Learning VirtualDub -- Table of Contents -- Learning VirtualDub -- Credits -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- What This Book Covers -- Conventions -- Reader Feedback -- Customer Support -- Errata -- Questions -- 1. Introducing VirtualDub -- What is VirtualDub? -- The World of VirtualDub -- Software -- VDubMod -- AviSynth -- Users -- About this Book -- Installation Preview -- About VirtualDub -- What VirtualDub Can Do -- Capturing Video with VirtualDub -- VirtualDub's Early Development Years -- Ongoing Development -- About VDubMod -- About AviSynth -- Downloading and Installing VirtualDub -- Additional Filters -- VirtualDub Source Code -- Downloading and Installing VDubMod -- Downloading and Installing AviSynth -- Filters -- Desktop Icons and Your Default Player -- Summary -- 2. Video Capture Equipment -- Analog Video Resources -- Digital Video Resources -- The Nature of DV (Digital Video) -- Streaming Video -- Different Types of Capturing Devices -- Internal versus External Equipment -- What to Buy -- Installing Capturing Equipment -- Connecting Video Resources to the Capture Card -- Final Tips and Optimizations for Better Video Capture -- Summary -- 3. Capture Preprocessing -- Defining an Input Source for VirtualDub -- File Settings -- Audio Settings -- Video Settings -- Compressing Input Signals while Capturing -- Cropping Videos -- Removing Unwanted Noises from Videos -- Reducing File Size -- Unusual Resolutions and Formats -- Histogram -- Capture Settings -- The Buffer -- Saving Current Configurations for Future Reference -- The Synchronization Problem -- Chunks -- Capture Duration Restrictions -- Summary -- 4. Processing with VirtualDub -- VirtualDub Processing Functions -- Append, Cut, Copy, and Paste -- Filtering -- Extraction of Stills -- Sound Processing -- Frame Rate Conversion -- Field Interlace.

External Processing and Frameserving -- Example Processing -- Summary -- 5. Basic Functionality -- Appending -- Extracting Stills -- Summary -- 6. Video Filtering in VirtualDub -- How Filters Work -- Pipelines -- Why is the Order Important -- Built-In Filters -- Smoothing and Blurring -- Gaussian Blur -- Smoothing -- Motion Blur -- Sharpen -- Emboss -- Flip -- Rotate -- Invert -- Color Fill -- Superimposing a Logo Image -- Convolution -- Grayscale and Black & White Video -- Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation/Value Adjustment -- Cropping and Resizing -- Black Bars Wrapping the Video -- Cropping Black Bars from the Video -- Resizing -- Subtitles -- Creating the Subtitles -- Burning the Subtitles in your Video -- Multiplexing Subtitles in AVI using AVIMux GUI -- External Subtitles -- Adding More Filters to Your Collection -- Summary -- 7. Professional Video Editing -- Installing a New Plug-in -- Logo Removal Filters -- Logo Removal with DeLogo -- Removing Solid Elements from an Image -- Removing Alpha-Blended Parts of a Frame -- An Easier Way of Removing Logos -- The Fastest Way of Removing a Logo with Logo Away -- Using Other Logo Away Controls -- More Convenience in Removing Logos -- Putting Desired Information on the Video -- Image Processing Filters -- Decreasing Color Noise with CNR -- The Algorithm Behind This Plug-in -- Removing Shadows from Video -- Filters for Fun -- Defining Simple Transitions for Video with FadeFX -- Half Toning Video -- Fading between Various Hues -- Colorizing it More -- Pixellate Effect -- A 1920's Cinema Plug-in -- Summary -- 8. Advanced Topics -- Color Television -- Frame Rates -- Changing the Playback Speed of Video -- Changing the Actual Frame Rate -- Conversion between PAL and NTSC -- Dealing with Interlaced Sources -- De-Interlacing Methods -- Field Bob -- Field Swap -- Hazardous Habits-How to Preserve Quality.

Re-Compressing Video -- VirtualDub Processing Modes -- Recovering Damaged Files -- Manually Controlling Input/Output Colorspaces -- Summary -- 9. Frameserving -- What is AviSynth? -- What Frameservers Can Do -- Setting Up the VirtualDub Frameserver -- Serving Frames with VirtualDub -- Setting Up AviSynth -- Introduction to AviSynth Scripts -- Variables -- Source Filter and Supported Formats -- Loading Third-Party Plug-ins in AviSynth -- Separating the Fields of an Interlaced Video -- Summary -- 10. Compressing: A World of Codecs -- Interoperability and Open Standards -- Older Codecs -- Adding Codecs -- Compressing Video -- Saving the Video -- Job Control -- Calculating the Video and Audio Bitrate -- Variable, Average, and Constant Bitrate Modes -- Multi-Pass Encoding -- Encoding with DivX -- Encoding with XviD -- MPEG-4 in AVI Interoperability -- Compressing the Audio -- Multiplexing Audio and Video -- Summary -- Index.