pib56
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Post by pib56 on Mar 1, 2017 22:37:36 GMT
I use PSE13 on a win10 PC. Typically, I make an album of my travel photos, and then make a video slide show using Windows Movie Maker. The result is an mp4 file. Many of the images have embedded captions. I have noticed that in landscape oriented pix, the images overfill the TV screen. This causes loss of the content near the top and bottom of the image. This is a particular problem if I place a caption too close to the edge of the image. I have "solved" the problem by using image>resize>scale in the PSE Editor to shrink the image relative to the canvas. I then move the image on the canvas; if the cut off caption is near the top/bottom, I move the image down/up. On PSE, the image looks like the entire original image with a white border (I can't change the color of the border) on the sides and top/bottom. On the video, the image has moved so that the caption is no longer cut off, but some content is lost on the opposite side of the image. Also, the borders show, just like on the scaled image.
My question (finally) is: How, in PSE, can I avoid the overfilling of the TV screen so that I see 100% of the original image? Ideally, a 16x9 image would fill the TV screen exactly. Alternatively, if anyone is familiar with Movie Maker, is there a way I can cause it to generate a smaller image, or can I cause the TV to generate a smaller image?
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Post by speters on Mar 2, 2017 8:03:25 GMT
Have you ever tried Pro Show Producer? That is another program for producing videos from slide shows and it is amazing! I just learned about it myself recently after someone mentioned it to me on another forum (the ugly hedgehog) It sure is a program worth checking, just alone for all the effects it can do! They have the usual trial- version!
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Post by cats4jan on Mar 2, 2017 10:43:01 GMT
When I was making movies of stills I ran into this same problem. It was so frustrating. I played around with a template, but I don't remember ever solving the problem. Just wanted to jump in here and say good luck finding a solution. I look forward to seeing what ideas others provide.
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Post by Sepiana on Mar 2, 2017 17:53:57 GMT
I use PSE13 on a win10 PC. Typically, I make an album of my travel photos, and then make a video slide show using Windows Movie Maker. The result is an mp4 file. Many of the images have embedded captions. I have noticed that in landscape oriented pix, the images overfill the TV screen. This causes loss of the content near the top and bottom of the image. This is a particular problem if I place a caption too close to the edge of the image. I have "solved" the problem by using image>resize>scale in the PSE Editor to shrink the image relative to the canvas. I then move the image on the canvas; if the cut off caption is near the top/bottom, I move the image down/up. On PSE, the image looks like the entire original image with a white border (I can't change the color of the border) on the sides and top/bottom.
pib56,
I am going to take a different approach to your problem -- focus on what is going on in the Editor. From what you describe, the white border you are seeing is the canvas. You should be able to change the color of the canvas; the canvas will be the background layer. We could use more details. Maybe a screen shot of the layer stack?
On the video, the image has moved so that the caption is no longer cut off, but some content is lost on the opposite side of the image. Also, the borders show, just like on the scaled image. My question (finally) is: How, in PSE, can I avoid the overfilling of the TV screen so that I see 100% of the original image? Ideally, a 16x9 image would fill the TV screen exactly. Alternatively, if anyone is familiar with Movie Maker, is there a way I can cause it to generate a smaller image, or can I cause the TV to generate a smaller image?
I am out of my league here as it has been a long time since I used Elements>Windows Movie Maker. But, if I remember it correctly, I always began with my images cropped/sized to the same pixel dimensions as the output video settings (pixels) used by WMM. You can also create a custom setting in the Save movie menu. The video file will not be stretched, skewed, etc. even if you choose a custom dimension that doesn't maintain the aspect ratio you had chosen. WMM looks at the largest dimension you entered and it will automatically generate the other dimension to maintain the aspect ratio.
Hopefully we have some members who use Elements/WMM and they will be able to confirm or correct my suggestion. Hang in there!
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