Avisynth: Need help getting started with Avisynth
 

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....

Let me be sure about something. You have typed :
and not just :
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.

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

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

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

avisource("c:\myclip.avi")