Creating solids with avs?

[Bauzi]

Heyho,

Today I had a nice idea to save me some RAM and harddisk-space. Alright:
I have an extern hdd and I would like to store my dvds rips on it. I still want to work with them, but I would like to keep them there. Ok I don´t want to plug in all the time my extern hdd and that´s why I would like to add some dummy files as avs.

What I need is a simpel command that creates a solid for a specific time (in frames would be nice).

So an script would look in the end like this:

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[Plugins/Imports]
MPEG2Source("Myfootage.avs")

#"CreateSolid"(black, 50000) #colour,frames
#AssumeFPS(25) #Just a guess. I think that I would need something like this. Or maybe not *shrugs*

[Filtering]

In the end I would just toggle between MPEG2Source and CreateSolid. Is there a function that could create something like this? Or maybe a way to load in an image file?

[trythil]

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real = true
a = BlankClip(...)  # duration can be specified; see documentation
b = MPEG2Source(...)

c = real ? b : a;

return filter(c);

This doesn't automatically sense file presence (maybe there's an Avisynth filter to do that, and if there is, it'd just be a matter of changing real = {true,false} to real = WhateverFilterThatIs(filename)), but it achieves what you're looking for. I think.

One thing you'll have to do is specify BlankClip parameters explicitly, since you can't reliably use b as a template.

[Zarxrax]

If you are using premiere, the latest version of the avs plugin will automatically put in black video when the source data is missing.

[Bauzi]

If you are using premiere, the latest version of the avs plugin will automatically put in black video when the source data is missing.

SWEET

However I´ll try trythil´s stuff too

Thx to you two!