If a selection is active during a save, the software crops the video accordingly. Patchworkīuttons at the bottom right, you can set beginning and end markers for what should be a contiguous block. Jump to the beginning and end, respectively, of the loaded clip. Under the time slider are some more buttons that search for the next dark frame, often found at the beginning and end of commercial breaks. Pressing the spacebar starts and stops playback. To navigate one frame at a time, you can click the left or right arrow, and to go one keyframe at a time, click the up or down arrow – provided the time slider has focus in the Avidemux window. This tool helps you find scenes in longer videos. With it, you can fast-forward or rewind at various speeds depending on how far you press the jog wheel by moving the mouse to the right or left. To the right of the slider, the program provides a jog wheel (Figure 1) – similar to the device on many professional editing tables and video recorders. Manually entering a value in this field moves you to the appropriate spot. However, the program shows the current position with an additional time field in the format hours:minutes:seconds:hundredths of seconds

Navigating through a video is done via a simple slider in the lower third of the window instead of with a timeline with units. Picking up Avidemux for the first time is easier than learning the much more complex applications with a nonlinear design. If you're familiar with the old Windows program VirtualDub, you'll immediately feel at home with the Linux program that's been active since 2002 on SourceForge. Figure 1: The cutting functions and number of effects in the linear Avidemux editor are meager compared with those of nonlinear multitrack editors yet, the program can handle many file formats and codecs and converts easily and quickly.Īvidemux also recognizes more video formats and codecs than most other specialized editors.

Avidemux editing software