Tutorial for Sony Vegas for MMVs

These guides are designed to give you an insight into the theory behind audio and video and also to show you how to get some of the best looking and sounding AMVs that you can using software in Windows. Please note that this guide is intended to be read in its ENTIRETY. If you simply skip around, it is VERY likely that you will be confused. Also has a link to download the AMVapp.

Expect to learn the meaning of flow, how to achieve it in your videos, and how many times I can say um in one video. Furthermore it should help you build a foundation to edit from, make transitioning easier and generally improve your work!

Twixtor tutorial by lolligerjoj

Masking has to be one of the most time consuming parts of editing so efficiency is definitely key here. This time we explore the method of RotoBrushing to hopefully save time and reduce headaches from the stress of traditional Pen Tool Masking.

Graph editor/preset. Applies motion graphs to all selected properties, enables saving of preset curves etc.

Free AE plugin from Video Copilot. Ctrl + Space to activate the search console, it applies any effects / presets found to selected layers. Also renders and keeps track of full res screenshots (or frames) of your project for easy comparison. Can also replace default settings of effects with presets.

After Effects expressions documentation (easier to use than the official one)

A youtube channel full of guides for AfterEffects. All are very straight to the point with no filler.

Windows application to help you track, rate, and categorize the AMVs you watch

After Effects & Vegas tutorials, resources, scripts, and opinions.

Information on preparing sources, links to amvpack, and guide on how to use it.

Easy to use FFMPEG GUI for AV editors. Cross-platform. Recontainers and/or re-encodes footage.

AniDB stands for Anime DataBase. We feature detailed information about all forms of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) animation. Helps to locate what episodes specific characters show up in.

This is my personal folder of masks that I have made. The majority of the masks are in mov form with an alpha channel. In order to get the alpha channel to show up, at least in Vegas Pro, go to the Media tab of the Properties for the mask clip and select Straight (unmatted) for the alpha channel property

An anime upscale algorithm with GPU acceleration support. It also has an avisynth+ plugin.

Isolate vocals and/or music from an audio track - Free, no registration required

A tutorial on how to automatically rotoscope an anime character using some of the latest AI technology

Discord server focused on the discussion of fan-created music videos and editing self-improvement. Previously known as AMV Sashimi.

A network of vidding-related sites made or maintained by BentoVid members

Explains the photoshop blending modes, but these modes are also used in many video editing programs.

Drop a link or upload a file to view all metadata. Works with pretty much every file type.

Spreadsheet template for tracking what contests/conventions you've submitted your vids to. By Troubleclef

Only potentially useful for live action videos. 50MB/150 second video limit on free accounts.

All of them are pretty useful, but the 2 I use the most are "Simple Mask" and "Feathered Crop" I use CS6 and these plugins are absolute game changers. I use one of them in every single vid. Note: these plugins are probably useless to you if you use CC, but technically they should still work with current versions. Also, while they work for AfterEffects, I wouldn't bother installing them there. These are really only best used in Premiere.

Basically lists all types of cuts & fades, with examples, and some reasons for why they're used.

A youtube channel full of really great DaVinci Resolve tutorials!

Twixtor (but not really) tutorial for Davinci Resolve 16 or 17 (Standard and Studio) The best tutorial I found for creating slowmo clips in my edits, enjoy

Start thinking like a cinematographer. Explore the most common types of camera shots, and learn when and how to use them for the greatest effect.

A Playlist of various DBZ green screens from various creators

Use this in-browser GUI to select exactly what you want to do with FFMPEG and it will tell you what commands to use!

Lists camera shot types with examples. Explains what they are, how they are made, and when to use them.

Basically a standalone free (ish - pay what you want) version of Twixtor

Beginnners Guide for Fusion, the effect program in Davinci Resolve. Here you learn how Nodes work and in a simple way.

DaVinci Resolve basics tutorial by jixaw/Keyframe Addict

Done for Team Four Stars projects, release for public to "have fun"

For Premiere, After Effects, Vegas Pro, and Nuke. Note: Vegas version is included in a paid plugin called Vegasaur Toolkit. The other versions are free.

Archive of creditless anime OPs and EDs.

You will learn things but mostly it's to realise how little you know. Color correcting, and color in general, is just black magic and nobody knows how it works. (This is a video editor working for Linus Tech Tips listing all of his questions about color correcting and mainly complaining how bad the resources to learn are)

A batch and shell script which can be used to automatically anonymize video file names in an IC or similar event setting. The files can then be shared with others while a generated text file holds the original file names.

Found a very good download manager called JDownloader. When you paste in a link it scans the website for all downloads and gives you the options. For YouTube it can get the video, audio, thumbnail and description. I think its mostly meant to ease downloading off of random file hosting sites, it even solves captchas if there is any lol. But works great for YouTube too

Western animation can have different lip flap from Anime, this tutorial shows you how to account for that.

This is a (re-uploaded) tutorial of how to mask faster in Sony Vegas using the Pen Tool.

Explains what match cuts are and gives examples of different types.

A calendar of live-action vidding events (mostly expos).

Links to creditless anime OPs & EDs.

Alternative tracking template from Resy. Copy and tweak as desired.

It has some premium features but is mostly free. You can put subscriptions into categories/folders/groups, and do other things. Honestly it's super useful and I heavily recommend at least skimming through the guide video because it just has so many features. It's available for every major browser including android and iOS.

Guide to using the puppet pin tool in Adobe After Effects, which is helpful for MMVs and motion design.

Program to automatically detect scene cuts and split videos. Written in Python, and also provides Python API in addition to command-line interface for use within other programs.

In case your video editor's bloom effect isn't quite cutting it, a 3D render might do the trick. A quick explanation on how to do the effect, with the video done explaining it in about 1.5 minutes

Have you heard of Story/Plot structure? This is that, but for making AMVs. Useful to read at least once.

Anime reverse search, if you only have access to an image and you want to know from what anime it was taken (including the ep/or timestamp)

Save srt files and/or convert them from most video sites, like youtube.

A python utility script which detects different scenes in a video and stores them as preview images with timecodes burned into the pictures.

A free and open source screen capture program with a ton of utility tools and fully customizable regions and after capture actions. If you also install FFmpeg, ShareX can record your screen in .mp4 and .gif.

A tool that visualizes the size of files and folders on your drives. Very handy if you're trying to get more space to download that new movie that just came out and the only torrent is a 45GB uncompressed BD rip.

Explains how alpha mattes, channels, and transparency works. Explains what "premultiplied" means and how that setting works.

How to do ken burns (slow motion/zooms) to make transitions smoother and videos flow better.

Vegas utility scripts that add Picture in Picture to all clips (an effect that adds preview panel transform controls). Also scripts that add a screen shake using the PiP effect, a chromatic aberration script and a parameter randomizer / oscillator

Geared toward beginning editors or editors who are new to Vegas.

Opensource GUI for upscaling video

Vidtech Encoder is an electron-based FFMpeg GUI for vidders and vidding conventions. Basically, it's a program to help you encode vids into different formats. Under the hood it uses the open-source program ffmpeg.

Isolate audio tracks, adjust pitch, find key, find BPM, cut, join, record, and do karaoke all with this site.

Want to know what anime that is in that one Match cut AMV at 1:57? This page can find you the Answers!

AMV breakdown series. Links to a youtube playlist.

Console to download youtube videos.