(There may be another compression setting that will keep you from having to do the final step, but I don’t know what it is)

Then I was free to open and edit in photochop Closed and reopened virtualdub (to reset encoding and compression settings), opened the product from avidemux in virtualdub and resaved the whole thing under a new name (cant use the same name because you’re currently editing that file). The saved product wouldn’t open in photoshop. At this point though, my knowledge of video encoding lacks. Said “no” to the message asking if I want to enable “smart copy”. Clicked file>save>save video and named it with the avi extension. *make sure to delete any keyframes that are there except for the very first one*ġ1. Clicked the “A” button to set beginning of selection of the keyframe, then hit the → key on the keyboard to advance to the end of the frame, then clicked the “B” button to set ending of selection of the keyframe. Clicked the > button to get to the second keyframe (marked with an “I” under “frame type”.ġ0. Clicked file>append and the second exported vid clip.ĩ. Opened avidemux and clicked file>open and the first exported vid clip.Ĩ. Exported the vid clip, then chose another clip from the same movie and exported it.ħ. Clicked “configure” and set: “encoder” to mpeg-4, 'fourcc' to divx, and “mode” to two passes - 1st pass.Ħ. Checked “Force Keyframes Every” and typed a high number in the box (like 9999999).ĥ. (If you don’t have ffdshow you should get it).Ĥ.

Selected ffdshow video codec from the selections on the left. Went to “compression” settings under the “video” tab. Downloaded avidemux (you need virtualdub too if you don’t already have it)ģ.

I checked the youtube tutorials for mac users and used trial and error to apply the steps to virtualdub and eventually figured it out. I searched fairly thoroughly for a datamoshing (that weird distortion effect that you see on some gifs and videos where things pixellate and blend together) tutorial that concerns virtualdub/pc and could not find one.

Avidemux datamosh mac