Igor

Thank you! Today I fixed this bug that happened in main program of PicturesToExe under Windows 98

Not in v5.00 As we tested slide show works very slowely on secondary display. It seems that DirectX is not designed for this purpose.

I just reproduced bug when AVI had only 58 seconds although it's 12 minute's slide show. Video Builder burned 12 minutes. Problem was with AVI only for not synchronized show. I'll fix it in the next beta.

We'll try to solve this problem. If it happens with particular slide show only and all is OK with others. Please send to my colleague, Sergey, full ZIP backup of this slide show. It will help us to quickly find and solve this problem.

Boogie, Yes, now you can totally disable all effects in global options or set Quick transition for individual slide. It was necessary because with random effects for usual effect we have effect duration (say 1.5 seconds) and 0 ms. of duration for Quick transition. In case of Pan/Zoom effects and Objects and animation window it gives logical problems.

Robert, We just prepared beta 8f it solves that bug with old projects created in v4.48 (Serget wrote you a letter with additional details): http://www.wnsoft.com/test/apr-deluxe_beta8g.zip Concerning black thumbnails on DVD. It's not a bug, almost in all cases Video Builder gets right picture from beginning of a second slide. But you can choose any moment of slide show to display on this thumbnail. See "Select frame" button on the second page of Video Builder.

Thanks, You posted to right section of the forum. All is OK, 1) What happens if you press Create button to produce EXE file with slide show. Does it work? 2) I prepared special test version, please download and install it: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/Beta8a_Var1.zip When you press Preview button you should see a series of message boxes (like "Point 1", "Point 2", etc.) Please let me know after what text message you'll see Access Violation error. It will help me to find exact place of the problem. 2) Try this example of slide show http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/Flowers.zip How it works on your PC?

Peter, We prepared special test version (with new music player), please try it. Download and install to a new folder. http://www.wnsoft.com/test/MusicTest_Setup.exe You should hear soft pulsing sound in all created slide shows (instead music). Without any stutterings. If it works fine we'll continue work in this direction. And we'll make new music player for v5.00. Please let me know about result. For all: Please also try this special beta (install to a new folder) and please let me know do you hear pulsing sound without stuttering?

We just prepared new beta 8e http://www.wnsoft.com/test/apr-deluxe_13-12-2006_updated.zip It fully solves that bug. Thank you for the help

Tom, Thanks

George, Please describe me in more details this problem with strange limitation to 52 seconds. 1) Does it stops when converting video of long slide show? 2) Burned DVD-Video disc contains only 52 seconds of video? 3) Same problem if you add .pte projects file or AVI to Video Builder? 4) Is there a problem if you create AVI file and add it to another DVD program, for example Ulead, Pinnacle?

Dear Stéphane, There are two ways to fix the problem you found: 1) First solution you already used (make image a little larger at this keypoint) 2) Use even numbers for width/height of an image. In your case it should be 1280x854 (instead of 1280x853) And set "Cover" mode of the object. It will fully solve this problem.

Thank you!

Kurt, It's not a bug. Current beta versions are not fully functional. The next beta 9 will be almost fully functional. Hans, For needs of Pan/Zoom/Rotate and right work of objects we should use relative sizes of images in v5.00 But you can set absolute size (global option) and make template that will be automatically used for new projects.

Please don't worry, we'll fix this problem. Beta is beta and especially of new product (Video Builder).

Hans, Really there was a bug with importing of old not synchronized slide show saved in previous v4.48 I fixed this bug in lastest beta 8. Al is also right - in new v5.00 time of slide includes duration of a transition effect. Yes, it easily possible in v5.00. Open Project options, Screen tab. Set checked "Disable scaling of main images" option and click "Set for existing slides" button to apply it for current slides. Now all current and all future slides will not be resized and shown as is. But I highly don't recommend this mode! There a lot of high resolution displays and your slide show will not look correctly. Also in v5.00 resizing of images looks a little better (more sharp) than in previous v4.48 So I recommend to use new mode suggested by default - proportional scaling of images.

Gérard, Thanks for good idea with email validation! Please let me know how email notifications/subscriptions works now? I've reconfigured the forum.

Robert, Thanks we're working on bug with mixer error 31. Video Builder in v5.00 will not support direct adding of MPEG2 files. It's a subject of the next version v5.1 Because we have to stop and try to make final build for the new version.

Thank you, friends for all your responses and suggestions! We're discussing with Invision this problem now. When we find several effective solutions, I'll write again in this topic. I hope that with your help we'll solve problem of spam on this forum.

Thank you for letting us know about this problem! We'll try to reproduce this situation and fix it.

Thanks for the information! I think now that it could be a problem with on board memory of video card that occur in 3D mode of video card. What do you see if choose some slide and click "Objects and animation" button ("Visual editor" in v4.48)? Did you try to run some 3D games on your PC, how they work? Please try to install latest DirectX 9.0c from www.microsoft.com and install latest NVIDIA ForceWare drivers from www.nvidia.com If it's a software problem it will help.

Stéphane, Excellent usage of new v5.00 Our congratulations! Thanks, we reproduced this situation and we will try to solve this problem. It happens because we operate with float point coordinates and sizes, but display has particular pixels and it's problem with rounding.

Please let us know: 1) Do you work with previous beta versions of v5.00? Or only with last official version 4.48? 2) Did you press Preview button in main window of PicturesToExe when it happens? 3) What video card you have installed and video memory size? 4) What version of Windows. If you have old video card with 16 MB of video memory, this problem will be solved in the next beta 9. If you have modern video card, I suppose the most likely drivers for your video card don't work correctly. Please install latest drivers.

Robert, Thanks! Sergey recently fixed that problem with error message. Please try special beta 8B: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/apr-deluxe_4-12-2006.zip (We reworked burning module, it temporarily doesn't show progress of burning) Try also set 320 kbit audio bitrate with this beta of Video Builder

Please try special beta 8B: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/apr-deluxe_4-12-2006.zip We reworked burning module (it temporarily doesn't show progress of burning) but maybe this beta will solve that problem with locking at 99%.