Vertical Images (Portraits) Sizing for Widescreen??

[youngone]

Hey Guys

Very new to ProShow Gold and love the results, best I have ever had from any slideshow program but I am still having problems with vertical images or portraits?

I like most people have widescreen TV 16/9 and every time I place a portrait image into the slideshow and then play it back onto any TV they make the image square and distorted? I have the settings for widescreen and the horizontal images look great !

Any ideas on what I can do, at the moment I am trying to re-size the image in Pro Show but they still look wrong.

Is it because I have full sized sensor and so the format of the image is always going to look wrong? I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark II?

Or should I just be setting the slideshow to the old TV sizing and put up with the black bars on either side of the screen - which I don't really want to be doing but will if it means I have to have horrible looking portraits.

Many thanks in advance
Chris

[bellzerr Profile Private message]

Chris -
Welcome to the forum.
I don't think your issue has anything to do with your TV. When you play your show from within ProShow on your computer, are the portrait images correct or distorted? If distorted, you likely need to change your "scaling" setting for the layer.
1. Double click the slide on the timeline to bring up the slide options screen.
2. Click the Layers tab, the Layer Settings
3. Now check the setting for SCALING. If it's STRETCH TO FRAME, that's your problem. Use the pull-down box to make a different selection. If this is not the problem, we'll need some more information beginning with my first question: Does the slide playback properly from within ProShow?
Mark

[youngone]

Thanks I will try that for sure, from memory when I play it within Pro Show it seems to be OK, but my screen is not as wide as the TV I guess? I will have a look at those options though thanks !

[DickK Profile Private messageWebsite]

Make the show as an exe and look at it on the computer. If everything looks okay then it's not ProShow, most likely it's the settings on your player and/or the TV. Another thing you can try is playing the DVD on the computer--if the EXE was okay then I'd bet it will be fine. My guess is that something is trying to scale the video for the TV and you'll need to turn it off.

Dick

[youngone]

Thanks heaps everyone, I have got it sorted now onto the next problem which I will post a new topic on.

Cheers
Chris

[bellzerr Profile Private message]

Hey Chris -
So what was wrong? Tell us so all the readers can learn something.
Mark