Hello Grai,

Welcome to the PhD forum

In the Slideshow module, which defaults to 16:9, what options did you select to produce your video?

Are you referring to the black bars at the sides of the video? That's because many cameras produce photos in something like 4:3 aspect ratio. In a 16:9 video, there will be black bars. The way to overcome that is to crop each photo to 16:9.



It sounds like something else is happening if you say the photos are "tiny in that space". Could you please post a screenshot of part of your slideshow?

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This is a screenshot of what I am getting. The actual photo sizes are 680x183. The box in whole is coming out that size but the actual photos, as you can see, are very tiny inside of the box

Here is the actual wmv slideshow

Hello again,

There's the issue. The images you're using are almost 4:1 aspect ratio and they're being displayed in a 16:9 screen. By the way, some of them have been stretched to the point of distortion.

If you want to avoid the black space, it's best to match the AR of the photos with the AR of the video. Another option with 4:1 shots is to pan across them (which you cannot do in PhD)

In the attached example, using your 8 images:
1-2 - no cropping
3-4 - minor cropping
5-8 - cropped to 16:9
- slideshow generated in PhD
Last 4 images are panned (made in PowerDirector).

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