Movie Maker, 5.1 portrait format issue

I have a wmv file that was an mov file that was shot in portrait mode
with the camera. I converted the MOV file to WMV and then tried to use
Movie Maker to make a movie, titles etc.

The problem is that Movie Maker does not seem to understand that the
movie is 480 x 640, portrait. Instead it creates a squashed version,
640 x 480.

I cannot seem to find out how to fix this. Anyone have a fix or
suggestions?

TIA.

PapaJohn
Sun Feb 10 10:01:21 PST 2008

Vista's Movie Maker would appropriately 'letterbox' it. You could run it
through that if you have access to a computer with it.

I'd save the distorted one in MM2.1 as a DV-AVI file and use VirtualDub to
crop/resize it to a new file.
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<someone@anywhere.com> wrote in message
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>I have a wmv file that was an mov file that was shot in portrait mode
> with the camera. I converted the MOV file to WMV and then tried to use
> Movie Maker to make a movie, titles etc.
>
> The problem is that Movie Maker does not seem to understand that the
> movie is 480 x 640, portrait. Instead it creates a squashed version,
> 640 x 480.
>
> I cannot seem to find out how to fix this. Anyone have a fix or
> suggestions?
>
> TIA.

someone
Sun Feb 10 16:54:46 PST 2008

Then I gather from your reply that MM just won't handle portrait style
movies at all. Oh well,,such is MS.....

Thanks,
Gene

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:01:21 -0500, "PapaJohn"
<papajohn@chartermi.net> wrote:

>Vista's Movie Maker would appropriately 'letterbox' it. You could run it
>through that if you have access to a computer with it.
>
>I'd save the distorted one in MM2.1 as a DV-AVI file and use VirtualDub to
>crop/resize it to a new file.