adding 2 seconds of black?

[Rider4Z]

i remember someone posting a long time ago that there was a script that would add 2 seconds (or so) of black before and after your video for convention purposes.

is that true and if so, any idea what it is? (i knew i should have written it down when i saw it)

[LantisEscudo]

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vid=avisource(file)
black=BlankClip(vid, 48)
black++vid++black

You can replace the 48 with 60 if your video is 29.97 instead of 23.976.

[Rider4Z]

DUDE thanks!

[mirkosp]

You can also do it like this, which might be slightly faster while encoding (though for something this small I doubt it's possible to notice the difference if there is any):

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avisource("file.avi")
blankclip(last,48)+last+blankclip(last,48)

[LantisEscudo]

You can also do it like this, which might be slightly faster while encoding (though for something this small I doubt it's possible to notice the difference if there is any):

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avisource("file.avi")
last+blankclip(last,48)+last

That won't work; that'll give you two copies of the video with two seconds of black in the middle.

[mirkosp]

Welp, yeah, brainfart. I humbly apologise. Fixed now.

[Phantasmagoriat]

I actually wrote a simple function for this a while back: pad()

Save, and put it in your AviSynth plugins folder. Call it like this:

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avisource("file.avi")
pad(2)                            # adds 2 seconds of black, regardless of framerate, rounded to the nearest frame
pad(frames=24)                    # adds exactly 24 frames of black
pad(3.5, color=$FFFFFF, end=true) # adds 3.5 seconds, white, to the end.  Alternatively you can use pad_end()

~Phan