Pictures Without Black Bars
I'm working in photoshop and creating an image that will fit widescreen format in my imovie perfect. However when ever I bring the image in imovie it gets black bars on each side (left and right) and appears stretched.
Help?
Thanks in advance.
There are two ways to avoid the black bars after importing an image to a DV Widescreen iMovie project:
1. Before importing to iMovie, crop the Photoshop image to a 16:9 aspect ratio; or
2. In iMovie's Photos tab, increase the zoom so the 4:3 (or other aspect ratio) photo fills the 16:9 iMovie screen on all sides.
When using #1, don't worry about the narrow black edge iMovie displays along the right and left sides of the image; those won't be visible when the iMovie project is exported to iDVD or QuickTime.
If you've created a DV project instead of a DV Widescreen project, try creating the latter. iMovie lets you select the project type when you create a new project. Use the popUp menu at the bottom of the Save File dialog where you assign the project name.
You might also want to try one of the two HDV project types, which are both 16:9. The 720p type may be large enough.
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