Installation & Configuration

Tsunami MPEG Encoder and VirtualDub are very easy to install, in fact all you have to do is to download the archives from their sites and extract the contents in two folders on your drive.
It's recommended to create a dedicated folder for you tools, for example create a folder called Projects on your C:\ drive.

If you plan to use subtitles in your videos, you will need to download VobSub and install it. During the setup sequence, make sure that the "VobSub For VirtualDub" and "TextSub for VirtualDub and AviSynth":

A few steps further in the setup sequence you will be asked to specify where VirtualDub is located, browse and select VirtualDub's folder, than click Next and the installation will be complete:

The last thing we have to do is to install VirtualDub's frame server.
The frame server is a driver that tricks applications into believing that a special file created by VirtualDub is a video file. This way, we can instruct VirtualDub to resize, crop, add subtitles and various other effects on the video and send the result directly to Tsunami MPEG Encoder, without the need of saving a new copy of the movie on the drive.

The frame server can be installed by double clicking on the application called AuxSetup, located in the VirtualDub folder. Click on the "Install handler" button and the driver will be installed:

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