X-VirtualDub

X-VirtualDub is developed as the portable edition of VirtualDub, an open-source video capture and video processing application. Although it is specifically designed for Windows platforms, you can deploy it on Linux and Mac OS X using Wine.

The tool is able to process mainly AVI files but it can read MPEG-1 clips and handle sets of BMP images. It comes with support for batch actions for processing a large number of videos, and you may enhance its functionality via plugins. For example, with the aid of plugins you may process MPEG-2, Matroska, Flash Video, Windows Media, AC3, FLIC, QuickTime, MP4, PVN, and Redcode RAW files.

You can take advantage of the utility’s portability status and keep it stored on pen drives to have with you all the time. Double-clicking on the executable file is sufficient for accessing its GUI.

The GUI looks and feels a bit overwhelming especially when you start browsing throughout the menu functions. There are a lot of features that need to be digested so be prepared to spare some of your time experimenting with the built-in parameters.

A help manual is available in case you need to find out more about the configuration process and tooltips show short descriptions about the program’s functions.

X-VirtualDub gives you the possibility to try on a wide range of powerful video filters, such as noise reduction, blurring, sharpening, brightness/contrast, and gamma correction. You can fade a video filter’s output with its input, compress clips, as well as render the output video, and sync audio and video playbacks.

What’s more, when it comes to processing video and audio streams, you may work with a direct mode which lets you copy data from the input source to the output one. A smart rendering approach helps you detect which portions of a video stream must be re-encoded and which can be copied verbatim from the source file.

You can also analyze a visualization of audio tracks with the aid of a waveform and spectrogram, and filter a video directly from X-VirtualDub’s rendering engine and then process it with another app.

There are several parameters that you need to set up in order to start capturing streams. There are related to hardware, driver, and audio tweaks.

You can employ various capture filters, such as cropping, swap fields, noise reduction, vertical reduction, RGB filtering, and luma black/white point.

A multi-segment capturing mode can be used for splitting data across multiple files based on size limits. Plus, you can make the app stop the capturing process using capture time, file size, free space, and dropped frames rules.

X-VirtualDub is all worthy of your attention because it comes packed with advanced streamlined tools for capturing and processing clips, and is suitable especially for professional users.