HD Editing

[s0teric]

This guide will cover how to edit HD amv's (or other High Definition source videos) on a pc or a mac.

NECESSARY PROGRAMS:

MKV toolnix - http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/win32/

MKV extract - http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVExtractGUI

Procoder - http://forums.kametsu.com/showthread.php?p=96468#post96468

Sony Vegas - http://forums.kametsu.com/showthread.php?t=10708

MeGUI (optional) - http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/megui/megui-stable/0.3.5/MeGUI_0.3.5_x86_WithoutInstaller_OfflinePackage.zip?r=&ts=1293743548&use_mirror=iweb

STEP 1 -

If you have an HD video source, it's most likely an MKV (if you have an HD source in various other formats such as mpeg4 avc or mpeg2 skip to step 2) For an HD mkv file first you will need mkvextract. Download it here - http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVExtractGUI Run mkvextractgui.exe and select your mkv source. Check the video track (and other tracks if wanted), choose your output destination, and hit the extract button. Most likely you will have an h264 file when you are done extracting. That is what we want.

STEP 2 -

Now we need to convert the H264 format into a usable format.

MAC - If you have a mac follow the steps to use quicktime to convert h264 to mp4 here. It is to my understanding that you can then proceed to edit the file with final cut which you can download from tpb. I have not tested this method, though as I do not have a mac.

Windows - You'll need procoder. Download here (if you have access to the premium section). Just add your h264 file hit the target tab, hit add, HD, Mpeg, and the resolution you want. Then hit the convert tab and hit convert. In order to speed up the process disable the preview. The encoding will usually go 10-75% as fast as the video. This is with an H264, an mpeg4 avc takes much longer. This is all on my computer see specs here

STEP 3 -

Now You simply need to edit the video I recommend sony vegas 10 pro hd for windows users and final cut for mac. Download Sony Vegas here (if you have access to the premium section). Mac users will have to find final cut on their own. For sony vegas's output settings (When you have added your files and have finished editing) you have several output options. I recommend a Windows media or mpeg2 output setting. To set the settings go to project - render as... and select one of those two formats. Then hit custom and make sure the video is set to best and you have a good frame count and bitrate. You can check your audio settings as well. After you set all these settings you should render. This should take an hour or two (once again on my computer). The file should be pretty bulky but that's something you have to deal with. My 720p 4 minute amv rounded out to about 180mb. I experienced 0 quality loss. If there was any it was so unnoticeable that I, well, didn't notice. see resluting video I tested with here.

STEP 4 (optional) -

By now if you rendered in wmv or mpeg2 you probably have a pretty bulky filesize. If you want to cut down on that filesize yet keep the quality you are going to have to recompress to an x264 mkv file. You will need and mencoder gui for this which you can download here. Once you download megui you are going to need to create an avisynth script. On the menu choose tools then hit avs script creator. Choose your input video (the video you just rendered) and make sure your settings are as follows: 16:9 (1.777778) is your input dar, avisynth profile is scratchpad, and clever encoding is unchecked. If you want to crop black bars off the bottom and top of your video hit re-open original video player then hit auto crop. Choose your output location for your script and hit save. Your script will then load into megui. Choose your video destination and choose the x264 unrestricted for the encoder settings. Hit config. Depending on your setup these settings will vary. Slide the slider to the right if you want good quality and a larger filesize. Slide the slider to the left if you want speed and a small file size (less quality). the reccomended settings for quality is 18-26 if you want it perfect you can go down to 16 but I would stay in the 18-20 range (if you want it to look really good). If you know a lot about video encoding you can hit show advanced settings and mess with it, but for most users I would just hit ok then yes at this point. Hit enque and start to begin video encoding. Now you need your audio. Rather than reencoding your audio if you edited with sony vegas I would just go back to your project file, delete all the video and render out as a dolby digital ac3. DO NOT SAVE YOUR PROJECT FILE AFTER YOU HAVE DELETED THE VIDEO. After you have your audio and video simply merge them back together with mkvmerge in mkvtoolnix. You can choose a version here.

That is my HD editing tutorial

[seirachan]

Hope you don't mind but this might help some people out skipping the other parts and just having Sony Vegas

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I just messed around and keep getting 1020p lol

Also would we have to crack procoder in order to do your steps?

[s0teric]

Hope you don't mind but this might help some people out skipping the other parts and just having Sony Vegas

I just messed around and keep getting 1020p lol

Also would we have to crack procoder in order to do your steps?

the procoder installer I provided in the premium section comes precracked.

and in that video you have to have an HD video source that sony vegas likes. in other words itd have to be something like wmv or mpeg2 before you start editing

[idl12]

just to let you know, your link to to Sony Vegas actually links to procoder as well. but great tutorial man.

[s0teric]

just to let you know, your link to to Sony Vegas actually links to procoder as well. but great tutorial man.

oopsies. thanks for that its fixed

[seirachan]

oopsies. thanks for that its fixed

oh umm btw when i click the links it says

"seirachan, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?

2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation."

Is that, that paid section or something? if so I'm not gonna bother

[s0teric]

oh umm btw when i click the links it says

"seirachan, you do not have permission to access this page.

It's the premium section for donators, staff, and plus members. Pester Koby to make you a plus member.

[seirachan]

It's the premium section for donators, staff, and plus members. Pester Koby to make you a plus member.

all im getting is errors from mkvextractgui.exe, I try to load it up and it says mkvextract.exe and/or mkvmerge.exe file not found in the same mkvextractgui folder. copy them to this folder and try again.

then it open and when I try to put in an mkv file it says Error creating Chilg Process. CreateChildProcess(ExeName, CommadLine, FChildStdoutWr)

then just looks like this

[mathmanic]

Whoa, thanks. xD I need to favorite this page :3

[s0teric]

all im getting is errors from mkvextractgui.exe, I try to load it up and it says mkvextract.exe and/or mkvmerge.exe file not found in the same mkvextractgui folder. copy them to this folder and try again

did u copy the orignal exe out of the folder? put the files back in ur mkvtoolnix folder in ur program files make sure you have mkvtoolnix installed as well

download here - http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/win32/

[Legado]

So you have to have Sony Vegas or Final cut for this to work? Because i just recently got a editing program call "PowerDirector 9" which can import mkv file to the program. Altho i haven't tried that yet but i will tomorrow.