Black border on video created by Windows Live Movie Maker
Have you ever feel very frustrated because your HD video created using Windows Live Movie Maker has a black border on the sharing result? I did ~.~
Frustrated and felt desperate, I just closed Windows Live Movie Maker, and planed to buy another video editing program. But then, while I browse on internet to search alternative for Windows Live Movie Maker, I realized there is a button in this program to change the aspect ratio!! By default, the aspect ration is 4:3 which is not a widescreen format. That's why my vid came with black edge. I really don't know why Microsoft do something like this while the majority of screen produced right now are widescreen. Probably this is an old program that still come with new Windows?
Anyway, to change the aspect ratio, click on view -> Aspect ratio -> Widescreen (16:9).
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So simple as that @_@ The result was not too bad, below you can see the example of editing that I done on Microsoft Live Movie Maker, with 1280x720 HD size.
The conclusion? As long as you only have WMV format on your video, Windows Live Movie Maker is not a bad tool at all. It comes free with Windows Live Messenger and done the job like paid program do (title, animation, crop and rotate video). Just need to change some setting and you will be able to produce an amateur HD video :)
Frustrated and felt desperate, I just closed Windows Live Movie Maker, and planed to buy another video editing program. But then, while I browse on internet to search alternative for Windows Live Movie Maker, I realized there is a button in this program to change the aspect ratio!! By default, the aspect ration is 4:3 which is not a widescreen format. That's why my vid came with black edge. I really don't know why Microsoft do something like this while the majority of screen produced right now are widescreen. Probably this is an old program that still come with new Windows?
Anyway, to change the aspect ratio, click on view -> Aspect ratio -> Widescreen (16:9).
So simple as that @_@ The result was not too bad, below you can see the example of editing that I done on Microsoft Live Movie Maker, with 1280x720 HD size.
The conclusion? As long as you only have WMV format on your video, Windows Live Movie Maker is not a bad tool at all. It comes free with Windows Live Messenger and done the job like paid program do (title, animation, crop and rotate video). Just need to change some setting and you will be able to produce an amateur HD video :)
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Cheers :)
It would be great if they'd make some kind of update to this tool, because there aren't many free video editing tools out there, and most of them are difficult to learn and use.