Trying to remember tool used to fake out Adobe Premiere

[thefraj]

Hi Everyone!

And sorry for asking a question that might be a bit dumb. There was a tool I remember using quite a few years ago (I'm 99% sure it was avisynth) that would allow me to play AVI files in formats that Adobe Premiere didn't recognise by using a script that would use the systems own codecs to playback that file to fool Adobe into thinking it had opened the file.

I tried installing the latest version (2.5) today and I'm not sure it's working properly. If I try and open the avs file in a player, of course I just get an error that it is an unknown file type (as you would expect)

So now I'm not sure if it was AVISynth or maybe I'm getting confused with another program? Does anyone happen to know if AVISynth still works, and if so what I might be doing wrong?

[DJ Bobo]

Could you be talking about VFAPI (http://www.divx-digest.com/software/vfapi.html)?

[dat720]

AVISynth is still commonly used (by an aweful lot of people) so i'd say that yes AVISynth still works...

Are you sure that your AVS script actually works? have you tried playing it in a player that supports the use of AVS files??? if not test it in VLC or mplayer, even Media Player will play them back.

You haven't provided much info in regards to how you are using AVISynth, ie What your Operating System is (hardware specs are not really required), Does your current setup playback the AVI's without complaining of missing codecs? What is the contents of your script etc....

[Umamio]

I am guessing you mean "makeAVIS (http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/MakeAVIS)"?
I haven't used it in a while, I have been using "Avisynth Virtual Filesystem (http://www.turtlewar.org/avfs/)" though, and as far as I can tell it offers the functionality of makeAVIS and a bit extra. Right click and mount an .avs and you get your "fake" uncompressed .avi and additional "fake" .wav files if you want to work with just the audio.