I need some tips.

[NextJinGamer]

Hello, all! I want to try making an anime vid by myself. What software do I need to do this?

I want to use different characters from various anime and put them all on one screen, etc. But I'm not sure how to go about extracting just character frames (or whatever) from anime.

Please reply soon!

[Castor Troy]

These should help you out a bit..
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=79706&highlight=masking
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=15004

[Hadien]

A while ago I made a AviSynth script "AutoRoto" that rotoscopes any object by its outline. simply using a 4,8, or 16 garbage matte.

automatically.

you can read whatever details I made about it on the Doom9 Forums here

though sadly I'm still trying to make this script faster (rotoscopes a 10 sec clip in 3 minues).

it works... but its slow and crashes from time to time

this function uses VCMohan's Colorit's plugin. specifically the colordrops function.
and while the colordrops can allow multiple fills, the way my code is implemented you can only have one transparent area...


...

I still need to work on it some more but already it makes my rotoscoping that much faster. and I should be releasing it...

... soon....

I hope....