It's been a long time since I've had to use Windows Movie Maker so I'm still using a machine with Windows Vista Business, Version 6.0, SP2, Movie Maker version 6.0.6002.18273.
I started with a .MOV widescreen home video (properties say it's 1920x1088) and it previews fine in WMM but upon publishing it keeps scrunching into a narrow format. I've been looking up answers to this and I've already tried a bunch of the usual suspects:
1) Video properties are set to NTSC, aspect ratio 16:9
2) Under publishing settings I've tried various things from:
a) "Best quality for playback on my computer (display size 1920x1080, aspect ratio 16:9)"
or
b) I've tried some of the "More settings", including DV-AVI (NTSC, 720x480 16:9), Windows DVD Quality (720x480 4:3, which is not what I want), Windows Media DVD Widescreen Quality (720x480 16:9 but it still doesn't work)
I don't get to select "High quality video (large)" as suggested by some of the threads I've searched because I seem to be using an older version of WMM and this is not one of the choices available.
Strangely, the one only way to get output that looks widescreen (but really poor quality) is to tell WMM that the video format is PAL, which it's not. I'm not able to upload such a large PAL file to facebook, in any case.
Are there any other suggestions for how to fix this with my version of WMM?
Thanks.
Two questions 1) After I get my music loaded into my movie maker, I would like to burn the slide show (photos and music only) to a CDR or a DVD. I would like them to be able to watch it on their tv. What do I buy to burn it? I have a CDR, but don't
think that can be seen on TV, can it? Do I need something else?
The second question is the pictures have black edges if I put the aspect ratio to widescreen. Is that how it will look to them on their widescreen? Too bad I didn't see how to crop and save the skinny pictures. But there are 389 of them, so I do not want to be converting all of those. Is there an easier way to make them fill the whole screen or should I just leave the aspect ratio at standard? It looks better in the movie maker, but I don't know how it will look on the widescreen tv--probably worse?
Thank you.
The second question is the pictures have black edges if I put the aspect ratio to widescreen. Is that how it will look to them on their widescreen? Too bad I didn't see how to crop and save the skinny pictures. But there are 389 of them, so I do not want to be converting all of those. Is there an easier way to make them fill the whole screen or should I just leave the aspect ratio at standard? It looks better in the movie maker, but I don't know how it will look on the widescreen tv--probably worse?
Thank you.
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