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Downsize Images for the TV Overscan Area
Using Slideshow Assistant
This
workaround resizes images to be contained
within the TV Overscan Area in VideoWave.
If you want the images closer to the edges
on your tv, you might want to output it
in video format, add it back in VideoWave
as an Overlay, and then stretch it to your
own custom size.
Sample
here
Once
the video has loaded, press the Play button
to begin.
Downsize
Images for the TV Overscan Area
Adding
images that are not the correct 4:3 or 16:9
aspect ratio to a VideoWave production can
result in black bars that appear on the
top, bottom, or sides of the images. There
are different ways to eliminate the black
borders as well as resize for the TV
Overscan area, and this is just
one way to do it that may work for you.
This
works in Creator 2009, the newest version
of what used to be known as Easy Media Creator,
and should work in EMC versions 9 and 10,
as well.
Click
on the Create Slideshow
icon from the Home page of Creator, which
will open to Step 1 in Creator's Slideshow
Assistant.
In Step 1, click on Add
Photos, navigate to some sample
images and select a few of them.
Click
on Next to go to Step 2.
In Step 2, select
Travel Album from the scrolling Transition
Style list, set the desired duration,
and uncheck Apply Pan and
Zoom to all. Click on Preview
and notice that the images have the Travel
border around them and have been reduced
to fit within that border. Close the Preview
window and click Next to
go to Step 3.
In
Step 3, click the Edit
in VideoWave button and wait while
VideoWave opens. If you have a lot of images
it may take a few minutes to load and open
them all in VideoWave, so you may have to
wait a bit. Once in VideoWave make sure
you are in Timeline view and then select
the Travel album overlay and delete it (right
click on it in the Timeline and click Delete
in the context menu).
When
you play the slideshow all of the images
should be proportionately downsized to fit
inside the Travel border and also the TV
Overscan area, and you are now free to make
your own border and add it as an overlay,
or just change to a different background
than the black that is there now.
To
change the black background to a different
color, click on File and
then Production Settings,
and change Background fill
to another color, a gradient, or an image
on your hard drive. Click OK
to Preview your new background on all of
the images.
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