Why does photostory crop my photos in the movie templates?

rweldr wrote on 6/16/2014, 9:46 AM

When using the movie templates I insert an image into a placeholder, but when I play the movie back it always crops the photo cutting off the tops of peoples heads.  They are not cut off in the actual photo and nothing I change in photo story seems to help.  I have tried image optimaization and aspect ratio adjustments but to no avail.  

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johnebaker wrote on 6/16/2014, 12:11 PM

Hi

I would suspect you are see the effects of different aspect ratios (AR).

For example you are importing a 4:3 image into a 16:9 project and the template wizard is cropping the image to the projects AR - in the case of a 4:3 image it is cropping the top and bottom to achieve a 16:9 ratio rather then pillar boxing the image.

If this is the case then either:

  - crop copies of the images, in an image editor to the AR of the project, and import these on to the timeline (preferred option)

or

  -  stop using the template wizard and manipulate the images manually.

HTH

John

 

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rweldr wrote on 6/16/2014, 1:01 PM

Thanks, John.  I had tried several different aspect ratios before (4:3, 4:6) but it does the same thing every time.  The image looks fine in the thumbnail in the timeline, but when I "play" a preview of the movie the image in the preview pain has the top of the head cut off.  Very frustrating.  Still working on it.  I love the movie templates otherwise.  This makes no sense to me. (Yet).

john.williams93 wrote on 10/9/2016, 2:04 PM

Hi, I have exactly the same issue as you on Photostory Delux 2016 (I know yours was posted  over two years ago but Magix have not resolved the issue on further editions. It's a fault at Magix and they need to sort it out.