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86 4. Show Options

• Custom: selecting a custom Aspect Ratio allows you to set your
show for use with any dimensions you might need. For example,
if you plan to show off your work on a 22" monitor that has a pixel
resolution of 1680 x 1050, you would want to choose an aspect
ratio of 16:10.

Remember; when possible you should always try to match the Aspect Ratio
of the show to the display the show will be viewed on. When you mix
aspect ratios, your shows can end up looking a little odd.

For example, if you create a show using 4:3 and play it on a widescreen
television, based on how the television is configured, the show will either
be stretched out to fill the screen, or will appear as a smaller box in the
middle of the TV.

Alternatively, playing a 16:9 show on a standard 4:3 TV will make the picture
look squashed – too thin compared to how it should look since the wide
picture is getting compressed into a smaller width.

On some more modern TVs it might also cause the display to be
“letterboxed”, which is when black bars appear above and below the
widescreen picture. You get the whole picture but it doesn’t fill the screen.

Note: you can change the aspect ratio of your show at any time during
show creation; however this does change the size of your slides.

If you change the aspect ratio, some adjustments and tweaking might be
needed in order to make sure everything looks the way you expect. You can
easily make a show in both widescreen and regular TV formats by making
two versions of the show – one in each aspect ratio. Choice is never a bad
thing to give your audience.