1

Oh boy... welcome to hell, boyo!  If you've never used Premiere and all the other things you have to have to make an AMV (like me with The Kanon Project {working title}), you'll be wanting to run your wrists through a tablesaw in NO time.

If you HAVE used the programs needed, then more power to you!

I've gotten past the 'hell' part of my AMV, and now it's in the 'grinding' part... maybe by the end of the month, the 'first draft' will be done.  Maybe.

2

Heh, I haven't even met up with Virgil and started my decent.

I've never dabbled in this before, so I'm going to be searching out any FAQ's and how-to guides I can find.

I've got to figure out which software I want to use (and can afford). If there's something out there that makes life easier, but stings the pocketbook mightily, I may just suck it up and pay for it anyway. Of course that means I need to find other projects to get my money's worth out of the purchase.

3

Hah, I finally found where I put this comment!  Will, if there's anything I can do to help you once you start trying to do this, lemme know.  After (almost) finishing my first AMV, I know (first hand) the big pitfalls that will bite you otherwise.  They bit me, and added three or four days worth of work to the project in the process, not to mention a lot of sanity.

I used Premiere, but I had a hand-me-down copy, so it didn't cost anything... otherwise, it would have cost an arm and a leg.  For a simple, easy viddy, you could use Windows Movie Maker... It's not bad, per se, just really, really dumb.

If you're a member of animemusicvideos.org, download the amvapp.  If you're not a member of amv.org, join up (it's free!), THEN download it (there may be a 2-week waiting period).  It is worth it's hard-drive space in gold.

4

I've had an account over at AMV.org for a couple years (but I visit so infrequently, I always forget my password). I've actually got a couple projects (not all AMV's) in mind if/when I can get myself out from under the stack of jobs at work. That, and now that summer is back, my dad is probably going to start asking for help with his car restoration on the weekends again.

You know, I'd meant to offer up my services with your beta. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

5 Keep an eye out over at The Pond... the announcement will be made there.  ETA: Saturday.  I hope.

6 Sweet.

7 It's gone gold!

1 I see 47,433,728 bytes on the server for this file.  Is that correct?

Anyway, the file played just fine.  Yay Sammy-mobile!

2

That file sizes look more like what I should be seeing.

So very weird. When I first load any page in which this video object exists, the player doesn't appear at first. I get the generis object icon. It acts almost like it's buffering before bringing up the player (WM plugin in my case). While that's happening, I can see my cable modem is actively trying to grab the file. Once the object decides to actually do something, both the embedded player and Windows Media both appear. WM gives me an error about not being able to parse the AVI (because it's not actually getting ahold of the file), and the embedded player has all the controls grayed out.

While all of that is going on, it locks me out of clicking on the "Add Comment" link. You can click all you want but nothing happens. Is there some controller that is being used by both the embedded player and the comment editor?

There must be something I'm missing in my object tag. Or, I haven't got just the right path in the tag. Is it possible that Minx thinks I'm trying to hotlink the file from outside and is shutting me out? I know I can right click the direct link and save as (and if that's what I have to do, it's what I have to do).

3 Minx doesn't have hotlink prevention yet, so it's not that.  I'm not 100% sure what it is, right now.  Minx will serve up the file okay, but maybe there's something with the exact way the browser expects to receive an embedded object...  I'll have to play with it a bit more.

4

Aha... I was using

data="xxx" instead of src="xxx"

That seems to have fixed the comment hangup, but it's still not pulling up the content. crud.

Oh, and it looks like the uploads may be working just fine, but when the transfer takes too long, it doesn't route me to the File Info page when the upload is complete.

5

That seems to have fixed the comment hangup

Yay!

but it's still not pulling up the content. crud.

Boo!

Oh, and it looks like the uploads may be working just fine, but when the transfer takes too long, it doesn't route me to the File Info page when the upload is complete.

Yeah, that might be the case.  So all I'd need to do is tweak the timeout flag - I'll look into that.

6 Maybe we should try it with a very small video file; it might be easier to debug that.