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New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Valion » Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:13 pm

Hello! I've been working on a revised Avisynth import plugin for the last couple weeks after I noticed the old one didn't work with Premiere CS4. It's essentially done (still need to make an installer), but I'd like to have some people test it on various setups.

The new plugin supports the version 8 import interface, so it should work (in theory) with Premiere/AE/Soundbooth CS2/CS3/CS4. So far I've tested it with Premiere CS3/CS4 and AE CS3/CS4 on XP/XP64, and it seems solid. CS1/1.5 support shouldn't be hard to add (version 7 import interface), but I'd like to get the current feature set fairly rock solid before adding anything else.

If you have any of the above programs and wouldn't mind helping me do some testing, please send me a PM. :)
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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Valion » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:00 pm

Woot, installer and GUI are done now as well, plus I confirmed it does work with Soundbooth CS3/CS4.
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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Brad » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:24 pm

Hook me up :O
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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby EvaFan » Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:32 pm

What OS's does it work for or are there any it don't work for?
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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Valion » Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:39 pm

I've only tried it with WinXP and WinXP 64. I don't know of any reason that it wouldn't with Win2K or Vista, though.
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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Valion » Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:36 pm

RC0 out, fixed an alpha layer problem: http://valion.net/csavs/Development/Pre ... 0Setup.exe

Please tell me any problems.
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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Brad » Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:47 am

Not working. I've got a DirectShowSource AVS script that is loading perfectly fine in VDub, does not want to load up whatsoever in Premiere or AE (CS4) in XP.

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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Brad » Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:48 am

Should also mention that AVS is not loading into the File Format list when you're on the Import screen (not that I know if it's supposed to or not. I would hope so. Otherwise you'll have to choose All Files every time you want to import an AVS)
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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Valion » Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:54 pm

I was able to recreate the problem. It's weird, since if I fiddle with a few things, it works, but then if I put everything back the way it was when it seemed broken, it STILL continues to work. That sort of explains why I didn't notice the problem at first.

So I'm not sure which thing I'm changing that's making it fix itself. I'll experiment a bit and put up a newer version later.

Yeah, it should show up in the file type list. If it doesn't, it means Prem/AE/whatever rejected the plugin for whatever reason.

One question: Do you have the old AVS Plugin installed? I think it might be related to what's happening, but definately not the only thing since I saw the same problem on a freshly installed computer a couple days ago.
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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Brad » Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:01 pm

I purposefully did not install the old plug-in since I knew I was going to be trying this one.
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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Valion » Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:44 pm

Brad, do you have any versions of Adobe stuff other than CS4 installed? When you run the installer, what directory does it say it installed the plugin to?

Also, I think I was wrong about being able to recreate the problem. I was just loading AE to check if I saw "Avisynth file (*.avs)" in the list of importable file types, but AE calls it the name of the file, so it was just further down the list under "Premiere CS AVS Importer (*.avs)". In any case, I can't figure out a way to make it fail now.
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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Brad » Wed Jan 21, 2009 7:09 pm

It's installing into Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS4\MediaCore

And no, I only have CS4 installed.

When the installer comes up, it doesn't ask anything about where the actual plug-in should go. The only location field I'm seeing is for the Program Files\Premiere CS AVS Importer. Either way I double-checked to see if the actual plug-in was present and it is indeed.

I also just tried copying the plug-in to both Premiere and AE's separate plug-in folders and no luck :\
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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Valion » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:42 pm

Here's a couple more things to try...

After adding any plugins, hold down shift while loading Premiere. It will force it to clear the plugin cache and load everything from scratch.

http://valion.net/csavs/Development/CSAVSRC1Debug.prm is a debug version which should throw up 4 message boxes when the plugin is initially loaded. One for imInit, one for imGetSupports8, and 2 for imGetIndFormat. Put it in Mediacore and load Premiere like normal. If no message boxes come up, Premiere isn't even trying to load the plugin for some reason.

http://valion.net/csavs/Development/ImporterSDK.prm is the basic importer from Adobe's sample code. Throw it in Mediacore, load Premiere, and see if the option to import .sdk files shows up under the import menu. It should show up as 'SDK Importer Format'. If that doesn't load, then it seems like something is preventing any importers from being loaded.
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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Brad » Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:22 pm

Neither plug-in does anything. I know I'm copying to the right folder, unless for some reason they should be in their own sub-folder in MediaCore. I have the Trapcode plug-ins installed in MediaCore and they load just fine.. I'm at a loss. :\
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Re: New Premiere/AE Avisynth plugin, need testers

Postby Valion » Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:53 am

Nah, you shouldn't need to make subfolders.

Take a look at C:\Documents and Settings\<yourusername>\Application Data\Adobe\Premiere Pro\4.0\Plugin Loading.log

The Mediacore ones should be at the end of the file. Check to see if it says something like 'The library could not be loaded.'

What OS/processor, btw?
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