Cut and Crop unwanted Movie Scenes with VirtualDub

If you have ever wanted to cut, crop and trim different parts of movie scene from favorite cartoon or documentary and you had no view how to do it, that is a must to read. Cutting parts of movie scene is actually not that difficult as it may seem for these days we have committed programs,designed to edit video and audio files such as cutting, cropping, converting and adding special video effects. With a few mouse clicks, video can be fully cut apart according to your preferences. And the best part is, there are handful of video editing programs completely cost free.

In essence these programs work much the same way and use similar principles to handle video files. However they differ when it comes to supporting different video formats and additional features.
One of the best free video editing programs these days is undisputably VirtualDub, closely followed by similarly forceful and user-friendly Avidemux. With these two you do need anything else when it comes to modifiying movies.
VirtualDub can handle most of the popular video formats such as avi, divx and mpg but not Matroska which Avidemux handles without problems. However VirtualDub sports user-friendly and

simple interface with menu bar we know from Windows XP.

Editing video file is a simple process of opening video inside VirtualDub like in any media player. Beneath a ruler appears with a movable slider. Cutting a scene from opened video is as simple as moving slider to prefered part and marking it as point A and than choosing another point B. Space amoung the two points is than highlighted and is prepared to be cut, pasted, deleted or moved to another spot.

However the process sounds simple, underneath is a lot of complicated video editing going on and every now and than you may get a warning about slight inconsistencies such as inapropriately aligned sound with video etc. Therefore I advise everyone to use “full processing mode” to avoid such issues.

You may plus try other video editing applications in case VirtualDub and Avidemux does not work for you well. Some of these are Vivia, Kate’s Video Cutter, VidSplitter, AviSplit Classic, and Free Fast Mpeg Cut. All these are freeware as well.

Requirements: Microsoft Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, (Windows 7 unofficially)