Program for Correcting Avi Aspect Ratio?

[headless chicken]

I want to change an avi from 16:9 to 4:3 (320 x 240) aspect ratio to correct it. I tried the VirtualDub resize filter, but it is going to make a 1 GB file 5 times the size!

Is there any other program that will do a good job of the resize (keeping it an avi, no format conversion) but won't give me a result file of mammoth proportions?

[bugster]

I want to change an avi from 16:9 to 4:3 (320 x 240) aspect ratio to correct it. I tried the VirtualDub resize filter, but it is going to make a 1 GB file 5 times the size!

You can use virtualdub, but you have to re-encode. You are trying to save it as an uncompressed avi. Select a compressor (the same one as it is currently encoded with will be fine) and set it up to provide the filesize you need.

[headless chicken]

Ahh, compression. Definitely overlooked that. Thanks, bugster.

I have a smaller (1 GB) output file now, only problem is audio and video are out of sync. Can I fix this in virtual dub?

[bugster]

Ahh, compression. Definitely overlooked that. Thanks, bugster.

I have a smaller (1 GB) output file now, only problem is audio and video are out of sync. Can I fix this in virtual dub?

If the source file has VBR audio (vdub will warn you if it has when you open the source file) then you can try re-encoding that to a CBR format, it sometimes fixes sync problems.