Ronniebootwest Posted June 9, 2007 Report Share Posted June 9, 2007 I am very pleased with the DVD's that I have made with 'Video Builder' and the way they look when played on my 42" wide screen digital television.The other day, I hooked my laptop up to the TV and expected that my PTE slide shows would display in 'wide screen' mode but they only played in a small portion at the centre of the screen. Clearly I am doing something wrong and need some guidance!Can someone post the basic steps for creating an slide show (exe) that will fill a wide screen when played on a television please.Ron West Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightec Posted June 9, 2007 Report Share Posted June 9, 2007 RonI am not sure that I understand the question, but all I do is select Project Options, then Screen and then from the drop down menu the 16x9 screen size. For the menu I do the same in the video builder section, it all works well for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronniebootwest Posted June 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2007 hello Mike,but have you linked your laptop into your 'wide screen' television and then run the .exe file?Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jevans Posted June 10, 2007 Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 Ron,Although I have not tried to connect my computer to my wide screen tv, I think your problem is probably due to the fact that your graphics card will still be set up for your monitor. If you look in the "project options", "screen" tab, you will see that PTE recognises your monitor setup. So say you have a 1280 x 1024 setting on a 19 inch monitor, when you connect to the tv, that is the picture size you will get.What you are discovering is a problem that I am wrestling with at present. My Nikon D80 takes 3:2 aspect ratio images (e.g. 3872 x 2592 pixels). Now I want to watch my shows full screen on a 19 inch monitor set to 1280 x 1024 (5:4 aspect ratio). Of course I can crop the images in Photoshop. But if you have a lot of images, I prefer to batch process them and just resize rather than crop. So I end up with 3:2 images. Now PTE allows you to set up the default size of the images in the "screen" tab. You can select from a range of standard settings or specify your own setting. So I select a 5:4 slide and use the "cover slide" function in the O&A window. I lose some of the image on either side by doing this, but I would still lose some of the original image if I had cropped it. Unfortunately the default setting on the O&A window is "fit to slide" and you cannot change it. This is a feature I have requested for the next version. By doing this I view my slide show in full screen ( no black lines at the top and bottom) and can still project it via an av digital projector set at 4:3( 1024 x 768).What I think you may have to do is create a special slide show in which you set the PTE slide aspect ratio to 16:9 and then use "cover slide" to fill the image.Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronniebootwest Posted June 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 Jeff,Thanks for this detailed explanation, I will try what you have suggested and see what happens.Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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