Frame rate question

[janlafata]

I've been doing a lot of resizing of AVI's with AVIdemux lately. Because of the large dimension of change on one particular project, it ended up taking a very long time to do. So my question is...If the frame rate is adjusted, would that do anything to speed up the resizing process? Would it also change the quality of the video any?

[jagabo]

If you use AviDemux's Resample Frame Rate option you will have fewer frames in your output file but the running time will be the same. This will compress faster because there are fewer frames to compress. The quality per frame, at the same bitrate, will be higher because the bitrate is spread over fewer frames. Unless your frame rate is really high to begin with the final result will be jerky or like a slideshow on playback. So, no, this is usually not a viable solution to slow encoding.