Trying to get still images to fill the screen..

[davidc71048347]

I have did several slideshows in elements and have never had any trouble getting the pictures to completely fill the screen in expert view. Now for some reason I can't make it happen. When I export to a movie it has some black screen around the pictures. Is there something i'm forgetting to do? Thanks in advance for any help.

[Steve Grisetti]

If you look under the Edit menu, what is listed on the General page under Project Settings?

What is the height and the width of your photos, as measured in pixels?

[davidc71048347]

Picture Size

[davidc71048347]

I resized the photos to 2000 x 1500. They are now filling the screen. but when I hit play it's skipping scenes and lagging.

[williebegoode]

You might be running into a memory problem with images that big. Your originals are 6016 x 4000, and the scaled up / down are 1020 x 1080 and now 2000 x 1500. Try this. Re-save the originals to 2000 x 1500 as jpg files with different names. (If you're using png or larger, you'll be using a lot more memory.) Try it again, and see if that helps.

[david1966]

nothing is working....my question is why would it have worked a week ago and not now?

[Ann Bens]

1080i (interlaced field) is not a good choice for stills. Best is to pick a progressive project.

after you downsized the images you need to fit/scale them manually.

You can do one, copy and paste attributes on the rest.

[david1966]

HI Ann, not sure what you mean by progressive project.

Thanks