Young Padawan wants to control teh force

[Bunkaru]

Hi there.

I'm totally new here, and to be honest I totally suck at most PC and stuff related thingys. The hardest thing I did on mah PC until now was to upload screens from my PC Games.

And yet, this morning I woke up and thought "IMMA DO AN AMV RITE NAO". Or something like that. Well, of course I knew that it would take liek...30 hours of editing and synchronising to make a decent AMV, expecially cuz' it's my first one, I wasn't afraid of that (Have to kill time anyway) but...I didn't expected such horrible amount of technical stuff before even starking da real work.

Honestly, if there were titles floating above peoples and thing's heads in real life like in MMORPG's there certainly would be something liek..."Technical stuff, Bane of Bunkaru".

...anyways, I spent half of mah day reading the stickys and guides in this forum (It was so much of a huge text wall including so much huge technical terms that I've already forgotten half of it, though.) and the other half of it downloading Anime RAWs (I don't have Anime DVD's and I don't wanna buy 'em) from different sources, 'cuz most of 'em got error messages when I tried to open 'em on VirtualDubMod.

...hope I'm not too annoying so far ?

Nevermind, at the time I'm writing this crap I've already achieved to make some clips, to transfer 'em to Windows Movie Maker and to mess around with 'em using special effects and stuff.

But right now I have two huge problems (The first two of many more, I know it.)

1. How do I get rid of the original sound ?
I tried to disable "Sync to audio" in VirtualDubMod before saving teh clips but the original sound is still there when I play 'em on Windows Movie Maker.

2. The video lags as hell...
In a clip of ~10 second I get liek...only 4-5 images. Crap. If I use the double speed effect it's even worse.
What can I do 'bout this ? The clips a compressed as Lagira...Ligara..."looks at the manual" Lagarith Lossless Codec.

Oh, and another issue: I clicked on "Save performance settings" on VirtualDubMod, but when I close the program and reopen it, it's again on the default thingys: "Sync to audio" on and compression at uncompressed.

[BasharOfTheAges]

1) Go to the streams list in vdubmod and disable the sound by clicking the speaker shaped thing.
2) IIRC, WMM doesn't like Lagarith. Try HuffYUV.

[Bunkaru]

Thank joo very much, sound is gone and lag as well if I just play the clips, but transitions and effects still make the video lag a bit~, any ideas how to improve this ?

P.S. Do anyone knows [MOD 403: removed]? I googled and googled but found only subbed ones .

[BasharOfTheAges]

Asking for downloads is a banable offense. You agreed to the rules when you signed up and were presented them to read.

[Bunkaru]

Asking for downloads is a banable offense.

Wow. Didn't expected this...mea culpa.

So, any ideas how I get rid of the lag due to transitions / effects ?

[prYzm]

render your video and see if its still there, the preview window often lags in most video editing programs

[Bunkaru]

Thanks!

[Bunkaru]

Ok, here's another big problem: After ~13-14 seconds the music stops.

When, I play the song alone on WMM, it works fine. But when I play it with clips it stops after 13-14 seconds. I've tried changing the song, changing the clips, getting rid of the transitions, the effects, messing around with the chronology thingy, it does'nt work.

And another question: How comes Windows Media Reader/VirtualDubMod doesn't accept a huge amount of files ?

Among 8 different downloads from 5 different pages, only one download could be opened with both programs.
The other ones get different error messages, most of them could not be opened by WMR, and another one worked on WMR but could not be opened with VDM.
Is there a (not too complicated) way to change those files so that they can be accepted by both programs ? I guess it has something to do with the codec thingys, but I didn't really understood how that works, even after re-reading the guide.

[Side Swipe]

what are you running for a base system

I recommend at least a 1.8 GHz machine with a Gig or RAM at the very minimum

better to have about 3 GHz with 2 Gig RAM

it could be that you just dont have the horsepower to muscle through a vid edit project

also how much HD space do you have if you have like 100 or so gig you may be able to edit uncompressed AVI which should help it not lag too

lease thats my opinion and or what i've found to work for me

[JaddziaDax]

Ok, here's another big problem: After ~13-14 seconds the music stops.

When, I play the song alone on WMM, it works fine. But when I play it with clips it stops after 13-14 seconds. I've tried changing the song, changing the clips, getting rid of the transitions, the effects, messing around with the chronology thingy, it does'nt work.

Try converting the file to an uncompressed .wav if the file is an .mp3 it might be messing up in WMM.

And another question: How comes Windows Media Reader/VirtualDubMod doesn't accept a huge amount of files ?

Among 8 different downloads from 5 different pages, only one download could be opened with both programs.
The other ones get different error messages, most of them could not be opened by WMR, and another one worked on WMR but could not be opened with VDM.
Is there a (not too complicated) way to change those files so that they can be accepted by both programs ? I guess it has something to do with the codec thingys, but I didn't really understood how that works, even after re-reading the guide.

Because those programs were not designed to handle every kind of file.. KMplayer and VLC player were designed to PLAY BACK just about any kind of file type though.

there are certain AVISynth ways to opening files in VDM that it would not normally open, but it means you are going to have to learn yet another program. if you have the AMVAPP you will already have this program on your computer.