885x480 - can't find in Steve's books

[Petey]

Hi Steve or Chuck,

I must be going crazy but when I look in Steve's two books for PE8, I can't find where he mentioned to resize images at 855x480 for DV widescreen? Could you please tell me the page number?

thanks,

Petey

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[Chuck Engels]

I use 864 x 480 myself

[Steve Grisetti]

That's because I don't, Petey.

Photos are generally 4:3 images. Resizing them to 16:9 would entail either distorting them or cropping them.

If you use the 1000x750 pixels size we recommend, you can fill your 16:9 screen and and, by scaling and position, you can decide then if and how much you want to trim from your photo.

On the other hand, if you're creating a graphic to fill a 16:9 video frame -- then, yes, 855x480 (give or take a pixel) should fill the frame.

Does that help?

[Petey]

Thanks Steve,

Funny, I thought I saw those dimension numbers in your book since I've been using 855x480 since I got your books. I wonder where I saw that. It's old age creeping in on me. I think I will add a few more pixels like Chuck uses. Actually, I was cropping my photos in Photoshop to that size so they weren't distorted. You're trick might be easier since I can make the adjustments in the program.

Petey

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