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Getting Started with Avisynth

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We can run this 400-frame snippet in real-time by saving it and feeding it to the MPC-HC video player. But AvsP offers a quick way to do this. Mouse-hovering over the right-pointing little triangle gives us the clue. Click the arrow, and AvsP will ask for the location on your external player. Once it knows that, clicking this arrow (or hitting the F6 key) will always play the script in its current state.

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But what if this turns out to be one of those glitchy cuts? Then let's cover it with a dissolve. Simply rewrite the penultimate line, keeping the same frame number values:

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This is a one-second dissolve across 25 frames - we're working in PAL - as you'll see from the the value before the closing bracket. If we like we can tinker with this until the dissolve works smoothly. Now finish going though the whole source, creating cuts and dissolves to taste - remembering to remove the temporary Inspection Trims after each inspection - and then save the script. You can now run this just like a regular media file in MPC-HC, or feed it into WinFF to re-encode it for a variety of standalone players or phones.

This has been a quick skate-through, but I hope it's given you a taste for the opportunities Avisynth opens up. Check through the Avisynth manual - from AvsP's Help menu - and you'll quickly realise that this is just a toe in the ocean of internal and external functions Avisynth offers. ®

Getting Started with Avisynth

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