saving avi to different tv sze

[thecrock]

I have avi which is 608 by 336. I need to resize so it will fill a monitor screen and not have black bars. I don't mind losing part of the image, I dont want to reencode just crop to 4:3 or something. The video needs to play back on a Mac and I would like the picture to fill the screen.

Any wise videoehelp members able to help?
Peace

[Baldrick]

You must reconvert when you crop or resize video. Use for example virtualdub or avidemux and crop to 448x336(4:3). In virtualdub under video->filters add the null transform filter and then click on cropping. In avidemux under Filters->Crop.

[thecrock]

Thanks Baldrick, youv'e helped me many times in the past. I'm using virtualdub I want the video in black and white should I just add the greyscale filter as well?

In virtualdub under the cropping I have a number of boxes x1 offset and y offset and so on. Which boxes do I make the changes to?


peace

[thecrock]

I just looked at a post you made that says basic cutting and joining can be done in tmpgenc. I would like to edit from the original video_ts folder and then convert to avi or maybe just author a dvd. What I was doing was encoding the video_ts to avi then cutting up in virtualdub ready for editing together in windows movie maker or maybe final cut pro. This means exrtra encoding.
How can I save the pieces I cut in tmpgenc?

[thecrock]

Thanks for the help Baldrick. The original file was 608 by 336 and I needed 448 by 336 (4:3) so i cropped 80 from either side in the x1 and x2 axis. Now I have 4:3 video.

Thanks again

Peace.

[PuzZLeR]

You may want to try MPEG4 Modifier for aspect ratio changes, and more, without re-encoding. Not sure what video format is in your AVI, but it's been recommended a few times over at the DivX forums, such as further down in this thread, if you want more info:

http://forums.divx.com/forum/viewTopic.php?id=5540