Photos do not fill frame

I am trying to make a video for work using photos of jobs we have done. I
know how to add the photos, and do the transitions and all the other cool
stuff, but the one thing I can NOT figure out is how to get the photo to fill
the whole frame so that I am not left with black bands on the sides or
top/bottom. I have a couple of photos that actually fill the frame, so I
tried resizing the rest of the photos to the same size thinking that would
help, but nope!! Can anyone tell me HOW to get the picture to fill the
frame? I can NOT have this black background showing, as the video is going to
be used on a grey background and will look awful.

Thanks for any help you can give me!!

The photo's need to be in a 4.3 size ratio if you want them to fill the
whole frame, so something like 640x480, 1280 x 960 etc. Then depending on
the size of the photos they may blow up to fit the size of the screen and
not look good, as in a 320x240 picture will pixelate.

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Graham Hughes
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"Gurlonthesun" <Gurlonthesun@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5CF5D0AE-41C9-40F1-B7BC-67BF081D8D4B@microsoft.com...
>I am trying to make a video for work using photos of jobs we have done. I
> know how to add the photos, and do the transitions and all the other cool
> stuff, but the one thing I can NOT figure out is how to get the photo to
> fill
> the whole frame so that I am not left with black bands on the sides or
> top/bottom. I have a couple of photos that actually fill the frame, so I
> tried resizing the rest of the photos to the same size thinking that would
> help, but nope!! Can anyone tell me HOW to get the picture to fill the
> frame? I can NOT have this black background showing, as the video is going
> to
> be used on a grey background and will look awful.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me!!

Gurlonthesun wrote:
> I am trying to make a video for work using photos of jobs
> we have done. I know how to add the photos, and do the
> transitions and all the other cool stuff, but the one
> thing I can NOT figure out is how to get the photo to
> fill the whole frame so that I am not left with black
> bands on the sides or top/bottom. I have a couple of
> photos that actually fill the frame, so I tried resizing
> the rest of the photos to the same size thinking that
> would help, but nope!! Can anyone tell me HOW to get the
> picture to fill the frame? I can NOT have this black
> background showing, as the video is going to be used on a
> grey background and will look awful.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me!!
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Just a guess...but maybe the problem
is compounded because some of the
images are in Portrait orientation?

This would mean that no matter how
you *resize* the images...they are still in
Portrait orientation and you will have
black bands on both sides.

The solution would be to *crop* the
Portrait images so they become
Landscape orientation.

If you need a good crop tool...the following
freebie has one..and as Graham suggests...
there is an option to choose 4:3 aspect
ratio:

FastStone Image Viewer
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

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To add to what the others said try Microsoft Photo Story 3. It has better
transitions and much better control over the transitions. It also has a crop
feature built in to get rid of those black bars.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...ry/default.mspx

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"Gurlonthesun" <Gurlonthesun@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5CF5D0AE-41C9-40F1-B7BC-67BF081D8D4B@microsoft.com...
>I am trying to make a video for work using photos of jobs we have done. I
> know how to add the photos, and do the transitions and all the other cool
> stuff, but the one thing I can NOT figure out is how to get the photo to
> fill
> the whole frame so that I am not left with black bands on the sides or
> top/bottom. I have a couple of photos that actually fill the frame, so I
> tried resizing the rest of the photos to the same size thinking that would
> help, but nope!! Can anyone tell me HOW to get the picture to fill the
> frame? I can NOT have this black background showing, as the video is going
> to
> be used on a grey background and will look awful.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me!!