How to use Divx as a AMV creator

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How to use Divx as a AMV creator

Post by Denno42 » Fri May 30, 2003 4:18 pm

Ok, this may be a stupid question and I read that newbies shouldn't be asking stupid questions but I do have one. How do I use Divx to make an AMV? Thank you for your time.

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Post by Zarxrax » Fri May 30, 2003 4:34 pm

Do you mean how do you export your finished video as a divx file, or how do you make a video with your downloaded videos? For the former, its covered in the guides, for the latter, dont do it :?
In the future, this type of question belongs in the video software forum.

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Post by Denno42 » Fri May 30, 2003 4:38 pm

So dont make the videos with downloaded stuff and do not make them with divx, ok thanks. But one more question then, if I shouldnt use divx what would be the best to use?

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Post by Zarxrax » Fri May 30, 2003 4:46 pm

Go check out the guide:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/

I like to use huffyuv myself, but I've also tried editing directly from the vobs recently, and that works pretty nicely.

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Post by Denno42 » Fri May 30, 2003 4:48 pm

Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.

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Post by the Black Monarch » Fri May 30, 2003 9:51 pm

Unless you're willing to wade through loads of Vdub and Tmpegenc and spatial filter bullshit, export in DivX. DivX is good. DivX is the standard.

As for source material... it's a case-by-case basis. Some downloaded DivX videos look better than the original DVDs (thank the gods for noise reduction), others look like badly encoded Windows Media.
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Post by Maximo » Fri May 30, 2003 10:46 pm

Black Monarch has a point, It all depends on how good your sources are.
Seeing that you are a noob you are probably using fansubed footage. like i stated before if you sources are real good quality U should B fine. Personally i use huffyuv too. Its anot that hard and actually once u convert it with Tmpgenc it actually saves aolt more space. turning a what would be a 50/60 mb vid in Divx, to a 20 or 30 mb vid. i suggest you go with Huff.
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Post by trythil » Fri May 30, 2003 11:04 pm

the Black Monarch wrote:Unless you're willing to wade through loads of Vdub and Tmpegenc and spatial filter bullshit, export in DivX. DivX is good. DivX is the standard.
Well, technically, no. MPEG-4 -- the container format and the video encoding / decoding guidelines -- that's the standard. DivX is de facto, sure, but it's not "THE standard" :P

And all that tweaking - it's not bullshit if you know what you're doing :P All those parameters that you can tweak are tweakable for a reason -- it's to let you, the encoder, figure out what is best for your particular source. There is no "one size fits all" solution for video encoding, despite what you say.

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Post by Maximo » Fri May 30, 2003 11:06 pm

trythil wrote:And all that tweaking - it's not bullshit if you know what you're doing :P All those parameters that you can tweak are tweakable for a reason -- it's to let you, the encoder, figure out what is best for your particular source. There is no "one size fits all" solution for video encoding, despite what you say.
Yeah what he said.
very well put :D
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Post by Stoic » Fri May 30, 2003 11:11 pm

I am crazy. I do MPEG2 editing. Everyone tells me I'm stupid, so don't listen to me.

But in my humble opinion stay away from Xvid. I'm so pissed off at that piece of shit it isn't funny.
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