In this chapter we learned that there are two sources for video: analog and digital. We also learned that the capturing equipment can be divided into internal and external devices. Generally, external devices are expensive and powerful because capture and compression tasks take place at the hardware level. These, however, allow less control over the format of the captured video. Internal capture cards are usually cheaper and exercise more control on the video format since some application like VirtualDub is used for capturing and compressing captured video. Finally we discovered that we can do some hard disk and Windows optimizations to decrease dropped frames during capturing and get a smooth video.
Learning VirtualDub: The Complete Guide to Capturing, Processing and Encoding Digital Video
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.
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Learning VirtualDub
Credits
About the Authors
Introduction
Free Chapter
Introducing VirtualDub
Video Capture Equipment
Capture Preprocessing
Processing with VirtualDub
Basic Functionality
Video Filtering in VirtualDub
Professional Video Editing
Advanced Topics
Frameserving
Compressing: A World of Codecs
Customer Reviews