AviSynth for newbies

[Cunhambebe]

I'd like to start this topic on AviSynth from the very beginning. Hope you can help. As I try to install it, there's an option to associate files with notepad and media player. What should I do?
TKS

[thor300]

I never tried to associate with mediaplayer. I select Notepad, and when i want to view an AVS file i open it in virtualdub, mediaplayer also once in a while. My advice would be to put shortcuts to WMP and Vdub in the SendTo folder, then you can simply right-click an AVS ffile and choose Send To -> Mediaplayer to view.

[celtic_druid]

I'd add an edit option to the shell and associate that with notepad, ultra edit, etc. So double click = play, right click-->edit = notepad. Something else usefull is to add avs to the new document shell so that you can easily create a blank script to edit.

As for using AVISynth. Like most things. All else fails. Read the instructions.

[Cunhambebe]

My advice would be to put shortcuts to WMP and Vdub in the SendTo folder, then you can simply right-click an AVS ffile and choose Send To -> Mediaplayer to view.

- So, besides installing AviSynth, all I have to do is associate AVS files with notepad...
Hmmmmmmm ...where's jimmalenko???

[Cunhambebe]

Please I do need some more help. I'm a newbie with AviSynth and can't figure out how it works...Is there anyone who can help with this?
Thanks.

[celtic_druid]

Did you read the instructions yet?
What exactly do you want to use it for?

[Cunhambebe]

Did you read the instructions yet?

- Sure I did!

What exactly do you want to use it for?

- I want to learn how to use it as a FrameServer, wanna know how to add filters, deinterlace, credit roll, convertions, etc. Some people say they don't even use GordianKnot anymore but only AviSynth. Of course those are advanced users since I can't even make GK convert MPEG2 to Xvid.
So, as far as I know AviSynth is a FrameServer. I guess I'll open my AVIs with it and frameserve to VD, for titles, filters, transitions, etc....as jimmalenko has said around here.

[thor300]

I think this is one of the best places to start:
http://www.avisynth.org/index.php?page=YourFirstScript

Follow the links from there when you feel ready. Reading is not enough, hands-on training is the only way to remember all you read, so try things out. Begin with testing the AviSource function, move forward from there =)

[Cunhambebe]

Hmmmmm, well, thanks for you help. I've already read all those isntructions. Now, back to that question: which option shoud I choose when the installer asks me...
1.Associate AVS files with Notepad;
2.Associate AVS files with Media Player 6.4
(I'm not kidding here)
THANKS>>>>>>>>

[guns1inger]

Notepad. Then install AVSEdit, which will change the associations to itself. Use it to edit your scripts and you won't forget the names of filters etc again.

[Stormin Norman]

Use FitCd if all you want is a script.

Or post some gspot info and say what your beginning and end result video is and maybe some ppl with post some scripts to use.

[Cunhambebe]

I'd like to thank you for the help as well as for the links. That AVSEdit look so much alike AviSynth. Yep, it's going to be difficult.

[guns1inger]

AVSEdit is a pseudo IDE for avisynth scripting. You need Avisynth for it to do anything of use. All it does is make writing the scripts a little easier. FitCD is OK for straight forwards scripts, or for creating a starting point in which to add filter calls.

[Cunhambebe]

Thanks a lot guns1inger. Shall we continue this?