I'd
highly recommend you take this opportunity to switch to GKnot
its been a long time since i used vdub since its not necessary when you use gknot.
Sound like your only doing 1passes which are a waste. Are you processing a badly cropped avi? If so, why are you re-encoding? Cropping is only ever worthwhile in the initial rip, if you do it just for the sake of cropping your just making things worse. Or are you reducing the filesize for a portable or something? Just making sure you get the need for cropping in the first place.
Basically, you go to video>compression, and setup your first pass. You then go to file>save avi as. There's a checkbox where you can defer the job. You then go to video>compression and setup your second pass. You then go to file>save avi as, and check the same checkbox.
You then go to job control and click run.
That will do a proper 2 pass.
Once again, use gknot
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if your re-encoding an avi for the sole purpose of cropping you'd be wasting your time |
If you are loading in an avi just to crop it, then this is a completely worthless exercise... infact your making matters substantially worse, the damage has been irreversably done.
Basically on initial encoding you need to crop out black borders because they occupy a lot of bits/s and reduce the overall quality of the rip. If someone badly crops, that's it, its unfixable since the potential quality it should have been has already been capped.
I've seen a few people who aren't sure what's wrong with bad cropping and think its something you can fix with a re-encoding.