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The Painless Add Video To Beatmap Process walkthrough.

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Gilrad
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Gilrad
Feel free to move or sticky at your leisure.

STEP 1:
YOUTUBE.
http://youtube.com
It's really an awesome resource. If the song has a music video, it will be on youtube, and probably compressed at that golden point where the video looks decent but won't be a bitch to download.

STEP 2:
VIXY
http://vixy.net/
-OR-
YOUTUBEX
Kai Edit:YouTubex is dead
Here you have a choice. If you want to be certain you have compatibility, use Vixy, as it will convert it to an avi. If you want a faster and painless process, use youtubex and just use the .flv (osu does let you use flv files, right?) The version of ffdshow that I use has supports for .flv files, so I assume it will work.
If anybody knows of a simple way to strip the music from a video file, feel free to add that to reduce file size.

anyway,

STEP 3
F2 in editor, click Insert Background Video. Use the slider below to adjust the start time offset.

There you go! No programs had to be downloaded, and now all your beatmaps can have a video attached to it!
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peppy
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Gilrad wrote:

STEP 3
GOLDWAVE (or any other audio editor)
http://www.goldwave.com/
This step is to time the mp3 that you have with the video. Chances are your audio file and your video file are not in sync. Using Goldwave, it's as simple as opening the mp3, go to edit->insert silence. Then add and remove silence until you are satisfied.

There you go! Only one program had to be downloaded, and now all your beatmaps can have a video attached to it!
You can also adjust the offset for the video by (for now) manually adjusting the .osu file.

Add your video, save the file then look for the following line:
[Events]
1,<offsetMs>,"videofile.avi"
You can change the offsetMs then load the beatmap. Note that this will only work for offsets greater than around 500ms (the minimum sync precision for video in osu!)

I haven't edited your post gilrad, but you might want to add this :).

Also do you think this should be in beatmap help maybe?
Gilrad
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Handy! Can you give it a negative offset?

That would remove one of the more annoying steps :)
peppy
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peppy
You can :). Actually - positive will work with any ms amount. Its negative that needs to be about 500ms or greater. But this should suffice, I think. I'll be recoding this for storyboarding.
Gilrad
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Updated. Also, if you think it fits in the beatmap help section, go ahead and move it, though this is mostly here to remind people how easy it is to add video for those who thought it would be a long and arduous process, and not so much a troubleshooting walkthrough.
peppy
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peppy
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/FLV_Extract

can use this to extract flv video then use virtualdub to reencode. osu! won't handle flv files directly, i think.

http://www.digital-digest.com/articles/ ... page1.html
good guide here too
awp
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awp
Should this thread be stickied, maybe? I quite like it, myself.
Oni-91
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Oni-91
EDIT: Don't worry, it's fixed.
chan
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Hi, I've used VideoDub and have a suitable mp3 and avi file from a larger, longer file, but the avi file size is considerably large. What should I do to reduce the file size? Also, what additional software might be needed?
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awp
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chan wrote:

Hi, I've used VideoDub and have a suitable mp3 and avi file from a larger, longer file, but the avi file size is considerably large. What should I do to reduce the file size? Also, what additional software might be needed?
-_-;
OSS (One-stop-software) Video Converter is an excellent program for video compression/conversion. You'll have to google for it though, as I don't know where to get it - my brother gave it to me.
Ichikira_old
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Ichikira_old
can you make a video please ? i don't understand this tutorial =/
Puffles
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Puffles
You may want to add this as an alternative to vixy:

http://www.mux.am/
Kobracon_old
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Kobracon_old
This will probably be the noobest question on this thread but I have to ask,

*inhale* YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE??!??!?!?! :o (Oops left caps lock on ;P)

I have been going there for so long and I could actually download the videos from there?

or did i miss something in the Steps?
tigerakatila
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tigerakatila
I have a youtube downloader that allows you to strip the song of its audio in the process of converting it out of an flv, it really is a wodnerful thing (it will also let you take just the audio, ive gotten a few songs that way C: ) it has different video types to choose from and then you choose between low, medium, optimal, and high qualities as well.

http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
it requires a download unlike the places listed above, but for people who don't want to take those extra steps to remove the audio/compress it, or dont' have anything to do that, it really is a great thing to have. Its simple to use, too.
Wojjan
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Wojjan
as a video-ripper, I always use http://www.mediaconverter.org, see for yourself
Chaos Anime X
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Chaos Anime X
I found a VERY NICE .ogm to .avi converter, which I'm going use in a beatmap

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=149026

It worked perfectly for me, and I hope it will for you too. It keeps the original video quality 100% and you can chose the audio bitrate.


ALSO
as far as stripping audio from the video to reduce file size, use VirtualDub, it works great
VirtualDub comes in a archive and you don't have to install anything, just extract and run the program.

http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/
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eee
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eee
I didn't know you can offset the video by opening the .osu file
so thanks :D
Jeffro
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Jeffro
Do what I do. Get Sony Vegas. Open the Music Video or RAW (If you doing a anime song) and then check the timing with the mp3. and rerender the video so the offset is exactly the same :) Works for me :D
Mashley
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Mashley
Erm, help please? I have an avi file but osu doesn't seem to like it. It tells me to check my codecs... what's that?
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