avisynth plugins in other frameworks

[foxyshadis]

I was arguing with someone over the relative merits of the mac or the lack thereof, and he raised a very interesting point. More advanced video systems have SDKs, so what would keep avisynth filters from being ported over? He's right that the basic idea is (get a frame) -> perform magic -> (hand frame back), and the bookkeeping details, while not trivial, aren't nearly as complex as the actual filter. A few avisynth filters would be incredibly useful for some projects (although AE/Motion have their own sets of advanced filters replacing ), plus, well, they're free and fast.

Unfortunately, some of the most useful are scripts, which would be a pain to convert into some kind of self-contained plugin, or morph the scripts into scripts or actions for other software.

For 3.0 avisynth will actually be able to work on other OSes, apparently without the restrictions of avi and color imposed now, but this is a way to branch out without waiting for the upgrade. I think virtualdub is the only other framework avisynth stuff has been ported to so far.

Any thoughts on the topic? Anyone feel a burning need for this?

AE SDK (http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/aftereffects/devcenter.html)
FCP SDK (http://connect.apple.com/), I think.
Combustion & Shake use the AE plugin format.

[Wilbert]

I think virtualdub is the only other framework avisynth stuff has been ported to so far.
..., ffdshow, avidemux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux). Perhaps the reason has to do with the license?

[IanB]

It has always been possible to write a wrapper to call AviSynth plugging. AviSynth does this for VirtualDub pluggins. Avery has plans for to call AviSynth plugins in the future. Planned changes to the interface in 2.6 should make writing glue layers even easier.

I would expect 99% of all plugins are pure code with no VFW bias, so they would just work in almost any environment.

Glue is such a useful concept. :D

[Zarxrax]

I would kill for the ability to use aWarpSharp inside of After Effects. Finally I could zoom in close to animation without it getting thick blurry lines!

[stan3]

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have an AE plugin which would simply consist of a text box, where you could type an avs script to be applied to the video?!!

Maybe one day someone'll make one. And then hopefully one that supports older AE-Versions and that can also be imported in Premiere (since premiere also supports some AE plugins).