Avidemux
Summary
Avidemux is a free, fast, and easy-to-use video editing software that will make your videos much more creative. It is an open-source product with many video editing features that allow you to cut and transform your videos with filters and effects quickly Avidemux also guarantees video processing in many formats that are used on YouTube, among the main ones, there are Avi, Mpeg, Mp4, MKV, and Flv.
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Pros
- Free
- Very useful coding options
- A good solution for simple and quick changes
Cons
Interface not very intuitive
There’s no shortage of open-source video editing software available to download online. Some of them are very similar to those paid programs that have become favorites of most people, but this is not the case of Avidemux.
Avidemux is not like anything else. It’s not a full video edition program, but rather a basic video manipulation software. The developers make it clear everywhere: don’t expect to find a timeline or specialized tool panels. This is for cut, merge video, and change the formats.
Let me explain a little better the most useful features de Avidemux, so you can decide whether it is what you need or not.
Manage big groups of videos
Avidemux does few functions but is prepared to do them in bulk.
Just as most video editing programs have a queue function, Avidemux has a “Joblist”. This feature is extremely useful for taking advantage of rendering. You can edit one video after another and add them to the Joblist, and then, at bedtime, send them all to be rendered together. You can also save the job list so you can render the pending videos at any other time.
If you have a bit of patience, you can learn to create Project Files or Custom Scripts, which are configuration files with which you can save your video encoder selections, filters, output formats and other editing characteristics that you chose for a video so that you can apply them exactly to large sets of files.
Other features
These are some other functions that Avidemux can perform:
- Add subtitles
- Color correction
- Compress the size of a video
- Append several files
- Fix the desync between audio and video
- Rotate the video
- Convert video format
It is extremely important to consider that this program does not have automatic capabilities, so each of these features must be commanded step by step from the interface, for which the user must have some intermediate knowledge about the coding of a video.
It will probably take you some time to learn how to perform the commands, but once you have learned, you will realize that the efficiency of this program for basic functions far exceeds that of many paid programs.
