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[lierdumoa]

OMGWTFBBQ

IT IS LIKE MY BIRTHDAY ALL OVER AGAIN!



So permetaform hears tell of some program called avi-synth. Basic principle -- instead of making clips, you write a text file with a few lines of simple programming script saying, in effect "so and so video file, frames 800 through 1040". You give the text file an avi-synth file extension, and with the avi-synth codec, Premiere will open the text file and think it is in fact reading a clip made up of the frames you described.

You can do this with any video file, including DVD's. Basically, if you don't have to make clips, that means you aren't losing any image quality from your original source. If you're source is a DVD, that means you're vidding directly from your DVD source.

So permetaform doesn't have space on her computer for this stuff at the moment. We decided today to get together on my computer and figure all this trash out. It's pretty techno-complicated.



I'm downloading the software. I suddenly see that I'm being asked to install the huffyuv codec.

Wait.

That's lossless compression. Doesn't lossless compression, like, cost money? So we go back to the guy who wrote this big intimidating avi-synth help guide on animemusicvideos.org -- absolut3destiny. If you think you're vids are high quality, go look at his. You will cry bitter tears of gaul. So anyway, permetaform asks him -- did...did...did I just download a lossless codec for free?

No, he replies. You actually downloaded two lossless codecs.

o_0



I can resize without quality loss. o_0

I can deinterlace better than VirtualDub. o_0

I have lossless compression. o_0

FOR FREE.



I've spent the last few hours grinning so hard my face hurts. I only wish I had known about this before I started my vid. This means eventually I'm going to have to remaster the entire thing. Boooooo. On the other hand, now I know I can make it better quality than it is, and I know how. Yaaaaaaay!!!!!



Help website is here. Not for the faint of heart. You're not hardcore unless you live hardcore. I'm quoting School of Rock. I need to lay off the crack.

Comments

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

When I vid, I typically come up with an idea, write up a rough storyboard for it, then go through my source and make clips of only the scenes I think I'm going to use. I've already decided the bulk of what's going into my video before I start clipping. The avisynth method doesn't seem so much of a departure from my usual clipping style, except that that I'm lining a group of clips end to end in an single .avs rather than exporting them each individually.

Or am I missing something important?

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

Well, because you dont need to have any other files except the vobs, a d2v project and an avs file I suppose what you could do is make a script of the entire thing and just jot down the timecode when the scenes you want can be found for easy reference.

You might as well keep access to all the footage on the vobs as you dont have any space concerns anynmore,