To ALL AviSynth Gurus and Users, a challenge(and my problem)

[WeedVender]

Dear friends, Users, and Frustrated AviSynth users of VCDHelp.com

Hi All… I am having problems with adding a layer function to AVIsynth…
I want to achieve a PIP effect but with 2 videos ( I plan on doing the second later but I want to get this one done now).

Lets get started…

I have a base clip with music on it… and I have 2 music videos that share the same song.. what I want to do is make them both play at the same time so it would look kinda cool 
But I am having some problems with the Layer filter in AviSynth….

Here Is an edit (on photoshop) of what I want to do…


As you can see… the picture in the background will be the base clip and I plan to add one video at first and then the other later on… (note this is not how the base clip that I want will look like…but the concept is the same)

My scripts are:

For the background

AviSource("C:\Windows\Desktop\AviSynth Hell\002.avi")
BicubicResize(720,480)

For the first Music Video

AviSource("C:\windows\Desktop\Video Project ver. 2.35\Cowboy Bebop\001.avi")
KillAudio
BicubicResize(320,214)
Pretty straight forward…

Now this is when it gets tricky..

I combine the 2 video files into a single AVS script like so;

a = AVISource("C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\AVIsynth Hell\001.avs")
b = AVISource("C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\AVIsynth Hell\003.avi")
Layer(b,a,"add",255,24,119,20,true)

What I get is only the background clip….



And when I reverse it….(a,b) instead of (b,a) I get the clip with vegeta, like so;



Now I can get it to work but only on the "fast" string and it gives me this result…..


now… if I were to use a white background.. the video will be too bright…. Also I know that the music video is out of its “box” and I will correct that as soon as I can get a solid overlay (not blended) over the base clip…

can anyone suggest how do I go about to do this… I did it before but that was a long time ago…

All my videos are in the YUY2 color space..

and by the way.. I am open to any script suggestions or any programs that any of u may say....

[feenix]

Well I got something very similar to work ok. Basically I created a 1 minute avi from a jpg photo using the avisynth imagereader parameter. I then overlayed (using Layer) a 1 minute extract of Dire Straits Sultans of Swing from Live Aid. I then overlayed the same extract again (I know - but the avi was already there) with different x y positions, grabbed the audio from a wav file I'd previously created and ran the result through Virtualdub. Worked fine and a very nice effect too (except the photo I chose as a test background was of my car - so a little out of context!).

The only thing is my script doesn't look that much different from yours so I don't know why yours isnt working? Go figure.

Anyway here is the script and I hope it helps a bit.

a=avisource("C:\My Vids\sultans of swing (live Aid).avi").bicubicresize(352,288).converttoyuy2
trim(a,0,1499)
b=avisource("D:\Capture 1\image1.avi").converttoyuy2
c=Layer(b,a,"add",255,5,120,20,true)
d=layer(c,a,"add",255,365,120,20,true)
aud=wavsource("D:\Capture 1\sultans.wav")
audiodub(d,aud)

[WeedVender]

Well aparently the thing fixed it self.. But I think that adding "ConvertToYUY2" function to both AVS (base and Overlay) clips and then loading them onto a 3rd AVS file with the following script:

a = AviSource("C:\windows\Desktop\MasterMenu1.avs")
b = Avisource("C:\windows\Desktop\Avisynth Hell\002.avs")
Layer(a,b,"add",255,375,207,255,true)

I got this pretty result
and its going to be a pretty cool menu