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Enter a name for your movie and click Save.Ī status window will appear, with some information about the progress of the AVI creation.Ĭonvert your movie to another format using WinFF ¶

In the main VirtualDub window, go to the File menu and select Save as AVI.

Set the Bitrate (kbps) text box to 1000.

Make sure the Mode setting is one pass - average bitrate.

Select the MPEG-4 codec from the codec selection drop-down menu.

If you wish to use another codec, the steps are essentially the same. The following steps will produce an AVI using the MPEG4 codec, which is widely supported. MPEG4 and its successor H.264 generally offer substantially better quality and/or smaller file sizes. MPEG-2 is an older codec that offers good backwards compatibility, but encodes lower quality videos with larger file sizes. Good codecs to choose are MPEG-2, MPEG4, and H.264. Different codecs have different pros and cons these days it is often best to stick to the more modern codecs, as a majority of computers on all platforms should be able to play them. The output screen shows the original movie with any filters (such as resizing, contrast adjustments, sharpening etc) that you have applied to it.įrom this settings window you can set up which codec you wish to use to compress your movie, and how much compression you wish to apply.

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The input screen shows the movie you loaded, in this case the series of frames from the images. The two screens display the input and the output. This is the first frame of your movie, which can now be played within VirtualDub. You will now see two “screens” side by side, each displaying the first image in your sequence. This works whether you have a 00001-99999 or a 1-99999 style numbering scheme. VirtualDub will automatically load the entire numbered sequence of images in as movie frames, in the correct order.

Locate and load the first image in your sequence of images.

Go to the File menu and select Open video file….

You can safely dismiss this window and load VirtualDub.

The first time you do this you may be presented with a window where certain options may be set. Many video formats require specific resolutions to work properly codecs often are restricted to multiples of 2, 4, or 8 for both the height and width in pixels.Ĭreating a movie from a series of images using VirtualDub is very simple: When making a movie from a sequence of images, it is important to make sure that the images you created in CMGUI are saved at a usable resolution. Camstudio is only required if you wish to experiment with recording the CMGUI graphics window directly.Ĭompiling a series of images into a movie ¶

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You will need administrator rights on your computer to install FFDShow VirtualDub is simply unzipped into a directory and run directly. Installation of VirtualDub and FFDShow is a requirement for following this tutorial. This represents an alternative method for capturing quick movies of CMGUI. CamStudio - This is a free open source tool for recording screen activity.This tool allows easy conversion of videos from one format to another. WinFF - This is a free windows front-end to ffmpeg (.With this installed you can save AVI files from VirtualDub using a large range of codecs.

FFDShow - This is a Video for Windows and Directshow codec for decoding and encoding a large number of video and audio formats.

For the purposes of this tutorial, it allows you to load in a series of image files as movie frames, and save the resulting movie as an AVI.

VirtualDub - This is an open source AVI editing/capturing application.

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The following pieces of software are used in this tutorial - click on the name of the software to navigate to a download page for each item:

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