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  3. Hi Mark, Thanks for these details. I really apologize for that unpleasant issue with PTE AV Player on your Mac! Earlier I asked you: 3. Do you see the error, if you open manually PTE AV Player from Applications for the first time (it was not launched in the Dock). Then open .pteav or .exe show in the Open file window? and you replied me: I re-read your answer. If PTE AV Player runs correctly you open it manually from Applications and then choose .pteav show file from the Open file window, it means that the most likely file association (the Player and .pteav files) is broken. But it's really unusual problem. 1. Try to put .pteav shows into another folder on your Mac, outside system folders Documents or Desktop. A new folder in your Mac's home folder. 2. Check the Trash Bin to and remove any old "PTE AV Players" if you find them there. It's important. Probably file assocition works for the old deleted copy of the Player? I've seen this situation once on my Mac. Then run manually the Player in Applications and after this, try again double click on a show file in the Finder.
  4. Does it not depend on your intended output? For optimum quality, a 1920x1080 mp4 needs 1920x1080 images for full screen display with no zooming applied. If zooming is going to be applied then larger is better. For a 4k mp4 the optimum would be 3840x2160 if no zooming is applied. For an mp4 there is an argument for using full size images out of your camera and letting the mp4 output do the resizing for you. It will not affect the size of the mp4. For executables you must consider the maximum monitor/projector size on which it is likely to be displayed. There is no "best" but there is optimum. If the output is going to be submitted to a competition then the competition rules will usually state a maximum resolution/pixel size for the mp4/exe. That maximum size will determine your optimum image size.
  5. 1920x1080 for a 16:9 ratio Jill
  6. What is considered the best image size in pixels
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  8. Geri

    Audio

    Thank you so very much! It works!!!
  9. Mark, on my 1920x1080 display there were grey bars at each side - due to the fact that you were sending a 16:10 ratio image & I was receiving it & displaying on a 16:9. Some AV's were losing part of the image, text was displaying outside the frame or missing part of it. Some seemed to be stretched vertically - had a black band at the top but not the bottom, although the actual image didn't appear stretched. Also when the on screen display flashed up at the start it was showing - display at 90% or words to that effect. So I don't think it was displaying the full picture By using VLC player you shouldn't get any of these problems. However your 16:10 display will always show grey bars at the side on a 16:9 screen. If other people didn't see these it will be because their screen ratio was most likely 16:10 Hope this helps Jill
  10. jkb

    Audio

    you need to split the clip (right click & choose Split) at the point you want to repeat & then Duplicate it (right Click) Move the duplicated bit to the point you want. It may be better to move the split part & then extend it so that you keep the original ending & repeat a phrase from earlier. Jill
  11. Exactly the same Igor, crashes on the first launch bit when I click on reopen, and find the file, it runs fine. But it is not a problem, I can work around it. I am sure you have much better things to do. It was just FYI, and the possibility a Mac user would immediately identify the problem and tell me I'm a muppet for making a simple mistake.
  12. Hi Igor, i will try the previous version and get back to you. I must stress this is not a big problem, or even a small problem. Just an anomaly. As the Macbook does not have 1920x1080, I used the nearest 16:10 and it was it go over Zoom, I went for 1728x1117. Internal display, which is set under 'Better Display' to Notch, ProMotion, 10 bit, +HDPI ( I have no idea what any of that means!) an Update Update on getting a PTE 'exe' or 'pteav' file to run as a menu on a Mac. Our LAVG Zoom 3-club exchange went well on Friday evening. My Mac cannot produce 1920x1080 (16:9) as it has a default ratio of 16:10. The nearest I could achieve was 1728x1117 pixels (16:10). However, I noticed a few anomalies and others noticed a few annoyances. The anomalies were that my (paid for) mp4 player, Movist Pro, tended to stretch two of the mp4s when I was in full-screen mode. Interestingly, some folks using Windows saw borders, some grey some black, whilst other Windows users didn't. Mac users didn't. This would suggest that some Windows users may need to look at their setup. These bars were an annoyance to some. Another annoyance was the appearance of the mouse pointer, which had disappeared for me, but not it would seem across Zoom. I was told that VLC would automatically hide the mouse cursor, so I have installed it as my default player and it does work better. I noticed no difference in image quality, which was the alleged selling point of Movist Pro. Sometimes the menu would run the mp4 (Movist Pro) open in full screen and stop at the end, and when I closed Movist Pro, it would return to the menu. But, sometimes it opened on a different virtual screen and I had to intervene to get it to display. Then when I closed it at the end, it refused to return to the menu and again I had to intervene and return to the virtual screen with the menu. Why it would sometimes work and sometimes not, is beyond me. In the past, my approach of just using Finder and playing the mp4s from a list simply worked every time. Another simple approach is to create a VLC playlist and play from there. But, a nice menu system does look much more professional. And for competitions and festivals, essential. After seeking advice it seems the only way to get around this is to create an 'exe' or 'pteav' in PTE AV Studio from all the supplied mp4 and then use 'Run Slideshow with return'. I may try this as an experiment, but as PTE AV Player falls over every time it is run for the first time from Finder, yet opens fine when I use the 'reopen' button, I am not too sure. I would like to thank Adrian White, Derrick Holliday and Jill K. Bunting for their advice and support
  13. Geri

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    How do I add a repeat of the last few bars of an audio clip? I have tried everything and all I get is a blank extension with no music.
  14. Hello friends at Wnsoft forum. Thank you for your suggestions. Formatting a flash drive here in the US varies. Our recently new Sony BRAVA TV will play a 4K video from a flash drive when formatted in EXFAT and other brands will not. Then also older Sony TVs will not work with EXFAT. What a joy to use Wnsoft software on our M1 MAC. Currently building a 40 minute 4K video with slides taken from a trip I took to the High Tatry Mountains in 1987. Already around 50 hours of labor and Wnsoft is running flawlessly. Not one single glitch!! Thank you Igor for such a fine product!!
  15. Hi, I agree with comments above. Choose a MP4 with 1920 x 1080 (HD) and create 2 variants - 60p (the best option) and 30p (for compatibility). Note, that many TVs cannot play video files from EXFAT formatted external USB drives! Use NTFS formatting instead.
  16. Why not use WeTransfer? Send a short test mp4 - maybe one at 30p and one at 60p and find out which works best. DG
  17. I think most drives are in NTFS format - at least for Windows. Assume Mac is the same as they can be read on both systems. Just Publish an MP4 at 60p and it should work, but I think some older TV's will only play 30p. Jill
  18. Wanted to ask if this applies too when they play a video from our flash drive on their computers? Thanks again Bill
  19. Hello we live in the USA and have friends in Germany. I understand their TVs are PAL and here in the USA is NTSC. If I build a video and send on a flash drive should it be formatted in EXFAT and rendered in PAL or NTSC format? Can one render in PAL with Wnsoft PTE? If uploaded to Vimeo must it be rendered differently for our friends.in Germany to see. Thank you for your help. Bill
  20. Roumi, digartal, chanfi22, Thanks everybody. Appreciate the comments. Alex
  21. Mark, Thanks for these details. Can you try previous version 11.0.11 of the PTE AV Player? https://files.wnsoft.com/test/PTE-AV-Player-11-0-11.dmg 2. Do you use internal display of your Macbook Pro 16" ? Or external display? If external display, what its screen resolution?
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  23. Hi Jill, I was thinking of reaching out to you. But, you have been so helpful over the years that I didn't want to be a burden, and of course, I know you do not use a Mac. I sent out a few posts to various Facebook groups asking for a Zoom test. My friend from Exeter, Derrick Holliday answered almost immediately (and I then wiped all the FB requests.) What I discovered with a test with Derrick, over Zoom was No sound output, speaker. Zoom thinks my Yeti mic is a speaker, this has to be manually changed to my 'Macbook Speakers' in Zoom Settings|Audio, every time I start. No sound input, mic. Zoom defaults to Boom 3D. I have to quit the Boom3D app. This has to be changed to my 'Yeti Mic', in Zoom eSettings|Audio, every time I start. The 16:10 MacBook screen ratio does not work well with 16:9 1920x1080. My Macbook offers (with 'Notch', 'ProMotion', '10bit' and 'HiDPI') offers 3456x2234px 2056x1359px 1728x1117px You found my Zoom screen recording at 2056x1359px to be rather large, so I have moved down to 1728x1117px Not all MP4's received are at 1920x1028 @ 60fps. Indeed there can be many different settings. This is identified by MovistPro on start-up, which will reflect the details for a few seconds on starting the mp4 video file. If I were to do this again, I might follow Derrick's suggestion of creating a new PTE project for each mp4. Create a blank 1st and last and then save it as a pteav file. This approach allows you to create a menu system that will always come back, after playing each pteav file. But when go have 14 mp4s, this is a lot of work. For 65 at a festival !!! I have it all working now. See you on Friday
  24. Mark, have you tried using VLC Player instead ? This is the preferred player for MP4 files & is available for both Mac & Windows. You can easily set it to Quit at the end so that it automatically returns to your Menu. It is what I was using all weekend at the Peter Coles Competition. Not sure if the same version will work with both Mac & Crossover if you will need to install both versions . Jill
  25. Hi Igor, Tom, Thank you both for your detailed replies. Before I started to build the menu on my MacBook Pro (MBP) updated everything, PTE Studio 11.0.12 Silicon, PTE AV Player 11.0.12, MacOS14.4. Once all was updated I rebooted my MBP. I already had both 'exe' and pteav' files set to open with PTE Player as the default setting on my MBP. However, I did have Crossover and the Windows version of PTE AV Studio on my MBP. When I run my menu exe within Crossover 24 it opens without a hitch and after my mp4 video plays (automatically in full screen in Movist Pro) when each mp4 stops I quit Movisit Pro, it returns back to the menu, perfect. I then shut down Crossover, and rebooted, and when I try and run either the exe or pteav file with PTE AV Player, by double clicking, it crashes. (previous screen shots refer.) It offers me the option to 'Reopen' and when I do this both the exe or pteav file will run fine PTE AV Player. I get the same result by opening PTE AV Player as an app from 'Applications', it asks for the file and opens in PTE AV Studio fine. Although the PTE AV Player refuses to close and I have to use Force Quit. (just FYI) I am confident I will be able to host the event over Zoom this Friday. It is just a bit strange that I can't double-click in Finder without an error.
  26. Hi Mark, When I use one of my videos from your menu it opens the video file but does not autoplay. If you wanted that I would probably create a .pteav file of the video so it auto plays. Also when I click on a .pteav file in finder it always plays the file without having to open it. On the Mac If you right click on the file and select "Open With" it should have PTE AV Player as the default program (you can change it in Finder using "Get Info") . Maybe you have multiple versions of PTE installed and the Mac is using the wrong version. I don't have an app like Parallels virtualization so I can't check running Windows .exe files. Tom Mac mini M2 16GB Sonoma 14.2.1 PTE 11.0.12
  27. Mark, Thanks for your reply. I'll update our Mac to 14.4 tomorrow and will check again. Please remdind me about configuration of your Mac (model name). UPD. Try also reboot your Mac.
  28. Hi Igor, thanks for your speedy reply. I thought I might have been doing something wrong. I did download the latest versions of Studio and Player, before starting the menu. Both 'exe' and pteav' files are set to open with PTE Player as the default setting on my MacBook Pro 16" M2Pro. 1. Yes 2. I did this and get the same error message attached. If I click on reopen it opens it fine. 3. This works, much in the same way as 'Reopen' in the error message. PTE Player just doesn't;t seem to work directly from Finder as the default app by double clicking on an exe or pteav file. Strange.
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