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Avidemux

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. Created by Mean

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Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting.

Avidemux is listed in

Linux Apps, Windows Apps, Open-Source Everything, Multimedia & Composition, and Daily Life

Links to official Avidemux sites

Official Website GitHub

Features

Sync Audio & Video Blur Filter Chroma Key / Green Screen Embed subtitles into video Frame by frame Photo effects Portable Text on videos Unlimited music Visual Editing Zoom integration Add a feature

Categories

Photos & Graphics Video & Movies

Tags

add-black-borders audio-video-sync avi blur-filter chroma-key cut-video embed-subtitles-into-video flip-video frame-by-frame merge-video-with-audio photo-effects portable text-on-videos unlimited-music video-editing video-encoding visual-editing zoom-integration

Avidemux was added by Ola in Mar 2009 and the latest update was made in Jul 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2018 There is a history of all activites on Avidemux in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Avidemux or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Bitrate/size calculator

Video filter manager

Color equalizer

Main window (v2.7 os:windows)

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- HandBrake doesn't have video editing functionality 7547394 • Oct 2015 • 49 agrees and 4 disagrees
- HandBrake doesn't have video editing functionality Guest • Jan 2017 • 33 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Handbrake is a video transcoder for converting from one video format to another whereas Avidemux is primarily an editor. Transcoding is only a small part of Avidemux's job pnlrogue1 • Sep 2017 • 13 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Transcoder, not editor. Avidemux is primarily an editor. Guest • Jan 2018 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Made the better compressing without changing the backgroundcolor in the video. Maybe i made some wrong adjustments in avidemux. But this tool was simple doing the perfekt job without much modifications. ;) I used OpenSuse Leap 42.1 Guest • Sep 2016 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees
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Avidemux Comments

Comment by rigorous

about Avidemux · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

Version 2.5.1 restores the filters feature set including the much lauded delogo.

must have

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Comment by Zunami

about Avidemux · Aug 2018 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

very simple good tool

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Comment by brandonc

about Avidemux · Jun 2017 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

parsed my large video file and allowed me to straight forwardly cut a clip from it and export almost instantly into a different file format

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Comment by michaelangelo1980

about Avidemux · Jun 2017 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

As I really love music on my piano lesson then this is cool and interesting.

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Comment by koiyu

about Avidemux · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Fugly & buggy — but still the easiest, lightest and yet versatile video editor with GUI.

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Comment by JonM33

about Avidemux · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Note that no program supports WMV because that is Microsoft proprietary. You can only use Windows Media Encoder with that.

Other than pointing that out, this program is great for editing the files that it is listed to support. If you can't read that list and don't understand, then perhaps you should move on to a different program. It is multi-platform as well. I use it on Windows 7 and Linux Mint without a problem.

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Problems with Avidemux

Comment by egadgetguy

about Avidemux · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

The problems I have with Avidemux are:

it doesn't support WMV or VC1
it won't import my DVD files. [I have a DVD-R that I recorded so it's not locked or anything.]
there's no real timeline editor thaT I can see which means that overlays and voiceovers are out...?

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