sábado, 2 de agosto de 2014

Video edition: VirtualDub

Hi!

As I told you days ago in my post about subtitling, I’m going to explain you how to edit videos with the program VirtualDub. Specially, I’ll show you how to use the program to cut a fragment of a video. First of all, you can download the program here, and if you use Linux as I do, don’t forget to install Wine, because VirtualDub is a Windows program. And to use it, you will need too the video and audio codecs, that you can install here.



Once you have installed everything, you will open the video you want to edit, in AVI format, clicking on “file” and “open video file”. It will appear two windows with an image of the video, and below there is a grey bar, which is the duration of the video, and the buttons that we will use to select the scene we want to cut. The scene that I have chosen is the first minutes of the spanish film 8 apellidos vascos. I take advantage of this video to show you their peculiarity: the scene is recorded with an audio-description for blind people, that mean that between the dialogs and the breaks, a narrator describes the scene. That way, the blind people can imagine where the scene is and which the context is.



With the buttons below, in the following picture are marked in red and blue, you will select the beginning and the end of the chosen scene. With the square over the grey bar you can move the video quickly, and with the buttons below you will move frame by frame. Once you have selected the fragment, marked in blue over the grey bar, you must save the file in “file” and “save as AVI”. The program will start to cut the video. Finished the process, the edited video will be saved in the folder you have selected before.





And here I show you the result of the video edition:




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