VirtualDub Book Announced

Packt Publishing is pleased to announce the first book on VirtualDub, the popular open source video capture and processing tool. Providing a rapid and easy to use tutorial to the basic features, this book will get you up and running with VirtualDub in no time at all.

(PRWEB) January 22, 2005 -- VirtualDub is one of the most popular video processing applications for Windows. As an open source application, its 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 wont hog your bandwidth forever.

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

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