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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

Audio Settings


There are three options in the Audio menu for receiving audio signals from the capture card, setting sound volume and channel balance, and the sound compression scheme:

If the captured signals are without sound, then we must check out the internal Windows mixer to make sure Line in is selected as the audio source.

Selecting the Audio | Windows mixer option will show the mixer, in which the audio input source can be set:

In the Volume meter dialog box, we should see one of following images, depending upon whether we have stereo or mono settings. We can use the VUMeter, Oscilloscope, and Analyzer radio buttons for changing sound balance, volumes, and the graphical representation of audio signals:

We can set stereo or mono sound at the bottom of the VirtualDub window. Just click on this button and hold the mouse button for a while. From the following list, we can choose our desired sound settings for capturing. For the example given above (capturing for DVD), we need to select...