How to make best quality video (help 007 Vegita)

[Musclebobbuffpants]

How do I make relly good quality video like you do,what do you use to capture?Adobe,Windows movie maker,what?I use windows movie maker iit is good but not as good as yours,and how big is a file,give me an estimate like 7 MB a minute or 700 MB an hour,and I need to know what settings and stuff.Thanks

[VegettoEX]

For the absolute best possible quality an AMATEUR music video creator can get:

* Always rip your audio from the original CD (no MP3 sources!)
* Digitally rip the DVD footage
* Inverse telecine via an AVS script (and apply any necessary filters, such as smoothers or futher deinterlacing features); this will rid you of any interlacing issues, as well as different field orders among sources
* Edit from these MPEG-2 sources (or edit with lower-quality versions of them, but ultimately export from the original MPEG-2s / VOBs)
* Export into uncompressed or lossless video codec (such as HuffyUV)

This is for the best possible quality we, as fans, can hope to achieve. Capturing is also always an option, but will be running you through a Digital -> Analogue -> Digital conversion, rather than ripping which will just be Digital -> Digital. If you have a nice capture card, though, the differences are almost ridiculously small and irrelevant. Be sure to capture at least at a 640x480 window size... through an S-video cable (or better) would be nice, too...

The final online distribution format is up to you. A nice and high bitrate MPEG-1 (with an average of around 2000k for a bitrate) is pretty universal. XviD encodes (which, when encoded properly, can be played back under DivX 5 w/o futher codecs) are turning out extremely nice looking encodes (and you can use a larger window size, such as a full 720x480).... the list goes on and on. Your final encode is always, ALWAYS dependant upon your original source material, though.

Keep in mind that what you export from your "timeline" should NEVER be your distribution version. What you export from your timeline should be the most RAW and LOSSLESS version of your video; uncompressed or something like HuffyUV. It's going to run you a few gigs. This is normal. THIS file is what you take into, say, TMPGEnc or VirtualDub, to create your distribution version.

Golden Rule: If your source looks like garbage (downloaded clips, poorly captured clips), your end result is going to look like garbage.

The programs you use do not necessarily have as big of an impact on the "quality" of your video as you think; your original source material is the biggest factor in visual quality.

[Flugigo]

Originally posted by VegettoEX@May 13 2003, 12:05 PM
For the absolute best possible quality an AMATEUR music video creator can get:

* Always rip your audio from the original CD (no MP3 sources!)
* Digitally rip the DVD footage
* Inverse telecine via an AVS script (and apply any necessary filters, such as smoothers or futher deinterlacing features); this will rid you of any interlacing issues, as well as different field orders among sources
* Edit from these MPEG-2 sources (or edit with lower-quality versions of them, but ultimately export from the original MPEG-2s / VOBs)
* Export into uncompressed or lossless video codec (such as HuffyUV)

This is for the best possible quality we, as fans, can hope to achieve. Capturing is also always an option, but will be running you through a Digital -> Analogue -> Digital conversion, rather than ripping which will just be Digital -> Digital. If you have a nice capture card, though, the differences are almost ridiculously small and irrelevant. Be sure to capture at least at a 640x480 window size... through an S-video cable (or better) would be nice, too...

The final online distribution format is up to you. A nice and high bitrate MPEG-1 (with an average of around 2000k for a bitrate) is pretty universal. XviD encodes (which, when encoded properly, can be played back under DivX 5 w/o futher codecs) are turning out extremely nice looking encodes (and you can use a larger window size, such as a full 720x480).... the list goes on and on. Your final encode is always, ALWAYS dependant upon your original source material, though.

Keep in mind that what you export from your "timeline" should NEVER be your distribution version. What you export from your timeline should be the most RAW and LOSSLESS version of your video; uncompressed or something like HuffyUV. It's going to run you a few gigs. This is normal. THIS file is what you take into, say, TMPGEnc or VirtualDub, to create your distribution version.

Golden Rule: If your source looks like garbage (downloaded clips, poorly captured clips), your end result is going to look like garbage.

The programs you use do not necessarily have as big of an impact on the "quality" of your video as you think; your original source material is the biggest factor in visual quality.
What he said...

That's a good way to do it.

[Musclebobbuffpants]

what program do I use to rip dvds and ripping dvds is just putting the dvd in the cd drive and using the program to make it?

[VegettoEX]

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/

Everything anyone ever needs to know (well.. that is, until you've mastered everything that's IN there, that is :D), is in there.