New here need some help

johnbdouglas14 · Post by **johnbdouglas14** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:59 am

I need some help. I have no idea what I'm doing, How to do anything that could be done or, well, anything. I need to know what the best programs for making AMV's are, and how to use them. please help.

The Origonal Head Hunter · Post by **The Origonal Head Hunter** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:45 am

there's no "best" editting program, considering good AMVs have been made with any of them. this is a guide to making AMVs, and farther down the thread is a list of editting programs.

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:14 pm

The Origonal Head Hunter wrote:there's no "best" editting program, considering good AMVs have been made with any of them. this is a guide to making AMVs, and farther down the thread is a list of editting programs.

Video Editors and others may help but, the list is quite out-of-date!

.. as dull as it may seem, the best way to begin making AMV's is to Hand-Draw/Mouse-Draw about forty(40) images -- and then move them around in any given editor; what you will learn is:
1) how to arrange images/videos.
2) how to blend and mix overlay's.
3) what transitions work best and which ones to avoid using all together!
and
4) what Codec's give you the best/worse encodes
4a) what setting to use.
4b) how frame-rates can mess with your Videos.
and, most importantly
4c) when to add audio and which Codec's work for your Audio.

.. seem to be almost too simple? .. its not -- its' not as simple as it looks!

.. regardless of what they have edited they did understand the two most important parts of making the AMV at that time:
A) how to encode the Video with the current and most up-to-date Codec's available.
B) how to encode the Audio with the current and most up-to-date formats.

.. if your not careful with your editing, it may turn-out like THIS:

.. hehe, we all make mistakes ..

.. you'l need VLCplayer to watch it.

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