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====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">An integral and important part of the design of the program is its project system, which uses the [|SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine]. Whole projects with all options, configurations, selections, and preferences can be saved into a project file. Like [|VirtualDub]'s VCF scripting capabilities, Avidemux has advanced scripting available for it both in its [|GUI] and command line modes. It also supports a non-project system just like VirtualDub, where you can simply create all your configurations and save the video directly without making a project file. A project queue system is also available. ==== ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Avidemux has built-in subtitle processing, both for [|Optical Character Recognition] (OCR) to soft subtitle formats (VobSub [|sub], [|ass] and [|srt]) and various hard subtitle [|VobSub] capabilities. While it is primarily a [|GUI] program, Avidemux can also be run from and through the [|command line] (which can also be used for batch processing and debugging). It is a completely standalone program that does not require any other programs to read, decode, or encode other than itself. ====
 *  **Video Editing Software**   ||   **Strengths**   ||   **Weaknesses**   ||
 *  **Avidemux** || ====Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasksIt supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs.Avidemux is capable of [|non-linear video editing], applying [|visual effects] (called “Filters” by Avidemux) to video, and [|transcoding] video into various formats. Some of the filters were [|ported] from [|MPlayer] and [|Avisynth]. Avidemux can also insert audio streams into a video file (an action known as [|multiplexing] or “muxing”) or extract audio streams from video files (an action known as “demuxing”).====

|| ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Does not produce output in Windows media and QuickTime. ==== ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">It cannot do everything that VirtualDub can. ==== || ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Blender's features include advanced simulation tools such as rigid, realistic body, fluid, cloth and softbody dynamics, modifier-based modeling tools, powerful character animation tools, a node-based material and compositing system and [|Python] for embedded scripting. ==== ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Blender has a relatively small installation size and runs on several popular computing platforms, including [|Linux], [|Mac OS X], and [|Microsoft Windows], along with [|FreeBSD], [|IRIX], [|NetBSD], [|OpenBSD] and [|Solaris]. ==== ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Blender has very low hardware requirements compared to other 3d suites. ==== ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Contact is made through e-mail ====
 * ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Blender ==== || ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Blender is a free [|3D graphics] application that can be used for [|modeling], [|UV] unwrapping, texturing, [|rigging], water and smoke simulations, [|skinning], [|animating], [|rendering], [|particle] and other [|simulations], [|non-linear editing], [|compositing], and creating interactive 3D applications, including video games, animated film, or visual effects. ====

|| ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Blender has had a reputation as being difficult to learn for users accustomed to other 3D graphics software. ==== ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">For advanced effects and high-poly models, a fast system is needed. ==== ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Most users learn Blender through community tutorials and discussion forums on the internet such as [|Blender Artists] (previously known as elYsiun); however, another learning method is to download and inspect ready-made Blender models. ==== ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Numerous other sites, for example [|BlenderArt Magazine]—a free, downloadable magazine with each issue handling a particular area in 3D development—and [|BlenderNation], provide information on everything surrounding Blender, showcase new techniques and features, and provide tutorials and other guides. ====

|| ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Capture features include capture to any AVI variant, audio VU meters, overlay and preview modes, histogram, selectable crop area, video noise reduction, auto stop settings (based on capture time, file size, free space, and/or dropped frames), and designate alternate drive(s) for capture overflow. VirtualDub can also help overcome a common problem with digital cameras that also record video. Many models, especially Canon, record in an [|M-JPEG] format that is virtually incompatible with some [|NLE] programs, such as Vegas 6.0 and 7.0; simply saving such an AVI file as an "old-style AVI" in File allows the video to appear in Vegas. ==== ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">VirtualDub supports DV capture from Type 2 (VfW) [|FireWire] controllers only (capture will not work with Type 1). There is no DV batch capture, still image capture, or DV device control capability. ==== ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">VirtualDub can also be used to create a video file from a series of [|bitmaps] or [|targas]. This requires that individual frames are given file names numbered in sequential order without any gaps (e.g. 001.bmp, 002.bmp, 003.bmp...). From those, the frame rate can be adjusted, and other modifications such as the addition of a [|sound track] can be made. ==== ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">VirtualDub can be used to delete segments of a video file, append new segments, or reorder existing segments. ==== ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Contact is made through e-mail ====
 * ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Virtual Dub ==== || ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">VirtualDub has digital and analog capture capabilities. It supports both [|DirectShow] & [|Video for Windows] capture. ====

|| ====<span style="borderbottom: medium none; borderbottomstyle: none; borderbottomwidth: medium; bordercollapse: collapse; borderleft: medium none; borderleftstyle: none; borderleftwidth: medium; borderright: medium none; borderrightstyle: none; borderrightwidth: medium; borderstyle: none; bordertop: medium none; bordertopstyle: none; bordertopwidth: medium; borderwidth: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: auto 6.75pt; marginbottom: auto; marginleft: 6.75pt; marginright: 6.75pt; margintop: auto;">Segments of different files cannot be mixed, and no transition effects can be applied. ==== ||