Windows Essentials

picture shrinks in Movie Maker

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Archived post from July 11, 2014. Product: Windows Essentials – no longer developed by its maker. Details may be out of date.

Question asked on Jul 11, 2014

I have Windows 7 version of MovieMaker.  My pictures download fine from my camera into MovieMaker and I'm working in 16:9 format with JPEG files.  The size is 5184x 3456 in MovieMaker.  However when I save the completed movie under the recommended HD setting, the top and bottom edges of the pictures appear to be cut off or the whole picture is zoomed in.  I have carefully composed my shot, but in the saved movie version now mountaintops and steeples are cut off.  I had a lovely picture of stained glass windows with the colorful reflections on the floor and in MovieMaker the reflections were cut off---picture was ruined!

How can I keep this from happening?  I've been saving my movies onto a flashdrive and then playing on the TV, which has worked well except for this problem.

Another issue:    I did recently also notice that some pictures have a "flutter" in the middle---not sure if that's the flashdrive or how they were saved by MovieMaker.  Any ideas?

Bewildered & Frustrated

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