Resizing

[w4zzabi]

I tried resizing my 640x360 to 320x240 but the size of the new file is bigger than the 640x360... Will someone tell me how can I fix this problem ?

[Elco]

Nobody can say something usefull if you don't say how you did that, wich program you used, wich settings etc.

[w4zzabi]

I used the resize filter *resize filter mode = nearest neighbour* (Virtual Dub) and then i went to compression and selected ks mpeg4 v3 and then saved as... file it was conveting it said file size was 1.4 gigs and i just aborted.
My 640x360 was only 700 megs so i knew i was doing something wrong...

[Elco]

Ok, this gives me apicture.
It could be your codec. What was it in the first place?
Other stuff wich influence the size are audio/video bitrate, framerate etc.
Are you sure the original file had all those settings the same compared to the new (resized) one?

[w4zzabi]

the believe the filter for the original one was DIVX Mpeg 4 fast motion... the answers to ur other questions, I have no clue... What are the best settings for doing this type of converstion ??

[BadAsh]

Well, if the original video used the DivX Video Codec that is most likely the culprit. VirtualDub uses "No Compression" by default when saving out a new file. Since the new file will use "no compression" it will obviously be larger (in size).

I highly recommend using "No Compression" or Huffyuv (lossless compression) when editing existing AVIs. Especially when the original source uses a "lossy" compression such as DivX. Even though DivX is very high quality you have to remember one thing.... compression removes bits from the data (actually it replaces or tokenizes it)... the more you re-compress the more data is removed or tokenized.

You will obviously need alot of disk space when doing things like this but then again, if you are going to do A/V editing you really need to invest in a large hard drive.

I hope that helps.