How To Make An AMV: PC or MAC

Zero0Blade Rank: member Forum Rank: Missing-Nin Posts: 2280 Joined on: June 14, 2006

#1 *Please stop asking how to make AMVs. Introduction So... why should you make AMVs? They take up a lot of time, it's a pain in a butt to gather clips, and to edit. Very simple answer, ... because you want to. It goes the same to making signatures as well. Also, you can make money off of winning AMV contests in some anime conventions, or ... maybe to have great practice. .. But mainly, it's because you want to. Step One: A Movie Editing Program MAC: IMovie PC: Windows Movie Maker (location: C:Program FilesMovie Maker or D: or H: or whatever) Every computer has a movie editing program. At least a basic one. Windows Movie Maker is a simple, yet often annoying movie editing program. IMovie, well, I have no experience in that but I know for sure apple has IMovie in MAC. Windows Movie Maker, How to use it. My opinion: Basically, I hate Windows Movie Maker. It has limited effects, it will crash (at least for me), and it has that annoying ripple delete when you want to delete a clip or song, and there is so little you can do with it BUT people I know that uses WMM can also become pros at it too. Remember, it's not the program, it's the editor. Example: Faint (Well this also uses Adobe Photoshop as well but primarily WMM =_=) Tutorial for how to use WMM: WMM Tutorial for how to use IMovie: IMovie Other Movie Making Programs I recommend: Premiere Pro Sony Vegas Ulead Studios After Effects *Only one of them. .. don't download them all. There are free trials for all, or you can go the illegal way o.o Step Two: Getting the Anime Clips So you know how to use ["enter amv program o.o] Alrighty, you've practiced and now you want to make an AMV. Now the problem is how to get them. My Suggestion: Get raws. They're much higher in quality than subs. But if you cannot get raws and you're stuck with subs, go get virtualdub to crop the subs out. o.o; The reason though not a lot of good AMVs have subs, since they take the focus away from the video. Sure there are some amvs with subs, but my suggestion ... crop them out. There are various ways to crop them out, but I recommend the program - Virtualdub to do so. ... if you have the programs Ulead, Vegas, Premiere pro, or after effects, you can crop them out from there. Ways to get Anime Clips: Bittorrent. Direct Download. Search around, I'm pretty sure you can find it. For Naruto, and maybe other anime, here's a list Anime Listing Step Three: Editing *For cutting and trimming with Windows Movie Maker, look in the link I posted. If you have any other programs you have trouble on cutting and trimming .. look for tutorials. I. Syncing. Please. Sync. Even in WMM you can do that. When I mean by syncing I mean match up the scenes with the song. Now if the song is slow with a piano or violin, a way to sync that is with a slow scene showing much emotions. If the song is a quick, upbeat heart pumping song, usually an action scene or ... a fast moving scene works. There's also lyric syncing. Yes, lyric syncing is one of the easiest thing to do but also painfully hard. To find the right scene ... and depending on a song, please don't let that scene drag out longer than five seconds. But again, it just depends on the song. II. Effects Everyone loves effects xP Though to use effects, make sure it's appropriate for the scene. Black and White .. flashback scene maybe? Or something very sad? Sephia .. a soft color. I wouldn't worry too much on effects. Try to experiment with them all, and see what fits with the scene. III. Transition A fade within scenes. A white flash. A dip into black. A transition is going from one scene to another using a type of effect. Windows Movie Maker has simple transitions but the only ones I recommend are the fade, the going into white or going out from white, and the fade from black / fade into black. Others ... well they can work depending on how you use them, .. but they are rarely used in a good AMV IV. Masking (optional) Masking is too much of a pain. Simply it's cutting one character, or a scene, and place them somewhere else. Masking is different from Chroma Keying, which just removes the background. Anyways, WMM does NOT have Masking nor chroma keying. For masking, you can use photoshop, vegas, or after effects. *This is how to make an AMV. Easily I could've just said use WMM, learn it, and there you go. XD Tutorial: AMV Technique Beat There are so many reasons I want to put my head on the desk, and then ram my head on the desk a few more times. One of the reasons is you. Quote by {Eddy}{lalito} says: " I like you bang my head on my desk, do you like to bang things?"

MadaraUchihasfox Rank: member Forum Rank: Genin Posts: 73 Joined on: September 13, 2007

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#5 yesh it will be stiky NEW VIDEO OF THE YEAR, NANO DESU. Note to self, remember to feed the cats...

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#7 why do u suck so much Mangekyou Sharingan Naruto my xbox360 live gamer tag is BrutalEscobar so hit me up on halo3

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#9 i allready new that be thanx anyway i have retruned????

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#10 finnally somebody tells me how to do it i was bored my clan

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#11 i'd make one but i don't have the right programmes Sig and Ava by ExiledBlood Awesome People: Angel<3333, Jin_Adoku<33333333, Engart<33, ConkerConker<33, 34s, Eldeablo, 1Wozza33, LandoGriffen, ExiledBlood, TwinFang159, Funkey_Monkey, Wogsta, Atila_Rock_Lee, Schiffer, most awesome People of this Earth

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#12 should help people, but not many people that i know of make AMV's because they require a lot of downloading things, but maybe this will inspire people One Piece version of Spiderman

Zero0Blade Rank: member Forum Rank: Missing-Nin Posts: 2280 Joined on: June 14, 2006

#13 Quote by SkySkyNoNo should help people, but not many people that i know of make AMV's because they require a lot of downloading things, but maybe this will inspire people Maybe, AMV takes up a lot of time. I should put on Why Make AMVs There are so many reasons I want to put my head on the desk, and then ram my head on the desk a few more times. One of the reasons is you. Quote by {Eddy}{lalito} says: " I like you bang my head on my desk, do you like to bang things?"

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#14 Thanks Zero0Blade, I hope this will help everyone interested in making AMV's. | Megan Fox Fan Club | DOC's Thread | GIMP and PS User | <3 wind_temari <3 |

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