[mdlug] Question - bulk aspect modification of image files

[bob dion]

The ImageMagick man page is a little sparse.

Better info here:

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php

Look at the convert -resize  command

Also there is Phatch - this is a gui front end to build scripts using 
the Python image library. Have a look at the ' Fit ' action.

Bob



Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> I'm making a couple of graduation videos for my cousins. One of them's
> due this weekend, and I've got quite a few pictures to place in the
> video. But the software I'm using for videos is kinda brain-dead (it's
> an old Windows program, that I'm using because it does what's necessary
> and the output will be similar to previous videos I've done). If you
> give it a picture where the aspect ratio isn't 4:3, it distorts the
> image.
> 
>  So, I'm hoping to use Imagemagick or something similar to take the
> existing pictures and frame them, set them on a colored background of
> the appropriate size. I'm sure there's a way to do this, and I can
> probably puzzle it out from the man page eventually, but I was wondering
> if someone more familiar with the tools has done something like this
> already?
> 
>  Thanks!
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
>  Ray Ingles                                           (313) 227-2317
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