A&E's Technical Guides to All Things Audio and Video (v3)

Welcome to ErMaC and AbsoluteDestiny's guides to all things audio and video version 3!

As of version 3, this guide is being maintained primarily by Zarxrax.

(If someone has told you to READFAGLOLZ! Then that means Read ErMaC and AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly Amv Guides Lovingly Overhauled Largely by Zarxrax)

These guides are designed to give you an insight into the theory behind audio and video and also to show you how to get some of the best looking and sounding AMVs that you can using software in Windows. Please note that this guide is intended to be read in its ENTIRETY. If you simply skip around, it is VERY likely that you will be confused.

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Last Updated: October 10, 2010

Getting Started

Download AMVApp 3.1

Theory Guides:

Video Basics

Interlacing

Colorspace

Video Compression

Codecs and Containers

Multimedia Frameworks

Aspect Ratios

DVDs

Understanding Audio

Audio Compression

The AMVapp, AVIsynth and AvsPmod

Installing the AMVapp

AviSynth & AvsPmod: What they are and why you need to use them!

Producing your AMV:

Getting your Video

Overview - Read this!

Options for Video Sources

- Using Various Media Files for Footage

- Ripping DVD Footage (vob files)

- Indexing your DVD footage with DGIndex and loading the d2v files into an avisynth script

- Analyzing the DVD Footage
    (-Is it Interlaced?
    - Interlacing Methods)

- Restoring Progressive Frames

- Dealing with Aspect Ratios

- Cleaning up the footage

- Deciding what to do with the avisynth file(s)

- Making Clips or
- Editing avs files directly or
- Editing with Proxy files

Getting your Audio

Introduction

How to get perfect audio copies from -

CDs

DVDs

Downloaded Audio

Video Files

Editing and Preparing your audio

Editing your music/song so it's shorter

Editing your AMV:

Post Production:

Post Production

Online Video Distribution

Guidelines for sending your video to a convention