Windows media player

Hello. When playing the video I`ve made, all the people - and everything -
gets very lean and tall.. seem very strange! What do I do to make thingns
look "natural" and not tall and lean? Hope to hear form you!
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Tove

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Tove


"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 23:39:01 -0700, Tove
> <> wrote:
>
> >Hello. When playing the video I`ve made, all the people - and everything -
> >gets very lean and tall.. seem very strange! What do I do to make thingns
> >look "natural" and not tall and lean? Hope to hear form you!
>
> How did you make the video (what software was it ?)
>
> In general, if you shot a 16:9 (widescreen) aspect ratio video, then
> converted or output using a tool which always makes 4:3 (TV) aspect
> ratio, everything will look distorted
>
> So you'd need to ensure your video editor was set to 'maintain aspect
> ratio' if you shot widescreen - or not to manually resize if you shot
> 4:3 e.g. at 640x480 then output at 240x320 instead of 320x240
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2009
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Hello Neil, and thanks a lot.
Well, I made the video on a JVC Everio-hardisk camera - and just imported it
into my pc.. When I opened the files Windows Media Player just started to
play the many clips..
>I am afraid I am not quite sure what size I shot the film in... and where to ajust it in Windows media player...
Tove

I've been creating Windows Media files with "Flip-4-Mac" plug-in (Final Cut
Pro) for several years, standard definition, outputting at 320x240 or
480x360. I used to in Windows Media Player 9 and Win 98SE, and the aspect
ratio in playback was correct. Now I have Windows XP and Windows Media Player
11, and the picture looks *just a bit* "pinched". Not much, just a little,
including video I'd edited some time back. I don't see any controls in
Windows Media Player to adjust playback window ratios, and I'm using standard
window sizes.
Steve S.

"Tove" wrote:

> Hello. When playing the video I`ve made, all the people - and everything -
> gets very lean and tall.. seem very strange! What do I do to make thingns
> look "natural" and not tall and lean? Hope to hear form you!
> --
> Tove