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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: August 16, 2009
- Total Downloads: 225,361
- Downloads last week: 2,188
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 85 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Making simple crop edits to videos of all formats shouldn't be tricky business, but most tools out there either do way too much or are so belabored with ads that who knows what evil lurks within their code.
Open-source on the GNU license, Avidemux is a breath of fresh air. Cropping a video is as simple as selecting the section you want to remove and then hitting the Delete key. Re-encoding a video is equally painless: select the output format from the drop-down list, save the file, and you're good to go. When choosing where to start and stop a crop, there's both incremental and multisecond advance and rewind tools, There's also a not insubstantial list of video and audio codecs that files can be converted to. Video formats include multiple codecs for FLV, MPEG, AVI, VCD, H.263/4, and others, while audio formats include MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, and one or two more.
The program also includes advanced options, including generic decoder and post-processing tools, user-defined filters, GlyphSet adjustments, and more features. Avidemux should appeal to users of all abilities who are looking for a quick way to edit down video files.
Publisher's description
From Avidemux :Avidemux is a 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 capabilities. The program was written from scratch by Mean, but code from other people and projects has been used as well. Patches, translations and even bug reports are always welcome.
Version 2.5.1 has updated the FFmpeg libraries and more video encoders are now plugins.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.5.1 has updated the FFmpeg libraries and more video encoders are now plugins.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 85 votes
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Version: Avidemux 2.5.1
Pros: Simple to select options, handles most video formats
Cons: Did not readily convert files to the formats I wanted, limited options for editing video
Summary: This program did not convert my files to the format I wanted to save them in. I wanted to append some video files, and the file(s) were unusable once I saved them. I couldn't see how this program could be used to format video. The interface for vid... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avidemux 2.5.1
Pros: Loaded fast, looked like a good interface... BUT
Cons: Audio and Video are shown laughably out of synch, which makes clip-editting all but impossible.
Summary: I found it unusable to edit a series of MPG clips into one movie; the sound was often 2 seconds off of the video, so locating the beginning or end of a clip was impossible. Even when using it to play back an MPG, the sound was far out of synch, like... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avidemux 2.5.1
Pros: - it was FREE
- no viruses showed upCons: - looks dull...utterly useless in trying to decipher where and how to edit; sparse info leads to confusion; couldn't do any changes to my saved you tube videos
Summary: walk away fast from this one...it's a real loser!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avidemux 2.5.1
Pros: The virus people keep talking about didn't come up, that was nice.
Cons: useless for editing video, and that's kind'a what I wanted it to do.
Summary: What can I say; it's a video editor that is about as usefull as taking a roll of film out into the back yard, shooting it with a shotgun, and taping the peices together with ductape. All I wanted to do was take an ep of monk and cut it down to just... read more >>
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Version: Avidemux 2.5.1
Pros: Not Applicable.
Cons: Never used it, took too long and eventually my system crashed.
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