
VirtualDub is free and released to the public under the GNU General Public License. All sound and framed images have to be edited in other software. Images from videos can be saved as bitmap or TGA files. A filter software development kit has been created for programmers to develop their own audio and video filters. For example, the video can be cut in half, converted to grayscale, located and more. It does not have the capability to mix segments from different files, except when adding segments that have similar audio and video characteristics.ĭevelopers and advanced users have created a number of filters which expanded VirtualDub's feature set. Users can append new segments to the end of a file, reorder current segments, or delete complete segments. VirtualDub has extremely flexible video editing capabilities. Resaving these videos as "old-style AVI" in VirtualDub makes the videos available in most editors. There are a few digital cameras that record video in M-JPEG format that would not be accepted in some software. VirtualDub is also used to allow video from certain digital cameras to be used in nonlinear editing programs such as Sony Vegas. Capturing features include preview and overly modes, selectable cropping, video noise reduction, auto stop, audio VU meters, the ability to capture any AVI format and the option of designating another drive for overflow. VirtualDub is a capable video capture utility with support for both Video For Windows and DirectShow. However, to date AVI is the only accepted video format.

Users have asked the program developers to expand the accepted file formats.

Its original purpose was to process videos of the animation character Sailor Moon. It processes, filters and compresses linear video streams. VirtualDub is a free Microsoft Windows program designed for video processing and video capture.
