First off, thank you for looking into my problem. I appreciate your time.
I. I am using the latest version of Elements, version 11.
II. Project settings:
I am not sure which of the settings you are referring to, so here goes. There are three tabs of settings, General, Capture and Video Rendering. Some of the fields were grayed out, some were dark black.
GENERAL TAB:
Editing Mode: HD 1080i
Time base: 29.97 frames per second
Playback Settings:
Realtime Playback
The box next to "Desktop video display during Playback" is checked.
External Device: None
Aspect Ratio Conversion: Hardware (if supported)
Desktop Audio is selected
Export:
External Device: none
The box next to "Disable video output when in background" is checked.
Video
Frame Size 1920 horizontal 1080 vertical
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels (1.0)
Fields: Upepr Field First
Display format: 30 fps drop-frame time code
Title Safe Area: 20% horizontal 20% vertical
Action Safe Area: 10% horizontal 10% vertical
Audio
Sample Rate 48000 hz
Display Format Audio Samples
CAPTURE TAB:
Capture Format: HDV
VIDEO RENDERING TAB:
The box next to "Maximum Bit Depth" is not checked
Previews
File format: I-frame only MPEG
Compressor: MPEG I-frame
The box next to "Optimize Stills" is checked
(Note: Just asking. How is the novice supposed to know what settings are best for a particular project?)
III. The photos I used as pictures are actually freeze frames from the videos I shot for footage. So the "photos" are whatver size they are because of that. (I don't know how to find out what size they are, nor do I know how to change the size.)
IV. I don't mean to sound dumb, but I don't recognize WMV. Do you mean Publish/Share > Computer > Windows Media? I did convert a file to that format and checked it out. The converted file does seem to work fine and all of the images playback properly positioned and formatted.
Again, I appreciate your help.
Thank you.
John
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