AVD Video Processor

AVD Video Processor is an easy to learn and use tool for capturing snapshots from video files and creating professional-looking GIF animations. So, whether you crave for a photo of your favorite actor or want to brighten your website or multimedia project with animated GIF files or banners, AVD Video Processor is the way to go.

AVD Video Processor is designed to work with almost all popular video and graphic formats available now, including AVI, MPEG, MPG, DivX, WMV, ASF, MOV as well as FAX, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PCX, PDF, PS, WBMP, DIB, RLE, TGA, PBM, PGM and PPM, PDF, PostScript (PS, EPS), Adobe Photoshop PSD. This allows you to process video without the need to convert it into a suitable format in external applications.
The program features the VCR-like video navigation controls to let you quickly review a video file in the direct or reverse direction, jump to any frame needed, take a snapshot and save an output file to the hard drive. For creating animated GIF files, there¡¯s nothing better that the built-in editor. It offers you many stylistic options to create animations. You can customize a large variety of settings for your animation, including screen size, background color, delay time, offset and more.

For all its technical sophistication, AVD Video Processoris extremely easy in use and requires minimum time to learn. An animation can be created in three simple steps. Firstly, you should open an AVI file in AVD Video Processorand capture the required frames or a series of frames. Secondly, you go to the GIF manager and load the captured frames into it. Finally, you specify the required GIF settings such as size, delay, and click on the Save GIF button. Your GIF animation is ready.

AVD Video Processor can capture video from webcam, TV Tuner card, digital video, digital camera and other capture devices. It can set video compression codec and frame rate.

AVD Video Processor is an affordable video security surveillance solution for windows computers. It keeps a watchful eye on your office, house, or shop - truly, any place you want to monitor. It captures and saves every triggered event, even while you are away. AVD Video Processor  turns your PC into an easy to use video surveillance system. Grab a video frames from your web cam or capture card, and create a digital photo archive on disk. The timer interval between captured frames can be set from 1 to a 600 seconds. The captured video frames are saved to disk as jpeg files to reduce hard disk use. With the built-in picture editor you can directly view, print, or edit the pictures. All pictures are shown with a date-time stamp. The adjustable motion detection system allows you to capture only interesting moving events. The easy and user friendly interface gets you going with just a few clicks.

Capture

AVD Video Processor allows you to quickly and easily capture frames from video and turn them into treasured photographs. You may capture any videos that can be played by Microsoft¡¯s Media Player or other DirectShow based players. With a properly installed codec, AVD Video Processor can capture AVI, MPG, MPEG, MPE and DivX.

VCR style buttons allow you to move one or more frame at a time, forward or backward. Also, you may jump to the specified frame.
AVD Video Processor allows you to use the batch capture: automatically capture a series of frames.
Auto-save: one-click capture, enhance and save a frame to a sequentially named image file.

• Supported the output image file formats:
  FAX, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PCX, PDF, PS, WBMP, DIB, RLE, TGA, PBM, PGM and PPM, Adobe PDF format (PDF), PostScript (PS, EPS), Wireless Bitmap (WBMP), Adobe Photoshop PSD.

• Supported color depths: 
  1 Bit (black/white), 
  4 Bit (16 colors/graylevels), 
  8 Bit (256  colors/graylevels) and 
  24 Bit (16,7 mil. colors), transparency.

You can process the captured frames and execute effects:

• Cropping
• Resample, scale to a specific size
• Rotate through any angle
• Horizontal and vertical mirror
• Automatic histogram equalization
• Colors inverting
• RGB Red Green Blue
• HSV Hue Saturation Value
• HSL Hue Saturation Luminosity

You can apply processing to the current image or to all images at once. 

With AVD Video Processor you can create animated GIF images, animated buttons and banners for your Web site's design and promotion.
Here are some key features:

• create animated GIF from the captured AVI frames;
• create animated GIF from sequence of BMP, JPEG, TIF, GIF, PNG, ICO, PCX, CUR, PSD and Windows Metafiles;
• import frames from other GIF;
• add more images to a gif;
• resizing animated gifs (stretch);
• tuning GIF-files global parameters: screen size, background color, delay;
• defines offset for each individual image;
• forward and backward order;
• transition effects for images;
• imports image from clipboard;
• duplicate frame;
• reordering frames;
• save images of GIF-file as a sequence of BMP, JPG, GIF, TIF, PCX, PNG, TGA, WBMP, PS, PSD and PDF files;
• export AVI file.