I have an AMV planned out in my head, and was hoping to getting round to making it, but I've never done anything like this and have no idea what software to use. The episodes that I need aren't all out yet, but I'd like a bit of time to mess around with it first. So what software do you use/would recommend?
Thanks
P.S while I'm at it, where can you get episode raws?
Member Urouge made a lot of AMV's for the tourney, you should pm him.
I saw he uses Sony Vegas Pro 8.0, but wanted to see if anyone else had other recomendations.
Can anyone help with this then? An answer soon would help.
I've made AMVs with Windows Movie Maker, but it takes a special kind of patience thanks to numerous program crashes.
Vegas would probably be your best bet.
Adobe Premiere is another fantastic choice. It's what I've used to make all of my videos (see sig) Of course you need to know what you're doing otherwise you'll be completely lost.
Just released that some of these cost MONEY. Well, I don't really have any of that stuff, so that might make a difference…
Ever use bittorrent?
AVIDemux can cut and rearrange stuff but I haven't found a way to replace music and stuff like that.
You can find cracks of them on BT. Little bit troublesome but if you do your homework they're easy to get. JUST NEVER UPDATE THEM ONCE YOU GET THEM RUNNING.
Take Greg's words as a fact. Updating fucks up everything.
I've worked with Sony Vegas before and I can say that it's a very good program. A lot of features, a neat design and a lot of tutorials for it on the internet. Just try it.
Bittorrent huh?… So do I have to download some bittorront program before using it or did I pick that up wrong?
Also, what about the raws?
"Sky Boss" Gedatsu for AP character tournament 2010!
Bittorrent huh?… So do I have to download some bittorront program before using it or did I pick that up wrong?
Also, what about the raws?
Download uTorrent. It's by far the best program I've seen for torrenting. RAWs can be found through IRC and a few other websites (search on Google).
Download uTorrent. It's by far the best program I've seen for torrenting. RAWs can be found through IRC and a few other websites (search on Google).
Do you have a link for the raws? Cuz I'm too lazy:ninja:
"Sky Boss" Gedatsu for AP character tournament 2010!
Not really, sorry. You can't really find them all in one place. That's why you have to search a lot for them. Latest episode RAWs are easier to find.
Not really, sorry. You can't really find them all in one place. That's why you have to search a lot for them. Latest episode RAWs are easier to find.
Well, I suppose that'll do. Thanks for all your help. :happy:
Ah wait, one more question. Is there anything that I should look for/avoid when I'm choosing which one to download?
I'll PM you the best source to get RAW's from. If you want to do a good job, you'll find that you need to recompile your RAW episodes before using them. I tend to find that wmv format works best for video editting, whereas avi and mp4 are both a chore for the software to load properly for editting (higher wait times and bad preview quality). I also find that it works best to compile the RAW wmv's with Windows Movie Maker, and use those recompiled videos to make your AMV with. I've personally had experiences of Vegas acting weird when I tried to use wmv's that it compiled, so I wound up using WMM in the end for that task. WMM can only do HD videos if you have the Vista version or better.
You'll find that some newer HD RAW episodes you download wont work at all with most programs. For those, you'll want to download "RAD Video Tools" by Bink and Smacker. With that program you can recompile pretty much any video file into a standard xvid avi that can be worked with. In a worst case scenario I find myself recompiling a RAW episode 3 times (RAD to read in Vegas, then Vegas to read in WMM, then WMM for the final encode) in order to get it into a format that I like to use. As you know, I use Vegas to make the AMV once I have all my episodes encoded the way I like and ready to go.
EDIT: RAD Video Tools is a free program, so there's no need to worry about that. I've heard that Adobe Premiere is a good program for video editting as well, but I personally have no experience with it.
For a look at what you can do with Premiere, check my YouTube channel (in sig). Although I don't make AMV these days (in my day, when I made them, it was with two VCRs hooked up to each other shakes old man cane) you can see the kind of things you can do with these powerful programs like Premiere and Vegas.
Just buy a mac…..................
I don't want to overpay for a computer that can't run half the software I use, since it isn't written for Mac.
To be fair Urouge is completely right. The operating system is also pretty expensive and they basically drop the support once they bring out a new one to force people to pay for a "major" upgrade.
