fed up with sucky footage! how do you prepare your footage??

taifunbrowser · Post by **taifunbrowser** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 7:59 pm

Please! post your footage preparation ways:

heres mine-
dvd-> dvdripper
vobs-> virtualdubmod (deinterlace filter On)
avi-> virtualdub (no audio)
avi-> windows movie maker
mpeg-> a-m-v.org

WHATS WRONG WITH THIS METHOD THAT MAKES MY VIDS SO FUZZY??? oh well, PLEASE TELL ME! I NEED TO KNOW! Lol sorry about the caps, but I havent gotten sleep in a few days- I need to know...... lol

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:03 pm

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... eoget.html

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... eoget.html

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... th_dvd.pdf

taifunbrowser · Post by **taifunbrowser** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:05 pm

ok-

Problem 1:
Avisynth crashes on my computer

Misunderstanding 2:
I have read ALL the guides (even scintellas) and still am confused! (and please dont roll eyes nemore lol)

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:09 pm

... Why are you running VOBs through VirtualDubMod and then running them through VirtualDub as well?
Get rid of the VirtualDub step entirely. There's nothing (essential) it can do that VDubMod can't.
Run the deinterlace <i>and</i> any other filtering you need to do in VDubMod and save source clips.

Fuzziness can be caused by a bunch of things... are you saving all your source clips at full resolution? What settings are you using to export from WMM? And how are you getting MPEGs out of WMM?...

Here's what I do:

DVDs --> SmartRipper or DVD Decrypter (ripping) --> VOBs
VOBs --> DVD2AVI 1.76 (indexing) --> D2Vs
D2Vs --> AVISynth (frameserving, and IVTC if needed) --> AVSes
AVSes --> Adobe Premiere Pro (editing the video) --> HuffYUV AVI
HuffYUV AVI --> AVISynth (cropping, filtering, resizing, frameserving) --> AVS
AVS --> VirtualDubMod with XviD and LAME (encoding) --> distro AVI

taifunbrowser · Post by **taifunbrowser** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:14 pm

I know I really didnt want to use virtualdub again, but virtualdubmod doesnt remove the audio, and all the codecs end up giving me error messages because none of the codecs I choose accept "fake" audio, so I ran it through virtualdub with "no audio" selected

Also, my setting, I just saw your last post on the other thing, and you said the best codec to choose when exporting from wmv, and I realize that was probably my biggest mistake (just choosing the default setting) ok, well, is there nething else I should fix? lol

taifunbrowser · Post by **taifunbrowser** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:15 pm

oh, and I forgot a step- wmv saves as an avi, and then I "save as" to an MPEG... I know you'll think thats horrible, so sock it to me- what do I download to make an avi to an MPEG efficiently?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:15 pm

taifunbrowser wrote:Problem 1:
Avisynth crashes on my computer

Uninstall all versions of AVISynth (do it from the Add/Remove Programs list in your Control Panel) and delete all plugins.
Install the <a href="/guides/avtechbeta/amvapp.html">new AMVapp</a>.
Come back if you still have problems.

taifunbrowser wrote:Misunderstanding 2:
I have read ALL the guides (even scintellas) and still am confused!

taifunbrowser wrote:(and please dont roll eyes nemore lol)

You'd better just hope Kajino Rei doesn't post in this thread then.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:15 pm

taifunbrowser wrote:Please! post your footage preparation ways:

heres mine-
dvd-> dvdripper
vobs-> virtualdubmod (deinterlace filter On)

This is your first problem.

avi-> virtualdub (no audio)

This is (most likely) your second problem.

avi-> windows movie maker

This is your third problem, but there's not much that can be done about it.

mpeg-> a-m-v.org

Depending on how you encode, this could be your fourth problem.

If you want to know why I labeled these steps as problems, read this:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... index.html

Oh, and here's my processes for comparison.

on Windows:
DVD Decrypter -> DGIndex -> AVISynth via DGDecode -> ... -> AVISynth + VirtualDubMod -> [XviD/TMPGenc/whatever]

on Gentoo Linux:
tccat -> tcdemux -> mpeg3toc -> Cinelerra -> ... -> transcode -> [XviD/mpeg2enc/whatever] or -> AVISynth + VirtualDubMod -> [XviD/TMPGenc/whatever]

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:19 pm

Forgot this.

Demonstration of results, using an XviD-encoded 640x480 frame from an AMV I'm working on:

It's not perfect, but Sora's impressed by it.

taifunbrowser · Post by **taifunbrowser** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:20 pm

oh well, looks like I'm gonna have to work with avisynth afterall... oh well, I'll try reinstalling it... I thought there was going to be a quick fix in my process, or something that I could download to improve the quality etc... oh well

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