The available (internal) filters are listed here and divided into categories. A short description is added, including the supported color formats (and sample types for the audio filters). There are some functions which combine two or more clips in different ways. How the video content is calculated is described for each function, but here is a summary which explains which properties that the resulting clip will have.
These filters can be used to read or write media files. Usually they produce source clips for processing. See debug filters for non-file source filters.
| AVISource / OpenDMLSource / AVIFileSource | Opens an AVI file. |
| DirectShowSource | DirectShowSource reads filename using DirectShow |
| ImageReader / ImageSource | This filter produces a video clip by reading in still images. |
| Imagewriter | Writes frames as images to your hard disk. |
| Import | Import an AviSynth script into the current script |
| SegmentedAVISource / SegmentedDirectShowSource | The SegmentedAVISource filter automatically loads up to 100 avi files per argument |
| WAVSource | Opens a WAV file or the audio of an AVI file. |
These filters can be used to change the color format or adjust the colors of a clip.
| ColorYUV | Adjusts colors and luma independently. |
| ConvertToRGB / ConvertToYUY2 / ConvertToYV12 / ConvertBackToYUY2 ConvertToRGB32 / ConvertToRGB24 | AviSynth can deal internally with four color formats, RGB24, RGB32, YUY2 and YV12. These filters convert between them. |
| FixLuminance | Correct shifting vertical luma offset |
| Greyscale | Converts a video to greyscale. |
| Invert | Inverts selected color channels of a video. |
| Levels | The Levels filter scales and clamps the blacklevel and whitelevel and adjusts the gamma. |
| Limiter | A filter for clipping levels to within CCIR-601 range. |
| MergeARGB / MergeRGB | This filter makes it possible to select and combine a color channel from each of the input videoclips. |
| Merge / MergeChroma / MergeLuma | This filter makes it possible to merge luma, chroma or both from a videoclip into another. There is an optional weighting, so a percentage between the two clips can be specified. |
| RGBAdjust | Adjust each color channel seperately. |
| ShowAlpha / ShowRed / ShowGreen / ShowBlue | Shows the selected channel of an (A)RGB clip. |
| SwapUV / UToY / VToY / YToUV | Swaps/copies chroma channels of a clip. |
| Tweak | Adjust the hue, saturation, brightness, and contrast. |
These filters can be used to layer clips with or without using masks and to create masks.
| ColorKeyMask | Sets the alpha-channel (similar as Mask does) but generates it by comparing the color. |
| Layer | Layering two videos. |
| Mask | Applies an alpha-mask to a clip. |
| Overlay | Overlay puts two clips on top of each other with an optional displacement of the overlaying image, and using different overlay methods. Furthermore opacity can be adjusted for the overlay clip. |
| ResetMask | Applies an "all-opaque" alpha-mask to clip. |
| Subtract | Subtract produces an output clip in which every pixel is set according to the difference between the corresponding pixels |
These filters can be used to change image size, process borders or make other deformations of a clip.
| AddBorders | AddBorders adds black borders around the image. |
| Crop / CropBottom | Crop crops excess pixels off of each frame. |
| FlipHorizontal / FlipVertical | Flips the video upside-down or left-to-right |
| Letterbox | Letterbox simply blackens out the top and the bottom and optionally left and right side of each frame. |
| ReduceBy2 / HorizontalReduceBy2 / VerticalReduceBy2 | ReduceBy2 reduces the size of each frame by half. |
| BilinearResize / BicubicResize / BlackmanResize / GaussResize / LanczosResize / Lanczos4Resize / PointResize / Spline16Resize / Spline36Resize / Spline64Resize | The Resize filters rescale the input video frames to an arbitrary new resolution, using different sampling algorithms. |
| TurnLeft / TurnRight / Turn180 | Rotates the clip 90 degrees counterclock wise / 90 degrees clock wise / 180 degrees. |
These filters can be used for image detail (pixel) restoration (like denoising, sharpening) of a clip.
| Blur / Sharpen | These are simple 3x3-kernel blurring and sharpening filters. |
| GeneralConvolution | General 3x3 or 5x5 convolution matrix. |
| SpatialSoften / TemporalSoften | The SpatialSoften and TemporalSoften filters remove noise from a video clip by selectively blending pixels. |
| FixBrokenChromaUpsampling | I noticed that the MS DV codec upsamples the chroma channels incorrectly, and I added a FixBrokenChromaUpsampling filter to compensate for it. |
These filters can be used to arrange frames in time (clip cutting, splicing and other editing).
| AlignedSplice / UnalignedSplice | AlignedSplice and UnalignedSplice join two or more video clips end to end. |
| AssumeFPS / AssumeScaledFPS / ChangeFPS / ConvertFPS | Changes framerates in different ways. |
| DeleteFrame | DeleteFrame deletes a set of single frames, given as a number of arguments. |
| Dissolve | Dissolve is like AlignedSplice, except that the clips are combined with some overlap. |
| DuplicateFrame | DuplicateFrame duplicates a set of single frames, given as a number of arguments. |
| FadeIn0 / FadeOut0 / FadeIn / FadeOut / FadeIn2 / FadeOut2 / FadeIO0 / FadeIO / FadeIO2 | FadeIn and FadeOut cause the video stream to fade linearly to black at the start or end. |
| FreezeFrame | The FreezeFrame filter replaces all the frames between first-frame and last-frame with a selected frame. |
| Interleave | Interleave interleaves frames from several clips on a frame-by-frame basis. |
| Loop | Loops the segment from start frame to end frame a given number of times. |
| Reverse | This filter makes a clip play in reverse. |
| SelectEven / SelectOdd | SelectEven makes an output video stream using only the even-numbered frames |
| SelectEvery | SelectEvery is a generalization of filters like SelectEven and Pulldown. |
| SelectRangeEvery | This filters selects a range of frames with a certain period. |
| Trim | Trim trims a video clip so that it includes only the frames first-frame through last-frame. |
These filters can be used for creating and processing field-based material (which is frame-based material separated into fields). AviSynth is capable of dealing with both progressive and interlaced material. The main problem is, that it often doesn't know what it receives from source filters. This is the reason that the field-based flag exists and can be used when dealing with interlaced material. More information about field-based video can be found here.
| AssumeFrameBased / AssumeFieldBased | Forces frame-based or field-based material. |
| AssumeTFF / AssumeBFF | Forces field order. |
| Bob | Bob takes a clip and bob-deinterlaces it |
| ComplementParity | Changes top fields to bottom fields and vice-versa. |
| DoubleWeave | The DoubleWeave filter operates like Weave, except that it produces double the number of frames by combining both the odd and even pairs of fields. |
| PeculiarBlend | This filter blends each frame with the following frame in a peculiar way. |
| Pulldown | The Pulldown filter simply selects two out of every five frames of the source video. |
| SeparateFields | SeparateFields takes a frame-based clip and splits each frame into its component top and bottom fields. |
| SwapFields | The SwapFields filter swaps the two fields in an interlaced frame |
| Weave | Weave takes even pairs of fields from a Fields Separated input video clip and combines them together to produce interlaced frames. |
These filters can be used to process audio. Audio samples from a clip will be automatically converted if any filters requires a special type of sample. This means that if a filter doesn't support the type of sample it is given, it will automatically convert the samples to something it supports. The internal formats supported in each filter is listed in the sample type column. A specific sample type can be forced by using the ConvertAudio functions.
If the sample type is float, when AviSynth has to output the data, it will be converted to 16 bit, since float cannot be passed as valid AVI data.
| Amplify / AmplifydB | Amplify multiply audio samples by amount. |
| AssumeSampleRate | Adjusts the playback speed of the audio. |
| AudioDub / AudioDubEx | AudioDub takes the video stream from the first argument and the audio stream from the second argument and combines them. AudioDubEx is similar, but it doesn't throw an exception if both clips don't have a video or audio stream. |
| ConvertToMono | Merges all audio channels. |
| ConvertAudioTo8bit / ConvertAudioTo16bit / ConvertAudioTo24bit / ConvertAudioTo32bit / ConvertAudioToFloat | Converts audio samples to 8, 16, 24, 32 bits or float. |
| DelayAudio | DelayAudio delays the audio track by seconds seconds. |
| EnsureVBRMP3Sync | Corrects out-of-sync mp3-AVI's, when seeking ot trimming. |
| GetChannel | Returns a channel from an audio signal. |
| KillAudio | Removes the audio from a clip completely. |
| KillVideo | Removes the video from a clip completely. |
| MergeChannels | Merges channels of two or more audio clips. |
| MixAudio | Mixes audio from two clips. |
| Normalize | Amplifies the entire waveform as much as possible, without clipping. |
| ResampleAudio | Performs a change of the audio sample rate. |
| SSRC | Performs a high-quality change of the audio sample rate. It uses SSRC by Naoki Shibata, which offers the best resample quality available. |
| SuperEQ | High quality 16 band sound equalizer. |
| TimeStretch | This filter can change speed of the sound without changing the pitch, and change the pitch of a sound without changing the length of a sound. |
These special filters can be used to control other filters execution.
The basic characteristic of conditional filters is that 'their scripts' are evaluated (executed) at every frame instead of the whole clip. This allows for complex video processing that would be difficult or impossible to be performed by a normal AviSynth script.
| Animate / ApplyRange | Animate (ApplyRange) is a meta-filter which evaluates its parameter filter with continuously varying (the same) arguments. |
| ConditionalFilter / FrameEvaluate / ScriptClip | ConditionalFilter returns source1 if some condition is met, otherwise it returns source2. ScriptClip/FrameEvaluate returns the clip which is returned by the function evaluated on every frame. |
| ConditionalReader | ConditionalReader allows you to import information from a text file, with different values for each frame - or a range of frames. |
| TCPDeliver | This filter will enable you to send clips over your network. You can connect several clients to the same machine. |
| WriteFile / WriteFileIf / WriteFileStart / WriteFileEnd | These filters evaluate expressions and output the results to a text-file. |
| BlankClip / Blackness | The BlankClip filter produces a solid color, silent video clip of the specified length (in frames). |
| ColorBars | The ColorBars filter produces a video clip containing SMPTE color bars scaled to any image size. |
| Compare | Compares two clips and prints out information about the differences. |
| Histogram | Adds a Histogram. |
| Info | Prints out image and sound information. |
| MessageClip | MessageClip produces a clip containing a text message |
| ShowFiveVersions | ShowFiveVersions takes five video streams and combines them in a staggered arrangement from left to right. |
| ShowFrameNumber / ShowSMPTE / ShowTime | ShowFrameNumber draws text on every frame indicating what number Avisynth thinks it is. ShowSMPTE displays the SMPTE timecode. hh:mm:ss:ff ShowTime displays the duration with millisecond resolution. hh:mm:ss.sss |
| StackHorizontal / StackVertical | StackHorizontal takes two or more video clips and displays them together in left-to-right order. |
| Subtitle | The Subtitle filter adds a single line of anti-aliased text to a range of frames. |
| Tone | This will generate sound. |
| Version | The Version filter generates a video clip with a short version and copyright statement |