VirtualDub Book Announced

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 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.

For more information on VirtualDub Video: Capture, Processing and Encoding: http://www.packtpub.com/book/virtualdub