| Developer(s) | Avery Lee |
|---|---|
| Initial release | August 16, 2000; 20 years ago[1] |
| Final release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Assembly language, C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Video editing software |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www.virtualdub.org |
May 23, 2014 Download VirtualDub for free. A video capture utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms. Do you need quick capture and encoding capabilities for video on your desktop? VirtualDub is a free, Open Source solution specifically designed for that purpose. What is VirtualDub? VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), 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.
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VirtualDub is a free and open-sourcevideo capture and video processing utility for Microsoft Windows written by Avery Lee. It is designed to process linear video streams, including filtering and recompression. It uses AVIcontainer format to store captured video.[3] The first version of VirtualDub, written for Windows 95, to be released on SourceForge was uploaded on August 20, 2000.[4]
In 2009, the third-party software print guide Learning VirtualDub referred to VirtualDub as 'the leading free Open Source video capture and processing tool'.[5] Due to its 'powerful'[6] versatility and usefulness especially in the field of video processing (see below), PC World has referred to VirtualDub as 'something of a 'Photoshop' for video files',[7]PC Perspective recommends it for its low overhead,[8] and nextmedia's PC & Tech Authority particularly praises it for its Direct stream copy feature to avoid generational degradation of video quality when performing simple editing and trimming tasks and the fact that VirtualDub 'offers several valuable features that other packages lack, and helps you get quick results without any fuss or patronising wizards'.[9]
VirtualDub is recommended for use by professional computer and tech magazines, guides, and reviewers such as PC World,[7]PC & Tech Authority,[9]PC Perspective,[8] technologies guide website MakeTechEasier,[10] freeware and open source software review site Ghacks,[11]Speed Demos Archive,[6] as well as third-party professional video production companies,[12] and the creators of Wine (software).[13] Several hundred third-party plug-ins for VirtualDub exist,[14][15][16][17][18][19] including by professional software companies.[20][21] Furthermore, Debugmode Wax allows use of VirtualDub plug-ins in professional video editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Vegas Pro.[22]
Features[edit]
VirtualDub is designed for Microsoft Windows but may run on Linux and Mac OS X using Wine. (For example, to use it with the popular Deshaker plugin.[23]) However, native support for these systems is not available.
VirtualDub was made to operate exclusively on AVI files; however, a plugin API was added from version 1.7.2 which allows the import of other formats.[24] Appropriate video and audio codecs need to be installed.
Video capture[edit]
VirtualDub supports both DirectShow and Video for Windows for video capture. Capture features include capture to any AVI variant, audio VU meters, overlay and preview modes, histogram, selectable crop area, video noise reduction, auto stop settings (based on capture time, file size, free space, and/or dropped frames), and designate alternate drive(s) for capture overflow. VirtualDub can help overcome problems with digital cameras that also record video. Many models,[weasel words] especially Canon,[which?] record in an M-JPEG format incompatible with Sony Vegas 6.0 and 7.0. Saving AVI files as 'old-style AVI' files allows them to appear in Vegas.
VirtualDub supports DV capture from Type 2 (VfW) FireWire controllers only. (It cannot work with Type 1). There is no DV batch capture, still image capture, or DV device control capability.
Video assembly[edit]
VirtualDub can create a video file from a series image files in Truevision TGA or Windows Bitmap file formats. Individual frames must be given file names numbered in sequential order without any gaps (e.g. 001.bmp, 002.bmp, 003.bmp...). From those, the frame rate can be adjusted, and other modifications such as the addition of a sound track can be made.
VirtualDub can also disassemble a video by extracting its sound tracks saving its frames into Truevision TGA or Windows Bitmap files.
Editing[edit]
VirtualDub can delete segments of a video file, append new segments, or reorder existing segments. Appended segments must have similar audio and video formats, dimensions, number of audio channels, frame rates and sampling rates. Otherwise, VirtualDub is incapable of mixing dissimilar video files or adding transition effects between segments.
Video processing[edit]
VirtualDub comes with a number of video editing components known as 'filters'. They can perform basic tasks as arbitrary resize, converting the video to grayscale, arbitrary rotation, crop, or changing simple values like brightness and contrast. Filters may be used during the video assembly as well. Filter plug-ins further extend VirtualDub's capabilities. A plug-in SDK is available for developers to create their own video and audio filters.[25]
Besides those basic features, its many third-party plug-ins make VirtualDub a 'powerful'[6] open-source tool when it comes to linear video processing, and in fact most of the hundreds of third-party plug-ins available for VirtualDub are filters related to either aesthetic effects or cleaning, fixing, and restoring image quality, such as various denoising and sharpening methods targeted especially at analogue and digital video signal and film defects (be they related to VHS, faulty cables, a distorted analogue terrestrial or satellite TV reception, or digital compression), deinterlacing and fields manipulation, colorspace conversion and manipulation, reverse telecine aka IVTC, deflickering, deshaking, adding and removing logos and subtitles, analysis of video content, etc.
All of these processing features are fully batchable to apply the same effects on a large number of files.
Development[edit]
VirtualDub is free software, released under the GNU General Public License and hosted on SourceForge.net.
VirtualDub was originally created by the author, when a college student, for the purpose of compressing anime videos of Sailor Moon.[26] It was written to read and write AVI videos, but support for input plug-ins was added, enabling it to read additional formats including MPEG-2, Matroska, Flash Video, Windows Media, QuickTime, MP4 and others. Development stopped as of 2013 [2] and the site's forums closed down in 2015.[27]
VirtualDub has spawned several forks, including VirtualDubMod and Nandub.[28] The latest fork is called VirtualDub2 (formerly VirtualDub FilterMod).[29] It has all the features of the original VirtualDub, plus support for high bit-depth (i.e., deep color). It is no longer limited to Video for Windows (Video Compression Manager) codecs, and AVI format limitations (such as limited VBR support, H.264/HEVC minor incompatibilities etc.). The VirtualDub2 fork has built-in encode/decode of any container and video and audio compression formats supported by FFmpeg (H.264, HEVC, VP9, AAC, Opus and other formats); and can open and save QuickTime File Format (MOV), MP4, Matroska, WebM, AVI based on FFmpeg or only the audio from a video in M4A, Opus in Matroska, Ogg Opus, Vorbis, AAC or MP3 formats.[30]
Past legal issues[edit]
Early versions of VirtualDub supported importing of Microsoft's Advanced Systems Format, but this was removed in version 1.3d following an informal phone call from a Microsoft employee claiming that it infringed one of Microsoft's patents. Microsoft never identified any specific patent numbers that it believed to have been infringed, but speculation by others is that US 6041345 might be relevant.[31]
In August 2006, VirtualDub's German users who hosted copies of VirtualDub, or even linked to them on their web pages, began receiving cease and desist letters from a private individual that claimed to have German word mark on 'VirtualDub'.[32] However this issue has been resolved: the word mark in Germany has been deleted[33] and an injunction has been granted against the former owner of said word mark.[34]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'virtualdub-win'. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^ ab'VirtualDub Stable Versions at SourceForge.net'. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
- ^'VirtualDub features'.
- ^VirtualDub on SourceForge
- ^Georgios Diamantopoulos, Sohail Salehi, John Buechler (2009). Learning VirtualDub: The Complete Guide to Capturing, Processing, and Encoding Digital Video, Packt Publishing Ltd, 197 pages (quote taken from back cover blurb)
- ^ abcEntry VirtualDub on Speed Demos Archive
- ^ abGralla, Preston (2009). Capsule review: VirtualDub (32-bit version), PC World, Mar 13, 2009
- ^ abShrout, Ryan (2017). NVIDIA FCAT VR - Preview of a New Performance Tool, PC Perspective, March 1, 2017
- ^ abFearon, David (2011). How to: convert video footage with VirtualDub, PC & Tech Authority, 18 February 2011
- ^Sharninder (2009). How To Compress A Video File with Virtualdub, MakeTechEasier.com, 31st May 2009
- ^Brinkmann, Martin (2011). How To Change A Video's Speed With VirtualDub, ghacks.net, June 26, 2011
- ^Splitting a Video File into a Sequence of Images (virtualdub) on the website of Viscoda, a developer of professional video and digital cinematography software solutions
- ^Entry VirtualDub on winehq.org
- ^VirtualDub filters index on infognition.com
- ^VirtualDub-Filter Archive on hlinke.de
- ^VirtualDub Filter Pack 2014 on techspot.com
- ^Donald Graft (formerly Neuron2.net): VirtualDub Filters and Hosted Filters and Tools
- ^Video filtering and compression by MSU Video Group, CS MSU Graphics & Media Lab
- ^Andreas Dittrich: VirtualDub Filters and Modified VirtualDub Capture Routine with High Quality Realtime Sample Rate Conversion and Phase Servo Loop (formerly a project at the Kaiserslautern University of Technology where these VDub plug-ins were originally hosted)
- ^VideoPad Video Plugin Effects, NCH Software
- ^Neat Video v4 (2017) Demo plug-in for VirtualDub
- ^DebugMode Wax
- ^oldcpu. 'HowTo install VirtualDub under wine with deshaker plugin'. Retrieved 2010-01-13.
- ^http://virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=152#body
- ^VirtualDub SDK
- ^VirtualDub history - virtualdub.org
- ^'Not found - VirtualDub forums'. 2015-10-12. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
Sorry, the VirtualDub forums have been closed, and as of this date (22 Oct 2015), it's now down
- ^'Nandub / SBC Encoding'. Nicky Pages' Digital Solutions. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
- ^Shekh. 'VirtualDub2 / Code / Browse Commits'. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^Shekh. 'VirtualDub2 / Wiki / Home'. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^Advogato: Microsoft patents ASF media file format, stops reverse engineering
- ^Illicit word mark registered on 'VirtualDub' in Germany - virtualdub.org
- ^Official status of German word mark 30601877 'VIRTUALDUB'
- ^'Preliminary injunction granted in regard to German word mark VIRTUALDUB'
External links[edit]
- Official website
- VirtualDub on SourceForge.net
VirtualDub has been released quite a while back and anyone who has used it knows exactly what to expect from it. For those who don't know, VirtualDub is a video processing/capture utility for both 32 and 64 bit Windows based platforms which is usually available free of charge. While it does have some great functionality, it definitely lacks the more advanced editing power of similar software out there. However, VirtualDub is greatly used for fast linear operations over video and that's why it's so popular amongst many users worldwide.
Though VirtualDub is perfect, it cannot handle MOV or any other files besides AVI. But there're still ways to load them with this video editing software. Now try out the following three different methods to use other file formats as input in VirtualDub other than AVI for smooth editing.
>> Learn Best VirtualDub Alternative
3 Ways to Edit 4K/1080p/720p MOV with VirtualDub smoothly
Way 1: Create an AVISynth script
If you know how how to use AVISynth, you can simply open different kinds of video formats in VirtualDub. Basically, it works like this: First, you create a simple text document with special commands, called a script. These commands make references to one or more videos and the filters you wish to run on them. After that you run VirtualDub and open the script file. Then VirtualDub doesn't aware that AVISynth is working in the background, but thinks it's directly opening a filtered AVI file. Now let's see how to make the magic happen:
1. Install K-lite Codec Pack and update FFDShow
First, ensure that the target file is playable in Windows Media Player. So you need to install the necessary codecs to your computer. K-lite Codec Pack which always provides the latest and complete codecs is just fine. You can select a suitable version and choose the codecs you need.
Then open the target video file with Windows Media Player and it should play. If not, you should update your FFDShow to the latest version.
2. Install AVISynth
Editing[edit]
VirtualDub can delete segments of a video file, append new segments, or reorder existing segments. Appended segments must have similar audio and video formats, dimensions, number of audio channels, frame rates and sampling rates. Otherwise, VirtualDub is incapable of mixing dissimilar video files or adding transition effects between segments.
Video processing[edit]
VirtualDub comes with a number of video editing components known as 'filters'. They can perform basic tasks as arbitrary resize, converting the video to grayscale, arbitrary rotation, crop, or changing simple values like brightness and contrast. Filters may be used during the video assembly as well. Filter plug-ins further extend VirtualDub's capabilities. A plug-in SDK is available for developers to create their own video and audio filters.[25]
Besides those basic features, its many third-party plug-ins make VirtualDub a 'powerful'[6] open-source tool when it comes to linear video processing, and in fact most of the hundreds of third-party plug-ins available for VirtualDub are filters related to either aesthetic effects or cleaning, fixing, and restoring image quality, such as various denoising and sharpening methods targeted especially at analogue and digital video signal and film defects (be they related to VHS, faulty cables, a distorted analogue terrestrial or satellite TV reception, or digital compression), deinterlacing and fields manipulation, colorspace conversion and manipulation, reverse telecine aka IVTC, deflickering, deshaking, adding and removing logos and subtitles, analysis of video content, etc.
All of these processing features are fully batchable to apply the same effects on a large number of files.
Development[edit]
VirtualDub is free software, released under the GNU General Public License and hosted on SourceForge.net.
VirtualDub was originally created by the author, when a college student, for the purpose of compressing anime videos of Sailor Moon.[26] It was written to read and write AVI videos, but support for input plug-ins was added, enabling it to read additional formats including MPEG-2, Matroska, Flash Video, Windows Media, QuickTime, MP4 and others. Development stopped as of 2013 [2] and the site's forums closed down in 2015.[27]
VirtualDub has spawned several forks, including VirtualDubMod and Nandub.[28] The latest fork is called VirtualDub2 (formerly VirtualDub FilterMod).[29] It has all the features of the original VirtualDub, plus support for high bit-depth (i.e., deep color). It is no longer limited to Video for Windows (Video Compression Manager) codecs, and AVI format limitations (such as limited VBR support, H.264/HEVC minor incompatibilities etc.). The VirtualDub2 fork has built-in encode/decode of any container and video and audio compression formats supported by FFmpeg (H.264, HEVC, VP9, AAC, Opus and other formats); and can open and save QuickTime File Format (MOV), MP4, Matroska, WebM, AVI based on FFmpeg or only the audio from a video in M4A, Opus in Matroska, Ogg Opus, Vorbis, AAC or MP3 formats.[30]
Past legal issues[edit]
Early versions of VirtualDub supported importing of Microsoft's Advanced Systems Format, but this was removed in version 1.3d following an informal phone call from a Microsoft employee claiming that it infringed one of Microsoft's patents. Microsoft never identified any specific patent numbers that it believed to have been infringed, but speculation by others is that US 6041345 might be relevant.[31]
In August 2006, VirtualDub's German users who hosted copies of VirtualDub, or even linked to them on their web pages, began receiving cease and desist letters from a private individual that claimed to have German word mark on 'VirtualDub'.[32] However this issue has been resolved: the word mark in Germany has been deleted[33] and an injunction has been granted against the former owner of said word mark.[34]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'virtualdub-win'. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^ ab'VirtualDub Stable Versions at SourceForge.net'. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
- ^'VirtualDub features'.
- ^VirtualDub on SourceForge
- ^Georgios Diamantopoulos, Sohail Salehi, John Buechler (2009). Learning VirtualDub: The Complete Guide to Capturing, Processing, and Encoding Digital Video, Packt Publishing Ltd, 197 pages (quote taken from back cover blurb)
- ^ abcEntry VirtualDub on Speed Demos Archive
- ^ abGralla, Preston (2009). Capsule review: VirtualDub (32-bit version), PC World, Mar 13, 2009
- ^ abShrout, Ryan (2017). NVIDIA FCAT VR - Preview of a New Performance Tool, PC Perspective, March 1, 2017
- ^ abFearon, David (2011). How to: convert video footage with VirtualDub, PC & Tech Authority, 18 February 2011
- ^Sharninder (2009). How To Compress A Video File with Virtualdub, MakeTechEasier.com, 31st May 2009
- ^Brinkmann, Martin (2011). How To Change A Video's Speed With VirtualDub, ghacks.net, June 26, 2011
- ^Splitting a Video File into a Sequence of Images (virtualdub) on the website of Viscoda, a developer of professional video and digital cinematography software solutions
- ^Entry VirtualDub on winehq.org
- ^VirtualDub filters index on infognition.com
- ^VirtualDub-Filter Archive on hlinke.de
- ^VirtualDub Filter Pack 2014 on techspot.com
- ^Donald Graft (formerly Neuron2.net): VirtualDub Filters and Hosted Filters and Tools
- ^Video filtering and compression by MSU Video Group, CS MSU Graphics & Media Lab
- ^Andreas Dittrich: VirtualDub Filters and Modified VirtualDub Capture Routine with High Quality Realtime Sample Rate Conversion and Phase Servo Loop (formerly a project at the Kaiserslautern University of Technology where these VDub plug-ins were originally hosted)
- ^VideoPad Video Plugin Effects, NCH Software
- ^Neat Video v4 (2017) Demo plug-in for VirtualDub
- ^DebugMode Wax
- ^oldcpu. 'HowTo install VirtualDub under wine with deshaker plugin'. Retrieved 2010-01-13.
- ^http://virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=152#body
- ^VirtualDub SDK
- ^VirtualDub history - virtualdub.org
- ^'Not found - VirtualDub forums'. 2015-10-12. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
Sorry, the VirtualDub forums have been closed, and as of this date (22 Oct 2015), it's now down
- ^'Nandub / SBC Encoding'. Nicky Pages' Digital Solutions. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
- ^Shekh. 'VirtualDub2 / Code / Browse Commits'. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^Shekh. 'VirtualDub2 / Wiki / Home'. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^Advogato: Microsoft patents ASF media file format, stops reverse engineering
- ^Illicit word mark registered on 'VirtualDub' in Germany - virtualdub.org
- ^Official status of German word mark 30601877 'VIRTUALDUB'
- ^'Preliminary injunction granted in regard to German word mark VIRTUALDUB'
External links[edit]
- Official website
- VirtualDub on SourceForge.net
VirtualDub has been released quite a while back and anyone who has used it knows exactly what to expect from it. For those who don't know, VirtualDub is a video processing/capture utility for both 32 and 64 bit Windows based platforms which is usually available free of charge. While it does have some great functionality, it definitely lacks the more advanced editing power of similar software out there. However, VirtualDub is greatly used for fast linear operations over video and that's why it's so popular amongst many users worldwide.
Though VirtualDub is perfect, it cannot handle MOV or any other files besides AVI. But there're still ways to load them with this video editing software. Now try out the following three different methods to use other file formats as input in VirtualDub other than AVI for smooth editing.
>> Learn Best VirtualDub Alternative
3 Ways to Edit 4K/1080p/720p MOV with VirtualDub smoothly
Way 1: Create an AVISynth script
If you know how how to use AVISynth, you can simply open different kinds of video formats in VirtualDub. Basically, it works like this: First, you create a simple text document with special commands, called a script. These commands make references to one or more videos and the filters you wish to run on them. After that you run VirtualDub and open the script file. Then VirtualDub doesn't aware that AVISynth is working in the background, but thinks it's directly opening a filtered AVI file. Now let's see how to make the magic happen:
1. Install K-lite Codec Pack and update FFDShow
First, ensure that the target file is playable in Windows Media Player. So you need to install the necessary codecs to your computer. K-lite Codec Pack which always provides the latest and complete codecs is just fine. You can select a suitable version and choose the codecs you need.
Then open the target video file with Windows Media Player and it should play. If not, you should update your FFDShow to the latest version.
2. Install AVISynth
Then download and install AVISynth, and tick all the options during the installation.
3. Create an AVISynth Script
Virtualdub Macrovision
Open NotePad. Type DirectShowSource('c:locationtovideo.mp4'). Then replace c:locationtovideo.mp4 with the location to your video file (right click the video file to gain the location). Then go to 'File' > 'Save as' > 'Save as Type: All files' and name your video file as video.avs. You can now import the video.avs file in Virtualdub.
Way 2: Download plugins for different formats
Plugins can also handle loading different files formats. You can download the plugin you need, and unpack it into the VirtualDub plugin folder. But remember that those plugins only allow you to load certain file formats. You cannot save those files in MP4, MOV, FLV and other formats, but in AVI. Here two plugins are recommended:
# 1. Ffmpeg Input Driver: The plugin is based, as the name may suggest, of the ffmpeg libraries. It can handle 31 different file formats, among them are the popular MP4, MKV, FLV, MOV, RM, RVMB, WMV and TS.
# 2. fccHandler: It can handle MPEG-2, FLV, WMV, MKV, FLC as well as AC-3 ACM codec. However, the its website is unavailable at the moment for some reasons. But there are two mirrors with his stuff: Mirror 1, Mirror 2.
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Way 3: Turn MOV to AVI for VirtualDub with the best video converterThe last way to edit MOV files in VirtualDub is to convert MOV to AVI so that you can import the media into the application. Pavtube Video Converter(Pavtube Video Converter for Mac) is the recommended program you can use for this task. All the popular video formats are supported, including H.265, TS, MTS, MKV, WMV, MPG, MP4, AVI and so forth. After you've converted one or more videos, you can also use the converter in order to export it to your Blackberry, Samsung Galaxy, PSP, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and many other portable devices.
Features of Pavtube Video Converter:
- Convert any 4K/1080p/720p MOV to VirtualDub supported AVI format.
- Convert MOV, H.265, MP4, MKV, MOV, FLV and other formats to VirtualDub supported AVI
- Adjust video settings such as codec, bit rate, resolution as you need.
- Video editing functions: split, merge, trim, crop, add watermark, adjust video effect, edit audio and insert subtitles.
- Fastest conversion speed with no quality loss.
- Supported OS: Windows 10/8/7/XP/Vista; macOS Sierra, El Capitan Yosemite, Mavericks, Lion
Virtualdub Mac
Step 1. Add MOV videos
Install and run the MOV Converter on your computer, then click 'Add Video' button to browse and load your rvideos which you've transferred to your Windows PC.
Step 2. Set right output format.
Click 'Format' bar, and select .avi from 'Common video' or 'HD Video' according to your needs.
Tips: The default settings may not satisfy you, and you can click the 'Settings' button to change the settings by yourself including video resolution, bit rate, audio sample rate, audio channel etc. for full screen playback smoothly. Or keep no changes, which is also a good choice.
Step 3. Click the 'Convert' button on the main interface and the software will start to convert MOV to VirtualDub friendly video formats immediately. When the conversion finishes, click 'Open' to find the converted video files. Then you can effortless transfer the video files to VirtualDub for editing smoothly.
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