Process Multiple Files to Reduce View Size within Safe Margin

I use Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements. I am looking for a way to multiple process 400 pictures to Premiere so photos are not cropped because of TV 4x3 image cropping some safe margin. In photoshop I could increase the canvas size to give a black boarder which gives the effect I want. The Photoshop File/Process Multiple Files... does not allow canvas size change. In Premier I can resize using effects for safe margin individually. I am looking for a procedure to multiple (bulk) process. I would even prefer some black letterboxing rather than losing the edges of the images by the TV and Premier cropping.
This must be a common need. - Thanks for any help.

I know of no way you can batch increase the canvas size of your photos, John. Sorry. It is not a feature of Process Multiple Files.
For what it's worth, the area that's lost around the edges of your video frame isn't due to any cropping by any of the programs. It's something your TV does, and it's called overscan.
But it varies greatly from TV to TV -- so one TV may cut off up to 10% while another may not cut off any of the edge of your video frame at all and you'd just be stuck with your black box around the outside of your video frame. Is that really what you want?
Also, CRTs (the old style of TV) tend to cut off much more of the frame edge than LCDs and plasma screens, which cut off almost none. So, depending on who you're doing this video for, it may not be worth the effort.

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The folder I was trying to process was in another folder with a
backslash in the name. Once I removed the backslash, Process Multiple
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I will change the settings on my Pentax Optio W30 Camera; after I get some help regarding the size issue, so my future photos will be easier to manage.
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Process Multiple Files jpegs grayed out

Process Multiple Files in Photoshop Elements 10 for Mac OS 10.9.2 worked on several folders of jpegs then stopped working. Any folder that contains jpegs has the jpeg files grayed out. I get the error message, "The source folder you have selected is empty." However I can work on the jpeg files in that folder if I do it one at a time. I tried quitting the program then going back in and still I get the same error message.

R_Kelly
The folder I was trying to process was in another folder with a
backslash in the name. Once I removed the backslash, Process Multiple
Files worked again. Thanks for the quick response and the helpful hint.
Sincerely,
Todd
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resizing the photos. But you don't really want to resize the photos, just change the ppi setting. Is there a particular reason you want them to be 300ppi? PPI is a setting that only matters for printing or if you are sending a photo somewhere that requires that marker to be set to 300. Your camera doesn't know anything about ppi, only absolute pixel dimensions (eg 2480 x 1795 or whatever).
When you go to print, however, your printer may prefer to have a higher pixel density, since it can play your pixels like an accordian: squash them closer together or spread them out thinner, depending on that ppi marker. The pixel density determines the inch/cm size of your print (at 72 ppi you'll get a print that's hugely bigger but less detailed; at 300 ppi a crisper smaller print.)
I'm wondering why you would want to batch convert a whole big bunch of images at once, though. It would help if you would explain just what you want to do with the photos that requires the 300 ppi.

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