batch nle to create dissolves

[cluelessInChicago]

Dear All:

For a research project I need to generate sequences with a lot of dissolves by randomly joining shots from different sequences using different dissolve lengths. The input sequences are in MPEG-1 format and output sequences should be in this format, too.

I was thinking that the best way to do this is to automatically create scripts (say, with Perl) and feed them to a nle application. I thought aviSynth would be good but I can't see how to save the edited output as MPEG-1 from within the script. Premiere may do batch processing but it is too expensive for me.

Does anyone know of a combination of open source tools to achieve this?

Thanks for your help!

cIC

[Zarxrax]

Avisynth is not an application, so you can't save an mpeg-1 FROM WITHIN AVISYNTH. You load your script into an mpeg encoding application such as TMPGenc, and encode your mpeg-1 from there. So avisynth is the best way to go.