How to Use AVIDEMUX

How to use AVIDEMUX

The open source video editing Software For complete beginners

Kayo de Bellis

How to use

Kayo de Bellis

Realitas Ltd

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I would like to dedicate this book to my lovely wife Rita — it’s a cliché, but I really couldn’t have done it without you.

Contents About the Author...... 8 Preface...... 9 Introduction ...... 9 Acknowledgements...... 9 Chapter 1 VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE ...... 10 Avidemux ...... 10 Installation ...... 10 User Interface...... 17 Main Window – QT Version ...... 17 Main Toolbar ...... 17 Navigation Bar ...... 19 Audio/ Video Side Bar ...... 20 Avidemux Menu ...... 20 System Menu (Windows platform)...... 21 System Menu ...... 21 Avidemux Auto Menus ...... 21 Recent Menu ...... 25 Zoom Menu...... 27 Go Menu ...... 29 Help Menu ...... 30 Chapter 2 Quickstart ...... 35 Multimedia files Characteristics Basic Terms...... 35 Container Format...... 35 Video format ...... 36 Encoder...... 36 Video Output encoders ...... 37 Audio Output encoders ...... 37 Decoder ...... 38 Avidemux supports Input file formats ...... 38 Avidemux supported output file formats ...... 39 Inbuilt video decoders in AVIDEMUX...... 41

Audio encoders...... 42 Inbuilt audio decoders in AVIDEMUX...... 43 Multi-audio files or Multi soundtracks...... 43 AVI ...... 44 MPEG files ...... 46 Opening Files ...... 46 Cutting Video Files ...... 48 Audio/video sync...... 48 Markers ...... 50 Saving a video section ...... 53 Cutting a video section ...... 54 Advanced cutting ...... 55 Auto-split ...... 55 External audio source...... 56 Intra frames and Smart Copy ...... 57 Copy/paste ...... 60 Encoding ...... 60 The copy mode ...... 61 Encoding mode ...... 62 Screenshot an individual frame as jpg or bmp...... 62 Chapter 3 Filtering ...... 64 Video filters ...... 64 Meta filters...... 66 Chapter 4 - Transform a video ...... 67 Add Borders to a video ...... 67 Add a Logo to a video file ...... 76 Transparency for the logo...... 79 Add Blacken Boarders around the video file ...... 81 Speeds up or Slow down a video (Used for Converting between Pal and NTSC formats) ...... 85 How to Crop Videos ...... 92 How can we fade a video “In” and “Out.” ...... 98 How to Remove colour from a video (the Gray Scale Filter) ...... 104 How to Mirror a video - Horizontal flip or the Mirror Filter ...... 110 How to Synchronize a video (Converting between Pal and NTSC formats) ...... 115

How to Rotate a video...... 120 How to Change the Aspect Ratio of a Video - SWS Resize ...... 124 1) Lanzcos3 ...... 126 2) Bilinear ...... 126 3) Bi-cubic ...... 127 How to vertically flip a video (Change the video upside and down) - Vertical Flip ...... 131 Chapter 5 - De-Interlacing a video with the Meta group filters...... 136 Decomb Decimate method ...... 137 Choosing the Decomb Decimate Modes: ...... 140 Dgbob Method ...... 145 Donald Graft Bob Filter ...... 145 Horizontal Stack Fields methodology...... 153 Kernel Deint Method...... 157 The Kernel Deint configuration filter elements...... 159 Libavdec Deinterlacers ...... 165 Merge Fields filter...... 171 Separate Fields method...... 175 Stack Fields method ...... 179 Un-stack Fields method ...... 183 Yadif method ...... 187 Configuration ...... 189 • Mode: ...... 189 • The "Order" option: ...... 190 Chapter 6 - How to edit and change the Colours of a Video ...... 193 How to Utilize the YUV management method to change the colour of a video - Avisynth colour filter...... 193 How to fix the Chroma Shift of a video or as some call "colour Ghosting...... 198 How to Adjust the Contrast, Brightness and colours of a Video ...... 204 How to Remove the Colour of a video using a Grey Scale filter ...... 208 Adjust the Contrast, Brightness, saturation and gamma of a video using the Mplayer eq2 filter..212 How to Adjust just the Saturation of a video using the Mplayer Hue filter ...... 216 How to Remove Y, U or V plane with the Remove Plane filter ...... 221 How to Swap the U and V by using the Swap UV filters ...... 226 Chapter 7 - Removing the Noise and making the video image smoother ...... 230

How to Smooth and cut the noise of a video using the Flux Smooth filter...... 230 Using the Gaussian convolution filter to blur a litter bit the video file quality image...... 235 Large Median (5x5) filter ...... 238 Median convolution filter ...... 242 How to reduce the image of a video making it almost still using the Mplayer De-noise 3 D filter.245 Mplayer De-noise 3D HQ filter ...... 248 Chapter 8 - Sharpness a quality video image and removing a logo from a video image...... 252 How to sharpen a video by using “Asharp” filter ...... 252 How to Remove a Logo from a TV station in a video by using the Mplayer delogo...... 256 How to sharpen the edge of the video image by using the Msharpen filter...... 260 Sharpen convolution filter ...... 263 Chapter 9 - How to Add Subtitles to a video ...... 267 How to add Subtitles by using the SSA subtitle filter...... 267 Subtitles filters for Avidemux version 2.5.6...... 270 Adding subtitles to a video by using Vobsub filter ...... 271 Using DVB sub filter for subtitles...... 274 Subtitles (SRT) ...... 277 OpenGL ...... 281 Miscellaneous...... 282 Chapter 10 - Audio Filters...... 283 Copy mode ...... 283 Process mode ...... 283 Changing Frame Rate of a video - PAL to Film and Film to PAL ...... 284 Chapter 11 - Removing, converting or extracting Audio from a Video ...... 287 Extracting and saving the audio from a video file ...... 287 Delete audio from a video file...... 288 Extracting and converting the audio from FLV and mp4 video to MP3 audio file ...... 290 Chapter 12 - Convert DVD video to AVI ...... 292 Video Size and Aspect ratio before conversion...... 294 Chapter 13 - Convert AVI video to DVD ...... 296 Preparation before we convert it ...... 297 Chapter 14 - How to join several Video files into one video file...... 301 Appendix...... 306 Shortcuts in AVIDEMUX...... 306

Index ...... 308

About the Author

Kayo de Bellis is an IT System Administrator at a Training and Development Company based in the United Kingdom. He has more than 20 years of experience designing, deploying and administering IT infrastructure in a wide range of organizations around the World and São Paulo, New York, London, and Paris.

Kayo has been involved in giving IT support and consulting to Trading Companies, Financial Institutions and institutions linked to the stock market. With a degree in Business Administration and Foreign Trade and a BTEC in Computer Science, fluent in English, Portuguese and French he has developed an IT view in a multi-National environment. He also has been involved in various extracurricular activities such as writing documentation for IT training courses and Guides in IT and other fields like Popular Science.

Kayo also has a Military formation background where he also developed some IT skills and a passion for Cryptography and electrical engineering.

Kayo is very passionate about his community. He’s been contributing to some charity institutions and the Red Cross to give support for homeless in Brazil and United Kingdom distributing food and resources to these communities on the street.

He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Preface

Introduction

This book is intended for anyone who is interested in using an easy open source video editing software in a Windows environment and does not have any previous knowledge in video editing and media.

Presented in a simple visual layout “How to use Avidemux” is a book where the reader will be guided through practical video editing samples making something that could be a complex and a pain process just a matter of “following the steps”.

Instead of making a very technical and theoretical video editing work the book was divided according to the AVIDEMUX interface layout we can find when we use the software in a Windows system environment.

If the user follows the Avidemux menus and options, the user will be following the book contents.

This makes this book a quick and easy guide for those who wants to understand and work with a free open source media software without having to spend a lot of money and resources to achieve very good and advance results in video editing.

I hope you enjoy this piece of work and that it helps anyone who wants to develop skills towards video editing.

Acknowledgements

There are no coincidences. Even something as simple as a small book, a writing work that was not considered important enough to be created, takes a great amount of effort to bring it forward to reality. A great proportion of this effort comes from people who do not share in the opportunity to have their names on the cover. The author owes a great debt of gratitude to these people, and without their contribution this work would not be possible to be concluded.

Add a Logo to a video file

This filter puts a log on top of the video, with alpha blending.

To do this, we need first to add the Filter in the Filter options.

First, we click on the video and filters in the main menu.

Figure 4.11 – Add a Logo to a Video

Then we choose the filter Meta filter group in order to add the new filter.

Figure 4.12 – Add a Logo to a Video

Now we click on the button to configure the filter and add it to the video.

We have then a Logo Setup window opened where we can set up the logo position on the video.

Figure 4.13 – Add a Logo to a Video

The logo file format can be only a JPG file. And the X and Y position will determine where the logo will be located on the video file.

Warning:

If we use another image file format instead of JPG, we will have a scrambled error image in the file.

Transparency for the logo

The Logo does not support alpha transparency. The Alpha value is an overall transparency control where 255 is fully opaque, 0 is completely invisible, and the values in between cause the bitmap to be partially transparent. The blending uses linear interpolation.

We then choose the location where the logo will be displayed on the video file.

Figure 4.14 – Add a Logo to a Video

Note that as much we decrease the value from 255 to 0 in the “Alpha” option in the logo window we increase the transparency of the logo.

Figure 4.15 – Add a Logo to a Video Warning:

We need to be careful with the size of the JPG image file because if it is too big, it will fill up most of the video file displayed area.

Appendix

Shortcuts in AVIDEMUX

Unfortunately, AVIDEMUX does not have the option where we can customize shortcuts.

We have preset shortcuts in the software as we can see bellow:

Ctrl + O = Open

Ctrl + S = Save

Ctrl + U = Queue

Ctrl + M = Save image as BMP

Ctrl + E = Save image as JPGE

Ctrl + W = Close

Ctrl + Q = Quit

Ctrl + Z = Undo

Ctrl + X = Cut

Ctrl + V= Paste

Ctrl + C = Copy

Del = Delete

Ctrl + Alt + F = Filters

Ctrl + T = Go to time

Play / Stop = Space

Previous Frame = Left

Next Frame = Right

Previous Intra-frame = down

Next Intra-frame = Up

First Frame = Home

Last Frame = end

Go to Marker A = PgUp

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Go to Marker B = PgDown

External links

Tools - scripting shell

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Index appendix 305 artifacts 126, 127, 141, 157, 162, 187, 235, 238 audio 3, 4, 6, 10, 18, 19, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 54, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 64, 282, 283, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 292 auto-split 55 avi 6, 10, 35, 36, 42, 43, 44, 55, 59, 60, 291, 292, 293, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299 blur 235, 236, 237, 238 boarder 81, 82, 83, 84 brightness 204, 205, 206, 207, 212, 213, 214, 215 calculator 18 chroma 141, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 226, 235, 238, 239 clip 147, 159, 162, 163, 165 codec 35, 36, 38, 42, 62, 226, 282, 289, 292, 298 codecs 10, 42, 59, 304 colour 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 208, 209, 210, 211, 273, 279 colours 66, 193, 204, 205, 206, 207, 210 compatible 21, 295 compressed 10, 35, 36, 289 compression 60, 62, 245, 248 configuration 18, 122, 126, 139, 147, 149, 151, 155, 159, 163, 168, 173, 177, 181, 185, 189, 190, 195, 209, 214, 215, 220, 225, 227, 254, 279 configure 21, 69, 78, 83, 87, 94, 100, 106, 112, 117, 122, 126, 127, 128, 133, 139, 147, 155, 158, 168, 188, 194, 201, 205, 213, 217, 222, 232, 236, 241, 244, 247, 250, 253, 257, 260, 264, 268, 271, 275, 278 conversion 62, 292, 293, 294, 297 convert 10, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299 converted 189, 292 copy

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38, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64, 66, 282, 289, 291, 292, 305 create 13, 42, 55, 62, 165, 170, 173, 174, 177, 178, 181, 182, 185, 186, 191, 197, 203, 207, 211, 215, 220, 225, 266, 269, 282, 291, 292, 295 crooked 120 crop 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 cut 56, 59, 61, 95, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 305 decoder 38 decoders 32, 38, 41, 43 deinterlacers 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170 delete 54, 286, 287, 288, 305 delogo 251, 255, 256, 257, 258 display 18, 29, 273, 281 download 10, 266, 269 dvd 24, 46, 187, 230, 270, 273, 282, 291, 292, 293, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299 edit 48, 54, 55, 56, 66, 193 editing 9, 10, 35, 56, 136 encoding 18, 35, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 189, 230 enlarging 126, 127 extract 66, 270, 286 fade 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103 fades 98 files 25, 35, 38, 39, 40, 43, 46, 48, 61, 62, 193, 266, 270, 291, 292, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304 flips 110 format 10, 18, 21, 22, 35, 36, 42, 44, 46, 59, 60, 61, 62, 66, 78, 266, 270, 276, 282, 289, 290, 291, 293, 298, 299, 304 frame 19, 29, 52, 53, 59, 60, 62, 63, 66, 87, 89, 90, 118, 136, 141, 145, 147, 159, 171, 175, 187, 230, 281, 283, 284, 285, 296, 305 frames

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29, 53, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 73, 115, 117, 122, 136, 137, 141, 147, 150, 187, 189, 230, 266 gamma 193, 212, 213, 214, 215 green 95 grey 104, 106, 108, 109, 196, 208, 209, 210, 211 high-resolution 251 horizontal 110, 112, 153, 154, 155, 156, 163 install 10, 14, 38, 269 installation 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 invert 134, 137 jpg 62, 63, 78, 80 key-frames 62 keyframes 59 logo 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 251, 255, 256, 257, 258 making 9, 59, 230, 245, 246, 247, 248 marker 51, 52, 53, 59, 305, 306 mask 95, 258 methods 124, 126, 136, 139, 147, 149, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 190, 191, 192 mirror 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 182 mode 18, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 66, 139, 147, 149, 150, 151, 157, 189, 190, 282, 292 modes 61, 137, 140, 189, 190 motion 151, 157, 159, 189, 230 multi-audio 43 noise 66, 81, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 238, 239, 245, 248, 252, 259 ntsc 63, 85, 115, 296, 297 old-versions 269 opening 46, 47, 65

310 overwrite 74 pixel 230, 235, 262 play 29, 89, 266, 305 playback 18, 19, 187, 189 player 42, 266, 270 quick 9, 13, 22 ratio 23, 36, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 174, 293, 294, 297 remove 54, 66, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 141, 208, 209, 210, 211, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 230, 235, 242, 251, 255, 256, 257, 258 removes 81, 137, 208, 210, 221, 255 removing 230, 251, 286 resize 124, 126, 127, 128, 130, 293, 297, 302 rotate 120, 121, 122, 123 rotates 120 saturation 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220 scale 104, 106, 108, 208, 209, 210, 211, 268 screenshot 62 sharpening 159, 230, 252 sharper 66, 127, 251 sharpness 235, 251 size 18, 21, 36, 55, 62, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 94, 95, 97, 126, 189, 273, 293, 294, 302, 303 slow 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 151 slower 62 small 9, 292 smaller 62 smoother 230

311 smoothing 230, 235, 245, 248 snapshot 63 sound 42, 60, 151, 282, 292, 298 sounds 283 soundtracks 43, 286 space 59, 305 speed 62, 87, 88, 117, 122, 230 speeds 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91 split 175 splits 147 subtitle 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 273, 276, 277, 279 subtitler 266, 269, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280 subtitles 66, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276 subtitling 273 sync 48, 54, 56 synchronisation 282, 283 synchronization 115 synchronize 56, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119 text 276 timing 56, 102 toolbar 17, 20, 46 toolbars 27 transform 66, 67, 293 transmission 273 transparency 79 updates

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15 users 10, 31, 187 version 15, 16, 34, 151, 187, 230, 248, 251, 266, 269 versions 10, 266, 269 vob whole 117, 219, 270, 291, 292 workaround 56 wrong 130, 190 XviD 38, 226 youtube 10 zoom 27, 28

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