Please name some IT jobs similar to AviSynth coding

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Hello friends. I'm looking to change my career because i hate what I do and it's killing me slowly. I work with people as a medical professional. Please don't judge me, i have my reasons and that's a different discussion.

In my study years, due to spare time, i've spent years encoding various cartoon sources by filtering them in avsp scripts.
Learning about filters and how they work, learning how to load them properly and using them by modifying parameters and verifying output, used to be great fun.

Maybe this is hell to some, a never ending torture. But I enjoyed it.

Do you know a similar IT job? so i can prepare myself and see if i'm any good?

I'm only interested in earning a living and get by and if possible, work remotely so i won't have to deal with people anymore.

I've tried a tutorial on youtube for python programming and it's super annoying. I can do the job, i even managed to automate some stuff on my linux computer with basic scripts, but honestly, i don't think it's any fun and it's super time consuming. Maybe it's different later when you load plugins with it? I haven't advanced there yet.

Could avsp be similar to a different IT field maybe, like software testing or something?

Please enlighten me if anyone here works in the field!

[FranceBB]

Well, plenty of us here on Doom9 work with Avisynth professionally and do exactly what you describe: we encode stuff :P

Although the term "Encoder" is widely used across fansubbing groups etc, professionally very few people use it, unfortunately (and definitely not recruiters).
The direct "translation" of Encoder in a professional setting is probably "Broadcast Engineer" and don't worry, there are jobs out there that require broadcast engineers to work on stuff, however what I noticed going on and on with my job is that nowadays it's very rare for me to encode stuff manually (I mean by manually writing an AVS Script and running a BAT to encode it etc) unless it's an Original Production we really care about. Most of my job nowadays is about writing supply chains and automatize stuff. Sure, it still involves working with Avisynth, x262, x264, x265, libav, ffmpeg, bmxtranswrap, mediainfo etc, however it's more like automatizing everything. I mean, honestly, nowadays the overwhelming majority of contents is downloaded automatically, re-encoded automatically and checked-in into our MAM automatically, so it's not "that exciting", but as you can probably understand you can't have an enormous staff to encode everything manually.


Anyway, the thing is that there are plenty of broadcasters and streaming services around the world and rest assured that whenever there's a TV there's an encoder ehm I mean a Broadcast Engineer. :P

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Thanks, but that's super rare here where i live. Maybe something similar and more mainstream involving automation i guess...

[orion44]

Do you know a similar IT job? so i can prepare myself and see if i'm any good?

I'm only interested in earning a living and get by and if possible, work remotely so i won't have to deal with people anymore.

I've tried a tutorial on youtube for python programming and it's super annoying. I can do the job, i even managed to automate some stuff on my linux computer with basic scripts, but honestly, i don't think it's any fun and it's super time consuming. Maybe it's different later when you load plugins with it? I haven't advanced there yet.

Could avsp be similar to a different IT field maybe, like software testing or something?

Please enlighten me if anyone here works in the field!
I think people who do this stuff for a living are all computer scientists, software engineers or electrical engineers,
which is very hard to learn and takes years of study.

[kolak]

Those people are hobbyists (profession is irrelevant) :)

Maybe only 5% of UK's huge post-production industry heard about avisynth. Those are people who don't think AVID is a solution to any problem, but they always try to do things in most efficient way.
It's a tiny group.

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Maybe only 5% of UK's huge post-production industry heard about avisynth. Those are people who don't think AVID is a solution to any problem, but they always try to do things in most efficient way.
It's a tiny group.

It is a tiny group.
The sad and depressing thing is that lots of them heard about Vantage but not Avisynth, which is why I'm really trying to turn the tide and change the trend with FFAStrans which can literally do anything Vantage can do, but it's based on Avisynth as frameserver and open source encoders.
Ideally, in the future, people will finally open their eyes, drop Telestream and move to open source tools.