Ecstatically happy

[ms_3m]

. . . . .and doing a dance of joy!!!!!  Figuratively speaking that is...but I really should be jumping up and down literally.

Short of actually creating an output file, Ulead works!  Wheeeee!   *delirious*

Basically I did the following.... 
1. Ran every type of adaware, spybot, anti-virus stinger I could think of to make sure these little buggers

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[amothea]

Lierderma told me about the frame trick because one of my last videos the timing was off a bit...and with Ulead Video Studio 9 you can't see the wave form so I had a really hard time getting the clips to match the beat...or fall on the beat..

I think the only other problem wtih the Media Studio Pro versions is I don't think either have a storyboard view and for some reason editing from the timeline is just weird! um but I guess i'm going to have to bite the bullet and get over the weirdness if I want waveform/locking tracks/and multiple video tracks. :) though I'm not sure why I'd need more than 3 or 4. :)

I'm trying to teach myself Adobe Premiere but it's slow going.

I figured once I get a good grasp on AVS scripts I'll share the ones I use to clip episodes so other music video editors at least have some idea or help.

um I don't mind your "blabber" :) In the ulead forums you can't really have discussions on video editing differences mostly it's just technically stuff and how to fix it. I think I might end up sticking with MSPro8...because I already have that one on my computer. I just can't split by scenes the clips into the library...(okay teh library set up kills me I like to re-use clips and it'll be nice to have all my Stargate and Supernatural clips load up every time I'm ready to vid.)

[ms_3m]

I just checked. MSP7 does have a storyboard/library function. I don't use it. Don't know how. Azonia my vidding partner uses it and made me aware of it but by the time I learned about it, I had already established my way of constructing a vid.




Ooo. I need to check to see if I have any avs scripts. Off to do that now.

:)

[ms_3m]

I didn't find any scripts but I did dig up this IM that I had with brihana25 (no spell checking, etc):

miss_3m (10:08:56 PM): so, which version of GK are you using?
brihana25 (10:12:18 PM): 0.28.7
brihana25 (10:12:42 PM): get the codec pack too. there are some really good ones in there
miss_3m (10:12:55 PM): there are three things to download.
brihana25 (10:13:10 PM): including the huffyuv loss .avi codec, which is the one i encode my actual clips with before i take them into premiere
brihana25 (10:13:21 PM): the rip pack, the codec pack, and... ?
miss_3m (10:13:33 PM): and a minor patch
brihana25 (10:13:38 PM): ah, ok.
miss_3m (10:13:55 PM): http://sourceforge.net/projects/gordianknot
brihana25 (10:14:03 PM): yeah, i know. i've already got it.
brihana25 (10:14:15 PM): i just forgot about it. i thought they'd gone and made something new. lol.
miss_3m (10:17:29 PM): oh gahhhh. I'm reading about avisnyth.....it hurt my brain.
miss_3m (10:18:15 PM): actually, I should have said I read about it earlier and it hurt my brain then. Now that I'm looking at it, it still hurts my brain.
brihana25 (10:18:16 PM): you don't need to know how it does what it does.
brihana25 (10:18:25 PM): it took me months to figure it out
miss_3m (10:18:29 PM): Scripts??????
brihana25 (10:18:36 PM): and the only reason i did it was so i could say that i could do it manually.
brihana25 (10:18:47 PM): there's a frameserver gui built in to gk
brihana25 (10:18:57 PM): you click three or four buttons, and it writes the script for you
miss_3m (10:19:21 PM): so why do you go through the hoops of using avisynth? or is it just the scripts part you bypass.
brihana25 (10:20:02 PM): right now, i use avisynth to create full-episode .avs files that will pull the .vob into vdub
brihana25 (10:20:20 PM): but i don't write the scripts myself. there's a gui in gk that writes them for me.
~ snip ~
brihana25 (10:29:59 PM): ok, here's a simple(ish) diagram thingy
miss_3m (10:30:18 PM): thank you!
miss_3m (10:30:33 PM): my brain thanks you.
brihana25 (10:30:34 PM): dvddecrypter -> dvd2avi -> avisynth -> virtual dub
brihana25 (10:30:41 PM): that's the order you use the apps in
brihana25 (10:30:50 PM): the file outputs are:
brihana25 (10:31:01 PM): .vob -> .d2v -> .avs -> .avi
brihana25 (10:31:25 PM): dvd decrypter rips the dvds into .vob files
brihana25 (10:31:44 PM): dvd2avi converts the .vob files to .d2v files, so that avisynth can work with them
brihana25 (10:32:10 PM): avisynth converts the .d2v files into .avs files that point back to (and load) the original .vob files
brihana25 (10:33:15 PM): virtualdub (i use) to cut the eps down into more manageable clips, to resize (to add my fake WS), and to run a second deinterlacer on
~*~

Not sure if this convo was enlighting for you but one never knows.
:D

[amothea]

a lot of this information was useful. :) I'm going to have to try this Gordian knot program. :)

well it's midnight and I have to get up early. :) I'll have to test this stuff out over the weekend.

[ms_3m]

Ahhhh. That little line that had no name = Preview Cursor.