So You Want To Be An Anime Music Video Editor? [split]

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:29 am

and here is how:

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... yer/up.htm

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:35 am

JaddziaDax wrote:and here is how:

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... yer/up.htm

Dax FTW. I just answered the "where to go" portion, but it probably should have dawned on me to include a link to the "how."

fireprincess · Post by **fireprincess** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:17 am

sorry but this advice really doesn't help.......i know the song and the anime i want but i don't know how to get footage or but the song with it and donlode it

i really need help

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:20 am

A bit indirect, but I'd starting with rational thought. Kionen can answer the rest.

fireprincess · Post by **fireprincess** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:25 am

Orwell wrote:A bit indirect, but I'd starting with rational thought. Kionen can answer the rest.

could you help

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:38 am

Read the forum rules and change your sig appropriately. Then go buy the dvds of the show you want, or if its unlicensed, you could obtain it from various places. Then follow the how-to guides. I recommend the guide to all things technical. I found vicbonds guide practically worthless. Asking for footage or music is against the forum rules. As far as getting it into a editor, if you have WMM, that works, though something better is recommended, Magix I hear is ok for the price, and there's always Premiere. Ulead worked rather well for me before I switched to premiere. Just look for the import option.

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:19 am

fireprincess wrote:could you help

You say the advice isn't good enough but here, I say:

I wrote:Capturing your footage is another option. I used this option for parts of my first video, and all of my second, third, fourth, and fifth videos. This of course was back in the early 2000s, and although DVD ripping was around, it was much harder for me to accomplish, and we did not have DVD Decryptor. I can't recall the program I had, but it did not produce very good results. So I had a TV Capture card, and I captured footage. This had the effect of producing quality that was equal to a VHS tape. Better than downloaded footage at the time, but nothing compared the quality of MPEG-2 (DVD Video). My second video, for instance, was made entirely of Japanese VHS raws of Kare Kano, and it clearly shows, due to distortions around the edges, etc. However, since that was the only way I could get the source, that was the only way I could edit from it. Now, you should rarely have to do so, with Region 2 DVDs being easier to procure. As much as I hate to say it, if you can get your hands on Raws from the net, they are now guaranteed to be better than VHS. Of course, capturing from DVD works too, especially if you capture as losslessly as possible (that is, without losing too much of the picture details, that is of course way oversimplified).

Ripping is your best option hands down. You should plan on using DVDs, so use this option.

Get the latest build AMVApp. This will contain most, if not all, programs you will need for making your DVD source usable. I edit with AVS files, because I'm crazy like that, but a good method to follow is 1) rip VOBs to hard drive 2) index them using DGIndex 3) take the subsequent AVS file and add filters to get rid of interlacing and temporally smooth the source, and all sorts of other fun stuff. We can help you with what commands you will need. 4) drop the avs file into VirtualDubMod and spit out lossless files. I suggest Lagarith as your lossless codec, but some people like HuffYUV. I have used both. 5) Place in your editor and start cutting!

You have to own the footage in order to follow the steps I have written above. Then you need to actually download AMVapp and follow them. If you can't obtain the DVDs, then you will be left with downloading. AMV editing is a hobby like any other. It costs money. Good editors do the best with what they have, but usually expend the effort to get a better and better set up. If you are not willing to at least spend $44 on a boxed set, then what does that say about your committment to your project?

As for the song, there are ways to legally and illegally obtain it. I can only speak about the legal ways. You may use a ripping program for audio to rip CDs to WAV files you can then put into your editor. If your editor handles mp3s, you can download mp3s from a website selling them legally. It's usually about a buck a song. I didn't feel like paying for the whole CD when I made SOBE, so I downloaded Semisonic's Closing Time legally from Walmart.com and converted it from .wma.

Once again, I strongly recommend against downloaded footage.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:24 am

Kionon wrote:Once again, I strongly recommend against downloaded footage.

Me too even though it's used in Naruto's Technique Beat, Whisper Of The Beast, most of mckeeds Naruto videos, and a lot of others listed on the top ten with a really high Visual quality rating.

Melanchthon · Post by **Melanchthon** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:59 am

x_rex30 wrote:Me too even though it's used in Naruto's Technique Beat, Whisper Of The Beast, most of mckeeds Naruto videos, and a lot of others listed on the top ten with a really high Visual quality rating.

I can't speak for mckeed's vids, but NTB and WotB probably got a lot of their Visual points from the effects. When I score for Visual quality, I score on the whole picture, effects and all (unless there are subs-- then it's an automatic 1). I don't think there are that many people who score Visual purely on the quality of the underlying anime.

And there's so much alteration of the Naruto footage that it's hard to see the original. It's a little bit fuzzy during the parts with the Naru(?) fight, but I thought Naruto footage looked like that anyway, or the bitrate wasn't high enough for those parts.

Besides... it does look good, but it's still downloaded footage, and its high quality doesn't make it any more acceptable. It just makes it harder to spot than the average downloaded-footage vid.

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:16 pm

Melanchthon wrote:I don't think there are that many people who score Visual purely on the quality of the underlying anime.

I do.

Besides... it does look good, but it's still downloaded footage, and its high quality doesn't make it any more acceptable. It just makes it harder to spot than the average downloaded-footage vid.

This is true, but I've said so before, but we're kind of getting off topic. This is more about information that it is about discussion.

[Kalium: Quotage fixed.]