Re: resize images to 640x480

de Chong 05/23/2006 03:26

try xnview
works great

<Jack.Hambabo@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've got several photo which I want to import into movieXone. When
> doing it they get deformed.
> In order to prevent this, I want to resize images to max width 640 -
> max height 480 while keeping the aspect ratio (irfanview bath does that
> for me)
> And then I want to add black borders on both sides to the images to get
> a 640x480.
> What I can batch-do with irfanview:
> 1st step: resize images to max width 640, max height 480
> 2nd step: add black border - 640 pixel to the right, 480 pixel to the
> left
> 3rd step: crop the most upper left 640x480 pixel.
> (1 and 2 can be done in one step)
>
> I'd however love to have the black border symmetrical to the left and
> to the right. (or at the bottom and the top)
>
> So what I want:
> I want a 640x480 black canvas and on it in the middle I want the
> picture undistorted and as large as possible.
> And this should be done automatically.
>
> Can this be done with IrfanView?
> Is there another freeware program to do that?
>
> Thanks alot,
> Jack
>
> PS: Or does anyone know how to import a picture into movieXone 4.0 in
> either video stream A or B (video 1[the effects streams] can import
> pictures okay, but I need it for other moving text, images and videos,
> and I can have just one at a time) with it keeping the aspect ratio?
>