tv safe zone cropping part of pics

[3youngones]

I've just got this program and am putting together a DVD for twins first b'day using slideshow assistant and videowave but when I watch the preview most of my pics have significant parts of them cropped out . Are there any different settings I should be using to avoid this? Also, once I've moved from slideshow assistant over to videowave can I take the same project back into slideshow assistant?

[ElginApples]

Does Image Cropper work on PCs with the Vista OS?

[sknis]

Does Image Cropper work on PCs with the Vista OS?

Don't know but this one does.(MIR), The part about working in Vista is new.

 

Looks like Image Cropper hasn't been updated in awhile. You may want to e-mail the developer to see what his plans are.

 

For MIR, start here:

To give anyone who want to try it a head start, for images that are in landscape, apply this setting:

Border: put about a 125 pixel boarder around the image.

For portrait, as a starter, put a top and bottom border of about 350 and a left and right border of about 1000 pixels. Since not all images are the same, you may have to play with this a bit.

 

Irfanview also works in Vista.

[ElginApples]

To give anyone who want to try it a head start, for images that are in landscape, apply this setting:

Border: put about a 125 pixel boarder around the image.

For portrait, as a starter, put a top and bottom border of about 350 and a left and right border of about 1000 pixels. Since not all images are the same, you may have to play with this a bit.

Thanks for the heads up about MIR - this software looks like it is "Vista ready".

 

Thanks too for the details above about the borders and numbers of pixels for landscape and portrait image borders. I have (what I am sure is not) an unique problem. I have photos that go back to the late-1950's that I want to have scanned and then included in a slideshow on DVD. These old photos are in all sorts of sizes, and the smallest photos are about 3" x 3", all the way up to 8"x10" and even a few 11"x14" prints. And a few odd sizes in between.

 

Do I have to specify a border for every single photo?

What does Videowave do for odd-shaped or odd-sized photos?

Does Videowave fill up the "spaces" from the edge of the photo or edge on the image (i.e. photo plus border) with a black background?

 

I would like the viewer to see all the photos almost full-screen (using the 85% resizing factor) on a 4:3 or a 16:9 TV screen with just enough black frame to ensure that images are not cropped.

[sknis]

For those that are really odd sized, put a color panel on the main track in the right place and then add the image to the panel as an overlay. (Select the color panel and then add image You'll get a pop up asking where - select overlay. Grab the corner of the overlay and drag it to fit into the TV safe zone. This is too tedious to do a lot of them this way.

 

As for the others, no just use the two border sizes; one for portrait and one for landscape. See if they fit and adjust accordingly.

 

BTW, you can do them one at a time in Photoshop (which you said you owned) or in Photosuite. In Photoshop use Image >Resize>Scale> yes to all that layering options > then apply 85 %. The image will show a checkerboard pattern around it that you can color to what you want. Consider selecting the same color that you will be using for the backgrounds in VideoWave so you will not have a bunch of different colors.

 

In Photosuite, add a new canvas, color it and then add an image to it. Resize the image to 85% of the original via calculation or just drag it to about the right size. Since there is no way of selecting 85%, it is much more difficult but easier with practice. Perhaps someone else has a better way.

 

You can also change the background for the entire production to a different color than black, to a gradient effect or to an image. This will surround the image if one dimension is too small for the TV safe zone.

[3youngones]

thanks it all sounds so simple now - I'll try this and hope for the best.

 

Use a free program called Image Cropper to resize the images. You can do a folder at a time. You will be putting a colored border around the image and that border is what ends up outside the TV safe zone. Try around 85% depending on the TV you are going to use.

 

Other programs can do this but the advantage of Image Cropper is that it does a whole folder. That program saves the cropped images under a "name -copy" name so the slide show will not see the change unless you do some renaming. Remember to put your old images in a different folder from what you originally used, put the cropped images in the original folder and then rename them.

 

No, why would you want to? Look at the time line view of the project and you'll easily see how you can edit the original to add or rearrange images.

[Cher]

Use a free program called Image Cropper to resize the images. You can do a folder at a time. You will be putting a colored border around the image and that border is what ends up outside the TV safe zone. Try around 85% depending on the TV you are going to use.

 

Other programs can do this but the advantage of Image Cropper is that it does a whole folder. That program saves the cropped images under a "name -copy" name so the slide show will not see the change unless you do some renaming. Remember to put your old images in a different folder from what you originally used, put the cropped images in the original folder and then rename them.

 

No, why would you want to? Look at the time line view of the project and you'll easily see how you can edit the original to add or rearrange images.

 

Thanks for the tip on the Image Cropper.....I think I"m learning to read GREEK!!!!!! haha! I am a computer geek fairly well, but, this is a new learning curve for me.

I was trying to figure out image cropper & what size & what to do ect......... argh!

So, I think it may be easier & quicker to go into my other photo program and batch resize the images to a smaller size (say 20% less or so) had them at a 5x7, then tried 4x6, realized that's still too large in some.

The main show of the DVD will be shown on a Projection screen, then the others are for TV viewing or computer viewing. Am I correct in the figuring that images are supposed to be 4:3, and i think it was 760x580 NCTS (might have #'s a little wrong and letters wrong - going just from memory here.lol)

 

Thanks! anyhelp appreciated.....i'm a real newbie, but, the light bulb went on for the ECS9 video wave today for me....yeah! brain started working & cld figure the new program out a bit more.

[sknis]

Thanks for the tip on the Image Cropper.....I think I"m learning to read GREEK!!!!!! haha! I am a computer geek fairly well, but, this is a new learning curve for me.

I was trying to figure out image cropper & what size & what to do ect......... argh!

So, I think it may be easier & quicker to go into my other photo program and batch resize the images to a smaller size (say 20% less or so) had them at a 5x7, then tried 4x6, realized that's still too large in some.

The main show of the DVD will be shown on a Projection screen, then the others are for TV viewing or computer viewing. Am I correct in the figuring that images are supposed to be 4:3, and i think it was 760x580 NCTS (might have #'s a little wrong and letters wrong - going just from memory here.lol)

 

Thanks! anyhelp appreciated.....i'm a real newbie, but, the light bulb went on for the ECS9 video wave today for me....yeah! brain started working & cld figure the new program out a bit more.

 

Really don't worry about the initial size of the image. The program resizes them to almost fit as long as they are 4:3 ratio.

 

If you are doing a slide show for projection from a computer, you don't have to crop them. What you see on your computer monitor will be what you see on the projection screen. If you are going to watch a DVD from a player on a SDTV, I use a 85% (of original size) setting. I used to do it in Photoshop Elements but image cropper is much quicker if I forget to make a full size image and then a resized one at 85% initially. If you are going to watch the DVD on a HDTV, then the overscan is less so a higher setting is possible.

 

BTW, if the images are portrait, use image cropper and select a color border that you like. In Video Wave, you can use the project settings for handling non 4:3 size to put a color background in the production. Just select the same color or use one that is complimentary to what you added in Image Cropper. You can also use a gradient or even an image.

 

Take a look at the tips and tricks section for a lot of help on Video Wave. There is a post about one way to do it which is the process I use. There is one about pan and zooming and some videos on how to do some other things. That is a good area to find out all kinds of things in one place written by the people who have solved some issues and wanted to share. PS don't ask questions there, put them in one of the other forums.

[sknis]

I've just got this program and am putting together a DVD for twins first b'day using slideshow assistant and videowave but when I watch the preview most of my pics have significant parts of them cropped out . Are there any different settings I should be using to avoid this? Also, once I've moved from slideshow assistant over to videowave can I take the same project back into slideshow assistant?

 

Use a free program called Image Cropper to resize the images. You can do a folder at a time. You will be putting a colored border around the image and that border is what ends up outside the TV safe zone. Try around 85% depending on the TV you are going to use.

 

Other programs can do this but the advantage of Image Cropper is that it does a whole folder. That program saves the cropped images under a "name -copy" name so the slide show will not see the change unless you do some renaming. Remember to put your old images in a different folder from what you originally used, put the cropped images in the original folder and then rename them.

 

No, why would you want to? Look at the time line view of the project and you'll easily see how you can edit the original to add or rearrange images.

[Cher]

Thanks so much!

Cher