AVS GUI

bum · Post by **bum** » Wed May 18, 2005 6:19 am

Just thought I'd mention these 3 GUI's I found for avisynth. Havent tried them out as I dont use avs.

AVSGenie

Swift

AVSedit

With AVIsynth being so damn popular I sometimes wonder why the hell sony hasnt implimented suport for it into vegas yet.

Farlo · Post by **Farlo** » Wed May 18, 2005 10:51 am

i say fight the avs hordes

i dont use avs, nor do i plan to start

FurryCurry · Post by **FurryCurry** » Wed May 18, 2005 11:09 am

I've found myself wondering about both the popularity of avisynth outside the vidding/fansubbing/dvd "backup" community, and whether or not amv/game footage type editing even appars on the "target consumer radar" of any of the companies who make low-mid end editing packages.

My best guess is that we don't, either because we're actually a tiny, unknown market segment compared to people who want to edit their home camcorder footage or make commercials for their town's funiture store summer clearance sale/tape and edit people's weddings for extra cash, or that they don't want to be associated with what is essentially a bunch of folks who steal and re-use others' intellectual property without permission.

As far as I know, the plugin that lets Premiere recognize avs files was written by an avisynth user/enthusiast, and I don't know enough about Vegas to even know if stuff like that can be written for it.

Maybe it's for the best. My impression of Sony is that they like proprietary solutions and locking stuff down, (like how my Sony DVD player appears to recognize SVCDs, but refuses to play them) and seeing how they're a media company as well, I'd suspect it would be more like them to try to lock out uses like ours than support them.

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Thu May 19, 2005 1:37 am

Hmm...those are neat, but I think I'll just keep doing my footage preping via typing in notepad.

dbz_doomrider · Post by **dbz_doomrider** » Mon May 23, 2005 2:39 am

Will, I do agree on you with the hole (evil empire). You do have to understand that premiere plugins. Used to clean footage and deinterlace are for a rush dateline usage. AviSynth is the linux of video editing. If you wanted you could edit a whole amv by yourself but why brother. Everthing you save yourself the YUV&RGB charge. Why brother, when you have a nice gui with RUBBER BANDS!! WOOT. Stick with vdubmod and avisynth deadly combo.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon May 23, 2005 10:23 am

dbz_doomrider wrote:AviSynth is the linux of video editing.

That's easily one of the most ignorant and brain-dead metaphors I've seen on these boards.

Would you like me to explain why, or can you figure that out?

Farlo wrote: i say fight the avs hordes

i dont use avs, nor do i plan to start

Is that because you can't figure the tool out, or because you have a rebuttal for every possible benefit it offers?

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Mon May 23, 2005 10:31 am

I don't know of any other methods of cleaning up footage/deinterlacing other than AVISynth. O___o

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon May 23, 2005 10:36 am

devilmaykickass wrote:I don't know of any other methods of cleaning up footage/deinterlacing other than AVISynth. O___o

There are many tools that offer facilities for cleaning up footage and deinterlacing. However, there aren't that many tools that give you what AVISynth does:

(1) filter choice
(2) programmable filter logic based on scene data and metadata
(3) filtering without intermediate conversion files (a HUGE plus)

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Mon May 23, 2005 12:00 pm

What about getting your video into an editable state...is there any way to do that without scrpits? o__O

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Mon May 23, 2005 5:22 pm

yes, there is...but results may vary by how inteligent the user is. You can use vdub mod without avs scripts and try to have in de-interlace and filter, change framerate, but your quality will suffer from unnecessary color converstions. Plus you don't know how it is doing anything. Its a black box. Black boxes are not good as they generally aren't as smart as a person is and can't see what is better or not. They typically do a best for most approach and will let you down when you have anything that isn't normal.