Newbies: How to make your first AMV

XenoDrake · Post by **XenoDrake** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 7:54 am

BloodyCard wrote:ok 13 pages, i read a few of them and i glanced the guides some time ago, but well

what's it take artistically to make a great memorble logo for an AMV production group? ^^

i think the neatest one so far is sailor death heh

no argument there.

bumpers, logos and studio intros are "for the most part" editors just havnig fun with thier editing tools. some of them are quite long too *cough*Rozard*cough* but really, its up to you. if i had to say one thing that most all of them have in common is a catchy music snippit or sound effects. like any good T.V. commercial jingle, its the song that gets stuck in your head.

~XenoDrake

whitefire666 · Post by **whitefire666** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 5:13 pm

well i made my first vid last year and i want to upgrade... and the programm that i am using isn't that good and will not accept my footage most of the time that i actually want to make a vid. well i am trying to upgrade to Adobe Premire 6.5 and i just wanted to know what DVD rippoing programm i should use to get more footage.... thnx for any replies

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StarMasayume · Post by **StarMasayume** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 3:09 pm

Hi,

I've gotten this huge urge to learn how to make these AMVs. I tried to talk myself out of it since I alerady have writing, art, and webdesigning... but I've come to the conclusion that I will not be satisfied unless I can make my own AMVs. I want to be part of it and not just on the outside looking in.

I hate feeling stupid, and it's very overwhelming learning something new, but I'm trying to give a real effort. I don't expect anyone to "hold my hand" but just some overall encouragement and pushing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. I've been trying to familiarize myself with the terms and reading through the guides to get the gist of what I need to do.

I'm still puzzling how the heck Phade was able to say "Plus, if you have a DVD drive in your computer, capturing is a snap." Where's the "snap" in all that or am I just blind?

I've been pouring over the Ermac and Destiny's guides and feel ready to pull out my hair. Specifically the one of ripping and editing dvd footage. They are very informed and helpful guides, but difficult to follow in some areas. My greatest problem right now is GETTING the footage into Premeire.

Here's what I've done. I downloaded the avmapp, and ripped a Kare Kano DVD through the DVD encryptor that I downloaded. I don't think I had any problems there. I opened the VOB files in DVD2avi and set the options that the guide said. I then saved the project and it finished.

I read the guide to avisynth and understood maybe 50 % of it. I understood as much as to find and open the basic VOB import.avs. I then put MPEG2Source("D:\KareKano3.d2v",cpu=6,interlaced=true) in the body or am I ONLY supposed to put the MPEG2Source("D:\myproject.d2v") in the bod?

I don't quite understand yet where the connection is with MPEG2Source. It's around here that my mind's gotten completely messed up. It didn't really tell me where to save the avisynth file to, so I saved it to the same folder that I put the project in hoping that was right. It then said that I could now load them into programs like premiere. (I downloaded a tryout version for Adobe Premiere Pro - I didn't see an option of 6.5 and didn't know how much of a difference that made) But I still don't get HOW to load them into premiere. So not quite understanding that, I read on for the method of creating clips for source footage....

From the guides advice, I disregarded method one, and since the third one sounded complicated to my already frustrated and tangled little brain, I thought I'd try method two, to edit the footage in premiere. It said I needed a Premiere Import Plugin, but that if I downloaded the avmapp that I don't have to worry about that--but so thats supposed to allow me to open .avs files in premiere. I don't even care about the interlacing stuff at this point, I just want to be able to figure out how to access everything in premeire and take clips.

I'm not sure whether to use "import" or the capture box, though neither that I've tried has it seemed to recognize any avs files. So I've been feeling like I'm at a dead end all morning. For awhile now I've been driving myself crazy reading and rereading the guide to see what I missed and just fooling around and trying to see if anything I tride would let me bring the stuff into premiere.

I decided to look into the third method listed, and comprehended maybe 20% of it. I can't tell if it's what it was talking about, but I ended up opening the project again in the DVD2avi program, and told it to save avi, set something for the HuffYUV. Maybe I ended up doing the method 1 now that I think about it... I'm not really sure. I figured avi was something that I wanted though, so tried that. It just finished making them a minute ago while I've been writing this.. I just tried and am able to import them into premiere. I still can't figure out if this is what I wanted or not.

What am I doing wrong? Am I on the right track at least.

My mind is growing slowly insane at this point and so anything you can say to comfort it would be very appreciated. Thank you.

--Star

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 3:27 pm

You typed a lot...

Personally, I prefer method 2 as it is much simpler, in my opinion. After you make the vobs and then the .d2vs with DVD2AVI, you make an .avs file.

or am I ONLY supposed to put the MPEG2Source("D:\myproject.d2v") in the bod?

Yes, that is all you will need. Then, when you do that, you need to import your .avs files. And then you can edit.

You should be able to figure it out from there, it's not too hard. Also, this belongs in Video Software Help, I believe.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:09 pm

Did you remember to change "file type" in the Import box to "AVS Files" or whatever the appropriate option is? I assume you already installed the AVISynth for Premiere plugin.

StarMasayume · Post by **StarMasayume** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 6:04 pm

Well, premiere just isn't recognizing avs at all. And I thought that avmapp that I downloaded had the plug-in that I needed. I don't know if there's anything else I need to do or what that is.

I'm still not sure exactly what I did, but I got the DVD in all avi files and was able to import those. Don't know if that's good or not.

And thanks for the image you added, find_the_dwarf. It always helps to see things--but yeah, it's just not recognizing the avi files.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 6:33 pm

StarMasayume wrote:And thanks for the image you added, find_the_dwarf.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 7:38 pm

Lol, quiet you.

Try uninstalling the AMVapp and then reinstalling it. If you want to do method 2. If not, you might be able to keep editing the way you're doing it now... if you can edit how it is, with the .avis.

tokubetsu · Post by **tokubetsu** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 11:29 pm

Ok ive made couple vids before but they werent in "Excellent" quality because i encoded the dvd rips in Divx. So im working on my new video now and using the whole AVIsynth thing but i have one questions! Should I be able to view the video in windows media player? the .avs file that is because at this point i cant.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:05 am

Yes, you should. Does it display a red error message on black, or what?

(I actually have "play in WMP" set as the double-click action for my AVS files.)

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Newbies: How to make your first AMV

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