With this tutorial most of my secrets are out of the closet – I have to get back in my dungeon to figure out new ways to improve the quality further. Heh.

And a big fat yes to the playful approach. If you just let yourself run loose for a few hours, you’ll understand the basics and what each function does in a way that doesn’t drive you up the wall. Opposite to trying to puzzle something specific out and not getting the expected result, which is just frustrating and you’re tempted to never open another script again. Especially if you start out with avisynth. That happened to me four years ago and I didn't touch the program for the following two years. Seems ridiculous in retrospect.