So You Want To Be An Anime Music Video Editor? [split]

[Scintilla]

thank you guys for trying to help me plz reply when u can

any time you need help just check the help section of the forums, there are tons of people here who are willing to help...

... but if you read all the stickies and guides first, and do a search to see if your question has already been answered before starting a new topic, then people will be even MORE willing to help.

[gwestrate]

Ok this is gonna be a rant!!!!!!.......Please folks go into your divx codecs settings and uncheck the watermark box....PLEASE!!!! there are some good AMVs being made and the mark just screws up the whole thing!!!!!!!!!!!......ok now i can breath....hehe.....sorry for the rant but it really ruins a good vid....Or makes a semi good one piss poor!

[Kionon]

Ok this is gonna be a rant!!!!!!.......Please folks go into your divx codecs settings and uncheck the watermark box....PLEASE!!!! there are some good AMVs being made and the mark just screws up the whole thing!!!!!!!!!!!......ok now i can breath....hehe.....sorry for the rant but it really ruins a good vid....Or makes a semi good one piss poor!

Or, as I have previously said: PLEASE DO NOT USE DOWNLOADED FOOTAGE.

There is never any reason to be editing with video encoded in the DivX codec (or any fourcc codec period). You should be editing as losslessly as possible. Just do that and you won't have to worry about any watermarks you aren't intending to use as a feature.

[gwestrate]

Ok this is gonna be a rant!!!!!!.......Please folks go into your divx codecs settings and uncheck the watermark box....PLEASE!!!! there are some good AMVs being made and the mark just screws up the whole thing!!!!!!!!!!!......ok now i can breath....hehe.....sorry for the rant but it really ruins a good vid....Or makes a semi good one piss poor!

Or, as I have previously said: PLEASE DO NOT USE DOWNLOADED FOOTAGE.

There is never any reason to be editing with video encoded in the DivX codec (or any fourcc codec period). You should be editing as losslessly as possible. Just do that and you won't have to worry about any watermarks you aren't intending to use as a feature.

This can also happen if your ripping the footage in the wrong codec and not doing it lossley as Kionon has stated.

[Kionon]

This can also happen if your ripping the footage in the wrong codec and not doing it lossley as Kionon has stated.

No offense, gwestrate, but I need to correct your inaccuracies. Since this is a help sticky, I don't want interested parties becoming confused. I hope you don't take it personally.

If you are following the directions I wrote in the original post, then it will be impossible to "rip the footage in the wrong codec." If you use dvd decryptor or Mac the Ripper, you will not be using a compression codec at all. Rather, you will simply be transfering .vob (mpeg-2) files from your DVD source to your harddrive. While it is true that some programs, especially those that have titles like DVD2DIVX etc do exist, I must stress that you do not use them to rip. Use only DVD Decryptor or Mac the Ripper. There are other options out there, but I recommend these for most, if not all, editors.

Furthermore, you should not have ripping programs adding watermarks of any sort. Again, if this is happening, you are not using either of the programs I have recommended, and frankly, probably have a pretty shitty peice of software you would do well to dispense with as soon as you can double click "add/remove programs."

Finally, it is from avs files that you should be creating your lossless copies, that way you have control over the quality of the footage even before editing. I don't recommend creating lossless copies directly from the .vob files even if ripped, and I certainly wouldn't suggest doing it straight from the DVD disc itself.

[Kumorigoe]

You know, seeing as how I've been around here since a whole two weeks after Kionon joined, and seeing that you've just barely joined, I'd be inclined to listen to someone who KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK THEY'RE DOING.

[Kionon]

You know, seeing as how I've been around here since a whole two weeks after Kionon joined, and seeing that you've just barely joined, I'd be inclined to listen to someone who KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK THEY'RE DOING.

Not exactly necessary, Robert, although I understand the sentiment.

[Aetre]

greetings to all the regs here, and i apologize if this is a previously asked question, but i will be brief:

i ripped the dvd's for negima according to the directions given out in several guides, and dvd decryptor seemed satisfied it did the job just fine. i have all the files ready and waiting...

however, i have noticed a problem with the files: during certain sections of the video file, the animation will double-play itself. what i mean is, imagine for a moment if my above sentence had read as follows:

greetings to all to all the regs here regs here, and i apologi and i apologize if this is a is a previously asked question ously asked question, but i will but i will be will be brief.

the whole video is doing that. the sound track and the video track are together, not messed up, but they both do this.

the odd part is that it only happens for certain sections or scenes in the rip. other sections are perfectly fine. it seems to be at random which scenes work and which scenes don't, but the problem is located to certain scenes; meaning, it begins happening and stops happening at scene switches. also, the problem is not only with the .vob files, but with all compressed files i make based off that .vob.

any advice on this matter, or at least a link in the right direction?

if there is any more information you would like me to give you on this, please just say so.

[Kariudo]

sounds like multiple angles.
sometimes dvd's will have more than one "layer" of video, and when you rip it you get both of them.
this shouldn't happen if you rip your dvd's using IFO mode (in dvd decrypter).
if you did use ifo mode, then it's probably just that your computer can't handle all of that video information at once

[Aetre]

yep, that did it, apparently. many thanks!