Avisynth Problem

[surrealmom]

Before people tear me to shreds- I must say that I've read through all the guides and have looked everywhere online for some kind of answer to this problem. I'm sure there is a very simple solution that's staring me in the face, I just haven't been able to find it yet.

I'm entirely new to the whole Avisynth deal, and I'm trying desperately to use specific filters to clean a video up. The list of filters are set next to blue bullets. Most of the bullets are a light blue, and a select few are dark blue. The only filters that sometimes work are the dark blue, and sometimes not even that. I get constant error messages about the filters not existing.

In addition to this, I must add one more stupid question-

Avisynth effects the direct source itself without any renderings necessary, yes? So how exactly is this process finished? Do I keep the program running? Save the project?

[Keeper of Hellfire]

The list of filters are set next to blue bullets.

Where to hell do you have blue bullets? Sounds like you use an external tool to write scripts. Which one is it?

I get constant error messages about the filters not existing.

So what's so difficult to understand? They don't exist in your installation. You have to download them. Only because they are listed in the software that you use to create scripts doesn't mean that they are installed in your system.

Avisynth effects the direct source itself without any renderings necessary, yes?

No. It leaves the source untouched. It affects the frames on their way from the file to the editing application or media player.

[Jnzk]

Avisynth effects the direct source itself without any renderings necessary, yes? So how exactly is this process finished? Do I keep the program running? Save the project?

You need to save the opened .avs file as a normal video file (AVI, MPEG etc). Maybe I'm slow, but I didn't really get what blue bullets you are talking about.

[Gepetto]

Blue bullets? VDM clolrs the lines but no bullets... Perhaps another script editor (even though it works perfectly fine to edit in notepad).

AVS scripts don't alter your original video. It works as an "assembly line" of sorts. When you load the script with a video editor/player, a "copy" of your video runs through AviSynth, is filtered and then delivered to the player/editor for viewing/editing.

"Copy" is between quotes because no opy file is actually written, temporary or not, on your hard drive.

You need to save the opened .avs file as a normal video file (AVI, MPEG etc).

But that does not mean changing the file extension! It means encoding a new file with the .avs file as input.

[Gepetto]

Blue bullets? VDM colors the lines but no bullets... Perhaps another script editor (even though it works perfectly fine to edit in notepad).

AVS scripts don't alter your original video. It works as an "assembly line" of sorts. When you load the script with a video editor/player, a "copy" of your video runs through AviSynth, is filtered and then delivered to the player/editor for viewing/editing.

"Copy" is between quotes because no copy file is actually written, temporary or not, on your hard drive.

You need to save the opened .avs file as a normal video file (AVI, MPEG etc).

But that does not mean changing the file extension! It means encoding a new file with the .avs file as input.

I knew I shouldn't have eaten those mushrooms...

[surrealmom]

I don't quite know what I'm talking about with the blue bullets either. I suppose I was just trying to describe the situation as simply as possible, because I honestly haven't been able to grasp any of this. But thanks for the responses, they're helpful and I'll certainly use them to figure out this whole mess.

And with the "filter does not exist" deal- I suppose I'm wondering why the program would list filters that didn't exist in the first place.

[Melanchthon]

Post your script. Every single line, please.