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Photo and film optimal size

Hello i was wondering which is the optimal size for photos and films to fill/fit the screen.I guess you will say its 800x480 but if its so please tell me the best software to resize them.Thanks a lot.
P.S I searched around but for pics i couldnt find a resizer software with the desirable output size i am sure you know better.

Yes, the best size is 480 X 800 for photos (Portrait) and 800x480 for videos (landscape)
For resizing you can find MANY MANY apps floting around. But keep in mind that if the original photo doesn't have the right proportion and you resize it to 480X800 you'll get some distortion. The best way to achieve a good result is to resize you picture so that one of its sizes fits your phone, and the other size is bigger. Then, you simply CROP the picture to 480X800
Same rule applies for videos too...
Finally keep in mind that if you try to ENLARGE a photo, the more you enlarge it, the more distortion you'll have on the final image... Generally speaking avoid to resize anything for more than 150% as the final result will be distorted.

When you want to play video you can use the Video Encoding GUI. Works for me on the Blackstone

Widescreen Video?

Here's a question- Is it possible to take/capture videos from the camera of the HTC Topaz in widescreen formats? I'm able to take pictures in widescreen formats (By widescreen, I mean that it uses up the entire screen when it generates a preview of the picture and then saves it in dimensions that are the same proportionally ), but it'd be great to do the same with video. Any answers as to whether or not this is possible on this deivce? I've seen it done on a couple of other HTC devices, or at least attempted... Any thoughts? Thanks!

I am not sure it is possible right now.
One thing you may not be aware of is that the widescreen picture mode is faked. All the phone is doing is cropping the real 5 Megapixel 4:3 screen ratio picture into a widescreen format. It is not as bad as a digital zoom but you are still losing pixels.

Whether it's possible or not....it's pointless.
Switching the camera to "widescreen mode" just reduces the number of vertical pixels.
You might as well record with the most number of pixels and crop afterwards.

Which program to use for converting videos for phone?

I've got the HTC Legend and have used Doubletwist to sync and convert videos for it. It converts the videos nicely except they don't seem to be well compressed.. I used it to convert a movie and it ended up being a larger size than the original (700mb -> 800mb).
Instead of resizing it and keeping aspect ratio from 640 x 272 to 480 x 204 and letting the phone add black borders when the video plays, it added black borders itself and made it 480 x 320. Also the bitrate of the video was increased from 709 to 829 which seems unecessary.
I tried converting it also in Avidemux and got the file size smaller but it was not as high quality as the Doubletwist output.
But it seems logical that you should be able to get a smaller dimensions, same quality and smaller file size video..
What are some alternative softwares?

http://www.virtualdub.org/
Virtual dub is pretty fast, you can resize, crop, correct aspect ratios, deinterlace etc etc.
via the "filters" menu.
It's quite a minimalist piece of software, but it's transcodes very fast and has everthing you need.

Thanks, yeah I'm familiar with virtualdub.
However some of the videos I'm converting were .flv and it wasn't too happy with that. And I cant seem to find the exact right encoding options to maintain the quality DT can achieve, but also have a decent amount of compression

hmm - sounds hard to do in one pass. If you are lucky enough to have an editing package like Sony Vegas or After Effects it should be doable.
If you can bear a two -step conversion you can use this:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/FLV_Extract
to convert FLV to AVI without loss.
Then use the encoding package of your choice to shrink the file to a phone friendly size.

Yeah I do have sony vegas, how would I do it in that?
And yeah the main problem is encoding it to be played on the phone. I can get the right format, but not perfect quality with decently low size

[Q] Make/draw notes any time in any app?

Hi All,
I'm studying an online course and have been trying to find the easiest way to make notes on my xoom (which can then be shared to other systems).
I really like skitch, has just the right elements of note taking, highlighting, making quick presentation type slides, and storage (evernote). However I'm using dolphin browser plugin to screen capture a webpage (low quality capture) then import into skitch, scribble notes then saving to evernote. I could save the webpages to pdf with I think higher quality results but skitch doesn't support pdf - so if there's another program that supports drawing on pdf that could be a solution.
I wondered if there was a background app (appreciate it may impact performance) where I could hit a button to capture the screen or area of the screen (regardless of which browser or app I'm using at the time) scribble a note on it and save the picture? Preferably to a notebook app but just to gallery would be fine. I think this is how the HTC Flyer works (with the addition of digitiser for pen input). Anyone know of any app like this? OR have suggestions of how they work with / make notes on webpages?
This has become longer than I was expecting and as I wrote I realised it may be quite a specific set of requirements but all suggestions are welcome (already considering switching to a flyer).
Thank you

[REQ] looking for app that allows me to record videos with a smaller resolution

I have a Google Pixel 2 XL. When I record a video the file size is too big. There's no option to take a lower resolution video. Is there an application that will help me do that? I would prefer a lower resolution recording than on-the-fly-compression if possible. Thanks

you can check "Video Sizer" on play store