I am currently trying to use avisynth to post-produce a video in a specific manner, from what is basically a RELAY RACE with 4 passes:
1) a "main" video, of between 15-30 seconds long, covers the whole race;
2) 4 short videos (1.5-2s each) which will get inset
3) 4 photographs, which will also get inset (as I understand it, I have to basically make them into videos.
I need to do the generating utilizing the variables from a file (which I dynamically generate, out of the scope of this). The file will consist of something like:
19.004 //total length of this particular race
5.013 //start time of inset 1
9.987 // start time of inset 2
15.451 // start time of inset 3
RACENAME // miscelleneous text I want to be able to insert at some points
4.35 // miscellaneous numbers/data I want to be able to insert into the video at various points
I think the inserts are done using Overlay (is there an easier way?). I'll be having the videos reduced to a corner and overlaid.
Do I use conditionalread to get the data from the textfile? I've looked into it but don't entirely understand the mechanics.
Each race lasts a variable time. Each pass-video can thus take place at any given time, and can be a variable length. Each photo should be inserted at a variable time (probably a half second after the pass, and displayed for a period).
I've got a system already designed for automatically taking the videos/photos, naming them appropriately and saving/organizing, and generating a textfile with the data.
