I know how to make WMM widescreen!

isaac_steiner · August 17, 2007, 5:59am

Ya im sooo excited now im going to make my videos widescreen. YES! Does anyone want to know how or do alot of you already know?

Isaac

isaac_steiner · August 17, 2007, 6:14am

this is how my BC Wheel Video turned out with widescreen.

Isaac

isaac_steiner · August 17, 2007, 6:44am

Does anyone want to know?

isaac_steiner · August 17, 2007, 7:00am

Ok I will tell everyone.

Open Windows Movie Maker.
Go to Tools at the top of the screen.
Then click Options.
Okay then click Advanced.
There is a little box that says “Video Properties”
Click 16:9 instead of 4:3.

There you go. Now everyone can have widescreen for there WMM videos.

Isaac

thejdw · August 17, 2007, 7:41am

hello…? anybody there?..? …hello…?

btw liked the BC vid

isaac_steiner · August 17, 2007, 8:01am

Thank you.

dunawan · August 17, 2007, 9:11am

Nice, did you research that online or did you discover it yourself?

isaac_steiner · August 17, 2007, 10:23am

No I just figured it out myself.

johnfoss · August 17, 2007, 11:47am

A good general tip for anyone using software made by Microsoft. All the really useful functions and options are usually buried, generically, under “Advanced.”

jamessd · August 17, 2007, 12:05pm

Thats kool, i’m going to use that in the video i’m making now. Does anyone know if you can rotate clips? I’ve filmed some good stuff, but in portrait and it comes out sideways… ive never known how to rotate it??

isaac_steiner · August 17, 2007, 12:12pm

Ya you can…just right click the clip and click video effects and its somehwere in there.

thejdw · August 17, 2007, 12:55pm

they follow KISS

Spencer_Hochberg · August 17, 2007, 2:03pm

Don’t make a video widescreen if you didn’t film it that way, it just gets smashed and looks bad.

isaac_steiner · August 18, 2007, 4:17am

how do you film widescreen? And I dont think it looks smashed.

needlnerdz · August 21, 2007, 4:17pm

You should do a google search of ‘widescreen camcorder’ or something similar… just taking 4:3 ratio (standard television) and bumping it to the 16:9- just stretches the video as others have noted… and to my eye, looks horrible… little squaty figures, everything is disproportional. Here is a camera I found after a quick google search that can help explain true widescreen video recording:

All FILM movie/cinema cameras capture in that 16:9 ratio… which is why when you goto the movies the screen is sooo wide. When they put it on DVD, a good conversion for your tv will be in whats known as letterbox - where they just put the black boxes on the top and bottom, so that they shrink the video, letting you see the whole thing. Crummy DVDs do whats called ‘full screen’- where THEY choose how to crop the movie as a 4:3 ratio… and its obvious in some movies if two people are sitting at a table, an the camera quickly pans from left to right… the original movie had both people in the frame, but in the crop they have to pan the camera… a really good DVD gives you the option of how you would like to watch the movie… some people prefer bigger picture, cropped… while others like myself can live with a slightly smaller image, but getting to see the WHOLE shot how the director had planned.

Long story short… you cant just take your movie and make it widescreen… (well you can if you crop off the top and bottom of your video, which requires a professional video program like Final Cut Pro/Adobe Primeire…etc.) - For now I would leave you videos they way they are unless you splurge for a widescreen capturing camera.

Hope that explination helps - and for the sake of quality control… please do NOT stretch any of your other videos to this false ‘widescreen’

BTW… awesome videos… youve got some mad skills that I hope to gain as I start to learn to ride a uni

cheers

johnfoss · August 21, 2007, 4:31pm

Not exactly. Here’s a link to a fascinating listing of all the various screen sizes that have been used over the years. The most common size is 2.35:1. The 16 x 9 ratio equates out to 1.78:1. That’s why Panavision and other widescreen movie formats, when purchased as widescreen DVDs, still have letterboxing across the top and bottom.

If you want to get into anamorphic lenses, that ups the number of motion picture cameras using the 16 x 9 ratio. Maybe that’s what you meant…

For the near future, it looks like 16 x 9 will be the size of TV programming. The old 4 x 3 is fading fast!

forrestunifreak · August 21, 2007, 9:36pm

Hmm, it looks a little stretched, but it’s not too bad.

Looks like you’ll be landing those hops in no time!

needlnerdz · August 21, 2007, 10:34pm

DAMN! Thought I could get away with rough generalizations… tough crowd here…

uni_mattster · August 22, 2007, 2:52am

Good on ya for finding that and there’s some other pretty cool stuff in the advanced options I didn’t know about but like others have said, all putting it in 16:9 is doing is squashing the clips to make a black strip along the top and bottom. Most good camcorders can film in widescreen (in fact pretty much any camcorder should be able to. I’ve got a pretty cheap Panasonic which just cuts out the top and bottom in cinema mode)

Sure widescreen looks cool but your much better off leaving it as it is than squashing it.

I too use WMM but I’m pretty sure iMovie (Apple version of Movie Maker) can do a letterbox effect where it simply puts black strips on the clip. And you can change how thick they are to effectively have any aspect ratio you want

Eddbmxdude · August 22, 2007, 5:24am

Are you joking?

Or are you just a midget?