AMV nooby~tips needed!

[KittyLuck]

umm I want to get into video editing and my search for info lead me here.

So can anyone plz suggest and good editing programs? Also how can I remove subtitles for anime/get the raw versions? I know that most anime can be found in mkv softsubbed but i dont know how to use mkv in an editing program, or how to get rid of the sub. =(

I already tried making a few with WMM but its not very friendly to me and one of my videos and i couldn't put up on youtube cuz the song was copyrighted, any way around that? D:

[guns1inger]

Most (all ?) editors wont recognise mkv. Depending on the video and audio formats in the mkv, you may have to just repackage the content, or you may have to convert them first. For most editors, it will mean conversion. Xvid4PSP or AVI Demux can be used for this. If your editing needs are simple, AVI Demux can do that for you as well.

As for getting around Youtube's restrictions - don't use copyright material.

[KittyLuck]

YAY thanks =3

also what i dont get is i used same song as other ones up there yet mine got removed and theirs didnt, thats why i was wondering if there was a way around it. v.v

[guns1inger]

It's called luck. The analysis is automated, so I guess it doesn't always het it right. You might be able to fool it doing your own mixing - just enough to make sound different.

[KittyLuck]

=D now thats what i want to hear all RIGHT! *woots*

[Chemikilla]

Try Sony Vegas, it's good for video editing and you can just crop over the subtitles.

[carmatic]

hi guys, another noob here

i am looking for the fastest, easiest way to fade between 2 videos... i already have avisynth for making some videos, but can it be used for this purpose?

is there any such thing as a 'video sequencer' that allows you to play with different streams of video in realtime? like it shows a preview window of some sort... i dont mind if the preview quality is horrible or if the video's shrunk really small, i just need to be able to see what im doing....

[manono]

i am looking for the fastest, easiest way to fade between 2 videos... i already have avisynth for making some videos, but can it be used for this purpose?

Yes, the Dissolve command:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Dissolve

[carmatic]

about the dissolve thing... is there a way to interrupt the 'dissolve' effect midway so it never fully fades to the later video?
also can it somehow be started halfway too, so you end up with 2 videos constantly overlapping each other

[manono]

The starting off halfway is fairly easy to accomplish with the Merge command. Here's a frame from a video offset by 5 frames from itself and then merged with the original, creating a constant ghost or double-image effect:



A=AVISource("C:\Path\To\Video.avi",False)#False disables the audio
B=A.Trim(5,0)
Merge(A,B)

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Merge

You can halt the Dissolve with a Trim command, and then add onto it the previous idea using Merge or whatever after the Dissolve you want:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Trim

[carmatic]

im worried about dissolving between videos of different frame rates... to me it feels like abit of a paradox
the avisynth help wiki talks in terms of number of frames to blend, but theres nothing stopping the videos where the frames come from to have different frame rates....

[manono]

I'm not sure you can even do anything with videos of differing framerates. One will have to be given the same framerate as the other, perhaps using AssumeFPS or ChangeFPS:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/AssumeFPS

[carmatic]

ahh... i see, that clears up alot of things

i guess that means i have to start using MVtools to scale the frame rates of the videos....

thanks for your help anyway