Hi Nance!

A type of cross-fade plugin (beside frame merger) do exist for Virtualdub, I just cant find the filter now but I know ive used it in the past.

"Wipe" or "Key" I dont know if they are available as plugins, but then again there are a lot of them out there.

The beuty of Virtualdub, Avisynt and Audacity is that they are small free programs that are pretty easy to use, and in my opinion rather powerful.

I now have to quote myself on something:
"If you add the free "Avisynth" to your tool list you can play movies backward in Virtualdub too"
That sounded stupid, what i meant was that you can take a movie and reverse it so it plays up backwards.
Hope that makes sense :-)

Regards / Jonny