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Learning VirtualDub: The Complete Guide to Capturing, Processing and Encoding Digital Video. The complete guide to capturing, processing and encoding digital video

Learning VirtualDub: The Complete Guide to Capturing, Processing and Encoding Digital Video. The complete guide to capturing, processing and encoding digital video

John Buechler, Georgios Diamantopoulos, Sohail Salehi, Avery Lee

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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.
  • Learning VirtualDub
    • Table of Contents
    • Learning VirtualDub
    • Credits
    • About the Authors
    • Introduction
      • What This Book Covers
      • Conventions
      • Reader Feedback
      • Customer Support
        • Errata
        • Questions
    • 1. Introducing VirtualDub
      • What is VirtualDub?
      • The World of VirtualDub
        • Software
          • VDubMod
          • AviSynth
        • Users
      • About this Book
      • Installation Preview
      • About VirtualDub
        • What VirtualDub Can Do
        • Capturing Video with VirtualDub
        • VirtualDubs Early Development Years
        • Ongoing Development
      • About VDubMod
      • About AviSynth
      • Downloading and Installing VirtualDub
        • Additional Filters
        • VirtualDub Source Code
      • Downloading and Installing VDubMod
      • Downloading and Installing AviSynth
        • Filters
      • Desktop Icons and Your Default Player
      • Summary
    • 2. Video Capture Equipment
      • Analog Video Resources
      • Digital Video Resources
        • The Nature of DV (Digital Video)
        • Streaming Video
      • Different Types of Capturing Devices
        • Internal versus External Equipment
      • What to Buy
        • Installing Capturing Equipment
        • Connecting Video Resources to the Capture Card
        • Final Tips and Optimizations for Better Video Capture
      • Summary
    • 3. Capture Preprocessing
      • Defining an Input Source for VirtualDub
      • File Settings
      • Audio Settings
      • Video Settings
        • Compressing Input Signals while Capturing
        • Cropping Videos
        • Removing Unwanted Noises from Videos
        • Reducing File Size
        • Unusual Resolutions and Formats
        • Histogram
      • Capture Settings
        • The Buffer
        • Saving Current Configurations for Future Reference
        • The Synchronization Problem
        • Chunks
        • Capture Duration Restrictions
      • Summary
    • 4. Processing with VirtualDub
      • VirtualDub Processing Functions
        • Append, Cut, Copy, and Paste
        • Filtering
        • Extraction of Stills
        • Sound Processing
        • Frame Rate Conversion
        • Field Interlace
        • External Processing and Frameserving
      • Example Processing
      • Summary
    • 5. Basic Functionality
      • Appending
      • Extracting Stills
      • Summary
    • 6. Video Filtering in VirtualDub
      • How Filters Work
        • Pipelines
        • Why is the Order Important
      • Built-In Filters
        • Smoothing and Blurring
        • Gaussian Blur
          • Smoothing
          • Motion Blur
        • Sharpen
        • Emboss
        • Flip
        • Rotate
        • Invert
        • Color Fill
        • Superimposing a Logo Image
        • Convolution
        • Grayscale and Black & White Video
        • Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation/Value Adjustment
      • Cropping and Resizing
        • Black Bars Wrapping the Video
        • Cropping Black Bars from the Video
      • Resizing
      • Subtitles
        • Creating the Subtitles
        • Burning the Subtitles in your Video
        • Multiplexing Subtitles in AVI using AVIMux GUI
        • External Subtitles
      • Adding More Filters to Your Collection
      • Summary
    • 7. Professional Video Editing
      • Installing a New Plug-in
      • Logo Removal Filters
        • Logo Removal with DeLogo
          • Removing Solid Elements from an Image
          • Removing Alpha-Blended Parts of a Frame
          • An Easier Way of Removing Logos
        • The Fastest Way of Removing a Logo with Logo Away
          • Using Other Logo Away Controls
          • More Convenience in Removing Logos
          • Putting Desired Information on the Video
      • Image Processing Filters
        • Decreasing Color Noise with CNR
          • The Algorithm Behind This Plug-in
          • Removing Shadows from Video
      • Filters for Fun
        • Defining Simple Transitions for Video with FadeFX
        • Half Toning Video
        • Fading between Various Hues
        • Colorizing it More
        • Pixellate Effect
        • A 1920s Cinema Plug-in
      • Summary
    • 8. Advanced Topics
      • Color Television
      • Frame Rates
        • Changing the Playback Speed of Video
        • Changing the Actual Frame Rate
        • Conversion between PAL and NTSC
      • Dealing with Interlaced Sources
        • De-Interlacing Methods
          • Field Bob
          • Field Swap
      • Hazardous HabitsHow to Preserve Quality
        • Re-Compressing Video
        • VirtualDub Processing Modes
      • Recovering Damaged Files
      • Manually Controlling Input/Output Colorspaces
      • Summary
    • 9. Frameserving
      • What is AviSynth?
      • What Frameservers Can Do
      • Setting Up the VirtualDub Frameserver
      • Serving Frames with VirtualDub
      • Setting Up AviSynth
      • Introduction to AviSynth Scripts
        • Variables
        • Source Filter and Supported Formats
        • Loading Third-Party Plug-ins in AviSynth
        • Separating the Fields of an Interlaced Video
      • Summary
    • 10. Compressing: A World of Codecs
      • Interoperability and Open Standards
      • Older Codecs
      • Adding Codecs
      • Compressing Video
        • Saving the Video
        • Job Control
        • Calculating the Video and Audio Bitrate
        • Variable, Average, and Constant Bitrate Modes
        • Multi-Pass Encoding
        • Encoding with DivX
        • Encoding with XviD
        • MPEG-4 in AVI Interoperability
      • Compressing the Audio
        • Multiplexing Audio and Video
      • Summary
    • Index
  • Title: Learning VirtualDub: The Complete Guide to Capturing, Processing and Encoding Digital Video. The complete guide to capturing, processing and encoding digital video
  • Author: John Buechler, Georgios Diamantopoulos, Sohail Salehi, Avery Lee
  • Original title: Learning VirtualDub: The Complete Guide to Capturing, Processing and Encoding Digital Video. The complete guide to capturing, processing and encoding digital video
  • ISBN: 9781847190246, 9781847190246
  • Date of issue: 2005-05-09
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3c6w
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing