When does DivX get applied?

[AndyP]

Quick question,

When running an .avs file through virtualdub to compress with DivX 5, when is the compression applied. eg. is it applied before or after the bicubicresize statement?

Thanks, Andy

[Swede]

Everything is applied *before* compressing.

[aleksander]

Let me understand you correctly...
Do you ask when, in the .avs script, is compression made?
Which line in the .avs file is responsible for compression??

ps. Swede has been faster - damn slow computer.Arghhhhh....

[AndyP]

Thanks for the reply,

I would like to know if compression is applied before or after the resize statement in the .avs file. I know there is no statement for the compression itself. If I understand correctly the .avs file is just a way of processing in .avi file before compression and hence the resize would occur before the compression. The reason I ask is that when encoding credits I crop left and right, resize and then add borders in that order. I would like to be able to add borders after compression (so that space is not wasted) and am unsure how to do that, if it is possible.

My credit script is:
LoadPlugin("mpeg2dec.dll")
LoadPlugin("AVISynth_Spatial.dll")
mpeg2source("E:\Planet of the Apes - Credits.d2v")
crop(50,71,630,434)
BilinearResize(576,272)
SpatialSoftenMMX(2,4,6,false,false,4,4,6,8)
TemporalSmoother(3)
SpatialSoftenMMX(1,4,6,false,false,4,4,6,8)
AddBorders(36,0,28,0)

Thanks again, Andy