Aviutl Tips, Tricks and Support thread

[MaverickTse]

Got it! Tks Maverick once again!
Another question: I have just installed your colorlevels plugin and it is showing up.
However, I can't see anything changing when I adjusted the sliders. I have tried to read up but found no answer. (added new profile for the segment too)
Also preview is not working for other filter plugins like color correction or adv. color correction too. (nothing changing when I adjusted the sliders)
Clipping and resize preview worked though.

WMM 6.0 is not in the same league!

Remember to tick the little checkbox on the top-right corner of the setting panel.

[poisondeathray]

Yes, blender is in a class of it's own with a huge following, many developers. But the GUI is still terrible learning curve is steep

But for NLE's/editors - the other free editors aren't even close, except maybe lightworks, which has very limited format support in the free version

While we are at it MMD (Miku Miku Dance) , Daz3d , are some nice free 3D programs that are more simple than blender.

[MaverickTse]

Got it! Tks Maverick once again!

PS: the more I watch the tutorial on aviutl, the more I realize how powerful this is and the more I appreciate your hardwork! Thanks so much!
WMM 6.0 is not in the same league!

Do not compare WMM with AviUtl, that is not a proper comparison.
You should compare WMM with VirtualDub or AviDemux; (All single-time-line editor)
While for AviUtl, compare it with Premier/AE, PowerDirector, Vegas, iMovie (all NLE)

Well, instead of a million "Thanks", it is better to "buy me a coffee" instead.

[MaverickTse]

Yes, blender is in a class of it's own with a huge following, many developers. But the GUI is still terrible learning curve is steep

But for NLE's/editors - the other free editors aren't even close, except maybe lightworks, which has very limited format support in the free version

While we are at it MMD (Miku Miku Dance) , Daz3d , are some nice free 3D programs that are more simple than blender.

Thanks the Libav, FFmpeg and L-Smash (Works) Developers!

[MaverickTse]

Fall is almost here, so I did a tutorial on falling leaves animation. I used the "Snow Animation Effect" and replaced the snow with leaves. I don't like the leaf object that comes with Aviutl, so I used my own leaf. You can put any PNG file into the "figure" folder within Aviutl to use in your projects.

Below is the tutorial along with full sized 1080p example:

More hint on particle generator:

1> The vanilla particle generator in AviUtl is created like:
- Add an image/shape/text/video
- Use the "recycle button"(top right) to switch it to "Particle output"
(at this point, the effect will be "jet-like", emitting from a single point)
- Animate the coordinate of this object over a distance
-enable "Random output from movement range"
(Now that the emission origin will span across a line)

2> Try animating the parameters with "Random movement" mode

[PhotoCat]

Got it! Tks Maverick once again!
Another question: I have just installed your colorlevels plugin and it is showing up.
However, I can't see anything changing when I adjusted the sliders. I have tried to read up but found no answer. (added new profile for the segment too)
Also preview is not working for other filter plugins like color correction or adv. color correction too. (nothing changing when I adjusted the sliders)
Clipping and resize preview worked though.

WMM 6.0 is not in the same league!

Remember to tick the little checkbox on the top-right corner of the setting panel.

I did. Nothing happened.

[PhotoCat]

Well, instead of a million "Thanks", it is better to "buy me a coffee" instead.

That's no problem at all Next time u r in Toronto, just message me and I will take u to Starbucks

[MaverickTse]

Got it! Tks Maverick once again!
Another question: I have just installed your colorlevels plugin and it is showing up.
However, I can't see anything changing when I adjusted the sliders. I have tried to read up but found no answer. (added new profile for the segment too)
Also preview is not working for other filter plugins like color correction or adv. color correction too. (nothing changing when I adjusted the sliders)
Clipping and resize preview worked though.

WMM 6.0 is not in the same league!

Remember to tick the little checkbox on the top-right corner of the setting panel.

I did. Nothing happened.

Usually it is the filter order... if you intent to apply those global filter on images created from the timeline...
In that case, move Advanced Editing to the TOP of the list.

Please take a screenshot of the following if that doesn't solve your problem:
1) Video Filter order(Filter+ > Filter Order> Video)
2) Main screen, Timeline, Histogram, plugin setting dialog

BTW, I just released ExtraPack v1.8 yesterday.

[racer-x]

Fall is almost here, so I did a tutorial on falling leaves animation. I used the "Snow Animation Effect" and replaced the snow with leaves. I don't like the leaf object that comes with Aviutl, so I used my own leaf. You can put any PNG file into the "figure" folder within Aviutl to use in your projects.

Below is the tutorial along with full sized 1080p example:

More hint on particle generator:

1> The vanilla particle generator in AviUtl is created like:
- Add an image/shape/text/video
- Use the "recycle button"(top right) to switch it to "Particle output"
(at this point, the effect will be "jet-like", emitting from a single point)
- Animate the coordinate of this object over a distance
-enable "Random output from movement range"
(Now that the emission origin will span across a line)

2> Try animating the parameters with "Random movement" mode

That works well also and I can animate multiple leaves with full texture and colors.

[racer-x]

Using the MK-I filter, I motion tracked text on some shaky hand held footage. That would be a nightmare to do manually. I overlayed the text onto a rock to make it look like it was painted on. It's an interesting effect. Maybe I'll post a tutorial..........

Here is the Tutorial..........

[Gravitator]

That works well also and I can animate multiple leaves with full texture and colors.

That is much more realistic look

Please give a second type of leaf

[PhotoCat]

Got it! Tks Maverick once again!
Another question: I have just installed your colorlevels plugin and it is showing up.
However, I can't see anything changing when I adjusted the sliders. I have tried to read up but found no answer. (added new profile for the segment too)
Also preview is not working for other filter plugins like color correction or adv. color correction too. (nothing changing when I adjusted the sliders)
Clipping and resize preview worked though.

WMM 6.0 is not in the same league!

Remember to tick the little checkbox on the top-right corner of the setting panel.

I did. Nothing happened.

Usually it is the filter order... if you intent to apply those global filter on images created from the timeline...
In that case, move Advanced Editing to the TOP of the list.

Please take a screenshot of the following if that doesn't solve your problem:
1) Video Filter order(Filter+ > Filter Order> Video)
2) Main screen, Timeline, Histogram, plugin setting dialog

BTW, I just released ExtraPack v1.8 yesterday.

Tks Maverick! Moving the Adv. Editing filter order to the top worked in 1.7.
Also downloaded 1.8 & it worked out of the box

The auto level in Colorlevels worked great! It would be nice to be able to copy the auto level values
into the sliders with the check of a box. That would give a good starting point for further adjustment.

How do u undo a filter adjustment?

Why does one has to create a new profile to make the filter work? Why can't the default profile work? What does the profile do?

Sorry for too many questions as I am just a video newbie trying to make some family video

[PhotoCat]

I used my own leaf

This is amazing racer-x! Vy nice job! I was looking for a quick & easy alternative for WMM 6.0 but this Aviutl is way
over the top!! Don't know what I am getting into

[MaverickTse]

Got it! Tks Maverick once again!
Another question: I have just installed your colorlevels plugin and it is showing up.
However, I can't see anything changing when I adjusted the sliders. I have tried to read up but found no answer. (added new profile for the segment too)
Also preview is not working for other filter plugins like color correction or adv. color correction too. (nothing changing when I adjusted the sliders)
Clipping and resize preview worked though.

WMM 6.0 is not in the same league!

Remember to tick the little checkbox on the top-right corner of the setting panel.

I did. Nothing happened.

Usually it is the filter order... if you intent to apply those global filter on images created from the timeline...
In that case, move Advanced Editing to the TOP of the list.

Please take a screenshot of the following if that doesn't solve your problem:
1) Video Filter order(Filter+ > Filter Order> Video)
2) Main screen, Timeline, Histogram, plugin setting dialog

BTW, I just released ExtraPack v1.8 yesterday.

Tks Maverick! Moving the Adv. Editing filter order to the top worked in 1.7.
Also downloaded 1.8 & it worked out of the box

The auto level in Colorlevels worked great! It would be nice to be able to copy the auto level values
into the sliders with the check of a box. That would give a good starting point for further adjustment.

How do u undo a filter adjustment?

Why do one has to create a new profile to make the filter work? Why can't the default profile work? What does the profile do?

Sorry for too many questions as I am just a video newbie trying to make some family video

1> Do NOT relies too much on this auto-thing. Think about what can happen during scene transition(e.g. cross-fade) or when a scene was made intentionally bright or dark. The proper usage of this plugin is actually a small-moderate adjustment, constant across whole video.

2> right click on the setting dialog. There should be an option to restore default settings.

3> Profile is used to apply a certain set of filters at a specific set of settings on a SECTION of a video.
For example, you don't want to apply that auto-level across WHOLE video, but want to skip those cross-fade transition parts. In such case, "profile" helps.
[Select section > adj Filters > Create new profile > Select new section(transition) > adj other Filters(disable auto-level) >Create another new profile....]
If you do not use profile, you may need multiple rounds of encode.

[PhotoCat]

Tks Maverick! Great tips as usual!

[racer-x]

I was playing around with AviUtl today on some Waterfalls footage I shot last weekend. I thought it might be cool to add a tittle that looks like it was painted on the rock face behind the waterfall. I basically made a tittle, switched to "Advanced Drawing" for 3-d perspective, then change mode to "Overlay".

I think it looks pretty cool and almost real....

[budwzr]

Yeah, looks good. You're into the magical realm now. Few make the leap.

[MaverickTse]

I just have signed a contract with local publisher to publish a book on video editing written in Chinese, covering mostly AviUtl, with a bit MMD and FFmpeg.
Scheduled to be released at the end of this year or no later than Feb next year.

[PhotoCat]

Short cut to apply the same transition to multiple clips?

Hello all,

Is there any short cut to apply the same transition to multiple clips?
I could select multiple clips by using ctrl-click but when I tried to add an attribute,
all but one clip will be de-selected. Trying to add fade in/out to all clips for 3 secs each.

Thanks!

Maverick Congratulations on your new book BTW!

[PhotoCat]

How to increase memory allocation to Aviutl?

Hello all,

I keep getting insufficient memory error in aviutl since I import more than 4 video clips. Looking at the memory meter in windows7 x64,
however, there are still at least 5GB unused. So is there a way for me to increase memory allocation to aviutl?

I know 4 video clips of a total frame count of less than 2000 don't sound like a lot.
However, these are .avs files with deshaker plugins which will take resource.

e.g. A sample .avs file I have is as follows:

LoadVirtualDubPlugin ("C:\Virtualdub32\plugins32\Deshaker.vdf", "deshaker", preroll=0)
LoadPlugin("C:\Virtualdub32\FFMS2\ffms2.dll")
FFmpegSource2("MVI_7757.mov", threads=1, atrack=-1)
ConvertToRGB32(matrix="PC.601" )
deshaker("19|2|30|8|1|0|1|0|640|480|2|2|-1|-1|-1|0|2|1|6|2|0.1|15|300|4|W:\\Canon5D2_2014\\201407 th\\Video\\7757\\MVI_7757_deshake01.log|0|0|1100|0 |450|200|0|350|850|100|0|0|0|1|30|30|15|1|0|0|30|3 0|0|0|1|0|1|0|0|10|500|1|70|1|1|20|100000|100|20|0 |0|ff00ff")

turnright
Trim(271, 499)
levels(8, 1, 320, 0, 310)


Any pointer will be vy much appreciated! Tks!

[MaverickTse]

Short cut to apply the same transition to multiple clips?

Hello all,

Is there any short cut to apply the same transition to multiple clips?
I could select multiple clips by using ctrl-click but when I tried to add an attribute,
all but one clip will be de-selected. Trying to add fade in/out to all clips for 3 secs each.

Thanks!

Maverick Congratulations on your new book BTW!

Keep holding Ctrl all the way till finish

[MaverickTse]

How to increase memory allocation to Aviutl?

Hello all,

I keep getting insufficient memory error in aviutl since I import more than 4 video clips. Looking at the memory meter in windows7 x64,
however, there are still at least 5GB unused. So is there a way for me to increase memory allocation to aviutl?

I know 4 video clips of a total frame count of less than 2000 don't sound like a lot.
However, these are .avs files with deshaker plugins which will take resource.

e.g. A sample .avs file I have is as follows:

LoadVirtualDubPlugin ("C:\Virtualdub32\plugins32\Deshaker.vdf", "deshaker", preroll=0)
LoadPlugin("C:\Virtualdub32\FFMS2\ffms2.dll")
FFmpegSource2("MVI_7757.mov", threads=1, atrack=-1)
ConvertToRGB32(matrix="PC.601" )
deshaker("19|2|30|8|1|0|1|0|640|480|2|2|-1|-1|-1|0|2|1|6|2|0.1|15|300|4|W:\\Canon5D2_2014\\201407 th\\Video\\7757\\MVI_7757_deshake01.log|0|0|1100|0 |450|200|0|350|850|100|0|0|0|1|30|30|15|1|0|0|30|3 0|0|0|1|0|1|0|0|10|500|1|70|1|1|20|100000|100|20|0 |0|ff00ff")

turnright
Trim(271, 499)
levels(8, 1, 320, 0, 310)


Any pointer will be vy much appreciated! Tks!

AviUtl itself can only use around 1.6GB memory since it is a 32bit application.
If you want to stabilize your video, I would suggest using FFmpeg's VidStab module to get a new video first.
If you must use Avisynth, do not load the script into the NLE. Load it to the AviUtl Base program or encode the stabilized video beforehand.

[PhotoCat]

Yay, holding CTRL key works! OMG, that's the problem with 32bit applications!
U r the best Maverick! Thanks a million!

[MaverickTse]

Yay, holding CTRL key works! OMG, that's the problem with 32bit applications!
U r the best Maverick! Thanks a million!

I guess it is more of a problem of the deshaker plugin.

the FFMpegSource2 and Avisynth internal functions should not be a problem

[PhotoCat]

I have found a way to overcome the aviutl's 1.6GB limit and it seems quite
stable now with 6 clips and 3 pics in the aviutl project.
Just audio playback is a touch jerky but way better than
VirtualDub. Output audio has no problem.

I just used avsf (Pismo File Mount) to mount the .avs file as a folder and I did it
for all 6 .avs files. Then I pulled all the .avi files inside the virtual folder into aviutl. Seems to work fine and stable and I
still have about 4GB memory to spare

Doing it the avsf way seems much more stable as I
don't see the "deshaking..." pop-up windows anymore.

This is how I used VirtualDub64 with avisynth anyway.

[MaverickTse]

I have found a way to overcome the aviutl's 1.6GB limit and it seems quite
stable now with 6 clips and 3 pics in the aviutl project.
Just audio playback is a touch jerky but way better than
VirtualDub. Output audio has no problem.

I just used avsf (Pismo File Mount) to mount the .avs file as a folder and I did it
for all 6 .avs files. Then I pulled all the .avi files inside the virtual folder into aviutl. Seems to work fine and stable and I
still have about 4GB memory to spare

Doing it the avsf way seems much more stable as I
don't see the "deshaking..." pop-up windows anymore.

This is how I used VirtualDub64 with avisynth anyway.

Nice tip!

Perhaps the avs file-system cached the output video.

Though it may work, I'd still recommend to encode the avisynth script beforehand or better use FFmpeg("VidStab", not the "deshake" option).
Details: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#vidstabdetect-1
Note that it is a 2-pass process.

"Deshaking" is a super-heavy process under the hood(since optical flow and inpainting are utilized, both are heavy algorithms) and therefore not suitable for applying this effect while editing.
(Hence I don't bother to make a "deshaking plugin" for AviUtl, the one that comes with FFmpeg is robust and fast enough for most usage)

[PhotoCat]

will definitely try Vidstab... but deshaker 3.1 is amazing to say the least

One problem with Aviutl:

When I placed an image object, and trying to make it move across the frame and zooming,
Somehow there is a square box clipping part of the image. This square box is smaller than the
video size and I don't know how to get rid of it. Any clue?

Tks!

[MaverickTse]

will definitely try Vidstab... but deshaker 3.1 is amazing to say the least

One problem with Aviutl:

When I placed an image object, and trying to make it move across the frame and zooming,
Somehow there is a square box clipping part of the image. This square box is smaller than the
video size and I don't know how to get rid of it. Any clue?

Tks!

Replace your image with a dummy one, and post the project file together with the image file as a single zip archive.

[PhotoCat]

Here is the zipfile.
I have also noticed that:

1) A static image gets clipped too
2) jpg directly out of camera doesn't work vy well as aviutl doesn't rotate it 90 degrees automatically.

Thanks!

[PhotoCat]

Somehow drag and drop to import images or video doesn't work any more. I have to manually add a media item & click on reference file.
How can I fix it? tks!