AviSynth for Mac OS X

[munkyboy]

has this ever been suggested? If not, I'm officially suggesting. :)

How hard would a port be? Does anyone here even use OS X?

I would *love* to be able to use AviSynth Scripts as sources for Final Cut Pro.

[JuanC]

If I understand correctly, OS X is a Unix derivative. And then it could be somehow compared to linux. There have been some sugestions about porting AVS to linux. You could search for that.

[digitize]

Yes MacosX is based off of BSD (well it is bsd basically i suppose, except it's closed source). Switching avisynth to the *nix structure has been discussed but that's all, seeing as how it'd take a large rewrite taking time from actually developing avisynth.

[Richard Berg]

I would *love* to be able to use AviSynth Scripts as sources for Final Cut Pro.
The only way I see this happening in a reasonable amount of time is writing an OSX app that will receive frames from a forthcoming* PC Avisynth-frameserver.

*don't hold your breath

[jkwarras]

Originally posted by munkyboy
I would *love* to be able to use AviSynth Scripts as sources for Final Cut Pro.

Avisynth is becoming more and more popular in the NLE and independent (and low budget) filmmaking world. People that are often confronted to cleaning, editing, etc... use or at least have heard about avisynth, which is very good.

Avisynth is powerful, non commercial, and there's a lot of plugins/filters you can use. For me, is the better choice you have to use with your footage. Commercial filters are expensive and sometimes not so good.

But, MAC world *is* the professional editing world, and Final Cut Pro is a reference. I'm not a Mac user, but I know that most of the professional use it. I really see that making avisynth available for Mac will be a great step forward into the professional world. Maybe a few people will start using it at the beggining, but as for PC world, the word to mouth will always work. A good product, is a good product and people will quickly adopt it :) But I can figure out that this is difficult to port to Mac, as it's based on avi.

But before that I really think avisynth needs to fully integrate a NLE system, making it easiest to work with. There it will enter the pro world.

[Zep]

Originally posted by munkyboy
has this ever been suggested? If not, I'm officially suggesting. :)

How hard would a port be? Does anyone here even use OS X?

I would *love* to be able to use AviSynth Scripts as sources for Final Cut Pro.

I use OS X. I was the first person to port ffmpeg and PAR
a few years back. Though avisynth is great i use final cut pro
way more and it is much better. With a half dozen ways to encode
mpeg 4 on OS X you are more than good to go.

As for porting... it could be done but a lot of the code
for avisynth and virtuadub my guess is windows centric unlike
ffmpeg which compiles straight up in xcode/gcc 3.3 etc...

I have to admit it would be nice to have both on OSX since they are free and final cut pro is not and thus many are not able to do stuff.

[Zep]

Originally posted by Richard Berg
The only way I see this happening in a reasonable amount of time is writing an OSX app that will receive frames from a forthcoming* PC Avisynth-frameserver.

*don't hold your breath

actually this is very doable and I already do it sorta :)

my HDTV caps are streamed from this PC over my LAN to my Dual G5
right into ffmpeg via .ts

I can watch the stream live or passthrough it to file then
encode it later.

[sh0dan]

Originally posted by Zep
actually this is very doable and I already do it sorta :)

my HDTV caps are streamed from this PC over my LAN to my Dual G5
right into ffmpeg via .ts

I can watch the stream live or passthrough it to file then
encode it later.
Sending uncompressed video by LAN is VERY different from sending uncompressed (or even lossless compressed) video.