which resize to use?

[BirdDaddie]

I have captured some video from a hi8 source and have to crop some of it,I want the final video to be full screen.Should it be 640X480? and what resizing method would give me the best quality?Bicubic?I am using virtualdub.
Thanks

[jagabo]

I have captured some video from a hi8 source and have to crop some of it,I want the final video to be full screen.

On what? And played via what?

what resizing method would give me the best quality?Bicubic?I am using virtualdub.
Thanks

For reduction Lanczos3 is the best choice. For enlarging Bicubic or Lanczos3.

[BirdDaddie]

on what?on a DVD thats what I want to eventually encode to.

[Alex_ander]

Then full screen is 720x480 for NTSC (720x576 for PAL).

[jagabo]

Do you realize that televisions overscan the picture? So you don't see the edges of the video anyway. If you crop away the edges then enlarge what's left you will end up seeing even less of the picture when you watch on TV.

If there's noise around the edges (video tape caps will usually have noisy garbage at the bottom) you can use the Fill function to overwrite it with black rather than cropping. Black borders eat hardly any bitrate.

[BirdDaddie]

I thought 720X480 was widescreen

[Pinstripes23]

720x480 is the resolution. Setting your encoder to encode as 16:9 or 4:3 determines if it's WS(16:9) or FS(4:3).

[thecoalman]

16:9 and and 4:3 both use 720x480, the aspect is adjusted by the DVD player or whatever software you are using to play it back. **That's providing the right flag was set and the software repects it.

Click the link for DVD specs under "what is" in the upper left.