VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility, licensed under the GNU General Public License.
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 MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
Features:
- optimized disk access for more consistent hard disk usage.
- integrated volume meter.
- real-time downsizing, noise reduction, and field swapping.
- monitoring: compression levels, CPU usage and free disk space.
- keyboard and mouse shortcuts for faster operation.
- clean interface layout.
- reads and writes AVI2.
- integrated MPEG-1 and Motion-JPEG decoders.
- remove and replace audio tracks without touching the video.
- decompress and recompress both audio and video.
- remove segments of a video clip and save the rest.
- adjust frame rate, decimate frames.
- preview the results, with live audio.