Fitting video to screen

[LaBambaMan]

Hey, i'm workin' on a short film with some of my friends. However, we wanted
a better shot and so we turned the camera sideways to get both actors on
screen better. Now when I bring it up in windows movie maker and rotate it
90degrees so the scene isn't sideways, it ends up squishing it. Is there a
way to get it to stretch to fit the screen and be the size of a regular clip?

-Spencer

[John Inzer]

LaBambaMan wrote:
> Hey, i'm workin' on a short film with some of my friends. However, we
> wanted a better shot and so we turned the camera sideways to get both
> actors on screen better. Now when I bring it up in windows movie
> maker and rotate it 90degrees so the scene isn't sideways, it ends up
> squishing it. Is there a way to get it to stretch to fit the screen
> and be the size of a regular clip?
>
> -Spencer
=============================
Have a look at the following message:

Rotating loses aspect ratio?
http://tinyurl.com/y8htdg

And, maybe the following links
will offer some ideas:

Rotating and Cropping
a Video Scene
http://tinyurl.com/9zslp

VirtualDub
http://www.virtualdub.org/

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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

[LaBambaMan]

Actually that didn't help. According to WMM my video has a width of 320, but
after rotation it isn't at 320, even though WMM says it is. Isn't there a way
to crop something on WMM without having to download virtualdub? I can't get
virtualdub to open anything.

-Spencer

"John Inzer" wrote:

> LaBambaMan wrote:
> > Hey, i'm workin' on a short film with some of my friends. However, we
> > wanted a better shot and so we turned the camera sideways to get both
> > actors on screen better. Now when I bring it up in windows movie
> > maker and rotate it 90degrees so the scene isn't sideways, it ends up
> > squishing it. Is there a way to get it to stretch to fit the screen
> > and be the size of a regular clip?
> >
> > -Spencer
> =============================
> Have a look at the following message:
>
> Rotating loses aspect ratio?
> http://tinyurl.com/y8htdg
>
> And, maybe the following links
> will offer some ideas:
>
> Rotating and Cropping
> a Video Scene
> http://tinyurl.com/9zslp
>
> VirtualDub
> http://www.virtualdub.org/
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! -
> Digital Image MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQs
> http://tinyurl.com/aczzp
>
> 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 Inzer]

LaBambaMan wrote:
> Actually that didn't help. According to WMM my video has a width of
> 320, but after rotation it isn't at 320, even though WMM says it is.
> Isn't there a way to crop something on WMM without having to download
> virtualdub? I can't get virtualdub to open anything.
>
> -Spencer
============================
No, Movie Maker cannot crop a video.

If VirtualDub won't open your video clips,
the format must be incompatible.

Maybe converting your video clips to the
..avi format would be worth a try.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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