Video advice needed.

[andrewducker]

Step 1: Record a 13 second clip with a webcam.
Step 2: Realise it's 167MB, because I recorded in 640x480
Step 3: Attempt to use Windows Movie Maker to resize it.
Step 4: End up with a completely black screen and no sound in the movie it creates.

Does anyone have any recommendations for free software to resize AVI files?

Comments

[andrewducker]

Never mind - grabbed virtualdub and the xvid codec - that did it.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Professionally speaking, I don't know of better resizing software than VirtualDub for under about a grand, so good call.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

To resize and reduce quality down to YouTube level I just use YouConvert Classic.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

There's also avidemux as an alternative to virtualdub and virtualdubmod (which can deal with MKV containers, unlike its ancestor). avidemux is currently being supported and upgraded unlike the virtualdub packages.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

I've used virtualdub in the past -- I'm currently using xvid4psp but I don't like it much.