Learning VirtualDub: The Complete Guide to Capturing, Processing and Encoding Digital Video

Get started fast, then master the advanced features of VirtualDub, the leading free Open Source video capture and processing tool

Key Features

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Capture and process broadcast, digital, home, streaming video

Cut, paste and edit ads, trailers, clips

Demos and walkthroughs of processing sample videos

Written by video and VirtualDub enthusiasts and experts

Book Description

VirtualDub is one of the most popular video processing applications for Windows. As an open source application, it''s free, and is constantly updated and expanded by an active community of developers and experts. VirtualDub is particularly popular for capturing video from analogue sources such as video tape, cleaning up the image and compressing it ready for distribution over the Internet. This book provides a rapid and easy to use tutorial to the basic features of VirtualDub to get you up and running quickly. It explains how to capture great quality video from various sources, use filters to clean up the captured image and add special effects. The book also shows how to use VirtualDub to cut and paste video to remove or insert sequences, including removing ad breaks or trailers. It goes on to cover the art of effective encoding and compression, so you end up with great quality videos that won’t hog your bandwidth forever. VirtualDub is the fastest and most effective way to capture, process and encode video on your PC. This book gets you started fast, and goes on to give you full control of all the features of this legendary tool.

What you will learn

Capturing high quality video from a variety of sources

Using filters to clean the image to give crisp, high quality images

Adding special effects and adjusting colour levels

Removing unwanted segments from videos, or combining several snippets into a single movie

Adding subtitles and captions

Get rid of unwanted sections such as on-screen logos and crop out unnecessary parts of the screen

Compressing your video for distribution without compromising on picture and sound quality

Who this book is for

This book is written by VirtualDub enthusiasts for new and intermediate users. It''s ideal if you are just starting with video processing and want a powerful and free tool, or if you''ve already started with VirtualDub and want to take it further.