I would not likely have figured out 80% of the techniques I used in Chrysalis without the many impressive examples on these forums.Ĭompletely free there is Movie Maker 2012 although if you like the older version from XP you can download version MM 2.6 for Vista and Win7 Although that limits your output to WMV files. On a final note I just want to thank the AHK community for all of their work.

LVA.ahk (Many thanks to the original author of this script, made alot of function far easier to implement.)Īnd in order to run chrysalis you need these files: (again, self contained in the compiled version)ħza.exe for extracting the ffmpeg build from Ĭlip.exe which allows Chrysalis to display file metadata, store resolutions, and so on The necessary files for compiling it yourself are as follows: Chrysalis.exe is self contained and needs no other files from the share but it does require ffmpeg and will ask permission to automatically download and install it to a folder called Chrysalis in the appropriate Program Files directory (32bit). The link above takes you to a shared OneDrive folder which contains a compiled version of Chrysalis as well as the other files used to make it. I hope you will find some value in it none the less. But I realized it will always be a work in progress so may as well grit my teeth and share it.Ĭomments and criticisms are welcome but please understand that other than some basic scripting for work I've never coded anything to this extent and it is a bit sloppy. I'm always finding something new to improve or add. I've been delaying sharing this script because it never seemed ready. I'd never seen another program do those specifically, at least not for free.

The biggest reason for Chrysalis was to prepare video files for editing by encoding them to tested intermediary codecs and to simultaneously create proxy versions as well. I had used AHK for some small tasks like cleaning up user profiles, automating emails, things like that but never anything with a Gui much less to the scale this project became. Digital Chrysalis is a project I started a year ago to help students, in the school district I work for, with their video projects.

Ffmpeg gui for pro res