Comments on: How to resize video files for YouTube for free

By: Ray Joyce

Ray Joyce — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:50:52 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This was awesome. Well written, great information which make it easy to follow and accomplished in a few minutes.

By: Diana

Diana — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:18:09 +0000

My camera creates avi files and I need to at least get the video down to 10MB but nothing worked! Can you please give me tips?

By: Carol Vorhis

Carol Vorhis — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:02:37 +0000

I’ve downloaded some movie files from a website, they are all avi files. When I burn a DVD and play them on my TV I get a narrow letterbox image which uses about one third of my TV screen. I want a bigger image, so I tried to use VirtualDub 1.9.5 to increase the size of the image. If I double the size I get a distorted image and stuttering audio.

Anything less than doubling yields an image about the same size as the original, good quality but still a small image. What am I doing wrong? I have used the following settings for the resize filter; relative 160 x 290.204, Aspect ratio 4:3, filter mode precise cubic, Framing = Do not letterbox or crop, Sizing = multiples of 2. I have tried to vary these settings but I still can’t get a good result.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:30:15 +0000

Hello. My Kodak M753 Only records in MOV format and VirtualDub doesnt seem to acknowledge the format. Any help at all would be great. I’m desperate.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:41:44 +0000

Hi, i have a video file that i’ve been trying to re-size. Its something like 532×320 i think. I want to size it so i can burn it to a dvd and watch through player on 43′ plasma screen. i’ve tried all sorts of sizes, including 720×576, but this doesn’t quite seem to fit. It has black bars down left and right sides. Seems wierd but 720×540 fills the screen better. What is the exact size i need to change it to as these black bars can get quite annoying, or is there some setting i’m not putting virtualdub on right. Any help?
Thanks
Dave

By: Miss Kim

Miss Kim — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:46:41 +0000

Hi there! I am trying to email an audition video and cannot send it as an attachment (through AOL) because it is 182 KB. I tried to resize it through VirtualDub but the the video became distorted when it got to about 14 or 16 KB. Any advice on what to try next?

Thank you,
God Bless

Miss Kim

By: mo

mo — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:55:42 +0000

hi there it says my mpeg-1 video stream contains an invalid frame rate?

what can i do fix this problem thanks

By: Marlene

Marlene — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:17:22 +0000

Hi, I’ve followed the instruction step by step, however the quality of the video is really really bad after being resized! The original video was 120MB and I needed to resize it to 20MG… As I was going smaller I thought the quality would have not changed??? Can you explain?

Thank you!
Marlene

By: PK

PK — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:42:50 +0000

Hi,

Thank you for the application. The tutorial is clear, however like several users, I’m having the same problem with file size after resizing. I’ve tried applying Indeo and Cinepak codec, but it doesn’t seem to work. My 124MB file increase to over 558MB after resize!! Most photo hosting sites have a 100MB upload limit. This is the reason why I had to resize my video. Any help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
PK

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:20:33 +0000

Whenever I save the video after resizing it, the colours become false coloured. Is it just my video or did I do something wrong?

By: xjarcher

xjarcher — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:10:49 +0000

I followed the directions and when I attempt to select a video to resize the dialog box says no matching files are present. I know there are many there. What am I missing? I have Vista, if that matters.

By: weelian

weelian — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:26:36 +0000

@Coyote

You might want to use a different codec like Indeo or Cinepak if you want universal compatibility. MS Video 1 codec is considered obsolete. If you want the best of compression and size ratios, try Xvid. But you must download the Xvid codec and anyone receiving the video must have the Xvid codec as well. Just google “Xvid Codec” and you should be able to find it.

By: coyote

coyote — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:33:56 +0000

your thread is the first information i’ve found on this subject that’s any help at all. wonderful!!! thank you!!!

so i’ve been playing with this all day long but i’m still frustrated…

i’m starting with 640×480 avi video files that come out of the camera at around 1 Meg per second (ie: 10 second video is 10 megs).

if i resize them to 320×240 using “MS Video 1″ compression at 85 percent, i end up with 10 second videos that are still over 3 megs in size.

if i use any more compression than that, they’re almost un-watchable.

yet i often see even higher-quality videos that are 320×240 and only running a half meg per second.

what am i still doing wrong? please help!

By: pleasekitty

pleasekitty — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:07:57 +0000

omg this is awesome! thank you so much! Love it

By: weelian

weelian — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:42:19 +0000

VirtualDub does not support ASF or WMV files and as for the synchronization problem, you can try enabling Video Frame rate control under Video – Framerate, use the setting “Change so video and audio duration match” and also force convert the frame rate that matches your original video’s frame rate or reduce the framerate down to a minimum viewable rate.

You might want to use the free MediaCoder for ASF, WMV and even RealMedia files.