1. Avidemux Video Editor
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5. Avidemux Review

Avidemux is a free and open-source software for non-linear video editing and transcoding multimedia files. The developers intend it as 'a simple tool for simple video processing tasks' and to allow users 'to do elementary things in a very straightforward way'.^[3] It is written in C++ and uses Qt for its graphical user interface, and FFmpeg for its multimedia functions. Starting with version 2.4, Avidemux also offers a command-line interface, and since version 2.6, the original GTK port has not been maintained and is now discontinued.

Avidemux is developed for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Unofficial builds are also available for FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.^[4][5][6]

Features[edit]

Avidemux is capable of non-linear video editing, applying visual effects (called 'Filters' by Avidemux) to video, and transcoding video into various formats. Some of the filters were ported from MPlayer and Avisynth. Avidemux can also insert audio streams into a video file (an action known as multiplexing or 'muxing') or extract audio streams from video files (an action known as 'demuxing').

Avidemux is a free open-source and cross platform (it runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) video editing program. Avidemux natively supports a great number of file types, formats, and codecs. It's a powerful tool, but not a. How to edit and join multiple/lots of video clips quickly and easily using Avidemux. Avidemux is a free and open-source video editing program designed for vi.

An integral and important part of the design of the program is its project system, which uses the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine. Whole projects with all options, configurations, selections, and preferences can be saved into a project file. Like VirtualDub's VCF scripting capabilities, Avidemux has advanced scripting available for it both in its GUI and command line modes. It also supports a non-project system just like VirtualDub, where users can simply create all of their configurations and save the video directly without making a project file. A project queue system is also available.

Avidemux has built-in subtitle processing, both for optical character recognition of DVD subtitles and for rendering hard subtitles. Avidemux supports various subtitle formats, including MicroDVD (.SUB), SubStation Alpha (.SSA), Advanced SubStation Alpha (.ASS) and SubRip (.SRT).

Components[edit]

Avidemux was written from scratch, but additional code from FFmpeg, MPlayer, Transcode and Avisynth has been used on occasion as well. Nonetheless it is a completely standalone program that does not require any other programs to read, decode, or encode other than itself. The built-in libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project is used for decoding and encoding of various audio and video formats such as MPEG-4 ASP. The primary (though not the only) Avidemux programmer uses the nickname 'Mean' on the Avidemux forum.^[7]

Multithreading[edit]

Multithreading has been implemented in the following areas of Avidemux (some partially through libavcodec):

• Encoding
  • MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (using libavcodec)
  • MPEG-4 Part 2 SP/ASP (using libavcodec or Xvid)
    • Earlier versions of Xvid are not compatible with this feature.
  • H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC (using x264)
  • H.265/HEVC (using x265)
• Decoding
  • MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (using libavcodec)
  • MPEG-4 Part 2 SP/ASP (using libavcodec)

Supported formats[edit]

Avidemux supports following file formats:

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

Avidemux Video Editor

1. ^Can create files that are compatible with Video CD, SVCD or DVD Video
2. ^Using libaom
3. ^Using x264
4. ^Using x265
5. ^Both Simple Profile and Advanced Simple Profile
6. ^Supported codec FourCCs: DIVX, DX50, XVID, FMP4, M4S2
7. ^Using FFmpeg or Xvid
8. ^FourCC: DIV3
9. ^FourCC: WMV3
10. ^ ^abcThrough libavcodec
11. ^Using Libvpx
12. ^FourCC: WMV2

References[edit]

1. ^Avidemux 2.5 Change Log (included with the Avidemux 2.5.5 for Windows)
2. ^'Avidemux 2.7.8'. SourceForge. Dice Holdings. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
3. ^Avidemux developers (12 November 2012). 'Avidemux Quickstart'. avidemux.org. Archived from the original on 12 September 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2020. Avidemux is a simple tool for simple video processing tasks. The keyword here is simple: it does not offer tools like a timeline, multitrack editing, you cannot freely move or splice audio and video clips from various sources. However, Avidemux allows you to do elementary things in a very straightforward way.
4. ^'FreeBSD Avidemux port'. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2010.
5. ^'The NetBSD Packages Collection: multimedia/avidemux'. Retrieved 2 July 2010.
6. ^'OpenBSD Packages'. Archived from the original on 10 February 2010. Retrieved 2 July 2010.
7. ^'Messages by 'Mean''. Avidemux forum. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
8. ^ ^ab'Supported input formats'. Avidemux wiki documentation. Avidemux. 16 April 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
9. ^ ^ab'Supported output formats'. Avidemux wiki documentation. Avidemux. 15 April 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
10. ^'Video decoders'. Avidemux wiki documentation. Avidemux. 16 April 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
11. ^'Video encoders'. Avidemux wiki documentation. Avidemux. 15 April 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
12. ^'Audio decoders'. Avidemux wiki documentation. Avidemux. 16 April 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
13. ^'Audio encoders'. Avidemux wiki documentation. Avidemux. 15 April 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2011.

Further reading[edit]

• Rankin, Kyle (2006). Linux Multimedia Hacks. O'Reilly Media, Inc. pp. 189–190, 221–222. ISBN978-0-596-10076-6.
• Montabone, Sebastian (2010). 'Chapter 10: Movie Editing'. Beginning Digital Image Processing: Using Free Tools for Photographers. Apress. pp. 235–253. ISBN978-1-4302-2841-7.

External links[edit]

Avidemux Tutorial

About Avidemux

Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license. The program was written from scratch by Mean, but code from other people and projects has been used as well. Patches, translations and even bug reports are always welcome.

Avidemux.org

How to backup and restore Avidemux using Backup4all plugin

After you install and configure Avidemux, you can back it up to move its settings on another computer or to re-configure it after re-installing your system. This is why the plugin to back up Avidemux is important as it will save you time.

Creating a backup job in Backup4all using the Avidemux plugin, allows you to back-up the application data files and registry entries.

In order to backup Avidemux, you have to follow these steps:

1. Download and install the backup plugin here: Avidemux backup plugin
2. After you installed the plugin in Backup4all, define a backup job and run it to back-up Avidemux. If you don't know how to install the plugin and run the backup, read this article:http://www.backup4all.com/kb/how-to-download-install-and-use-backup-plugins-910.html

If you need to restore the Avidemux files after a fresh system installation or on a different computer, follow these steps:

1. Install Avidemux and the Avidemux plugin from here: Avidemux backup plugin
2. Open in Backup4all the .bkc catalog file from the destination.
3. Press the Restore button and follow the wizard steps.

What information is backed up when using the Avidemux plugin

The backup plugin mentioned above will add as backup sources the following information:

• Log files
• Local application files

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