Avidemux - Is this an alternative to Adobe Premier?

Avidemux is video editing software available under a GNU GPL license. From the website, it is

... a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

It is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license. The program was written from scratch by Mean, but code from other people and projects has been used as well.

So what can this do?

Well, part form being able to cut and handle video (as you might expect from a video editing tool) it can apply various filters (such as twenty ways to deinterlace a video ) and adding filters to affect colour, supress video noise, and add subtitles.

It also has a very good wiki which contains a lot of information about how to use the tool and what it does.

Here is the main page for Avidemux

And here is the link to download it

So is it any good?

Well of the tools reviewed so far this is, easily, the most complete and stable: It isn't in beta release. It is out in the websphere, and it can perform lots of things that the other tools on this site can't. It also output's to quite a few different formats such as DVD, MPEG4 and HuffYUV

However, (and there's always a 'however'!)it is limited in its functionality (doesn't support multiple audio tracks, for example) and is much less functional than a big package such as Adobe Premier.

Having said that, if you want to try it and you can get good output with it then I would heartily recommend it!

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