Learning VirtualDub: The Complete Guide to Capturing, Processing, & Encoding Digital Video

Description

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.
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 shows all how to use VirtualDub to cut and paste video, to remove or insert sequences, including the removing of 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.

Introducing VirtualDub
Video capture equipment
Capture preprocessing
Processing with VirtualDub
Basic functionality
Video filtering in VirtualDub
Professional video editing
Advanced topics
Frameserving
Compressing