I just bought a new monitor (important)

Jaytolo · Post by **Jaytolo** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:03 am

Hey everyone PLEASE help. I just bought a new ACER widescreen monitor and now my videos are NOT viewing like my old monitor worked. When i view them there not the full screen anymore. My videos used to be perfect , when i burnt them and viewed them on tv they were full screen, now i burned the same video and the pictures only fill up the middle of the screen, and that is how they view on my computer. What is the best way(aspect ratio) to create a Video File and then finally burn it to disk,,Im doing a simple slide show movie and i want the pics to come out FULL SCREEN , not reg size. I feel like this is a simple tweak here and there but im frustrated. Anything will help

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:47 pm

I think you answered your question..

widescreen, which generally is 16:9 aspect ratio.

You probably were using the default 4:3 aspect ratio on your projects. This will need to be changed to 16:9. Open you project, go to File>Project Properties, press the Edit button, go to the General Tab. At the bottom the Display Aspect Ratio, change it to 16:9.

Sounds easy enough, however if your photos were resized/cropped for the 4:3 aspect ratio, there may be some adjusting to be done to the images.

Since you are using a wide-screen monitor you can set VS to use that. You will need to see the start up screen. If you don't already see it, in the Preferences dialog, on the first tab, tick the box beside "Show start up screen". Then close and re-start VS. On the start up screen in the bottom left place a tick in the box beside 16:9. Now the project properties will be set at that ratio.

Jaytolo · Post by **Jaytolo** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:06 pm

All options were set at 16:9 before when i had the smaller monitor, and when i made my disk everything was full screen, now i plug a new monitor in and decided to make the same video again so I can have a copy (because the other one was a gift) and its only letter boxed and i have changed nothing except a new monitor and a new burner. I just dont understand why it would go from full screen on the TV and my VLC media player to pictures with black all around it. I create a MPG File first then put it back on my timeline and create a disk with a menu and it turns out S#$%. :} anyone have a clue

Jaytolo · Post by **Jaytolo** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:35 pm

one more thing. My video movies are just fine, they are all shot in 16:9, but the picture slide show is not, I just dont get whythey would go from full screen one day to letterbox a few days later

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:56 am

Which graphics card are you using?

I'm not at my home PC is but I'm sure I hada similar problem when I changed my PC from an OLD 4:3 CRT monitor to a widescreen LCD and I allowed the graphics card to set the display rather than the generic monitor settings.

Jaytolo · Post by **Jaytolo** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:06 am

Nvidia Geforce 7900 GS

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:51 am

OK I'm going to assume the Nvidia Control Panel is the same or similar but if you open yours there shoud be a setting under "Change Flat Panel Scaling and select "use Nvidia Scaling" & Monitor Native Resolution (mine is 1680x1050.

Your monitor setting may be slightly different.

Try that and see how you go

Jaytolo · Post by **Jaytolo** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:26 am

Nope wasnt the video card. When I did that the quality was shot on everything. Since we are not getting anywhere with this, lets try something diffrent. How do you make your pics fit to a full screen w/o losing any quality when played back on your TV. Anything will help, like I said VIDEOS are perfectly fine but pitures are not. I dont want just a simple square pic i want the full screen to filled with pictures, and the wrighting i put into it.. Any other suggestions.......

Post by **Ron P.** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:06 am

Try reading through Trevor's article on 16:9 vs 4:3, I've got an idea this might clear up some things, as to why it's not filling the screen..

http://uk.geocities.com/trevor.andrew@b ... 9/16_9.htm

Jaytolo · Post by **Jaytolo** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:56 am

i figured it out. ALL I had to was change my resolution, my res was set at 1400:900 and it made all my movies look crappy. So i set it one res down and everything is top notch.. Ready to start makin money again

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:10 am

you changed the res on your monitor right?

through the monitor menu or the Display Drivers in Windows?

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I just bought a new monitor (important)

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