Avisynth in After Effects

sagarajack · Post by **sagarajack** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:56 pm

script to me is a pain in the butt, i guess i just can't use it, just get another 400gb hd

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:35 am

sagarajack wrote:script to me is a pain in the butt, i guess i just can't use it, just get another 400gb hd

or you can download the God of all guides and keep it open whenever you want to make a script. It's what I did for my first vids with avs.

AngryManAnime · Post by **AngryManAnime** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:55 am

So did I, but I still had to ask questions when I overlooked the SetMemoryMax option and wound up with black scripts. That was ages ago though, it's been updated since then.

Ripping/scripting DVD footage can be a real pain, but viewing the resulting footage for the first time will amaze you with it's incredible clarity.

Lu Tze · Post by **Lu Tze** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:55 am

After some trying around I managed to import Avs-Files into After Effects (v. 7 pro, but version should not matter).
There are a few things that need to be done right, however, in order for this to work, and some are not so obvious:
- Your AVS-script may NOT contain relative paths. Use absolutes ONLY!!
- Use MakeAVIS (part of ffdShow, you need to enable it during install) to convert your script to a dummy-AVI-file, which can then be imported. However: This does not work for all versions of ffdShow, so you need to try around a bit. The one I am using right now is 20050909. The 20051103 version will NOT work, meaning that you can play those AVI-files using a DirectShow-Player (e.g. zplayer), but you will be unable to open them in VirtualDub or After Effects.
- Audio streams are problematic. It is saver to include a "KillAudio()" line in you AVS-script. If you really need to use an audio stream, you have to activate the option "Store uncompressed audio". If you do not, After Effects will crash as soon as you import the AVI. (This may have been fixed in later versions of ffdShow)

- Other than that it seems you can do just about everything, even after creating the dummy-Avi-file. For example, you can replace the AVS-file later, change the file the AVS-video references, add sharpening effects and use DirectShowSource for your video, so your source can be a WMV-file or an MKV-file with X264. (but you should use those for rendering only because editing will be very slow). You can even change resolution and color space later, but a change in resolution will crop the image.

All this together is not nearly as complicated as it sounds, and it is definetely worth it. Editing with MJPEG instead of a lossless source does not just save you a huge amound of disk space, it is also much faster.

Well, I hope this will help some people!

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:23 pm

Please, Please, HELP.

I've asked this everywhere but I didn't get any answer, so please, I'm truly desperate, help me, anyone.

I'm trying to import any type of clip into After Effects, now, for example, an Episode (any) of Full Metal Alchemist, 640x480 with 23,976 fps, receiving, continously, this error.

After Effects error: retrieving frame from video stream. (3)

( 53 :: 34)

Please, anyone can help me? I'm really desperate I don't know what can I do.

I think that probably this can belong to an Avysinth solution but I tried to make what it's suggested here, without changing, sadly, nothing.

taifunbrowser · Post by **taifunbrowser** » Tue May 16, 2006 5:30 pm

Michele wrote:
After Effects error: retrieving frame from video stream. (3)

( 53 :: 34)

ha! was about to post here for same problem. Using makeAvis version 20040317... audio off,

EXACT same problem. error message.

-AND- when i say Audio ON (just as a test) i get the OTHER error message a previous poster posted (the "no such compressor")...

OH and on VFAPICONV it wont let me drag .avs files into it, and when i browse for the file, it shows only .d2v and .tmp files

taifunbrowser · Post by **taifunbrowser** » Tue May 16, 2006 6:11 pm

FIXED!

gack why can't we edit our posts?

Anyway, the deal is for VFAPI you have to find (google it) and download

READAVS.REG

(its a zip file with other stuff in it.)

copy everything in the zip to your vfapi directory,
open up the .reg in notepad, and do wut the file says.

then doubleclick the .reg file, and vfapi will let you put in .avs files.

Jnzk · Post by **Jnzk** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:51 pm

If you want to install VFAPI on Vista x64, you'll need to edit vifpset.bat in Notepad. Change it to:

Code: Select all

c:\windows\syswow64\rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:\Program Files (x86)\VFAPI\vifp.inf,DefaultInstall

(change the path to vipf.inf as necessary)

Then run the edited vifpset.bat as administrator. I also had to add the line ConvertToRGB24() to the end of my Avisynth script, otherwise I would only get a black screen.

chui101 · Post by **chui101** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:37 am

It'll be a bit more of a performance hit, but if you have dynamic link, you can drop the AVS into a new PPro sequence and then import that sequence into AFx.

outlawed · Post by **outlawed** » Sun May 03, 2009 9:52 am

Protip.

Pre-process your footage with avs and export it to uncompressed or an editing codec. Yes this means you can't pre-process it again after you edit. What that does mean is you will learn to properly pre-process it to begin with and do the job RIGHT the first time.

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