Export Problems W/Avisynth Plugin

SrgtWilco · Post by **SrgtWilco** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:18 pm

So I'm halfway through the video I'm working on right now, and I decide to do a test to see if it will actually work. I'm editing the footage using the avisynth plugin for premiere, and exporting using the Debugmode Frameserver. When loading this script into VirtualDubMod:

AVISource("C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Desktop\EvaBop Polka.avi")
TFM()
TDecimate(mode=1)

And trying to save it as AVI with the DivX Codec, I'll have video in VirtualDubMod, but not in the saved file. I've run into a similar problem when exporting clips of the video from Premiere as uncompressed AVI files. Advice?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:40 pm

Set the In and Out points in VirtualDub to explicitly select the entire length of the video? If you don't have those points set, sometimes VD will save everything and sometimes it'll save nothing. Very annoying.

SrgtWilco · Post by **SrgtWilco** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:55 pm

Same problem, except now there's no audio. I'm wondering if I should just scrap the whole avisynth-plugin thing and go back to the export-clips-from-virtualdub method, as tedious as it is; unless anyone with experience using the plugin could tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:01 pm

The fact that you're using AVISynth scripts as source shouldn't have any bearing on whether or not the Debugmode Frameserver works.

What happens if you just load the signpost AVI into VirtualDub(/Mod) directly, without using an AVISynth script, and save with a lossless codec such as HuffYUV?

SrgtWilco · Post by **SrgtWilco** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:54 pm

Well that makes things interesting. The file saved with HuffYUV does indeed have video, though the file size is so huge it hardly even plays, and is without audio. When I load the same clip back into VirtualDub and compress it with DivX, the video's gone. So the problem here seems to be with DivX, though I don't know any other codecs as good for final compression.