Video Tools

Slide Show Movie Maker can create an .avi vide slideshow from a series of .bmp or .jpg images. Images can have professional-looking fade-in and fade-out effects, plus attractive text overlays. The program lets you choose to save output using any one of your systems installed .avi codecs. You can choose to build your slideshow from selected pictures or entire directories. If you select any of the included effects, they can be previewed, using the built in viewer before you apply any of them. The program also lets you save your work as projects, so you can continue working on them at a later time. Additional features include pa color fading pnorama scrolling and more.

AVIcodec is a very useful tool that helps you identify the codec used by video files. As you may know, most video files have a simple AVI, MPEG etc. extensions, however some of them may require additional codecs like DivX or VCD and others. When trying to run such a file, and you don't have the proper codec installed, you will get an error message, or may be limited to audio playback only. While AVIcodec does not provide you with the codecs, it makes it easy to identify the exact video type and the codecs required (if any). In addition, it provides links to online resources to find required codecs, and also displays a list of all codecs (with version) that are installed on your system.

GSpot is a tool that provides you with detailed information about the codec used audio and video files. It can tell you whether an AVI file uses DivX or XviD, and which version, what type of MPEG codec is used (DVD format or not) etc. and also display additional file information like frame rates, meta data and more.

CombiMovie is small and simple program which can combine two or more mpg/mpeg files into a single continuous mpg movie. It uses the copy method and therefore works very fast, almost as fast as copying the files it self. CombiMovie is easy to use, just select the files to be joined and start the joining process. It offers a built in preview window that allows you to preview the parts before joining (or after).

Free YouTube Uploader enables you to upload videos to your YouTube account without having to us the web interface. You can set the title, description, tags, and even cut portions of the video using the built-in editor. The program also optimizes your video for optimal size and quality.

Exsate DV Capture Live enables you to capture and convert DV video from your camcorder via a IEEE-1394 Firewire connection. While the program is capturing the video, it automatically converts it to AVI or WMV format in real-time and saves it to your hard drive. You can optionally imprint the DV time stamp into the captured video and choose to have it appear once a day, once an hour or with every scene. Furthermore, you can choose to capture to a single or multiple files, append to existing projects, and operate all playback functions of your DV camcorder. Exsate DV Capture Live does not offer any editing functionalities, but if you just want to capture and convert your tapes to digital format, this program offers all the functionality you`ll need.

Free Video to JPG Converter enables you to extract snapshots from your video files and save them as JPG files. You can choose to extract a series of snapshots every X seconds or frames or capture a single frame. The built-in video player allows you to pick a single frame or set a range from where the frames should be extracted.

Simple File Joiner is a simple tools to join multiple text files or MPEG movies into one. It can optionally insert a divider between the merged parts.

VCD Menu Lite allows you to produce simple but attractive menus as front-ends for your VCD / SVCD movie and slideshow presentations. You can customize the menu colors and add chapter thumbnails by importing them from video frames (avi or mpeg files) or images. The result can be exported as JPG image, that can be imported to your VCD authoring software. VCD Menu Lite only lets you design the menu, it cannot create VCDs, nor produce MPEG output. Since the program outputs the menu as standard JPG image, it could also be used for any other purpose (image maps etc.).

AviSplit enables you to split, rejoin and clip your .AVI video files, using a fast and lossless process that does not process any of the movie data. The output files are saved with an incrementing file name, so your original is not changed in any way. You can easily rejoin the split files, using the built-in options. In addition, you can clip your files and trim portions from the beginning or end of the movie. AviSplit can not process AVI video file written in Type-1 AVI and ODML AVI format - it will not work with video from a digital camcorder.

JPGVideo can create a video (AVI) file from a series of JPG files. These JPG files are usually from a web camera that has been set to take pictures every few seconds. However, any JPG files could be converted into a video file, the only restriction is that they d all have to be the same size.

Free Video Flip and Rotate is a simple video processing tool that enables you to flip and/or rotate a video clip. It offers 7 presets that allow you to rotate and flip the video 90 or 180 degrees. The resulting file is saved in AVI format.

Free Fast MPEG Cut is a simple tool, that allows you to delete an unwanted portion from an AVI (DivX, Xvid, MPEG 4), MPEG 1 and 2 video file without quality loss and re-encoding. Just set the start and end point while the movie is playing in the preview window and save the selection as a new video file (the original remains unchanged).

MovieSnapshot allows you to easily grab a frame from a video file and save it as JPEG image. Just drag and drop any movie file onto the MovieSnapshot interface, select the frame to grab and click the save button. The program supports all installed DirectShow video and audio codecs.

SubMagic enables you to convert, edit, synchronize and create movie subtitles. It analyzes the subtitle file for possible problems, allows you to fix errors, edit each line of the subtitle and synchronize them with the movie file. Other features include NTSC/PAL conversion, adjustable font types and more.

Xvid is a video codec that provides video compression that drastically reduces the size of video files, while retaining reasonable quality. This download includes the decder and encoder engine. Video files that have been compressed with Xvid are usually distributed with an .AVI extension. Installing the Xvid codec will allow you to play these files in Windows Media Player or any other video players.