I recorded several clips in HD on a Flip Mino HD. Imported them into Movie Maker. In the preview window in WMM, they look like HD (more rectangle). I did all my editing, etc. Looked great in WMM itself.

Then I publish using the HD 720p option and once it is done, in Windows Media Player, it looks more square and everything is squeezed into the square making the person appear very tall.



I set Aspect Ratio to 16:9. Not sure what I am doing wrong. The goal is to get the HD video as originally recorded into the Published video to load to YouTube or Vidler.

Thanks for any ideas.

Be well,
Scott

SForsgren wrote:

> I recorded several clips in HD on a Flip Mino HD. Imported them into
> Movie Maker. In the preview window in WMM, they look like HD (more
> rectangle). I did all my editing, etc. Looked great in WMM itself.
>
> Then I publish using the HD 720p option and once it is done, in
> Windows Media Player, it looks more square and everything is squeezed
> into the square making the person appear very tall.
>
> I set Aspect Ratio to 16:9. Not sure what I am doing wrong. The goal
> is to get the HD video as originally recorded into the Published video
> to load to YouTube or Vidler.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> Be well,
> Scott

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The following article was written for XP Movie Maker
but still may be useful...also you may want to consider
using a Custom Profile...also mentioned in the article.

From Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3
PapaJohn's Guide to YouTube
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Distributing-YouTube.html

Vista path to Profiles folder:
C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\Profiles
[you'll have to Create the Profiles folder if it's not there]

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Sadly, I tried that as well. No luck. Still getting squished HD videos.