AVSGenie Update

[neily]

Hi,

After a long period of inactivity, I have updated AVSGenie.

First thing to say is that since switching from dialup to ADSL, I took the opportunity to change my domain name to make it a little more wife and children friendly. It is now:

http://www.yeomanfamily.demon.co.uk

Not too much has changed. For the benefit of shOdan and others, if you are using a Windows numerical format where the decimal separator is ',', it is replaced by '.' in the generated script.

I've updated it for features in avisynth.dll v2.08, such as FadeIO, and colour options for fades, letterbox and addborders. Splice / Fade has now been split into 2, so if you are installing over an older version, go to "Options..Tabs" and reselect those tabs you want visible.

Adding support for external filters is a bit of a pain. Their popularity waxes and wanes, and they often come with large numbers of parameters which makes doing the programming and creating a relatively neat interface quite a chore. However, if anyone can give an unbiased view of current "must have" filters I'll do my best.

Once again, if anyone finds any bugs please let me know. At this stage any that there are are most likely to be simple mistranslation of set parameters into the script.

Support for AVISynth v2.5? Well, in principal it should be very simple, as all the program does is try to present filters in a GUI, generate a script, then use a video component to display the script. However, the range of filters and parameters are not entirely compatible. When v2.5 is a bit more mature, or if ever I get a bit more time, I'll try to make the switch.

[neily]

Another little update to v 0.2.0.5.

One of the problems in this kind of AVISynth GUI is getting the source and target video windows to track each other in a sensible way. The program tries to automatically match input to output frames in a proportional way, taking into account a single Trim and Fade. In cases where this falls over, I had previously suggested either changing the source window to the script line just before the filter you are interested in looking at, or checking 'Untie' which frees one from the other, or using a spinedit offset.

I have now included a further option, a 'Set' checkbox. On checking this a window comes up with 2 buttons. First, select matching source and target positions as near as possible to the start of the clip, and click the first button. Next do the same for a point near the end of clip. The source and target video positions will then be interpolated between these points.

I know this makes it all a bit more cluttered and complicated, but I can see situations where it may be useful.

[neily]

Now up to v 0.2.0.7.

From the "Edit and Save" form you can now launch the manually edited script with either your preferred media player (mine's mplayer2) or VirtualDub, providing the paths have previously been specified.

In an attempt to clean up the video preview window, right clicking over the source video window gives options to show or hide the source and target play buttons, seek buttons and trackbars.

Hope this helps. This is probably the end of my tinkering for a bit. Over the next week or 2 I might try to look at adding a couple more external filters if I think them worthwhile.