Resize before or during lossy conversion?

[sabre]

I record the new Family Guy for a friend every week and then edit out the commercials with vdub, save as huffyuv, and then transcode to 1128kbps WMV9.

My question is, is it better to resize/crop via filter when converting to huffyuv, then transcode, or is it better to let Windows Media Encoder handle the resizing?

[dohcmark8]

Resize when converting to huffy... will make the WMV encoding quicker.

[celtic_druid]

Editing/resizing with AVISynth on the fly would speed the whole thing up even more.

[Daodan]

I'm not sure what celtic_druid wanted to say, but my opinion is not to save to huffy at all unless your avs script is quite heavy. Decoding huffy takes quite a lot of power, and even for 2-pass encode with x264 that contains IVTC and denoisers it's usually faster to encode directly without going to lossless.

[sabre]

I'm not sure what celtic_druid wanted to say, but my opinion is not to save to huffy at all unless your avs script is quite heavy. Decoding huffy takes quite a lot of power, and even for 2-pass encode with x264 that contains IVTC and denoisers it's usually faster to encode directly without going to lossless.

I would love to pretend that I understood all of that, but honestly I'm somewhat noobish at this stuff. I'm doing well just to be able to get editing and transcoding all done in vdubmod. I don't really know how to use AVS and my only experience with it is through AutoGK.

I've stopped using WMEnc anyway, so I should probably start a diff thread for my new questions. Thanks to those who responded :)