resize movie

[ssandhouse]

I havbe a perfectly good .avi movie. Is there a way to resize it or crop it and leave the audio and video the way it is? I have put it in Virtual Dub and left the audio and video the same and tried to crop out the movie but it does not work unless I am doing it wrong.

[junkmalle]

To trim in VirtualDub:

File -> Open Video File

Video -> Direct Stream Copy
Audio -> Direct Stream Copy

Move the frame slider to the starting point, press the Mark In button.

Move the frame slider to the ending point, press the Mark Out button.

File -> Save as AVI

Note that Direct Stream Copy mode can only cut on key frames. You can locate key frames by holding down a shift key while moving the slider or pressing left/right arrow keys. You can also see a little [K] next to the frame number.

[ssandhouse]

I don't want to shorten the movie, I want to resize it and take out the big blaack border around it.

[SEALs1230]

Try this post...I had the same problem a while ago https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=259671&highlight=

Try using the avi resize calc that gunslinger links to in his profile. It helps alot.

[junkmalle]

I don't want to shorten the movie, I want to resize it and take out the big blaack border around it.

So you have a AVI that looks like this:



And you want to remove the black borders to make it look like this:



Or do you want to watch it on a 4:3 TV and look like this:



VirtualDub can do any of this. Of course, any time you crop you will have to reencode.