Couple of Questions (Sorry if they've been asked before)

onimoto · Post by **onimoto** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 6:15 pm

First off, sorry if these questions have been asked before (which they almost certainly have) but it's hard to search in these forums what with there being so many topics

Ok, I'm working on a small music video, and so far I havent needed any tuts or anything, but I need help with a few things:

1. How do crop the video?
2. Whats the best way to adjust the clips for better timing?
3. My music video is often blocky and patchy in parts, even though the original footage isnt, is there anything i should do to fix the quality?

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 6:47 pm

1. in premier if u export the time line as movie then go to settings, special procceses, modify
2. just move them around in premier i guess i dont really know what u mean
3. it could be becouse of demacro vison witch is like a rip protection u could try to rip it with a diff program

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 9:23 pm

Blockyness is due to not enough bitrate. Increase the bitrate, and it will make the quality better, while increasing the filesize.

onimoto · Post by **onimoto** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:16 am

cool thanks

and when i mean how do i get timing, i just meant, should i bother altering the speed of the clips at all? or would it make it look weird?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 8:29 am

That's up to you. Do whatever you think makes it look better. Changing speed is often necessary for proper action sync. Also the speed of the clips should go along to the speed of the music. On my DDR3 amv, pretty much every single clip used was running at 500% speed or greater 8)

onimoto · Post by **onimoto** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:18 am

heh, and yeah i started altering the speed a little on each clip to match the timing, only prob is i prepared like 5 mins of clips for a 2 1/2 minute song so i had to pick a point midfight where the video ended (an appropriate point tho

), now all i gotta figure out is how to fade it out

onimoto · Post by **onimoto** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 1:06 pm

mkay, i got the video looking ok (the quality isnt too good but i dont think its that bad for a first try) but its come out at 180mb (first time it came ut at 3gb :S), i downloaded virtualdub because its supposedly better using that to compress it, but how do i get the video into virtualdub?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 4:33 pm

This video sounds revolutionary. I am sorry :O I am picking on it. Sorry sorry.. I am a fucker.

But seriously, look at the guides. I could write here "Export uncompressed from Premiere, then use VirtualDub to convert it into an XviD file."

Most people will not take this hint and go search Premiere documents for "uncompressed" or search for "VirtualDub" or search for "XviD". They will ask for links and detailed instructions with PICTURES. PICTURES FOR FUCKS SAKE! On how to do this task. No one feels like writing a guide and I sure don't want to, because to understand what you're doing and why requires a lot of text

.

Blah,

poke and play with it until you get it. Or go through and read AD & ErMaC's guide. There's a link in my sig.

onimoto · Post by **onimoto** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 5:02 pm

myeh, i just fucked around with it myself and got it down to 42mbish, that'll do for now (although its still kinda blocky at times even though i set the bitrate to the maximum)

oh and btw, im not asking for guides or pictures, just a simple few steps on what i do. yeah i know theres alot of guides and stuff, but thats the problem, finding a good guide with the actual answers i need is pretty hard, since i have to sift through all kinds of random crap just to find em, most of the time its easier and faster to just figure it out myself

onimoto · Post by **onimoto** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 5:45 pm

hmm, finished my vid. theres still a few imperfections, but i still dont think its too bad for a first vid ^_^

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=23237