Vid problem solved!
And here is where I stop speaking English.
So the thing is, avisynth couldn't read the files properly. But it could read them. It just got confused if you tried to put more than one of the clips in an avisynth script, thinking for some bizarre reason that they were in different file formats. All files must be of the same format in an avisynth script.
However it could read if only one file was put in the script. So I made all the clips into one giant clip. Yay Virtualdub! And I didn't have to re-render anything so no quality loss. SCORE.
Though as it turns out, the point is moot because I can't vid directly with all of my clips. Premiere can only take about half an hour worth of the high res clips (about 1/5 of the total clips needed) before it crashes. But that is OKAY. I am NOT STRESSED. I mean, it would be one thing if it couldn't take the high res clips at all, but a half hour's worth? This I can totally work with. I will just make the vid at low quality and then substitute in only the high res clips I need to make the vid once all the editing is done, which only adds on, like, a day, maybe two of extra work, which is totally doable.
And it doesn't even mess with my previous plans, because see, I only needed the high res for the MASSIVE and EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE matting/color tweaking/compositing I was going to have to do in After Effects. And I wasn't going to do that until I had finished all the editing anyway.
I'm behind schedule on the clipping, since it's going to take yet another day to make low res versions of all my clips. But, not so much that I can't make up for it.
::happy place, goddamnit::
I have officially gotten over the first large hurdle in this vid. WINZ.
And here is where I stop speaking English.
So the thing is, avisynth couldn't read the files properly. But it could read them. It just got confused if you tried to put more than one of the clips in an avisynth script, thinking for some bizarre reason that they were in different file formats. All files must be of the same format in an avisynth script.
However it could read if only one file was put in the script. So I made all the clips into one giant clip. Yay Virtualdub! And I didn't have to re-render anything so no quality loss. SCORE.
Though as it turns out, the point is moot because I can't vid directly with all of my clips. Premiere can only take about half an hour worth of the high res clips (about 1/5 of the total clips needed) before it crashes. But that is OKAY. I am NOT STRESSED. I mean, it would be one thing if it couldn't take the high res clips at all, but a half hour's worth? This I can totally work with. I will just make the vid at low quality and then substitute in only the high res clips I need to make the vid once all the editing is done, which only adds on, like, a day, maybe two of extra work, which is totally doable.
And it doesn't even mess with my previous plans, because see, I only needed the high res for the MASSIVE and EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE matting/color tweaking/compositing I was going to have to do in After Effects. And I wasn't going to do that until I had finished all the editing anyway.
I'm behind schedule on the clipping, since it's going to take yet another day to make low res versions of all my clips. But, not so much that I can't make up for it.
::happy place, goddamnit::
I have officially gotten over the first large hurdle in this vid. WINZ.