Yay for silly questions (regarding re-sizing videos)

[Colin]

I've got some videos from my camera at 640*480, and I want to resize them down to 320x240 and maybe get some kind of good encoding on them. Something that YouTube will accept. As it stands a 3:20 video is 175 mb.

So...what's the best program for doing that? If you help me out I can you know...make you a sig or something. It's basically all I'm good for. That and you get to see the videos.

[---]

i dunno if its wat u mean, but when i do things like save a video of Madden with faps, its only like 10 seconds long and about 15mb, so i put it into windows movie maker, and import the video, then save it agian, and the video turns out about 1mb, with the same quality.

[Ruff Ryder]

You can probably use windows movie maker as long as your video format is compatible. Just import it to the timeline, then save movie file and mess with the options a little and SHAZAM!

[Colin]

They're .mov files and Windows Movie Maker won't take them. But thanks for the suggestions.

[jerry]

in pdub's guide there was this program that i tried and used to shrink a screen capture video... like actually resizing the whole thing.. il check the thread to get the prog name

edit: ok its virtualdub
edit2: ok goto virtualdub.sourceforge.net to download

[cyanide]

.mov are usually associated with QuickTime.. maybe a clue? Unless, of course, jerry gives the solution.

[Ruff Ryder]

Ulead Videostudio is the only program I've ever come accross that can convert them. Well, I'm sure Sony Vegas can and some other deeper movie makers. But I guess you can try virtualdub. Those other programs are much bigger.

[jerry]

if virtualdub doesnt work then i think this will:
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/VIDEOz ... zilla.html

Videozilla is a right-click video conversion tool for AVI, MPEG, RM, MOV, ASF, and WMV conversions. It provides customizable settings for video width, height and quality, as well as codecs choices. Just right-click any video file(s) in Windows Explorer and click convert on the context menu to convert the selected video files. The program can also extract audio from vieo files and save it as MP3, and includes a right-click video player. VIDEOzilla supports AVI (DivX, XviD, MS MPEG-4, Uncompressed, Cinepak and other), MPEG (MPEG (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Video, VCD and SVCD, PAL, and NTSC), WMV, RM, DVD , ASF, Flash 8/MX/3-6/Vector SWF/FLV and QuickTime MOV format.

THEN you open the converted video file with virtual dub and resize it