AWA 2005 Pro Contest Discussion Thread

StudioKZ · Post by **StudioKZ** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:20 pm

Beowulf wrote:ErMac was pretty conceided, but he had good reason to be. He was the first (?) guy to achieve a mainstream level of technical quality as well as unheard of video quality. His Soul of an Angel video made a huge impact on the community in ways that changed people's expectations on what a video was capable of.

Yes, thank you ErMac for fagging up the community by making sure that any joker with a DVD drive or broadband connection and 10 gigabytes of HD space could turn out an AMV with deceptively high quality video.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:32 pm

At this right you might start to think that there's an AMV black list.

StudioKZ · Post by **StudioKZ** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:33 am

The Wired Knight wrote:At this right you might start to think that there's an AMV black list.

No, I'm just still bitter about spending a thousand dollars on video capture equipment that isn't essential to the hobby and that even I don't use anymore.

Lord Rae · Post by **Lord Rae** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:45 am

I still capture all my stuff... mostly because of the money I spent on the hardware but also because its no difference in quality and I don't have to work with full episodes if I don't want to. Its easier sometimes to just capture what you need rather than 12 hours of footage or whatever.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:53 am

Lord Rae wrote:I don't have to work with full episodes if I don't want to. Its easier sometimes to just capture what you need rather than 12 hours of footage or whatever.

After ripping VOBs, I use MPEG2Cut to get the pieces I want and discard the rest.

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:59 am

dokidoki wrote:
Lord Rae wrote:I don't have to work with full episodes if I don't want to. Its easier sometimes to just capture what you need rather than 12 hours of footage or whatever.
After ripping VOBs, I use MPEG2Cut to get the pieces I want and discard the rest.

Hrm...I wonder if that's easier than putting my AVS files in Premiere and individually rendering Huffyuv files of the clips I want (which is what I did for my Pro video...I had something like 60 GB worth of Huffyuv clips).

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:05 am

StudioKZ wrote:
The Wired Knight wrote:At this right you might start to think that there's an AMV black list.
No, I'm just still bitter about spending a thousand dollars on video capture equipment that isn't essential to the hobby and that even I don't use anymore.

x2

Although I still have some old tapes and LDs that have not been released as DVDs and which I could possibly capture for a project or two.

anneke · Post by **anneke** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:21 am

I never know what I'll want, so I need to keep EVERYTHING on the computer and at hand. It's why I made sure to have a large storage drive. (Grin)

-Anneke

Lord Rae · Post by **Lord Rae** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:26 am

Yeah I've got the space cause I'm always working on something and if I'm not my sister is... although she's only finished one video that hasn't been released so far...

But I've got a new 320 gig sata, a 160 and a 120... which gives me plenty of room to mess around but I also like to just capture what I know I want for a project. Although for some shows or videos I do just capture the episode.

My hesitance to rip is also because I'm not the most technically minded person and I hate asking for help so I stick to what I know.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:13 pm

Kusoyaro wrote:Hrm...I wonder if that's easier than putting my AVS files in Premiere and individually rendering Huffyuv files of the clips I want (which is what I did for my Pro video...I had something like 60 GB worth of Huffyuv clips).

Ouch. I ended up with 4GB of VOBs (including stuff that was unused) taken from 14 DVDs for my Pro video. The only thing is that with so many separate AVS files in Premiere (on my lousy system, to boot), I have to export the video in a few pieces.

Lord Rae wrote:My hesitance to rip is also because I'm not the most technically minded person and I hate asking for help so I stick to what I know.

That's cool, whatever works... I just wanted to mention VOBcutting (again) in case anyone else was interested.