VirtualDub - Free Video Editing Software

[VelMurugan]

VirtualDub

VirtualDub has been hailed by many adoring fans as the ultimate Open Source AVI video editing solution and justly so. Upon initial inspection VirtualDub looks far less capable than it actually is.

Unfortunately, while many programs allow you to "edit" video, they can be intimidatingly complex for even some of what should be the simplest tasks.

To that extent, VirtualDub is not an editor application, in the conventional sense.

Rather VirtualDub is a pre-video and post-video production editing 'engine' that greatly extends the usefulness of any video editing software you are currently using, as well as a stand-alone utility for editing and creating clips.

Basically, you can import a captured video clip, trim the clutter, clean up the noise, play with filters, and convert it to the proper frame size.

Even cooler, is that if you do not see a filter you like, you can simply write or outsource the one you need (i.e. RentACoder), with the filter SDK.

And while the documentation for VirtualDub is scantily-clad (and could certainly use a real Ghostwriter), it is somewhat adequate - provided that you have no objection to trial and error style learning.

To its credit, not only is VirtualDub extremely robust- most of the most commonly useful options and utilities have been laid out in a semi-intuitive manner with a pleasant graphical user interface.

VirtualDub will run on Win 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP; and although it cannot be compared to the editing power of a commercial editor (such as Video Wave or Adobe Premiere), it is ideal for lightning-fast linear operations (over video).

VirtualDub supports large file quantity batch-processing capabilities, is supported by numerous third party AVI video filters, can also import (not export) MPEG-1, handle BMP image sets, will work with nearly all Windows-compatible capture devices, and has a loyal support and development Global community following .

[sakunthala]

this free video editing software is amazing to use
it can mainly use for movie editing