On Tuesday 28 December 2010, Gene Kohlenberg wrote: > On 12/28/2010 9:25 AM, bill purvis wrote: > > 1: My laptop has the newer wide-screen format, as does my projector. How > > do I pursuade Impress to use this? At present, it is using the old 4:3 > > format and padding out the sides with black bars. As my presentation > > includes some wide- screen format images, these end up with wasted space > > all round! > > > > 2: I want to include some movie clips in my talk. My video camera > > produces .mov files: 1280x720 pixels, MJPEG format PCM sound. When I try > > to insert (using Insert->Movie and Sound or Tools->Media Player) it says > > that this format is not supported. I'm not (yet) proficient in video > > formats but am willing to have a go at converting, but can't find > > anything that tells me which formats are supported. I'm running 3.2.0 at > > present, but I'm thinking of moving to 3.3 pre-release if that's > > reasonably stable. > > > > Many thanks.., > > > > Bill > > I have a computer and projector with 16x10 format. In Impress I went to > Format>Page and set the width to 11.2 in. and the height to 7 in. If > you have a newer 16x9 computer and projector, you will need to adjust > those numbers. > > You will need to convert the .mov file to .avi. Use something such as > RAD Video Tools to make the conversion. If you want to change the size > of the video on the slide, go to View>Toolbars>Media Playback. You can > use the zoom function to change the size of the video. If you just drag > a corner of the video frame to change size, it only changes the size of > the box that the video appears in. > Thanks, that's useful. Pity it isn't in the Help info, or the FAQ. I'll give that a go and see how it turns out.
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