Resizing ??

[TB Player]

I have been reading several forum archive posts regarding VHS capture resolution (there was a very interesting one from Sept., too bad the images are missing) and I have been seeing references to "resizing" (for the purpose of comparing frames at different cap resolutions), but I am real unclear about resizing, and I have not been able to find any guides or posts explaining "how-to". Could someone point me to a guide/site that explains resizing? Thanks.

[winifreid]

You will usually need to resize for 2 reasons. If you want to save on file size or you want to eliminate overscan.

[TB Player]

You will usually need to resize for 2 reasons. If you want to save on file size or you want to eliminate overscan.

Maybe I'm using the wrong term... what I want to do is compare AVI caps. For example, I captured AVIs at 320*240, 352*480, 640*480 and 720*480. I want to compare frames from each of these caps, and I thougt I could do that by resizing... or is there another way?

[Evander]

I've done this. I don't know if it's the best way but it works. You need two programs: virtualdubmod and irfanview (both freeware).
Load avi in vdubmod and use the slider at the bottom to go to desired frame.
Then Video -> snapshot source frame
Repeat the process for each avi you have. Now you can load the snapshot into ifranview, and go to Image->Resize (I'd suggest making them all 720x480). Do that for each snapshot. I suggest you give each a describable name i.e. 640x480.bmp, 320x240.bmp, etc.
For preview/comparison purposes, I suggest you put all the the resized snapshots into the same directory. Load the first into irfanview, press enter to see fullscreen, and use spacebar for next picture, or backspace for previous picture

[TB Player]

I've done this. I don't know if it's the best way but it works. You need two programs: virtualdubmod and irfanview (both freeware).
Load avi in vdubmod and use the slider at the bottom to go to desired frame.
Then Video -> snapshot source frame
Repeat the process for each avi you have. Now you can load the snapshot into ifranview, and go to Image->Resize (I'd suggest making them all 720x480). Do that for each snapshot. I suggest you give each a describable name i.e. 640x480.bmp, 320x240.bmp, etc.
For preview/comparison purposes, I suggest you put all the the resized snapshots into the same directory. Load the first into irfanview, press enter to see fullscreen, and use spacebar for next picture, or backspace for previous picture

Thanks, I'll try that.