Hi Simone... I assume you are asking about making it with Photo Story 3.

Go to my website papajohn.org > use the menu to go to Photo Story 3 > Import Pictures. That covers the part about distorting the pictures used in the story so they'll look good when saved to a story at 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio.

Then go to the Saving page in the same section... there are a number of custom profiles you can download, including one for a widescreen 864x480. I changed the profile slightly since making the one about Florence.

RATIONALE FOR INCLUSION IN THE PHOTOSTORY SHOWROOM

There was never any doubt in my mind about which videoclip I was going to put as first entry into the PhotoStory ShowRoom. Well let me correct myself: “which” one was still open for discussion, but “whose” that was very clear to me. As far as PhotoStory and MovieMaker are concerned there is only one “guru” and that is PapaJohn. With his 7 MVPs he is certainly as famous and important in his field as Michael Jordan was in the NBA.

One has only to visit his website (take a few hours) papajohn.org/ to realize that this invaluable source of information gives an answer to all questions and issues one may have when using PS3 or MM2. The world of multimedia (photo-video-audio) applications is like an old attic sometimes, where fine things can be discovered at the strangest places. Well I think that PapaJohn has been searching in all corners off that attic and he always came back with a new tool, which he fully tested, published the resulting video on the internet, and then reported his findings in one of his hundreds of technical publications. These newsletter and articles are also available on the internet ( papajohn.org/PapaJohn-Articles.html ) and are constantly referenced from the main website, offering a very structured and modular reading on any subject matter. And reading some parts again the other day in order to prepare this comment, it struck me also how well everything is kept up-to-date on the website, a tremendous job because the newsletters and articles on which it is based are not revised of course and only reflect the state of art at that particular point of time.

I could go on and on about the man and I should be saying something about this particular video now. But I have to mention a few more facts because they shed some light on the reasons for the choice I finally made.
- from May 2004 till March 2008 he published 193 issue of his weekly “Newsletter” of which number 25 was already completely dedicated to PhotoStory. I discovered PS3 and started using it towards the end of 2005
- on February 6, 2008 I announced the start of a channel called PhotoStoryMagic on this rather new HD-hosting website Vimeo. Within two hours I received a first answer from no one less than PapaJohn himself:
Hi John... Thanks for the invite... I joined and uploaded a story for starters.
One of his early uploads was this “An overview of Florence”, which is a first attempt proving that widescreen 16:9 videos can be created with PS3.

So in a nutshell: PapaJohn was already using and promoting PhotoStory when most of us, and I for one, were still unaware of its existence. He showed the way to making fine slideshows and was a mentor to many of us, always months ahead in knowledge and experience. This example shows that he was thinking about HD-widescreen when most people were still struggling with their first “mudpies” as our good friend Ray used to call them. But this is not only a milestone on the technical side, because apart from that it is also a splendid video-report of a nice stay in Florence when travelling all over Europe with his wife Bernadette in the summer of 2006. Those are a few reasons why I selected this video as a first entry for the PhotoStory Showroom out of PapaJohn’s enormous set of uploaded videos which were almost all valid candidates for such a nomination

Whoops what an unforgivably error!!! Sorry John but OK it's corrected now

John, your sure know how to make someone feel special. Thank you for the tribute, and for your relentless efforts spreading magic seeds that sprout into videos worthy of being showcased.

Some who read this thread are already doing more with pictures and sounds than I am... constantly providing inspiration. Others can easily turn their libraries of treasured images and music into stories and share them with family, friends, and more. It's never too early or late to begin.

Ray, thanks for the followup note and correction.