Fade in/out in VirtualDub - Help !!!!

[Atotaloss]

Hi,

I`m having real difficulty in using/how to use the fade plugins in vd.

I have a clip which starts straight off and ends straight off and would like to smooth in from black to full picture ; then end the clip fading to black.

In theory , simple but it` not , at least to me.

I have tried the fadefx and fader plugins , but they don`t work . On the fade-in , this is just impossible - no fade at all .

Fading out is also a no go. Could it be that these plug-ins don`t work on wmv files ? i don`t know.

I`m just going nuts here !

Please help anyone .

Thanks.

[sanlyn]

I don't know about the "fader" plugin, I always use FadeFX.
Load a FadeFX filter and use it for the fade-in (Fade from black + "extend effect to other frames" + from frame # and to frame #).
Load a second FadeFX for the fade-out (Fade out to black + "extend effect to other frames" + from frame # and to frame #).
If you are doing any color correction, etc., make the fadeFX filters the last filters in the chain.

[Atotaloss]

Thanks for your reply . I have been fiddling with that faderdx and I just can`t get it to work.

This is what I wrote in the editor :

0-200 FADEIN ( i.e. from black to full ) , the oriiginal clip does not start in black , but is in full RGB !
17450-17550 FADEOUT ( However, the fade is not right or just simply does not fade.)

I watched the clip on youtube , over, and over - make it seem so easy !!

Well, I`m still trying !

Thanks for your input.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !

[hech54]

I've never had much luck with either VirtualDub's fader or AviDemux's fader.

[jagabo]

They work fine here. 200 frames is awfully long but it should still work. Be sure you're not in Direct Stream Copy mode.

[hech54]

Be sure you're not in Direct Stream Copy mode.

Maybe that was my problem. I never look at that. Nowaways I'm always frameserving out of VDub to MainConcept Reference.
(An OLD version of MainConcept - I'm not made of money)

[sanlyn]

I just load FadeFX into the filter list and set frame numbers. Why use a script?
For interlaced video, fade in and out are smoother in Avisynth with FadeIn2 and FadeOut2. But if you're working with wmv source, you have a project ahead of you. No one would do that kind of process with lossy compressed video.

[Atotaloss]

That FadeFX plugin worked in the end.

Basically , i was editing out bits of video and then applying the fade in7out effect - which didn`t work.

The solution came by accident , i applied the fade effect without editing and it worked . the beginning of the clip was blacked out and then faded......it worked !!

In the end i made a note of the frames to black out and fade in/out - did the editing and then applied the filters at the end.

Worked, just relieved is more of a way of putting it as this was part of a project.

Thanks to everyone who helped .

Hoped the holidays went well and have one hell of a 2013 !!