Resize wmv

[indijay]

Hello All,

I got this wmv of PAL standard out of Photostory 3.0 but the resolution is 768x576 and DVD authoring programs refuse to accept it. I would like to make it 720x576 or 704x576. The first thing that came into my mind was Virtualdub and I downloaded Virtualdub 1.3c with ASF and WMV support but it refused to accept this wmv file. so now I am using Windows Media Studio encoder (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoderse/default.aspx) but it is very slow. I minute video asking for 20 mins time to resize..

Anyone has better idea?

Thanks

[guns1inger]

Windows Movie Maker will accept this and output a DV file at 720 x 576, if you can get it to an XP machine (although I assume you have access to this if you are running Photostory)

[indijay]

I will give a try, although I solved my problem in other way. I found a website, www.papajohn.org and this guy has compiled a profile for 720x576 PAL video which way crispier than the original PAL profile of Photostory.
Another issue with my Windows Movie Maker is, my OS is Swedish and I am not at all good at Swedish so it really wreaks my head.

I wonder though, why MS has screwed up so badly with both PAL and NTSC export profiles in Photostory??

[guns1inger]

The resolution is fine because Photostory outputs square pixels. Any decenet encoder should be able to resize this to 720 x 576 and have things look right. The two biggest mistakes that M$ made with Photostory were

a) restricting output to wmv only - there should at least be a DV avi option

b) using the same basic engine as Movie Maker, which does it's effects work and transitions at 640 x 480

Photostory is a brilliant miss - it has great features, is easy to use, is, imo, better than MemoriesonTV if you just want a video slideshow without DVD output, but it's image quality is so soft and fuzzy it negates all this.

And what's worse, M$ have taken all the best bits out of Photostory, and what's left will be built into Vista. Morons.