Avisynth in After Effects

Akashio · Post by **Akashio** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 3:59 pm

Is there anyway I can import avisynth into AE? Do I need a plugin? I serached, but can't find one. I'm really excited to start my project and this is a major obsticle.

Thanks for helping in advance!

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Mad_Cyric · Post by **Mad_Cyric** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:06 pm

I think you can use ffdshow or something to do it; I know there's a section in AD's tech guide that tells you how. I think it's under the "editing directly with avs files" section (I'm not sure that's exactly what it's called, but it's something like that).

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:35 pm

Here's the relevant section:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... ocId201615

This page covers makeAVIs; if it doesn't work, you may want to try DGVFAPI (comes with DGMPGDec 1.4.0 and higher) instead.

Akashio · Post by **Akashio** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:16 pm

I followed the instructions exactly and when I load the "fake" avi into After Effects, it closes the whole program! What is going on?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:58 pm

Better to just encode your avs files to a lossless codec if you have the space available.

Akashio · Post by **Akashio** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:16 pm

But shouldn't this method work?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:25 pm

Did you try DGVFAPI (and make sure your script is outputting RGB32 data)? I've never worked with it myself, but people were saying it worked great for Vegas, Magix, etc.

Akashio · Post by **Akashio** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:27 am

I've been looking and googleing, but still can't figure out how to access VFAPI to create dummy avi files! How do I do this?

Jnzk · Post by **Jnzk** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:00 am

Go to doom9.org downloads page and search for VFAPI. Then convert your AVS files with it. If the fake avis show as black in your editing program, try adding ConvertToRGB24() to the end of the scripts.

Jnzk · Post by **Jnzk** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:02 am

Oh and remember to read DGVfapi.txt that comes with DGMPGDec.