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J@cKiE23 · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:33 pm Post subject: sceen size

srry if this question has already been posted.

some videoclips that im using have different sizes and when i put them all together it looks really bad becasue it goes from widesrceen to fullscreen and it makes ur eyes hurt watching it. how do i make them the same size

thx

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Aislynn · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, unless you have a program like Sony Vegas that can (I think!

) crop and otherwise do magical things

to the aspect ratio, there's only two options I really know of if you're using Windows Movie Maker.

You can just try to live with it and do your best to group the widescreen and the full frame ones together as much as possible to try to keep from flipping quickly back and forth between the two.

Or, if you're feeling very adventurous, you can look here:

http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=28889

This explains how to create a custom effect in WMM that will basically widescreen a full frame clip. So you can apply this effect to all of the clips you have in your vid that are full frame and this will make them match the widescreen clips a little better.

Sorry there's not an easier answer.

Good luck with whatever you do!

phoenix39 · Novice Vidder Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 479

If you're using Windows Movie Maker, just follow these simple steps.

Go to Tools--> Options--> Advanced.

Then for Aspect Ratio, pick either 4:3 or 16:9 and then click Save.

Now, all of your clips should be the same size.
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Aislynn · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:41 pm Post subject:

It's bizarre but that won't work for me for some reason.

That was the first thing I tried when my clips got messed up and even if I would render the full framed ones, for example, into the 16:9 widescreen size, they'd still come out in 4:3 full frame every time!

Never have figured out why that is. 'Cause otherwise what good is that whole changing the aspect ratio thing, right??? I've found it just changed the preview size but not the finished rendered size, even though that's what it says it does.

J@cKiE23 · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:23 am Post subject:

lol thanks for ur help

well this is my first vid and im really trying to make it into the best i can but, i keep bumping into problems like this one

i tried both of ur suggestions but when i tried to change the ratios of the fullscreen, i got really excited because i thought it worked but it only made it alitte smaller and it was still alot bigger than the widescreen. and when i tried to change the widescreen to a 4:3 ratio, windows movie maker said it was already in a 4:3 ratio and i couldnt make it any bigger.

when i read that one website on how to make them smaller the first couple of words confused me

it said this:

phoenix39 · Novice Vidder Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 479

Aislynn · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:40 am Post subject:

MovieGuy · Advanced Vidder Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 9022

How about rendering the 16:9 clip by itself and then putting in the vid with 4:3 clip?

J@cKiE23 · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 6:34 am Post subject:

Aislynn · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject:

J@cKiE23 · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:37 am Post subject:

oh thank you sooooo much!!!!

I got it to work and it looks so much better, because the clips are pretty fast at some parts and its kind of annoying to watch them flip from big to small.
i think i understand what ur talking about with the fade thing.
i guess i just got to be really percise

thx again youve been so mush help

and thank phoenix39 for your help too. i think if all of my clips were full screen and i wanted them to be widescreen that would have worked.

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