Avisynth: Need Help Getting Started with Avisynth

[southernman]

I'm just at the beginning of learning avisyth and can't even do step one..The below is the first step--but i can't make it work.

YourFirstScript
Let's start with the most basic avisynth scripts:

AVIFileSource("myclip.avi")

Open up any text editor, type the above on the first line (using any AVI file on your machine as "myclip.avi"), and save it as "myclip.avs". You now have a script that can be opened by most AVI players in your machine: Windows Media Player 6.4 (aka "mplayer2") will play the script; so will VirtualDubMod or plain VirtualDub. So far as they care, your text document is an AVI file. Cool, huh???

i read the above and opened notepad (avisynth is installed, by the way) in notepad first line i typed in "myclip.avi" and saved it as .avs. I then renamed a video clip "myclip.avi"..i tried to open the clip by browsing to the avs both with wmplayer2 and virtualdub. Gives me can't open and other error messages---any help would be appreciated....

[Dialhot]

Let me be sure about something. You have typed :

Avisource("myclip.avi")

and not just :

myclip.avi

Right ?

You also have to put the complete path leading to "myclip.avi" or put the avs file into the same directory than the avi.

[southernman]

Let me be sure about something. You have typed :
Code:
Avisource("myclip.avi")

and not just :
Code:
myclip.avi

Yep, i sure did--ok, i'll type Avisource("myclip.avi") and put both in same directory---thanks

[southernman]

OK, i renamed the script to Avisource("myclip.avi") and placed both the script and avi in same folder and it says "can't open"..any more suggestions

[pitoman]

you need the full path to the .avi within the quotation marks..

avisource("c:\myclip.avi")