Intro titles with avisynth

[padeen]

Hi all, long time reader, first time poster.

I wanted to add a vanity Title Intro clip to a DVD to distribute to relatives. After playing around MS Movie Maker, Wax and Gimp animation, I ended up using avisynth. The result is very pleasing and it came out exactly with what I'd had in mind.

It was very easy in the end, you can see the result here. I learnt a lot about layers, masks and animation.

The script does a lot for about 20 lines of code. I had thought about writing a tutorial on it, but I don't want to teach my grannie how to suck eggs, so will wait for a request first.

(Quick question: what is the advantage of using Layer()? From what I could discover, Overlay() seems to be the go for most situations.)

Thanks,