Mister Hatt wrote:If the guide is meant to be basic, 70% of it is not required knowledge and in no way helps anyone. A large amount of it is also misleading and/or outright wrong. I don't know where 'years ago' came into it given that it was last edited only a few months ago.
The reason I told you not to use MT is because MT in avisynth isn't true multithreading anyway. It splits your picture into regions and then filters them separately. This has all kinds of problems related to the seams though.
Nobody that actually produces an amv actually cares about video quality, so why they use avisynth at all is a complete mystery to me. I don't complain; rather I speak critically in the hope that people will give up and stop attempting to merge bad music with crappy looking video. There is no such thing as a good amv.
If people come here for help, they should either read the stickies before asking a question that has already been answered, or they should at least give the thread a useful title and paste their script. They should stop using old shit and update to the latest stable versions of everything. This alone would probably solve a good half of the problems outright.
Avisynth is not use friendly, it is a programmers hack for processing video. Regular people should not be using it. If they cannot at least read the documentation, they don't deserve help in the first place. Reading the docu would solve a fairly big chunk of the remaining problems. Maybe if people were a bit proactive there wouldn't be so many stupid threads where ignorant people complain about me being mean. Harden up princess, *I* am not the lazy one.
While I actually value you're opinion 99% of the time cause you actually know what you are talking about, you have to remember we only do this for fun, so it doesn't have to be perfect. It's not like any of the stuff we do actually make gets put into production or broadcast.
What ever you might think, Avisynth is a great tool even if you don't know how to utilize it to the fullest. You talk like all avisynth does is make the video quality better and thats all it should be used for. That bullshit. Avisynth is used to process video so who the fuck cares what the person does with it? If they manage to make it a little better then it was or if they make it worse, so the fuck what? I value good video quality but there's a line, it doesn't need to be perfect. What about just using it as a frameserver without any filters? Avisynth is a tool. Just because you don't know how to use every fucking filter (which aren't built into the main library mind you) doesn't mean you shouldn't use it.
For someone who doesn't watch AMVs and pretty much hates and thinks all amv editors are idiots, you spend a lot of time here. Part of me thinks you here just to help, which very well might be the reason you stick around. But another part of me thinks you're just here to tell us how much we suck and how much smarter you are. If thats the reason then just leave. You are not going to change how people do things by telling them they are idiots. Fuck, you aren't going to change how people do things by actually being nice to them. I've tried many times over the years to get people to at least use avisynth to make their videos presentable and it hasn't worked. Just getting someone to even read the guides is impossible.
If you plan on staying around (I doubt what ever i say would make you leave anyway), don't be such a fucking jackass all the time. Instead of getting on your soapbox and letting us all know how useless and pointless something is or we should stop using something in favor of something else, explain to the people why. According to the project page on sourceforge 2.6 is still alpha. I don't consider that stable. is the project maintained somewhere else or are you using software that isn't stable for all your processing (which doesn't sound all the good if you have quality in mind)?
You have a lot of good knowledge, just stop being an asshole about it.
