Starting Up?

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Re: Starting Up?

Post by hasteroth » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:54 pm

willpell wrote:Okay, I have officially made my first Movie! I call it "A Piece of Shit". It is five still photos which hang on the screen like bored insects and occasionally transition into each other while an In Flames song plays. (The Bow Tie wipe which takes about eight seconds is almost interesting-looking just because it changes so slowly.) I had great trouble finding pictures I could use that were manga-based (thus making this at least sort of an AMV theoretically) but were allowed by the site guidelines (ie not hentai, or at least not obviously so - at least minimal amounts of clothing).

Obviously this is nothing close to progress, but at least I've seen the basics of the program's use. (And basics are all I'm going to get because the goddamn help file is unreadable.) The main issue I'm having is that the only way I know to get video clips is to "Import movie" on existing AMVs downloaded from this site - and they have audio in them which I can't figure out how to detach from the video clip, so adding an audio track to them produces dissonance.

If someone knows of a place to get clips of anime video with no audio, I will get started. Otherwise, maybe I will make a marginally less crappy picture slideshow of random mechs and count that as the fulfillment of my new year's resolution to make an AMV finally. Clearly the technical aspects of doing anything besides WMM drag-and-drop editing are beyond me while I'm still working my night job and doing various other things with my free time. I still don't even know what a codec is, other than "some technical thing I don't understand".
I call troll. Just kidding.
But we don't condone the use of illegally downloaded clips. You'll have to figure that out yourself, talk to someone willing to explain it to you, or get DVDs and use the site's guides.
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Re: Starting Up?

Post by godix » Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:39 am

Nya-chan Production wrote:Wait what?

Is that you, godix? |:
No, but I like his style.
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Re: Starting Up?

Post by willpell » Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:14 am

I wasn't asking for illegal downloads. Are there no legal ones?

Alternatively, is there a way in WMM to strip out the audio content of video clips?

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Re: Starting Up?

Post by Nya-chan Production » Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:55 am

willpell wrote:I wasn't asking for illegal downloads. Are there no legal ones?

Alternatively, is there a way in WMM to strip out the audio content of video clips?
Except some short free movies - no. Purchase DVDs is the main option in this industry.

And yes, there is a way, but what's the point? You'll use stolen material (my guess is without asking original authors as well) and save yourself the editing time that they spent. Oh, and you'll lose quality, since you'll encode it for the second time. Not cool. :nono:
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