The Manual and Tutorial is worth a read and will certainly make things easier the first time. Overall Avidemux is a very nice upgrade from VirtualDub and its cross-platform portability is a nice plus, especially if you’re using Windows and Ubuntu.

Notice also that you can take a video from, let’s say a flip video, and convert it so that you can port it to your iPod: The software is released under the GNU GPL license and has been released (binaries) in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. It is one of the best free video editors whenever you need to automate video processing or editing process. The buttons at the lower left frame are explained in the drop-down menu: Avidemux offers built-in support for many popular codecs and files: AVI, MP4, ASF, DVD, MPEG, MKV. You can also effects such as logos and animated menus: In addition to the editing functions, there is an extensive filter set available: The opening screen shows the various functions which become active after loading a file into the program: I find it has more capabilities and easier to use. To move an image (circle) together with the video (for example to follow the face of a person) use several Logo filters and adjust X and Y accordingly to each of them.Avidemux is a freeware video editor that packs a very nice editing suite at the right price.Īvidemux is a cross-platform video editing app that is a step up from VirtualDub. The position and size of the blurred square/rectangle area.

(square shaped), just use another filter instead (step 3): Mplayer delogo, enter Click on the Close button on the Video Filter Manager to return to the main video window and left to the video select the encoding type instead of default Copy.Ī logo can be added the same way, just don’t use a partial filter (step 5) andĪlpha should be 255 (no transparency in step 4).

Back on Video Filter Manager click on Partial button on the bottom of the window, in a new window enter the frames (which can be found out on the main video window) and click OK button.Ħ. In new window select a logo file, enter X and Y positions in pixels from the top left corner, choose transparency (0 means fully transparent and 255 not) and click OK button.ĥ. From the menu select Video -> Filter to open Video Filter Manager, then select Miscellaneous on the left and doubleclick on Logo (add a png as logo) on the right.Ĥ. Create a PNG image of a circle with a transparent background (I did it in Gimp and its beyond this tutorial)ģ. It turns out that this is fairly simple with Avidemux.ġ. I needed to add a red circle on a video to emphasize the content over a period of a few seconds.

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