The room is on fire
Things I have learned tonight:
- Video editing is fun. Before I had neither the software to do it correctly or the hardware to run said software with usable performance. Now I have a laptop which can run Adobe Premiere(!) and do all kinds of amazing stuff right there in the editor.
- Doing all kinds of fun things in the video editor means you look up and there is daylight coming through the blinds again.
- If you want to remove audio from a stream in Premiere, you need to right-click on it, select “Unlink” and then delete the audio stream the normal way.
- Video encoding continues to be a giant clusterfuck and annoying headache*
- It is a shame that a license for Premiere costs $800 cause this would be an awesome hobby. I guess I need to finish this project in the next 30 days.
- I need a bigger bandwidth pipe at my apartment.
Hopefully I will post the results of tonight’s efforts if it ever finishes uploading.
*First I exported my project using UYVY and it looked great. This being because it had a bitrate of 170MB/sec and my 90 second clip was 1.7GB. Then I try exporting it using the DirectShow encoders included with Vista through Premiere and the result is shit. I try using the ffmpeg included in Premiere and that is shit too. Then I try using the Adobe Media Exporter (or whatever it is called) to export to WMV9 and that is shit as well. In my frustration I copy it over to my linux server and run mencoder with
-lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg which works like a charm. VirtualDub is also an acceptable answer except the only decent output I can get from that is Xvid which WMP cannot play out of the box so is only marginally useful. At least with Xvid I can get the same video quality for a 25MB file. Anyway, like I said, fuck video encoding.