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iamjojo

full screen pictures

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HI, Ive created slide shows in dvd workshop before, but I never figured out how to make the pictures fill up the entire screen. ( i dont want a black border)..
---My scanning resolution is 300 (the pictures are 4x6)

--My Project properties are set to NTSC
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Right click the Clip(s) on the Edit Tab and you have an option to set the output format.
StBruno

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iamjojo
Possibly what you need to do is edit your pictures (in a graphics editor) and "crop" them so that the width:height ratio is appropriate.

I find that the pictures taken on my Canon digital camera are ideal for WS s/shows - they fill the screen without any "border". The pictures are 2048 x 1536. This is a width:height ratio of 1.333 (2048/1536 = 1.333).

However, if I take a picture in "portrait" mode (with the camera turned through 90 deg.) then the resulting image is 1536 x 2048, and in a WS s/show it will appear "tall and narrow" with a wide border on left and right. To "correct" this, I edit the image in PaintShop Pro. I use the Crop tool which displays (in the status bar) the width:height ratio of the crop selection. I make sure this is as close to 1.333 as possible.

By the way, I'm in a PAL (720x576) area. Perhaps an NTSC format would require a different ratio. But the principle must be the same.

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Steve,
How did you manage to make a post on "Sun Apr 09, 12:30am"?? I'm in Surrey, and it's just gone 7.30pm on SATURDAY, 8th April!!

StBruno
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StBruno
Steve,
How did you manage to make a post on "Sun Apr 09, 12:30am"?? I'm in Surrey, and it's just gone 7.30pm on SATURDAY, 8th April!!
The forum time is set to another time zone. If you look at the top left of the forum Index you will see the "current" forum time!

By the way it is now 2136 on Saturday 8 Apr 06 here in Windy Birmingham UK
StBruno

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Steve,
Now I understand. Thanks .... I was needlessly worrying that your computer was sick ... a touch of "bird-flu" perhaps! :)

And many thanks for your many excellent posts and tutorials on this forum. Very much appreciated.

StBruno
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