Adobe After Effect and avs

[gizmo_1]

Is there any trick to make After Effect 6.5 read the AVS files like Premiere does?
It will save me al lot of gigas...and work!

THX

[Mug Funky]

AVIS fake avi should do it, shouldn't it?

to be honest i haven't used AE for ages.

[gizmo_1]

Did a quick search about AVIS but I'm not sure what you're talking about.

You mean something about ffvfw.dll and libswscale.dll?

(never had the time to go into these ones thoroughly...)

[Mug Funky]

when you install a recent version of ffdshow, you'll have the option to install this.

it's a little program that wraps an avs script in an avi (with some options on how to do it), and a codec inside ffdshow that reads these "fake avi" files back.

actually... i'm wondering how you got your avs files into premiere if you didn't know about avis?

[Wilbert]

Mug is talking about makeAVIS.

[Zarxrax]

Originally posted by Mug Funky
actually... i'm wondering how you got your avs files into premiere if you didn't know about avis?

He used the Premiere AVS plugin of course. http://sourceforge.net/projects/videoeditorskit/

Regarding makeavis, when I tried it about a year ago, simply having it installed would cause After Effects to completely fail to load after a few days. I should probly give it another shot, though I havent heard of any changes to it since it was first created. Quite a shame since it was really buggy for me, and was damn near impossible to get working sometimes.

[gizmo_1]

Ok I got it!

makeAVIS didn't work (AE says no such AVI compressor...)
but vfapi + readavs.dll works really good!


Mug Funky: yes, I use the Premiere AVS plugin


THX for the help

PS: btw I found ffdshow stuff not really user understandable!

[Zarxrax]

gizmo: be careful when using vfapi. If you use multiple instances of vfapi at the same time, it can mix up your files and your project will be a big mess!

[gizmo_1]

!

what do you mean exatly saying multiple instances?
multiple executables or multiple (identical?) vfapi-avis?

THX

[Zarxrax]

I mean multiple vfapi-avis at the same time.

[ScottZ]

gizmo_1... how did you get this to work?

I'm using 1.05EN of VFAPI and found readavs.dll from here: http://www.dvdrhelp.com/readavs-vdr.zip

I have readavs.dll in the "correct" spot with the registry entry pointing to it.

When I open an AVS in vfapi, it gives me an error.
Of course I can't read the error as the English version only has ????? when errors occur.

I was trying it prior to putting in readavs.dll as I saw vfapi using the avs file extension, but again, it generated an error when I hit run (assume so as the vfapi output file wasn't generated and I got the ???? on the status).

I know vfapi is "dated" but need to get an avs into After Effects.

Thanks!

[Zarxrax]

I've not tried it yet, but there is supposed to be a new version of vfapi that comes with DGindex, and its supposed to fix the problems with multiple files that the old one had.

Still, not the most elegant solution. I would pay money for an After Effects avs import plugin :|

[ScottZ]

Yup, I wish there was an avs plugin for After Effects as well.

I've taken a quick look at the Premiere avs plugin source and see what they are doing. The After Effects SDK seems to differ enough to make this some work to convert though.

On a sidenote, what's kind of funny is digging around the AE directory I found a copy of python and some python script code for the AAF plugin. Doing a quick Google shows some of the Mac folks writing plugins in python.. interesting (for me anyway).

Unfortuantaly I need to get these projects out the door before commiting to a new project. Hopefully someone can take a look at this.

Soooo... going back to vfapi... I'm running the 140rc6 of DGIndex.

Looking at the DFVfapi.txt file says that avs file support is built into the DFVfapi plugin. Cool.. explains why I was seeing the option for avs prior.

So I removed the ReadAVS.dll and the vfapi entry for it in the registry.
Only vfapi plugin I have in the registry is for DGVfapi.vfp.
Rebooted for grins at this stage.

I'm able to create a vfapi d2v avi but still get an error with avs files.
Vfapi will load it up but will error out on the run.
The video export option doesn't make a difference.

So I'm a bit closer, but still stuck not being able to use avs through vfapi in After Effects.

[Guest]

Put ConvertToRGB24() at the end of your script. Follow up in DVD2AVI/DGIndex forum, please.

[ScottZ]

Created thread in DVD2AVI/DGIndex forum.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=684841#post684841