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Avidemux offers a free solution for video editing and encoding, less confusing than other similar softwares for a newbie.
Avidemux is a free open source video editor that is available on multiple platforms.
It allows the cutting of video sequences, applying filters and encoding. Avidemux supports many formats, including AVI, MPEG-2, MP4, MKV or ASF using many codecs ( H263 , MPEG4 , XviD or x264 for video, Blade, FAAC , Vorbis , WAV, including AC3 for audio ), the creation of projects including several encoding tasks , or adding many filters ( deinterlacing , cropping , subtitles ... ) with management scripts.
Tasks can be automated thanks to projects in the queue and the ability to create scripts.
Everything is easily accessible: the choice of audio and video codecs, adding filters or preview the video and setting benchmarks for start and end .
* Switched to mxe-octave for win32 build, that fixes most of the crashes on win32
* Better compatibility with AAC in mpeg TS
* Translations re-enabled
* Fixed a bug in x264 which could make encoding abort right at the beginning
* Fixed msharpen when width was not a multiple of 8
* Added camtasia codec support
* Fixed VC1 in TS indexing
* Properly clear things when loading a new video
* Report proper audio duration for mpeg PS/TS
* Report proper audio duration for mpeg PS/TS
* Ass/ssa filter re-enabled