WMM is stretching my output

I am making a movie from a group of stills, each of which is 4:3. I chose
the output settings of NTSC and 4:3 aspect ratio. The images look exactly as
they should in the preview pane. However, when I play the movie in WMP the
images are being stretched horizontally â?? Iâ??m guessing to about 3:2. I have
tried a number of variations, and I have looked back for other responses on
this problem. Nothing has worked so far. This is my first attempt at making
a movie, which will be used at my sonâ??s wedding reception.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

John
Tue Jan 29 05:02:35 PST 2008

tmmkc wrote:
> I am making a movie from a group of stills, each of which is 4:3. I
> chose the output settings of NTSC and 4:3 aspect ratio. The images
> look exactly as they should in the preview pane. However, when I
> play the movie in WMP the images are being stretched horizontally -
> I'm guessing to about 3:2. I have tried a number of variations, and
> I have looked back for other responses on this problem. Nothing has
> worked so far. This is my first attempt at making a movie, which
> will be used at my son's wedding reception.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Just wondering...are you using a widescreen monitor?

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tmmkc
Tue Jan 29 17:10:00 PST 2008

No. I have a 17 inch 1702FP Dell Ultrasharpâ?¢ Digital Flat Panel Display,
and my graphics card is a 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce4 MXâ?¢ Graphics Card with
TV-Out. I have set my resolution to 1280 x 960, a 4:3 aspect ratio. WMP is
squeezing the image down, vertically, and displaying black bars at top and
bottom. I measured the actual image in WMP and it was 13" x 8 7/16", roughly
a 1.54:1 ratio, or very close to 3:2. In one experiment I was using images
that were 1280 x 960 x 24 .jpg's @ 96 dpi for input. Then, I used the same
images but first resized them to 640 x 480 x 24 @ 96, and I got exactly the
same distortion. I had read someone's suggested solution that only 640 x 480
's would not be distorted.

Would it matter if I input images in a file format other than .jpg? other
than 96 dpi?




"John Inzer" wrote:

> tmmkc wrote:
> > I am making a movie from a group of stills, each of which is 4:3. I
> > chose the output settings of NTSC and 4:3 aspect ratio. The images
> > look exactly as they should in the preview pane. However, when I
> > play the movie in WMP the images are being stretched horizontally -
> > I'm guessing to about 3:2. I have tried a number of variations, and
> > I have looked back for other responses on this problem. Nothing has
> > worked so far. This is my first attempt at making a movie, which
> > will be used at my son's wedding reception.
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> =========================================
> Just wondering...are you using a widescreen monitor?
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! -
> Digital Image MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQs
> http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
>
>

John
Tue Jan 29 20:06:26 PST 2008

tmmkc wrote:
> No. I have a 17 inch 1702FP Dell UltrasharpT Digital Flat Panel
> Display, and my graphics card is a 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce4 MXT
> Graphics Card with TV-Out. I have set my resolution to 1280 x 960, a
> 4:3 aspect ratio. WMP is squeezing the image down, vertically, and
> displaying black bars at top and bottom. I measured the actual image
> in WMP and it was 13" x 8 7/16", roughly a 1.54:1 ratio, or very
> close to 3:2. In one experiment I was using images that were 1280 x
> 960 x 24 .jpg's @ 96 dpi for input. Then, I used the same images but
> first resized them to 640 x 480 x 24 @ 96, and I got exactly the same
> distortion. I had read someone's suggested solution that only 640 x
> 480 's would not be distorted.
>
> Would it matter if I input images in a file format other than .jpg?
> other than 96 dpi?
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I don't know much about LCD monitors...
I'm an old guy who still prefers a CRT.

Anyway...Searching the Dell site turns up
a user's guide that says the optimal resolution
for the Dell 1702FP is 1280x1024.

Setting the Optimal Resolution: DellT
1702FP Flat Panel Color Monitor User's Guide
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/1702fp/en/optres.htm

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

tmmkc
Thu Jan 31 00:35:43 PST 2008

On Jan 29, 10:06 pm, "John Inzer" <oo...@doobie.xyz> wrote:
> tmmkc wrote:
> > No. I have a 17 inch 1702FP Dell UltrasharpT Digital Flat Panel
> > Display, and my graphics card is a 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce4 MXT
> > Graphics Card with TV-Out. I have set my resolution to 1280 x 960, a
> > 4:3 aspect ratio. WMP is squeezing the image down, vertically, and
> > displaying black bars at top and bottom. I measured the actual image
> > in WMP and it was 13" x 8 7/16", roughly a 1.54:1 ratio, or very
> > close to 3:2. In one experiment I was using images that were 1280 x
> > 960 x 24 .jpg's @ 96 dpi for input. Then, I used the same images but
> > first resized them to 640 x 480 x 24 @ 96, and I got exactly the same
> > distortion. I had read someone's suggested solution that only 640 x
> > 480 's would not be distorted.
>
> > Would it matter if I input images in a file format other than .jpg?
> > other than 96 dpi?
>
> ===============================
> I don't know much about LCD monitors...
> I'm an old guy who still prefers a CRT.
>
> Anyway...Searching the Dell site turns up
> a user's guide that says the optimal resolution
> for the Dell 1702FP is 1280x1024.
>
> Setting the Optimal Resolution: DellT
> 1702FP Flat Panel Color Monitor User's Guidehttp://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/1702fp/en/optres.htm
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! -
> Digital Image MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQshttp://support.microsoft.com/ph/695
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk

If it is helpful to anyone else, I found the problem. Apparently, I
had never used WMP to view a movie file, or else I would have noticed
this before now. In WMP > Tools > Options > Devices > Display >
Properties > Pixel Aspect Ratio > the setting was .75, represented by
a horizontal ellipse. As soon as I changed the Pixel Aspect Ratio to
1.0, making the diagram a perfect circle, the distortion of the images
in the movie was eliminated. And, once again, life was good!

John
Thu Jan 31 00:49:07 PST 2008

tmmkc wrote:
> If it is helpful to anyone else, I found the problem. Apparently, I
> had never used WMP to view a movie file, or else I would have noticed
> this before now. In WMP > Tools > Options > Devices > Display >
> Properties > Pixel Aspect Ratio > the setting was .75, represented by
> a horizontal ellipse. As soon as I changed the Pixel Aspect Ratio to
> 1.0, making the diagram a perfect circle, the distortion of the images
> in the movie was eliminated. And, once again, life was good!
========================
Excellent!

Thanks for the feedback.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk