How to resize photos for viewing on a 16:9 TV ?

[Jacobus Serpenti]

Hello,

I hope this is not another stupid question. I take photos at a resolution of 1600x1200 (4:3 aspect ratio) and I would like to view them fullscreen, without any deformation nor distortion, on a 16:9 wide screen TV.

I've tried several combinations a resizing, cropping, stretching, squeezing to no avail : a circle eventually looks like an oval or the photo doesn't fill in the entire screen (which is absurd!)

I'm using ulead dvd moviefactory for building the photo slideshow, but it doesn't include any resizing tool, so manipulating every single photo (out of a collection of several hundreds) is too cumbersome.

So the final questions : how to do the resizing for a viewing on a 16:9 screen ? Is there a tool that automatizes this ?

thanks a lot
jacky serpenti

[mats.hogberg]

(4:3 aspect ratio) and I would like to view them fullscreen, without any deformation nor distortion, on a 16:9 wide screen

If you ponder this statement for a while, I'm sure you'll see that this is impossible, if you don't crop it down to a 16:9 format first.

/Mats

[Jacobus Serpenti]

Hello Mats

Thanks for the advice, by cropping you mean actually removing a part of the photo to have it fit into a 16:9 ratio box (1600x900) ?

If so, do you know of a program doing that on batches of photos (several hundreds at a time) ?

Best regards
jacky

[kabanero]

Hello Mats

Thanks for the advice, by cropping you mean actually removing a part of the photo to have it fit into a 16:9 ratio box (1600x900) ?

If so, do you know of a program doing that on batches of photos (several hundreds at a time) ?

Best regards
jacky

Hi Jacky

I do this with Paint Shop Pro 9. It has batch prosses utility. Also you can record your own script and aply it to several hundreds pictures at once.

This is how I do it.

1. I open one picture to work with.
2. I click Record Script button.
3. Resize pictutre from 1600x1200 (4x3) to 854x640 (4x3) at 100 dpi.
4. Resize canvas (crop) from 854x640 (4x3) to 854x480 (16x9) at the same 100 dpi.
5. Click Save Script button and save my custom script with some name.
6. Start Batch Proccess dialog, select all your pictures, select your custom script and click Start button.

Works great.

But this is for NTSC TV wich has aspect ratio 1.33 with frame size of 720x480 for 4x3 TV and 1.78 aspect ratio with frame size of 854x480 for 16x9 TV.
As far as I know PAL TV 4x3 frame size is 720x576 with aspect ratio 1:25. 16x9 frame size would be 854x576 with aspect ratio of 1:48. You need to double check.

Regards.

[mats.hogberg]

Nope, no idea, I'm afraid. But wouldn't you like to determine which 1600*900 part of the 1600*1200 you'd like to keep for each image? I mean, on one pic, there's lots of blue sky that you can live without, while on another, there might be a vast stretch of water in the lower half, but that rare seagull near the top edge is what the pic is all about.

/Mats