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

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

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Learning VirtualDub
Credits
About the Authors
Introduction

Downloading and Installing VDubMod


Download VDubMod from http://www.free-codecs.com/download/ VirtualDubMod.htm.

The VirtualDubMod _1_5_10_1_All_inclusive.zip file is about twice as large as the VirtualDub download file. It’s bigger because it’s all of what’s in Virtual Dub and more.

Extract it from its zipped file and install as you did VirtualDub, placing the files and subfolders in any folder. An installation process isn’t included or needed. The following figure shows the files and subfolders you’ll have: