It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

What's New:

  • ExtEnc: Added %(outputbasename) to insert output filename without extension.
  • ExtEnc: Editor UI now has a drop-down for tokens.
  • Filters: Expanded color space support in resize filter.
  • Preview: Return now also stops preview.
  • AVI: Added Copy button to AVI file information dialog.
  • AVI: Fixed bitsPerPixel value for NV12 output.
  • Capture: Improved error handling in screen capture module.
  • Capture: Fixed sporadic errors in DXGI 1.2 screen capture mode related to tracking pointer shape changes.
  • Capture: Spill drives can be adjusted on Windows XP.
  • Display: Fixed regression in D3D effects display mode.
  • ExtEnc: Fixed weird selection behavior when duplicating item.
  • Filters: Fixed script operation for Convert Format filter for the new modes.
  • Filters: Fixed crash when attempting to crop video in a format that isn't AVI-compatible.
  • Filters: Fixed cropping errors on alias format filter.
  • Filters: Fixed issues with interpolate filter in nearest mode.
  • GIF: Fixed shifted presentation timings when reading animated GIFs.
  • Render: The processing priority setting now correctly adjusts the priority of filter and compression worker threads too when multithreading is enabled.
  • TARGA: Fixed vertical inversion issues during read.
  • UI: Add Windows 8.1 per-monitor DPI awareness support.