Please Help! I am stupid

wolfpachunterx · Post by **wolfpachunterx** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:11 am

Hello Everyone! I am new to this site and new to trying to figure out how to make a music video. I have tried to read about how to make one but I just don't understand it. Some places say I need special software and some say I can do it by using "Windows Movie Maker". Can I use WMM??? And can I use a DVD that I have to take scenes from it to use? And does it also let me put sound into it?? PLEASE help!!! <begging>

Wolfie

Stoic · Post by **Stoic** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:23 am

I have never used WMM. So I can't tell you anything about it.

To capture footage and use it read this:

Ripping DVDs section

Which is a part of AbsoluteDestiny & ErMaC's Technical Guides to All Things Audio and Video, which is a great refrence.

I highly suggest you read that from front to cover.

I know some one is going to give ya hell for posting like a question you can find in the guides, but I know what it's like when you just have time for answers

Good luck. I'll look up some information on WMM If I find any guides or tutorials on how to use it I'll send them your way.

On a side note there is a lot more to AMV Creation than most think...

Alot of people I have talked to think it's just putting violence to music... It is actually more of an artform, and I have found very few guides that actually say that. so remember, first and foremost, you're AMV is telling a story.

wolfpachunterx · Post by **wolfpachunterx** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:29 am

Thank you Stoic for your help! I really appreciate it and I PROMISE to read the things on the sites your posted. Once again, thank you very much! ^5

Stoic · Post by **Stoic** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:47 am

Here is a few tutorials I found to WMM:

Gateway Tutorial

Movie Maker Tutorial (Flash plugin Required)

Instructional Technology Consultants: Tutorials

I use Adobe Premier to do all of my video editing.

I don't know much if anything about WMM so I would really ask me for help. Sorry I can provide more assistants.

If ya have any other questions (not refering to WMM) let me know

zachthegnome · Post by **zachthegnome** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 8:39 pm

I'm also new to AMV's, and I have been playign around with WMM and an older premiere. WMM is rediculously easy, it seperates the video into clips that you can go through and within a half hour have your source in little incriments shot for shot. Then you just put them in the order you want, load in an audio track and you have you're first amv(i did this last night). Within 3 hours, I had a crappy video from Blood: The Last Vampire, but since it was my first im happy about it. I'm trying to pretty much re-create the same video on my premiere now, and its more trouble, but it will definitly end up 10x better.
Bottom line, wmm is fun and easy, but once you get use to it, it will probably hold you back from all the other great stuff out there.

geniejunkie · Post by **geniejunkie** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 6:05 pm

wolfpachunterx wrote: Hello Everyone! I am new to this site and new to trying to figure out how to make a music video. I have tried to read about how to make one but I just don't understand it. Some places say I need special software and some say I can do it by using "Windows Movie Maker". Can I use WMM??? And can I use a DVD that I have to take scenes from it to use? And does it also let me put sound into it?? PLEASE help!!! <begging>

Wolfie

I'm kinda in the same boat.... The guides are pretty good, although written in total geekspeak, use the "all thing video/audio" one. You have wmm2 or just the first one? The AmvApp file is very useful, download that... I'm a noob like you, but I'm willing to try and answer any questions you think I could help you with.... geniejunkie@mindspring.com

genie

SS5_Majin_Bebi · Post by **SS5_Majin_Bebi** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 10:57 pm

To Wolfpachunterx:
Ahh, I started out like that. Its not too hard to pick it up once you get into the way of it. BTW, just look out for someone named NicholasDWolfwood, he will try his hardest to make a fool of you. Hes an 11 year old who thinks hes god's gift to the AMV community, but if you have seen any of his vids, you'd realise just how deluded he is.

Heres a short list of some "useful" programs that might make your editing initiation a little less rocky.

VirtualDub
Adobe Premiere (6.5, its the latest)
TmpegENC (Third party MPEG encoder...usefel, if you can figure it out

)
DVD X (useful to encode VOB's that are ripped from a DVD, but of course you need a DVD-ROM for that to work...)
SmartRipper (Works with your DVD-ROM to 'rip' the video and/or the audio streams from a DVD and encode them as a VOB file)

That oughta help you out a little bit. Any other newbie queries, just Private Message me or something, I'll do my best to assist you.

Good luck.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 11:05 pm

wtf

You're a total idiot.

This quote says it all.

"SmartRipper (Works with your DVD-ROM to 'rip' the video and/or the audio streams from a DVD and encode them as a VOB file) "

DVDs are MPEG-2 Program streams encoded into a VOB file. It doesn't encode them when you decrypt them, it just takes the key off in the case of R1-R6 DVDs, and then it copies the VOBs to your hard drive.

DVDX sucks.

Premiere 6.5 is the crappiest Premiere ever, worse than 5.x.
TMPGEnc is a good MPEG encoder but I've had trouble with a telecined HuffYUV file, which was the program's fault.
Virtualdub = godliness.

BTW, I only "make fools" out of idiots like you.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 11:07 pm

Lemme rephrase one of my lines.

DVDs are MPEG-2 Program streams inserted into a VOB file container

OmniStrata · Post by **OmniStrata** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 10:51 pm

NicholasDWolfwood wrote:wtf

You're a total idiot.

This quote says it all.

"SmartRipper (Works with your DVD-ROM to 'rip' the video and/or the audio streams from a DVD and encode them as a VOB file) "

DVDs are MPEG-2 Program streams encoded into a VOB file. It doesn't encode them when you decrypt them, it just takes the key off in the case of R1-R6 DVDs, and then it copies the VOBs to your hard drive.

DVDX sucks.

Premiere 6.5 is the crappiest Premiere ever, worse than 5.x.
TMPGEnc is a good MPEG encoder but I've had trouble with a telecined HuffYUV file, which was the program's fault.
Virtualdub = godliness.

BTW, I only "make fools" out of idiots like you.

Yes 6.5 sux0rs, but hey, I love using it... ^_^

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