Avisynth compatible frameserver (out) for Vegas released

[DDogg]

This works great for any of you that use Vegas. Hopefully this is not OT here although I did mention it in NLE, but hey, nobody ever goes there, right? :)

http://www.debugmode.com/pluginpac/frameserver.php

[Piper]

It looks as though this is only useful for framserving FROM Vegas, if only the reverse were true.

[sh0dan]

Usign ffvfw to open AVS scripts in anyy application: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49964

[DDogg]

Piper, where ya been? :) We have had that ability for years.

1> VFAPI (Free - RGB24 - Video and packed audio)
2> LINK2 (Commercial - Video and packed Audio)
3> MakeAvis as part of ffVFW as Sh0dan mentioned above. (Free- Video only - at the moment, but in Vegas you can just drag and drop the audio in the time-line and get perfect sync)

/edit -add - see the links in the NLE forum for "how to" instructions to serve to Vegas and other apps

[XTCrefugee]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I really do have to say thanks to DDogg for finding this frameserver. Until now I was content to use the internal MainConcept MPEG2 encoder, but some recent DV I shot indoors at night looked really bad with it (noticeable compression artifacts throughout).

Doom9 to the rescue again, and with this frameserver I can once again use CCE - which makes a HUGE difference.

Thanks again!

[Cunhambebe]

Well, first of all, sorry for the too late reply but I'm checking out this convertion Vegas>Frameserver>AviSynth>VDMod>XviD.

The original video source is a series of many sequences of MPEG2s (VOBs) linked together through DGIndex. This file was then frameserved from VFapi (old but still good) thru an AviSynth script to Vegas as RGB 24 since Vegas works at this color space.

Now, I am frameserving from Vegas (DebugMode FrameServer) as RGB 24, using this scritp (I intend to convert to Xvid):

AVISource("C:\brazil_watercolor.avi")
ConvertToYv12() # note this line please
Lanczos4Resize(640,480)

My doubt is, although the Frameserver lies to AviSynth, saying it's an AVI file, if you erase the line "ConvertToYv12()" and add Info(), you"ll see that the video is RGB instead.

Well, I was intending to use ColorMatrix but the filter seems to require both YV12 or YUY2 as the input. What should I do? Leave it as it is? - because VDMod shows a little, (too little, but still little) difference between the original MPEG2 (Frameserved as RGB 24> AviSynth Script> TMPGEnc; and the final result framserved directly from Vegas> Avisynth Script> VDMod> XviD.

Any thoughs? Thanks in advance :)

[SpAwN_gUy]

Hello, i've just started using this method(with frameserving) to connect Vegas 8.0c to Avisynth..

so i have some questions.. i'm outputting in YUY2 from Vegas..
Q1: is this correct? or should i better use RGB32?

what is the main strategy you're using?
i.e.
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AviSource(...,"YUY2")
ColorMatrix()
ConvertToYV12()
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or should i be using something else?
('cause for now my encodes seem to be a bit Lighter, than i think they should)