Crop, then resize to 240x320?

[miamicanes]

I have a video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5qR9_8KGPU ) that was filmed in 720p30 as a h.264 .mov file, and re-dubbed & saved as a MPEG-2 file.

Is there any straightforward way, using free tools, Premiere Elements 7, Nero 8, or Ulead DVD Movie Factory 5, to do the following:

1. crop it to some whole multiple of 240 x 320 (4:3, portrait).

2. resize the cropped portion to 240 x 320 (it doesn't matter whether the player "officially" recognizes it as portrait-mode 240x320 or not... it's for playback on a PocketPC phone that can easily be held sideways to watch the video).

3. render it to something Windows Media Player on a HTC Vogue (a.k.a. PPC-6900/CDMA "Touch") is capable of smoothly playing at 240x320@30fps from SD card?

I'm pretty sure I can figure out #3... but I have no idea what tools to use for #1 and #2. If you think of the video as a metaphorical pile of 1280x720 frames, what I basically want to do is define a rectangle and cut away everything outside of it from the entire stack, then resize what's left & author it to something reasonable. It's just a hunch, but unless the video chip has hardware decompression capabilities I'm not aware of, I suspect MPEG-2 will probably be easier for it to play than h.264... and (god forbid) MPEG-1 might be easier still (it's been so long, I don't even remember anymore whether 320x240 was one of the officially-blessed MPEG-1 resolutions... or know whether any of the above apps are still capable of rendering to it).

[uncle doug]

Check out AVS video tools AVS Video Converter or AVS Video to Go which converts videos to portable media format.

[Bjs]

Supported formats > 3GP, 3G2, MP4, AVI video

Format factory > http://www.formatoz.com/

Mp4 with resize :

1: All to mp4
2: Add file
3: Output settings = custom
4: Highlight the 32 of 320, change to 24
5: Highlight the 24 of 240, change to 32
6: Make any other changes required followed by clicking ok button
7: Click ok again
8: Click start and wait ... job done