I have used Magix Photo Story on DVD 2013 Deluxe successfully for many years but always wondered if a portrait photo could be enhanced in any way to simulate a landscape photo instead of showing two black borders either side on a slide show. Can anyone help please?
Hi,
I don't have 2013 anymore, but I have the 2019 version. This should be approximately the same.
Make sure that you are in timeline mode, not Storyboard. Click on the photo. Click on the Effects tab, There you should see View & Animation and below it Size & Position. Click on it. Here you have all of the tools that you need to learn about. You can zoom in, but the best is to type in the width, presumably 1920 if you are working in full HD (1920x1080), Enter. The height will automatically change. Now drag the image in the preview monitor to show the part of the image that you want. Of course, some of the top and/or bottom will be cut off. For position, left should be set as 0.
I suggest that you read up on all of this in the manual, as modifying the size & position and keyframing is a big part of editing videos.
You may also want to review some Movie Edit Pro tutorial about this. It's the same.
John CB
Hi,
Thank you so much for your reply. As you suggest, as a novice, I'm going to spend some time to read up on this subject in the manual when time permits. In the meantime, it's nice to know that the possibility is there. Thank you again for your help.
Hi,
I don't have 2013 anymore, but I have the 2019 version. This should be approximately the same.
Make sure that you are in timeline mode, not Storyboard. Click on the photo. Click on the Effects tab, There you should see View & Animation and below it Size & Position. Click on it. Here you have all of the tools that you need to learn about. You can zoom in, but the best is to type in the width, presumably 1920 if you are working in full HD (1920x1080), Enter. The height will automatically change. Now drag the image in the preview monitor to show the part of the image that you want. Of course, some of the top and/or bottom will be cut off. For position, left should be set as 0.
I suggest that you read up on all of this in the manual, as modifying the size & position and keyframing is a big part of editing videos.
You may also want to review some Movie Edit Pro tutorial about this. It's the same.
John CB