croping wmv video files. how the hell?

[sam]

I asked this question on the ynotmasters board with no luck. I need to know how to crop/cut a windows media video file from 5 megs to 2 megs. No compression, just a crop.

thx,

Sam

[MeatPounder]

If you have win XP you can use windows movie maker to do this
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/m...er/default.asp
It's quite easy to use and you can select clips from the whole to create what you want.
There are a few others that work on ME or later, the microsoft version of that sucks, but others such as ulead cost money...there may be freware that does the job too

[Fonz]

hmmm... if you use Windows Movie Maker you always have to compress to make the video a smaller size. Or am I wrong here?

[MeatPounder]

Originally posted by Fonz
hmmm... if you use Windows Movie Maker you always have to compress to make the video a smaller size. Or am I wrong here?

Actually you have the option to compress the clip when you save it...even change the format or the fps.
You can save by just final file size down to miniscule kb....but Movie Maker doesn't compress that well, freaky things can happen...lol

But sams point was he did not want to compress, but to crop and cut.
You import a 10 min movie into the movie maker....it will by default break it in smaller clips....which you can split/combine/merge/edit how ever you want.
lets say I wanted to get 10 20 second clips out of that 10 min movie....I create exactly what I want dumping garbage...and save each clip individually.
The resulting 10 clips are not compressed, but being only 20 seconds long each...they are by default approximately 1/50 the size of the 10 min original.

I think that is what sam was looking for.

[sam]

I got it figured out! thanks for the help guys.