Resizing a video clip

[Rubicon]

How can one resize mpeg video clips - are there any free or low-cost
re-encoders available for a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine?
Some DV videos were encoded on another machine with the wrong size
configuration and all the output looks vertically elongated. Unfortunately,
the original DV files were deleted in haste.
Any insight would be most appreciated.
Regards.
Rubicon
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[Rubicon]

"Rubicon" > wrote in message
...
> How can one resize mpeg video clips - are there any free or low-cost
> re-encoders available for a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine?
> Some DV videos were encoded on another machine with the wrong size
> configuration and all the output looks vertically elongated.
> Unfortunately,
> the original DV files were deleted in haste.
> Any insight would be most appreciated.
> Regards.
> Rubicon
> ---------


I don't seem clear to myself!
What we really want to do is stretch a 4x3 mpeg clip to 16x9.
Regards.
Rubicon
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[John Inzer]

Rubicon wrote:
> "Rubicon" > wrote in message
> ...
>> How can one resize mpeg video clips - are there any free or low-cost
>> re-encoders available for a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine?
>> Some DV videos were encoded on another machine with the wrong size
>> configuration and all the output looks vertically elongated.
>> Unfortunately,
>> the original DV files were deleted in haste.
>> Any insight would be most appreciated.
>> Regards.
>> Rubicon
>> ---------
>
>
> I don't seem clear to myself!
> What we really want to do is stretch a 4x3 mpeg clip to 16x9.
> Regards.
> Rubicon
> ---------
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>crossposting removed<
I know you didn't mention rotating but the resizing
info in the following articles may offer some ideas:

Rotating and Cropping
a Video Scene
http://tinyurl.com/9zslp
or...
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/71/Rotating_Cropping_Video.aspx

VirtualDub
http://www.virtualdub.org/

VirtualDub & Nandub resizing and cropping
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/vdub_resize.htm

Rotating loses aspect ratio?
http://tinyurl.com/y8htdg
or...
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker/msg/7d247728c94d19a2?hl=en&

--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

[V Green]

VirtualDub will do this AFTER you learn
how to use it...

http://www.virtualdub.org/

you may need to convert to an intermediate format
to resample to the dimensions that you want.

"Rubicon" > wrote in message
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> "Rubicon" > wrote in message
> ...
> > How can one resize mpeg video clips - are there any free or low-cost
> > re-encoders available for a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine?
> > Some DV videos were encoded on another machine with the wrong size
> > configuration and all the output looks vertically elongated.
> > Unfortunately,
> > the original DV files were deleted in haste.
> > Any insight would be most appreciated.
> > Regards.
> > Rubicon
> > ---------
>
>
> I don't seem clear to myself!
> What we really want to do is stretch a 4x3 mpeg clip to 16x9.
> Regards.
> Rubicon
> ---------
>
>

[Rubicon]

My response at bottom:
"Rubicon" > wrote in message
...
> How can one resize mpeg video clips - are there any free or low-cost
> re-encoders available for a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine?
> Some DV videos were encoded on another machine with the wrong size
> configuration and all the output looks vertically elongated.
> Unfortunately,
> the original DV files were deleted in haste.
> Any insight would be most appreciated.
> Regards.
> Rubicon
> ---------


Thanks for the very informative responses - I am following the links and
learning about what is involved.
VirtualDub seems promising.
Regards and thanks again.
Rubicon
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