Premiere AVISynth Import Plug-in displaying Alpha Channel

[yoshikunai]

For anyone else out there who uses the Avisynth import plugin for premiere (I am using v.6.02), how did you get it to work?

Since I put the plug-in in the plug-in directory, I have actually been able to open and view .avs files. I have them pointing to .d2v's.

I was having a lot of trouble and then, through a lot of tests, I determined that I had to have the AVS BicubicResize(640,480) if I wanted it to work with a premiere project of the same size. Even then I seemed to be having trouble with some d2v's, so I did a test d2v just for one vob by itself, and that worked! Then I did a d2v for every vob and a .avs for every d2v.

Those worked. Then I closed premiere. Later in the day, I opened it, and NO .avs has worked for me since. I've reinstalled, I've tried AVISource and DirectShowSource too, and I get the same thing when I import an .AVS.

A regular movie file has the description:

[filename]
Movie
640 x 480
[length], 29.97 fps
Average Data Rate: X per second

An AVS is the same except for it has a 0 per second data rate and, ***********this the data for my question for this post******************

Movie
640 x 480 - Alpha Channel

Real clips don't have that. I can't figure out any way to make it go away. Since the .avs clips always appear in black in the preview, I suppose somehow premiere is only reading their (blank) alpha channels. I looked for a way to stop it, but can't.

Anyone else had this problem & know how to fix it? Or does anythone have anything else I could try? I just want to be able to edit straight from .vob files. Thanks! I'm stumped.

This makes me hopeful though: If I put the (totally black) .avs file into the timeline, then bring up the Transparency Dialog box, I can view the true video in Transparency's preview. However, I can't seem to make that video display in Premiere's preview, whatever settings I use. But something in premiere CAN read avs files, it's just painting black over them, I hope.

One more thing--I ran the debug mode (CTRL-F12) and it reads the same filter use while viewing the transparency premiere as it does in the usual preview.

Thanks. :)

yoshikunai
yoshikunai@hotmail.com

[yoshikunai]

Well, for anyone interested, I still haven't been able to get the IM-avisynth premiere plug-in to work, BUT videotools.net has released an .avs Link2 to allow programs to read .avs through an .avi that it creates. Premiere can read these fine if I open them, but not if I import them into a project.

So I'm trying Ulead, it seems to work fine in that. The speed is good. The big problem with Link2 is that it is crippled until it's registered (minimum donation of $15...which I'm not used to with any other small video program). The first 30 seconds render fine, then the rest render at 5 fps.

I use premiere (and now Ulead) to make anime music videos, and this really is an optimal solution. Thought I'd share it.

Later Edit: I've managed to get it to work better in both by using RGB and not YUYV. After a while premiere stops reading.

Yoshi-kun