I found a great freeware program called VirtualDub – this is a great way to quickly clean up videos before and also to perform some very nice enhancements – their description:
"VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images."
After searching and trying about a dozen freeware video editors, I found VirtualDub to be the easiest one (for me) to use and very powerful. I needed a video editing program to handle downloaded videos from my overclocked CVS videocam, which I'm using to take aerial photos with one of my radio controlled planes.
The opening screen:
Move the cursor to "File" and you get this:
When you open a video file, you see two screens – one for the loaded image and one for the altered image:
By using the arrow keys on your keyboard, you can step through the video file frame-by-frame; in some of the videos I have, sometimes one frame is too dark or light as the scene shifts – deleting this one frame smoothes out the video nicely.
You can get detailed information about the file:
The following two composite images show all the options within the program:
Under "Video", "Filters", you can select from a wide range of effects:
This is a composite image to fit all the filters on one pic.
You can alter the video file as follows:
And when you're finished editing the file, you can save it in a variety of formats:
CONCLUSIONS
For a freeware program, you get a LOT of capabilities for basic video editing functions.
I did some simple edits on this videoclip (enhanced the color and sharpened the video) – these will play in Windows Media Player:
NOTE: This is a new site and consider it a "work in progress". I would greatly encourage readers to send in articles for posting on AmpAviators. In contrast to a forum, finding articles of interest will be TONS easier here.
VirtualDub Freeware Video Editing Program
Versatile video editor
I found a great freeware program called VirtualDub – this is a great way to quickly clean up videos before and also to perform some very nice enhancements – their description:
"VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images."
After searching and trying about a dozen freeware video editors, I found VirtualDub to be the easiest one (for me) to use and very powerful. I needed a video editing program to handle downloaded videos from my overclocked CVS videocam, which I'm using to take aerial photos with one of my radio controlled planes.
The opening screen:
Move the cursor to "File" and you get this:
When you open a video file, you see two screens – one for the loaded image and one for the altered image:
By using the arrow keys on your keyboard, you can step through the video file frame-by-frame; in some of the videos I have, sometimes one frame is too dark or light as the scene shifts – deleting this one frame smoothes out the video nicely.
You can get detailed information about the file:
The following two composite images show all the options within the program:
Under "Video", "Filters", you can select from a wide range of effects:
You can alter the video file as follows:
And when you're finished editing the file, you can save it in a variety of formats:
For a freeware program, you get a LOT of capabilities for basic video editing functions.
I did some simple edits on this videoclip (enhanced the color and sharpened the video) – these will play in Windows Media Player:
No Change (6.8 MB)
Changed (3.7 MB)
NOTE: This is a new site and consider it a "work in progress". I would greatly encourage readers to send in articles for posting on AmpAviators. In contrast to a forum, finding articles of interest will be TONS easier here.
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