Picture size in Windows Movie Maker

I have put all my pictues in and burned to a DVD disc. Problem is some of my
pictures are to large for the frame. I have tried resizing them to make
smaller but this did not help. I see on the storybook mode the pictures are a
little oversized but how do I get them in the frame so they fit correctly? I
had Movie Shop Deluxe and it allowed me to click on the frame and fit it in
the window. I can not find this feature in Movie maker. Does it exist?

PapaJohn
Sun Dec 26 21:43:18 CST 2004

the ratio of the width to the height of the picture is what's critical....
for standard aspect ratio movies, it's 4:3 - so use pictures with dimensions
such as 640x480, 800x600, 1600x1200, 2400x1800, etc.

Do the necessary cropping or resizing in another app before importing them
into Movie Maker.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
Photo Story 3 - use the menu branch at www.papajohn.org

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"wellsco" <wellsco@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:375BEB69-362B-4250-926C-2BF3C9865FF9@microsoft.com...
>I have put all my pictues in and burned to a DVD disc. Problem is some of
>my
> pictures are to large for the frame. I have tried resizing them to make
> smaller but this did not help. I see on the storybook mode the pictures
> are a
> little oversized but how do I get them in the frame so they fit correctly?
> I
> had Movie Shop Deluxe and it allowed me to click on the frame and fit it
> in
> the window. I can not find this feature in Movie maker. Does it exist?

wellsco
Mon Dec 27 11:41:05 CST 2004

I used the 4:3 and the largest picture size I used was 415x296. I had
approximatley 200 pictures. Of these about 40 were not in the frame
completely. Some of the picture was outside. I am using Windows XP. I thought
I had cropped and resized them to fit using my documents and MGI Photo Suite.
So do I need to make them exactly 600x480, 800x600, etc.?

"PapaJohn (MVP)" wrote:

> the ratio of the width to the height of the picture is what's critical....
> for standard aspect ratio movies, it's 4:3 - so use pictures with dimensions
> such as 640x480, 800x600, 1600x1200, 2400x1800, etc.
>
> Do the necessary cropping or resizing in another app before importing them
> into Movie Maker.
> --
> PapaJohn
>
> Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
> Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
> Photo Story 3 - use the menu branch at www.papajohn.org
>
> ..
> "wellsco" <wellsco@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:375BEB69-362B-4250-926C-2BF3C9865FF9@microsoft.com...
> >I have put all my pictues in and burned to a DVD disc. Problem is some of
> >my
> > pictures are to large for the frame. I have tried resizing them to make
> > smaller but this did not help. I see on the storybook mode the pictures
> > are a
> > little oversized but how do I get them in the frame so they fit correctly?
> > I
> > had Movie Shop Deluxe and it allowed me to click on the frame and fit it
> > in
> > the window. I can not find this feature in Movie maker. Does it exist?
>
>
>

PapaJohn
Mon Dec 27 13:44:16 CST 2004

You can use any size picture... Movie Maker will resize it so it fits within
the overall movie frame, and add blackness to the left/right or top/bottom
so the picture isn't distorted.

The whole picture should stay within the frame and it's just the black
borders that's the issue... for those who don't want them.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
Photo Story 3 - use the menu branch at www.papajohn.org

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"wellsco" <wellsco@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B0BE39E7-1A11-41DB-875A-CCDE26226084@microsoft.com...
>I used the 4:3 and the largest picture size I used was 415x296. I had
> approximatley 200 pictures. Of these about 40 were not in the frame
> completely. Some of the picture was outside. I am using Windows XP. I
> thought
> I had cropped and resized them to fit using my documents and MGI Photo
> Suite.
> So do I need to make them exactly 600x480, 800x600, etc.?
>
> "PapaJohn (MVP)" wrote:
>
>> the ratio of the width to the height of the picture is what's
>> critical....
>> for standard aspect ratio movies, it's 4:3 - so use pictures with
>> dimensions
>> such as 640x480, 800x600, 1600x1200, 2400x1800, etc.
>>
>> Do the necessary cropping or resizing in another app before importing
>> them
>> into Movie Maker.
>> --
>> PapaJohn
>>
>> Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
>> Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
>> Photo Story 3 - use the menu branch at www.papajohn.org
>>
>> ..
>> "wellsco" <wellsco@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:375BEB69-362B-4250-926C-2BF3C9865FF9@microsoft.com...
>> >I have put all my pictues in and burned to a DVD disc. Problem is some
>> >of
>> >my
>> > pictures are to large for the frame. I have tried resizing them to make
>> > smaller but this did not help. I see on the storybook mode the pictures
>> > are a
>> > little oversized but how do I get them in the frame so they fit
>> > correctly?
>> > I
>> > had Movie Shop Deluxe and it allowed me to click on the frame and fit
>> > it
>> > in
>> > the window. I can not find this feature in Movie maker. Does it exist?
>>
>>
>>