Version: PowerDirector 9 (x64)
OS: Win 7 x64

I've looked through the various "Produce" options, and can't find any sort of output that allows me to maintain resolution.

I'd like to encode a 1024x768 resolution file using h264 compression (to an .avi or mp4 file). Info on how to scale the compression and do multi-pass encoding would be nice as well.

I've used VirtualDub + x264vfw to do that sort of encoding for free (I only got this software because I couldn't get VirtualDub to detect that encoder this time around, and figured I might as well spring for something that could allow me to do some fancier effects. I sure hope I didn't waste my money on this >_> I realize it's software for producing DVD/BD projects and most of the time those are the resolutions I'd work with (though I don't intend to actually produce DVDs/BDs, it just so happens my source files are that resolution. FRAPS recordings of PC games). I just rather expected a $80 bit of software would at least allow me to output files at the source resolution (and with scaling, if I wished).

The closest resolution options I find are 1280x720 which would produce a rather horizontally stretched video...

I mostly use the videos for upload to youtube (yes I'm aware there is a youtube encoding section, but the encoding options suck).

So am I just missing an option somewhere? Or am I out of luck?

BTW: Is there a hyperthreading option so I can encode faster? Or does it autodetect that?

Also, will the outputted file skip as it jumps from clip to clip? When I played a preview, between the recordings I used the audio jumped a bit and this annoys me. It's not the source file that's the problem, because I tested it in VirtualDub and as usual, there were no skips in the audio between clips.