 = 91KB/sec.

So if your video is three minutes, or 180 seconds long.
That is:

91 x 180 = 16380KiloBytes. Divided by 1024 = 15.9 MegaBytes.

So if you do those calculations, then you'll have a idea what your file size will be. Now the file will not be exactly that size as the way most codecs work, they do not use a constant bitrate, so it may flucuate and use less during one scene and more during another. So it may end up being a bit larger or smaller depending on the footage you use.

~klinky

bloodyfang · Post by **bloodyfang** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 5:15 pm

What Klinky said
=P