photostory 3 movie has wrong aspect ratio

[edong]

Using papa john's profiles of 1920x1080 and 1280x720 and digital pictures with 16x9 A/R, the resulting slideshow is stretched wider with black borders on top and bottom(letter-box). I was hoping that it would fill the screen of my HDTV. Is there a setting that I should know about? If I crop my pictures then Photostory's default A/R of 4:3 is displayed correctly. Then the HDTV has borders on the left and right.

My goal is to create a wide screen HD slideshow using AVCHD to be played in my Blu-Ray machine

[guns1inger]

The outputs have black bars after coming out of photostory, or after further conversion ?

[edong]

The outputs have black bars after coming out of photostory, or after further conversion ?

Right after the PhotoStory.

Like I said, if the pictures are cropped to 4x3 A/R, Windows Media player displays the A/R correctly but for a widescreen monitor, I do not want to crop my 9x6 pictures. What it is doing to my 16x9 pictures is, the people look fatter.

Thanks.

[guns1inger]

The following is taken from papa John's website, just two lines up the page from where you downloaded the templates

If you use the widescreen profiles... be sure to resize the images you use in the story before you import them, or the video shape won't look right in the Windows Media Player. See the Photo Story 3 > Import Pictures page.

If you go to the Import pictures page you will find the follow regarding 16:9 output

Photo Story can be tricked into making widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio stories by using a custom profile.

The trick is to deliberately distort your images before importing... multiply their width in pixels by .75117 (if your resizing app doesn't handle the extra precision, using 75% is close enough).... or their height by 1.3313 (133.13% for higher quality but larger file sizes). Leave the other dimension as is. They'll look kind of squeezed as you work on them in PS3, because you can only work in the standard 4:3 view... but the saved story will look fine.

[edong]

The following is taken from papa John's website, just two lines up the page from where you downloaded the templates

If you use the widescreen profiles... be sure to resize the images you use in the story before you import them, or the video shape won't look right in the Windows Media Player. See the Photo Story 3 > Import Pictures page.

If you go to the Import pictures page you will find the follow regarding 16:9 output

Photo Story can be tricked into making widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio stories by using a custom profile.

The trick is to deliberately distort your images before importing... multiply their width in pixels by .75117 (if your resizing app doesn't handle the extra precision, using 75% is close enough).... or their height by 1.3313 (133.13% for higher quality but larger file sizes). Leave the other dimension as is. They'll look kind of squeezed as you work on them in PS3, because you can only work in the standard 4:3 view... but the saved story will look fine.

It worked! Thanks for researching that for me. Most of my pictures are 4000x2256 so I will have to change the height to 3000. I should have but never thought of that trick(silly me) because I was confident that Papa John's profile will take care of everything.

Now I have to figure out why my XP computer(3Ghz P4, 1GB RAM) with ample storage space is displaying "not enough storage" when doing the 1920x1080 profile for a 5-picture test movie. It does 1280x720 though. Thanks again.