i was under the impression that this thread was here to get help not be ridiculed but i can see now i was mistaken. i was not rude in my post in any way but if thats how you guys see it you,re entitled to you,re opinion. as i said i wont make the mistake of coming here for advice any more. as it has been a complete waste of my time.
yeah i should have called it project i danger of attracting trolls.
ayy santika i really appreciate the link and the help.. ash dude bro man that is quite possibly the rudest comment i have ever received in a video enthusiast forum. if you didnt like the way my topic rolled you didnt have to post. forgive me for thinking a fanediting forum would have members who know something about fanediting. and i guess my big mistake was posting a video editing question in the "how to and technical discussion,s" thread. troll. everyone i was stressed out when i posted this and i will admit i was impatient. sorry for the rant however rudeness does not solve anything. as for the work its progressing somewhat and i am not giving up due to lack of tech advice. i will keep updating as i go but i think i will refrain from posting questions on ot.com wouldnt want to upset the trolls.
thanks for the reply ash! yeah i have gotten this far already. figured out how to convert 6 channel wave and have that in vegas ready to edit. where i am stuck is in the subtitles for non english parts. i think my best solution is to hardcode the subs into the video pre vegas editing. just need a good way to do that and maintain descent video quality. thanks again.
all day i worked at this. i have gotten to the point of creating 6 mono wav files and put them in vegas for vol 1 i then output an ac3 file just in case i need it. so now i have been trying to find a way to use the subs. it seems subs cant be directly hardcoded to vob. with ripbot i can hardcode the subs but only to an mp4 or mkv container. vegas does not read mkv. so is this my only choice to encode the video to mp4 with the subs and no audio? and then place the mp4 into vegas along with my wav files and edit from there? i tried this already and the mp4 in vegas preview box was pixelated and choppy. i would think it would be time consuming to try and custom make a softsub file for this edit because every sub would have to be synced to the finished edit. i am at a loss here. 17 people have viewed this thread today and no one has any suggestions? i have been up and down every how to i can find about these problems and can not find a solution to hard code subs into the source video. i see in vegas you can add text but how does that work? i have to manually type all the subs and sync them visually? if i have to transcode the source to get the subs in what container will work good with vegas? because mp4 does not seem to do well.this is all a little much for my brain to handle. i am ambitious but this is nuts. there has to be a better way to get the subs into the video pre vegas editing.
well i have made several attempts to get some advice on ot.com and had no help with my problems. so before i give up fanediting all together i will try one more time.i have been working hard on my project for a few weeks and i keep hitting the brick wall. first i will say that the project is kill bill the whole bloody affair. i have several expectations i would like to meet. first off i want to author the final cut in dvd architect. second i want great video quality. third i want ac3 5.1 audio. and fourth i want the subs hardcoded into the video.i made my first attempt in womble. the edit turned out descent. but then i found out that dvd architect would not take the ac3 5.1 audio after rendering out of womble. i had encoded the video source for womble in order to have the subs hardcoded. everything worked pretty good up until i tryed to rendor my dvd. the video quality had gone way down to fit a dl disc and i lost the voices from the audio.so i have been researching and found that the audio must be rendered in vegas to work with dvd architect. so i figured why not go ahead and take the plunge and do the whole edit in vegas. well this is not working out either. first off the only way to get the subs in is to manually type each subtitle and sync them all visually. really? that is stupid that vegas does not support .sub or .srt second when i added my first source kill bill uncut. and played it in the preview window the audio is way out of sync. i dont know if it will be after rendering because this is my first time using vegas. so far i am not liking vegas at all. is there another alternative software for windows that i could use to accomplish my goal? cause vegas just is not user friendly at all. so many problems before i even attempted to make a video cut. i know there is an adobe video editing software but cant remember what it is called and does it support ac3 5.1 or .dts and can it use sub or srt files? real question is how would you more experienced editors do this thing? womble is not gonna cut it and vegas seems too buggy. please respond guys i really want to do this. and i already have two more fanedits planned if i can just get this one running.
i could really use some help here. i have been trying to figure out a solution other then using 2.0 audio i dont want to use another authoring software that will not be as good. i have spent much time authoring this movie in dvd architect and the menus are very nice. i think my problem may have come from not editing the video in vegas. i used womble for its easy interface. i have vegas but i dont understand vegas at all. and i have heard the rendering looks like crap. what can i do here to get it authored in dvd architect with 5.1 ac3 audio?
well no special way to say this i rendered my dual layer movie out of dvd architect with 5.1 ac3 and there are no voices. it has all the other sound.anybody seen this problem and know how to fix it?
ummm wtf..lol weird freaking problem after rendering out of dvd architect.somehow there are no voices in the final product. its an ac3 .5.1 audio track @448 kbps. the music is there and the sound fx but no voices. anybody seen this before? i dont know how to fix this. the rest came out pretty good. confused and dissapointed!
well i am rendering my first edition out of dvd architect as i write this. i spent mad hours authoring the dvd. first time user of architect with too many ideas and a 3.9 hour movie. lol i have high hopes but we will see if this is the edition i release. i will not release a sub par version of kill bill.it has been quite a learning curve.the worst part was figuring out how to place the chapters in it. oh wait i take that back the worst part was when the software crashed and i lost about 5 hours of work because i forgot to push the save button! as far as the features go i added the bill kicks ass scene. and both of the live music performances. this disc you can pop in and have all day kill bill fun. however if the video quality is not good the features are gone. right now i am just happy to have a brake from it while it renders. my head is spinning. one way or another the release is coming soon.
hehe yeah same here guys i grabbed that edit about 3 weeks ago started watching it and stopped soon after when i saw the video i think the problem was mostly that i could not find his dual layer release. it just didnt work on 4.3 gb. i spent the whole day working on authering the dual layer disc and its almost done. i too have run into a disc space problem. the initial edit i finished looked flawless. but i had set the kbps too high in womble and ended up with a copy too big for a dl disc.after rerunning the encode i got it down too a usable size but with a noticeable reduction in quality however it still was a great improvement over gaijin.s 4.3 gb copy.i am still working and considering the best ways to bring the quality up to my expectations.its hard to judge between video quality and special features. lol i wanted everything on it. but will have to sacrifice a few things i think to make it fit. i will update again tomorrow as it is close. thanks for the interest.
welcome! to the thread that made me a fanediter. with the help of the members of originaltrilogy.com I i soon learned what that really meant. it is a fun hobby and without this site i might never have learned how to edit properly. below you will find out some of the frustrations i went through and who helped me to solve those problems.
problem solved i found a single disc srt file so nevermind.
ok so i am working on my kill bill the whole bloody affair edit. i have procured and ripped my japanese uncut vol 1 source. now the plan is to hard code the english subs for japanese speaking parts only into the video source. i have the srt subs but they are split in 2 for a 2cd rip. i have tried putting them into sub workshop. but there is no longer an option to join subs in sub workshop 4. so im at a loss here. i could create a 2 cd rip from the video source and then hardcode the subs to each one then rejoin the files but reencoding the video multiple times is not in the plan at all i want the best video source i can have as i am using bluray sources for most of the edit. so i dont want to lose quality from the uncut dvd source. what do i do here?
i recently watched the white lotus massacre scene on utube and i will admit it was pretty cool! the edition of the paimai scene is under consideration. although it kinda feels like stealing someone elses idea it does add a certain missing quality to the campfire scene. i am really undecided about that and i dont yet have a source for the scene either. time will tell on that. also here is an original thought. at the end of vol 2 bea is lying in bed with bb watching shogun assassin! i have shogun assassin....lol hmmm i wonder.
haha doc m beat me to the punch. its cool qt is finally stepping up to the fan requests. its funny that just last week after viewing part of gaijin,s edit i decided to make my own whole bloody affair. and here comes the real deal. but with one drawback only releasing in 1 theater and who knows how long until it hits dvd much less bluray. so for this reason i am going ahead with my edit. so far the 1 problem i have encountered is finding a japanese vol 1 source. however that may be solved today. i chose to use the u.s. blurays for 95% of my edit for improved video quality. only the extended scenes from the uncut dvd will be used. i have decided against using the bill fight scene. i have hardcoded the forced english subs into vol 1 and 2 pre editing. this eliminates the worry of a bad sync due to added extended scenes. no need for soft subs in this film. also the most exiting thing i have done so far is to fabricate my own title. this will be a dl dvdr. at least 3 custom menu,s will be used. i intend to have a special features menu which will include most of the features from both volumes as well as adding the full soundtracks from both films not sure how that will work yet but sounds like a cool idea. all in all i wanted to include all the extra goodys i can. already mapped out the menu backgrounds. all i am waiting for is my uncut source. here is a screenshot of my title for which i used a font called keetano kill bill. and also a screenshot from the vol 1 source after it was encoded down to 720x480 ntsc. the quality is still an improvement over dvd. by the way not tryin to steal your thunder gaijin i respect that you did what you did a long time ago. just wanted to share my efforts and thoughts.
well i had success using womble to custom sync the audio in the movie i spoke of last post. i am now stepping up to do the kill bill in 720p. i viewed one fanedit version of the whole bloody affair and well i was unimpressed with the video quality,the title,and the scene cut in between the two volumes.i think there is more that i can do there. i am now seeking to get a proper title going in after affects. and in consideration for how to fix the audio problem when the two films merge. at the end of vol 1 bill is talking to sophie and just as bill asks if bea knows her daughter is alive the end credit music fades in a few seconds too early for a proper cut. i think before the editor cut out the scene alltogether. but i felt the scene was too important to cut. so my next question is would it be feasable to use some audio software to mute out the music but not the dialogue? not sure about how to do this but i know it is possible. i thought of using flstudio 9 to do it since it offers just about every audio editing capability possible. of course it would have to be converted to wave for editing then back to ac3 in the final. is this a good idea or is there a better way? thanks guys. coming soon will be the trilogy i intend to do but i am first learning all this with some other films.
ehh forget it.lol were not talking a 1080p movie here were talking 3. i am over it i will just use the dvd,s like everybody else does. but i am still going to need a lot of pointers. i am working in sony vegas now getting my feet wet with a test movie. this movie is well its a rough piece of work to start with. the movie has only been released on dvd in russia. with no english audio. but there is a workprint in english i am attempting to use the 2.0 audio from. problem is it does not sync up. the workprint has a slightly different runtime then the dvd. and some scenes may be slightly different. all in all the audio is mostly the same but its missing some sound fx and mastering. so i have questions about syncing the audio. i know i will be needing to cut up the film and audio into peaces and sync each part. i still dont quite get the cutting and splicing in vegas. but mainly i wanna know what file formats i should use for the video and audio. the video source is now a single vob which i joined the parts to make. the english audio is ac3 2.0. as i understand it may be best to convert the audio to wav for the job is that right? and vegas is accepting the vob file fine. which is good cause its uncompressed. the audio may need stretching or fading to fit properly not sure how any of that works. i am not looking for a perfect file here just a watchable one. some pointers will save me a headache. this is just a learning project to prepare me for the trilogy fanedit. ah and also i would like to upscale the audio to 5.1 how does that work exactly? thanks for any help.
hi adywan. the laptop has a 500 gb hdd of which about 350gb are free. not to mention plenty of external hard drives. i begin working with sony vegas hd movie suit last night. just starting to get familiar with it. i have learned it will accept m2ts. but i am starting out with another movie to learn with.
lol yeah windows for sure mate. as i have looked at the compatibility chart for sony vegas mkv or m2ts are not listed. so yeah i am leaning on the dvd copys. unless any one else can suggest a cutting/editing software thats compatible with mkv? or a good conversion ware that will allow me to keep the bd quality there is no point. thanks anyway.
honestly it skips a little with 1080p. 720p plays fine. after a little tweaking of my media player i was able to almost stop the skips in 1080p.
this is a 2010 laptop so the graphics gotta be at least 512
2.6 ghz cpu. cant figure out the graphics speed.
i am already starting to feel bluray may be a bit over my head for my first fan edit. but like i said im brave. if it becomes too much to use the bd copys i have the dvd iso,s to work with in womble. there is for sure a noticable film grain in the bd,s that is not in the dvd,s as to be expected. but the picture is better too. i just wanna succeed without pulling my hair out and if i have to go to the dvd,s i will. thanks.
hi i have a dell laptop intel dual core with 4gb ram. the video card is meager but i can watch bluray on it. no bd drive on it. but the source files are ripped already to my hdd from my previous owned htpc which had a bd drive. i also have full dvd iso,s of the 3 films but the bluray version had an extended cut of the first movie. so i was hoping to use the bd versions.