New, AVISynth-based NLE

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:27 am

One thing that's always bugged me is that AVISynth, for as powerful and flexible of an editing system as it is, has no graphical editing interface. AVISynth would make a competent editing system, with its vast colorspace support, massive array of plugins for every task, and strong editing features. Yet no one has ever been taken to task in compiling a true non-linear editor out of this fantastic project. Well, that's about to change. With the ongoing development into making AVISynth 3.0 cross-platform, and the inclusion of powerful new backends including FFMPEG and GStreamer, AVISynth will soon be fully ready for Mac OS X and Linux. Within the next few days, I'm going to begin development on an OS X-native, Cocoa-based NLE written on top of and using AVISynth as a backend. It'll be no momentous task, as all the hard work in getting a video and rendering engine has already been done by the AVS team. The missing piece of the puzzle, then, is simply an interface, and an engine to translate interface interactions into script. Some features currently planned include: a built-in script editor with syntax highlighting and code-completion, full-fledged NLE mode or a simple, graphical AVISynth script generator, and automatic conversion of input formats to suit the project settings (a feature only implemented in Final Cut just recently). That's just a small fraction of much to come.And since the new AVISynth can utilize FFMPEG as a backend, support for encoding the output project to every format ever will be trivial to add. Get ready for the best editor ever, for free. I made a quick mock-up in Photoshop as a little glimpse into the future.

Suggestions, comments, and ideas are very welcome. Also, mods, feel free to relocate this to "Other Video Editing Systems" if you see fit. I thought it might reach a wider audience here.

Greggus1 · Post by **Greggus1** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:05 am

WHEN.

*Runs around naked*

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:45 am

I would personally recommend that you use a cross-platform gui toolkit, so that it isn't tied to any particular OS.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:10 am

I'd also like to add that Avisynth 3 is not (yet) officially supported on OS X.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:23 pm

Zarxrax wrote:I would personally recommend that you use a cross-platform gui toolkit, so that it isn't tied to any particular OS.

Such as? QT4 is interesting, I guess, but really, I'm thinking of doing a .NET port after I finish with the OS X version.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:41 am

Potential icon:

Nice, ja?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:47 pm

Tab. wrote:
Zarxrax wrote:I would personally recommend that you use a cross-platform gui toolkit, so that it isn't tied to any particular OS.
Such as? QT4 is interesting, I guess, but really, I'm thinking of doing a .NET port after I finish with the OS X version.

.Net probably doesn't sound like the best of ideas, with all the performance overhead and such. QT would let it run on linux too. Linux really lacks and decent video editing app.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:30 pm

Tab. wrote:Potential icon:

Nice, ja?

But how does it look at actual icon sizes?

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:31 pm

Scintilla wrote:But how does it look at actual icon sizes?

That is an icon size in Vista and Leopard :|

Anyway, here.

128x128

48x48

32x32

16x16

Shazzy · Post by **Shazzy** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:40 pm

Tab. wrote:
Scintilla wrote:But how does it look at actual icon sizes?
That is an icon size in Vista and Leopard

With the "vision impaired" setting on...