help please!

[silveralchemist]

I,m new here,and have read the guides,writen down all the steps, but am still haveing trouble! i understand what a script is,i am able to make DGIndex project files,but when it says make an Avisynth script,importing each dvd2avi project file. how exactley do i make an aisynth file?
in the section, testing a file ,it says, create a file called test.avs with the first line of script in it: Version, then says to open the file with windows media player. where do i creat this new file? would it be easier to use Sonic? i can load the clips to muvee maker but cant edit. ugh, i,m ready to pull clums of hair out! sorry if this is something really simple, bu i,ve looked everywhere! thanks in advance fro any help.

[Kariudo]

AviSynth has no GUI (graphic user interface) that comes with it, so you have to make these scripts in a program like Notepad.

when you save the file, save it as filename.avs (the .avs at the end tells other programs that you want to use AviSynth to do something)

AviSynth scripts can get quite complicated, but all you will put into this script is the following.

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version()

the parentheses at the end are very important

to address your next concern, you're probably using footage encoded with divx or xvid.
these are bad codecs to use to edit footage (but great codecs for distribution).
You'll probably want to re-encode the footage with a lossless codec such as Lagarith (get the latest codec and installer, not the source code). You don't want to re-encode entire episodes, just small clips. This can be done in VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod (personal preference, vdubmod is better imo)

there is also a guide on the site that can help you with AviSynth and VirtualDubMod (if you aren't/haven't reading/read it already)
start here and then go on to the next page too.
if you're serious about making high-quality amvs, you should read the whole guide

[Kariudo]

oh yeah... and I commend you for reading the guides first before asking questions.
Not many new people do that
*sign of good things to come*

[silveralchemist]

Thanks, i am pretty sure i read two of th eguides, i kept looking for answers.
thank you for th ehelp. i thought it was notepad but wasnt 100 percent,i have copied all the steps into a notebook since my kids killed my printer,so i have it all handy. i will try what you suggested. thanks.

[Willen]

There are a bunch of GUI scripting tools that you can download (AVSEdit, AVSGenie, AviScript, etc.), but I find them mostly useless. Good old notepad works great for AVS scripting (and HTML). I also use the script editor in VirtualDubMod, especially when I want a preview of my changes.

[Kariudo]

I find AVSP to be incredibly useful in scripting.
Not that it has uber-typing features...but you can preview the result of your script...and easily switch between tabs for a before/after comparison that doesn't use beforeafter/line() or take 5 minutes to thorw together 1 frame in mspaint

(if you're interested, you can find it on www.doom9.net in the forums)

[silveralchemist]

Thanks to everyone1 i will def. try your sugestions. i think i just work so hard at trying to figure it all out i get frustrated. i managed to send a clip to WMM how, i dont know! so i will go back and try again. i did try to do the test avs,and wmm wouldnt open it,error message,then it opened it partially,then when i tried to add the second line it wouldnt open it at all, just with the first line..well back to try again! thanks.