How to Download and Use VirtualDub for Editing and Capturing Video

• Part 1. What is VirtualDub
• Part 2. How to use free editor Wax to edit videos
• Part 3. Best Wax video editing software alternative

Part 1. What is VirtualDub

Brief introduction about VirtualDub

VirtualDub is a video capture and processing program for Windows. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor like Sony Vegas, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. This video editing software has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly used to process AVI files. It provides users with a free and comprehensive video capture, processing and linear editing suite.

VirtualDub review

VirtualDub is no advanced video editor, but what it does specifically it does extremely well. It can do operations like resizing, reasampling, frame adjustment, applying filters, audio replacement better and other linear video editing tasks on several files at a time better than many dedicated software. It provides batch-processed conveniently with full live previews.

Pros:

• Very useful for processing AVI files with a lot of video effects;
• Support splitting video to delete segments you do not want and cropping, rotating video files;
• Offer effects like contrast, sharpness, smoother, color balance, tint, brightness and more;
• Render the edited video with or without effects according to your need.

Cons:

• Some third-party effects does not work and easy to cause the program to crash;
• Not support WMV, FLV or other video format files;
• Only support importing several AVI files with same bitrate and frame size at the same size;
• Not very intuitive and without contextual help.

VirtualDub editing software free download

You can easily download VirtualDub from its official website virtualdub.org for the latest version or you can also download it from other download sites. The latest version of VirtualDub would be 1.10.4. It supports operating system including Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10. If you are Mac user, you may not be able to install VirtualDub on your computer as it does not support Mac OS X.

Part 2. How to use VirtualDub

VirtualDub is a video capture and processing utility licensed under the GNU General Public License and designed to be a general program to trim and clean up video before exporting to tape or processing with other program. Just learn about its key features before checking the VirtualDub tutorial.

VirtualDub features

• Capture with real-time downsizing, noise reduction and field swapping;
• Clean interface layout including caption, menu bar, info panel and status bar;
• Remove and replace audio tracks without touching the video;
• Extensive video filters including blur, sharpen, emboss, smooth, 3×3 convolution, flip, resize, rotate, brightness/contrast, levels, deinterlace, and threshold;
• Decompress and recompress both video and audio;
• Remove a segments of a video clip to save the rest without recompressing;
• Preview the edited video with live audio.

VirtualDub tutorial

1. Filters

Go to Video > Filter on the top toolbar to add a filter to a video. In the new pop up window you can add, remove or edit filters easily.

2. Crop

In "Full Processing mode", go to Video > Filters. Click Add... and choose "null transform" to allow you to crop a video. Then click Cropping... in the Filters window and enter the number of pixels to crop from each side of the video. The dimension of the resulting video will change and you can see the new dimension at the top left in the window.

3. Join and Merge

Go to File > Append AVI segment... to add another AVI file to your video. Then go to Video menu and make sure "Full processing mode" is selected and click "Compression" under Video menu. Choose video codec for output. Go to File > Save Segmented AVI to save your video to your computer.

4. Rotate

Go to Filters and click Add..., choose "rotate" and click OK. With the Rotate filter, you can rotate your videos with necessary options.

5. Compress

Go to Video > Compression and you will see a pop-up window. Select XVID MPEG-4 codec and click Configure button to make XviD settings. Lower "Target bitrate" to make video smaller. Go to Audio menu to select "Full processing mode" and click "Compression" to open a window with MPEG Layer-3 recommended. Then choose File > Save as AVI option and name the new compressed file. You can see the compressed file on your chosen location after compressing.

There are still more functions you can use like removing or adding audio, adding subtitles, logo and watermark, changing contrast and brightness and more.

Part 3. Best VirtualDub alternative

Even VirtualDub is a very popular and useful video editing software, however, due to its video formats supporting limitation and operating system limitation, you may wonder if you can find other video editing software to be the VirtualDub alternative. Here we would like to introduce you a more completed video editing software - Free Video Editor to help you easily rotate, clip, crop, watermark and convert video and audio files on your Windows and Mac. Learn how to use this free video editor to edit videos easily on both Windows and Mac.

Step 1Download and install this free video editing program on your computer (Windows or Mac according to your operating system). Choose any editing function on the main interface to enter the edit window.

Step 2If you want to combine your video files, choose "Video/Audio Joiner" on the main interface. Click "Add File" button to add videos you want to combine. You can add more same or different formats videos to the window by clicking "Add File" on the top left button. You can change the order of the videos in order to get the suitable playback order for the combined video.

Step 3After editing, click "Save" button to save your edited video. It will take a few minutes to save the file. You can also rotate, crop, trim or convert your video with this free video editor before output. After saving, click "Open Output Folder" and you can check your edited video on your computer directly.

You can also check the following video tutorial for quick understanding:

In this article, we generally introduce VirtualDub video editing software and how to use it to edit your videos. And we also offer an alternative to VirtualDub. Hope you can edit your videos easily with this free video editing tools. For more recommendation, you can also leave your comments below.