Problems with final display resolution

[Guest]

I have been taking movie clips with my Canon PowerShot A75 digital camera at
320 x 240 pixels resolution. This produces an AVI format file which plays
correctly in Windows Media Player. I use Windows Movie Maker 2.1 to edit
these clips.

However, no matter which setting I use to save the WMV file, I get a
distorted picture -- always too wide. The "Video for Pocket PC" setting says
that it saves at a display size of 320 x 240 pixels. However, it seems to
only save the first frame at this size. The rest of the movie clip is
stretched wider. (This is when played back in Windows Media Player 10.)

I have also tried creating custom saving profiles using Windows Media
Encoder, but here I seem to get quite unpredictable resolution results. I
would like to be able to do this as well so that I can save some of the movie
clips in a vertical format (240 x 320) which Movie Maker doesn't seem to
offer as an option.

Any ideas on why I'm getting the wrong resolution and how I can get it right?

 

[John Kelly]

Hello,

Take a look under TOOLS > OPTIONS > ADVANCED (I think) and look at the
setting for picture ratio....16:9 or 4:3

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[Guest]

Thanks very much John. You answered the first part of my problem. The normal
horizontal-format videos come out propertly proportioned now. (Don't know how
I missed that "aspect" part!) However, I still can't figure out how to get
the picture right when I've turned the camera on it's side and made a video
that's 240 wide by 320 high. The original AVI format video plays fine, but as
soon as it's in WMV format it's distorted again. Is there a fix for this too?

 

[Rehan]

Hi Janet

Import your clip into collection and then bring it into Storyboard/Timeline.
Now goto the effects section and try applying one of the "Rotate 90",
"Rotate 180" or "Rotate 270" to your movie in the storyboard/timeline.

However these rotate effects do not keep the aspect ratio preserved
during rotation. To overcome this limitation I have made a few custom
effects that achieve the same thing but while keeping the aspect ratio
preserved.

To use my custom effects copy paste the xml code below into notepad and
save the file as rotate.xml in folder C:\Program Files\Movie Maker
\Shared\AddOnTFX. If the AddOnTFX folder does not exist at that
location, create it first. Afterwards restart WMM and go to the Effects
section to see the new effects: "Rotate Left Fit" and "Rotate Right
Fit" etc. and apply them to the clip.


<TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0" >
<Effects>
<EffectDLL guid="{B4DC8DD9-2CC1-4081-9B2B-20D7030234EF}">
<Effect name="Rotate Right" iconid="24" >
<Param name="InternalName" value="Simple3D" />
<Param name="RotateA" value="right" />
<Param name="Progress" value="0.25" />
</Effect>
<Effect name="Rotate Left" iconid="23" >
<Param name="InternalName" value="Simple3D" />
<Param name="RotateA" value="left" />
<Param name="Progress" value="0.25" />
</Effect>
<Effect name="Rotate Right Fit" iconid="24" >
<Param name="InternalName" value="Simple3D" />
<Param name="RotateA" value="right" />
<Param name="ScaleA" value="0.75" />
<Param name="InitialScaleA" value="0.75" />
<Param name="Progress" value="0.25" />
</Effect>
<Effect name="Rotate Left Fit" iconid="23" >
<Param name="InternalName" value="Simple3D" />
<Param name="RotateA" value="left" />
<Param name="ScaleA" value="0.75" />
<Param name="InitialScaleA" value="0.75" />
<Param name="Progress" value="0.25" />
</Effect>
</EffectDLL>
</Effects>
</TransitionsAndEffects>


Hope it works for you.

 

[Guest]

Wow! Thanks Rehan. Just what I wanted to know!