advice needed for making youtube video with pictures

i am trying to make a video to post on youtube and i am using pictures only.

there will probably be around thirty pictures and i am using windows movie maker to create the video.

i made a test video and some of the pictures seemed to be automatically resized either by windows movie maker or youtube. not sure wich one is doing that.

so my question is:

to get the best effect and fill up most of the youtube movie frame, should i be resizing all these pictures to the same dimensions before creating the movie ?

is there a standard picture size that works best ?



[edit on 25-6-2009 by easynow]

You are always going to be better off when making a movie with JPEGS or GIFS, to resize the images to the same size.

You will find you have less pixilation that way and the finished product will be much more satisfying.

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thanks darkangel831,


yes that's what i thought, all the same size makes sense. this is my first attempt at something like this so i am learning as i go.

i wonder what size i should make them all ?

450x400 ?

550x450 ?

600x450 ?

i was thinking somebody might have already done this and could let me know. it would be nice if i could get the whole screen covered with the pictures instead of having black on both sides of the pic.

thanks again

[edit on 26-6-2009 by easynow]