Official "This Part of the Guide SUCKS!" thread

Nekoboy Sal · Post by **Nekoboy Sal** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:16 pm

In Photoshop there is an option under the View tab thing. By clicking on view you can choose to snap, snap to document borders grid slices whatever.
Shift and Control click? I don't find them very handy in Preimer 5. I find them very handy in Photoshop! All the time! Control click a channel or path to make it a selection. Shift drag to keep it going in a striat line at 45 degree angles. Shift click and drag to make circles with the oval selection tool! SPace bar to switch to the hand tool! I love my keyboard.
Maybe I should start a new topic about Preimeir short cuts? I like shourt cuts.

Mirumoto_Chris · Post by **Mirumoto_Chris** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 9:41 pm

Not really sure that this comment belongs here, but I can't seem to find a better place for it.

AbsoluteDestiny... I have never made an AMV before, but I am starting now. I plan to use your guide step-by-step to learn the process. If there are any parts that are not clear to a rank beginner (as opposed to all the experts I see debating here), I will post and make them known.

Here's hoping for the best <crosses fingers>.

Mirumoto Chris
Evil DM - Hoping to finish before the apocolypse
"Maybe I should try something new and edgy.... like a Linkin Park/DBZ video..."

Akai Rurouni · Post by **Akai Rurouni** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:11 pm

I'm not sure what the difference between this thread and "Guides and AMVapp Public Alpha/Beta Test" in the Video Software forum is, so apologies if this should have been there instead.

In the section The Big Picture - Interlaced vs. Progressive, Fields vs. Frames, 3:2 Pulldown and Inverse Telecine (Page 1 of 2), there is a picture of interlaced video:

Is this picture a full frame (two fields)?
If so (which I'm guessing is the case), this was a bit confusing just for a moment, because I expected the example to show the resizing of a single interlaced field.
If not, then why does the image look like this (i.e. with two different Asukas)?

Thanks!

Akai Rurouni · Post by **Akai Rurouni** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:25 pm

I'm going to bring up another not-confusing-but-not-totally-clear point from the same section of the guide.

When working on a computer, it's very easy to resize you video down from 720x480 to something like 576x384 (A simple reduction in framesize). However, if you're working with interlaced video, this is an extremely bad thing.

later on...

The first is probably the easiest but for some apparently the least obvious: just edit interlaced!

So what seems not totally clear is the difference between "editing interlaced" and how you were "working with interlaced video" in the resizing example above.

Also, just a minor editing thing... "for some apparently" seems wrong. I assume you mean "for some reason apparently" or "for some people apparently". (And if you mean "for some people apparently" then I realize it is technically correct the way you wrote it, but I still say it looks weird.)

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 4:33 pm

Akai Rurouni wrote:Is this picture a full frame (two fields)?
If so (which I'm guessing is the case), this was a bit confusing just for a moment, because I expected the example to show the resizing of a single interlaced field.
If not, then why does the image look like this (i.e. with two different Asukas)?

It's a full frame.

Fields, in and of themselves, are not interlaced. Interlacing refers to the combination of fields to make frames.

That particular frame is made up of fields from two different <i>original</i> frames, hence the combing.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 9:13 pm

Feel free to drag me out into the street and shoot me if it's been mentioned, but a guide for MPEG-2 encoding when you want to put them onto a DVD.

Akai Rurouni · Post by **Akai Rurouni** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:45 am

Scintilla wrote:
Akai Rurouni wrote:Is this picture a full frame (two fields)?
If so (which I'm guessing is the case), this was a bit confusing just for a moment, because I expected the example to show the resizing of a single interlaced field.
If not, then why does the image look like this (i.e. with two different Asukas)?
It's a full frame.

Fields, in and of themselves, are not interlaced. Interlacing refers to the combination of fields to make frames.

That particular frame is made up of fields from two different <i>original</i> frames, hence the combing.

I had invisioned the possiblity that a field could be displayed by itself with the alternate lines blank (black). Afterall, this is how an interlaced display device (i.e. an analog TV) would draw it - one field followed by the next.

But then that wouldn't really work on a computer monitor. Plus you can tell by looking at it that there are two seperate pictures.

Nevertheless, it may be worth one or two sentances explaining that interlaced video on a monitor will be displayed a full frame at a time, and not a single field at a time (like it is on a TV).

Nekoboy Sal · Post by **Nekoboy Sal** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:15 pm

CaTaClYsM wrote:Feel free to drag me out into the street and shoot me if it's been mentioned, but a guide for MPEG-2 encoding when you want to put them onto a DVD.

Its fuzzy in my mind, but I think some one said "Use Doom9 for DVD authering." I don't remember well.

Brolly345 · Post by **Brolly345** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:56 pm

I ran into a problem adding my audio to my video. When I added the audio it would do that just fine, using 44.1KHz, 160kbps, ABR with the LAME Mp3 codec as you suggested. But when I used the scroll bar to jump around within it, it would put the audio ahead about 3 or 4 seconds. Now I followed the guide for adding audio to XviD exactly. But that still didn't work. So, I did my own tweaking and found out using 44.1 KHz, 192kbps, CBR with the LAME Mp3 codec, fixed my problem.

I'm not sure of the consistency of this but it might be worth looking into.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:59 pm

Its pretty consistent and the new guides will have different recomendations for audio encoding and muxing.

(once I finish them hopefull in a week or two... although I've said that before)