Your favourite avisynth worklflows

[hanfrunz]

Hello everyone,

i'm thinking about writing a blog or a page in the wiki where i collect real life scenarios where avisynth is used. So please tell me/us your usage of avisynth in the field.

Example:
I am working for a tv series, i normaly get 3-6 digital betacam tapes each week. Each tape gets digitized into a avid mediacomposer. The director wants to view the tapes on his laptop, so i export each tape as a quicktime-reference and name it like "Tape001_01000412" The 01000412 means that the start timecode is 01:00:04:12. Then i right click on that file, use "send to" and send it to a batchfile that creates a avisynthscript, which deinterlaces the clip, analyses the filename extracts the startTC and creates a timecode overlay. Then mencoder is started to encode a mpeg4-avi file. I copy these avis to a small external disk, the director brings to me.
If i would use the avid timecode overlay effect i would block my mediacomposer and the whole process would take more than twice the time!

So what's your usage, besides ripping DVDs :)

regards,
hanfrunz

[Mug Funky]

- immaread a directory that a film scanner is scanning to, assumefps just below the average framerate the scanner works at (about 6.5fps for 16mm, 7.5fps for 35mm), use mt_lut to convert log to lin with softclip, qtoutput to a mov file. by the time the reel comes off the scanner, there's a mov of that reel sitting on the client's hard disk for quick and dirty editing

- abuse SCRATCH's external program launcher to run a batch that denoises a shot, continue colour grading, place the shot back in when finished. client thinks it's magic and they've never seen such good denoising.

- a suite of right-click batch files that convert and encode all formats to all other formats

[edit]

- using ffdshow's avisynth and a spare decklink card, pump the output of a telecine chain to graphedit, use avisynth to show video scopes. this is a free solution to something that would cost a ton and not be as flexible.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Oh man... I use avisynth so much at work it's not even funny. I take about 1000 sources per month and use avisynth to deinterlace / IVTC, denoise, and / or scale them, producing between 3 and 9 outputs via x264 for each input.

I also use it extensively when qualifying source content from potential new parters, and for diagnosing problematic content.

... and I rip DVDs and BluRays with it ;)

Derek

[Emulgator]

An universal "bergwerk" chain which is constantly developed
to convert, restore and polish,
removing faults of any kind coming out of and going into a multitude of formats.

And introducing new, more modern faults, of course ;-)