Re: Rotate 90 loses aspect ratio?
- From: Colin D <ColinD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:39:54 +1200
Terry Pinnell wrote:
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> Colin D <ColinD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >Terry Pinnell wrote:
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> >> Colin D <ColinD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> >Terry Pinnell wrote:
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> >> >> I'm a novice user. Just installed MM 2.0 (on XP SP1). One of the first
> >> >> features I took advantage of was the Rotate 90, from Video Effects, on
> >> >> an MPG from my digicam. It was taken in portrait mode but displayed in
> >> >> landscape mode, so I've used Rotate 90 to get it back to portrait. But
> >> >> that has now noticeably stretched the picture sideways, 'fattening up'
> >> >> the subject. How can I fix that please?
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Terry, West Sussex, UK
> >> >
> >> >Your monitor is not set up properly for aspect ratio. It appears it's
> >> >too wide for the height. If you have a wide-screen laptop you might
> >> >have to live with it, but I've never set one of those up so that could
> >> >be wrong.
> >> >
> >> >Colin D.
> >>
> >> Eh? You've lost me there! This is just a standard PC monitor...
> >>
> >Width and height controls on monitors are independent - you can wind the
> >width in or out, and the height up or down. If they are set up wrongly,
> >the picture is out of shape, probably not noticeable until you rotate an
> >image. If you know the aspect ratio for the digicam image you can
> >actually measure the height and width of the image on-screen and
> >calculate the displayed ratio. If it differs from the camera image
> >ratio, then your screen width and/or height needs adjusting.
> >
> >Colin D.
>
> I repeat: there is nothing significantly wrong with the width and
> height settings of my monitor. I did say "...noticeably stretched the
> picture sideways...". We're not talking a few mm here, in case that's
> your point!
>
> My Sony DSC-1's aspect ratio is 1.5 (2048/1360), and my PC monitor,
> like I'd guess 95% of monitors, is 1.33 (1024/768). How does that
> affect the issue? I'm not trying to FILL the screen! I just want to
> show a movie without asking the viewers to risk breaking their necks!
> Obviously, the price I pay for taking the original in vertical mode
> (and hence eliminating extraneous background) is that I will have
> black space on either side in the finished result.
>
> Anyway, I've now solved the problem from advice elsewhere. I've found,
> downloaded, installed and used the Rotate facility in VirtualDubMod,
> which (unlike MM) preserves the aspect ratio. Although most of it
> looks dauntingly complex to my novice eye, it's done exactly the job I
> was seeking.
>
> --
> Terry, West Sussex, UK
Great. I make the point that I was offering a *possible* answer to your
problem, not a definitive one. In the circumstances I find your replies
to be somewhat testy, leaving me feeling that I wouldn't care if your
pictures turned out octagonal.
Colin D.
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