Cropping problem with Virtaldub

[joesphroth]

I croped a movie by shrinking the movie and adding black borders so i could put text there with another program but when i went to save it the file was really big at least 10x more i tryed useing different compressors but it still was very big. I didn't increase the resolution so this doesn't make sense some one help!

[Truman]

I don't know, which codec was used to compress the sourcevideo. Maybe you
have set the bitrate too high or you have used a different codec at all. Could you give us/me more details about the used codecs and Vdub settings?

[joesphroth]

i tryed a bunch of codecs inclubing micosoft video divx indeo. they all made the file big some were smaller than others but the were still big. i didn't chang the resolution i kept it at 512x384

[wee haggis]

Try DIVX-MPEG4 - Low Motion.
What was the original format ...by the way (from the Virtualdub > File > File Information)

[joesphroth]

the origanal file was avi divx i think

[wee haggis]

Can you get more info from the File Information section of Virtualdub