sizing pictures

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I am new to Movie Maker and would like some help with fitting my still photos into the movie maker screen. I've seen others with the same question ("why is there black around my photos?") to which the reply is, "use a 4:3 ratio, preferably 800 x 600 pixels". Could you please tell me step by step how to do this? Do I need to adjust this BEFORE I import them in to the collections or can I do this once they're in movie maker collections? I use Picture It to edit my pictures if this helps. Thanks for any help with this!
 
There should be online help with your picture editing
software. Reading this will teach you how to change the
size of a picture and thus its aspect ratio. But be
forewarned changing the aspect ratio will distort contents
of the picture from there true proportions.

What may be better would be to crop only a portion of the
picture using the same aspect ratio of the video it will
be used in.

Whoever told you 4:3 was making the assumption you're not
putting these in a wide screen format video.

-----Original Message-----
I am new to Movie Maker and would like some help with
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fitting my still photos into the movie maker screen. I've
seen others with the same question ("why is there black
around my photos?") to which the reply is, "use a 4:3
ratio, preferably 800 x 600 pixels". Could you please
tell me step by step how to do this? Do I need to adjust
this BEFORE I import them in to the collections or can I
do this once they're in movie maker collections? I use
Picture It to edit my pictures if this helps. Thanks for
any help with this!
 
The Gather Pictures > Intro page of my PhotoStory site covers cropping and
resizing images to 800x600. Maybe it'll help.

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PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org


LA said:
I am new to Movie Maker and would like some help with fitting my still
Click to expand...
photos into the movie maker screen. I've seen others with the same question
("why is there black around my photos?") to which the reply is, "use a 4:3
ratio, preferably 800 x 600 pixels". Could you please tell me step by step
how to do this? Do I need to adjust this BEFORE I import them in to the
collections or can I do this once they're in movie maker collections? I use
Picture It to edit my pictures if this helps. Thanks for any help with
this!
 
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There should be online help with your picture editing
software. Reading this will teach you how to change the
size of a picture and thus its aspect ratio. But be
forewarned changing the aspect ratio will distort contents
of the picture from there true proportions

What may be better would be to crop only a portion of the
picture using the same aspect ratio of the video it will
be used in

Whoever told you 4:3 was making the assumption you're not
putting these in a wide screen format video

Thats right and whats more the correct ratio for 4:3 is 720 x 576 and is definately NOT not 800 x 600. It is 720 x 576 because of the overscan on a TV screen. Some of the advise given in here is absolute rubbish
 
In the arena we are working here, computers not TV screen,
there is no overscan, and 4:3 is exactly that, H/V=1.33.
-----Original Message-----

Thats right and whats more the correct ratio for 4:3 is
Click to expand...
720 x 576 and is definately NOT not 800 x 600. It is 720 x
576 because of the overscan on a TV screen. Some of the
advise given in here is absolute rubbish
 
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