bripat
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Brian,
If you are using Internet Explorer you can find the direct link to your shows on Beechbrook by hovering over the image or the download link itself and reviewing the information provided in the lower left-hand corner of your browser. Hope this is helpful.
Regards,
Bill
Thanks, Bill, I think I've got it - I have added links to both shows.
Regards, Brian
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Brian –
Golly, another nice show. In fact, I liked it more than your first upload. Again, the big screen view is really nice, and the music selected is one of my favorites. I liked how you used your camera to show me around the city, looking up close at the little things, the unusual things, even the people shots help make it real. More faces would have been welcomed as its all part of feeling that I was there.
A couple of suggestions if you don’t mind: it would be nice to see the music and photograph credits (unless you’d rather not), and I think a date would be helpful for those looking at your shows 100 years from now. Again, you may have your reasons for not doing any of these things. You used some zoom and pans too. I found the zoom into the vertical distracting. The pans were fine except they were way too abrupt and fast. Slow and smooth would be the watch words here.
Lastly, I liked the fonts you used - made it look professional.
You’ve performed well Brian. You have a good photographer’s eye and I hope you keep shooting and sharing. I’m also pleased to see that you open your work up for critique. That is how one improves, huh.
Regards,
Dave
Dave, thanks for this response. As you probably know, the music is Pachabel's Canon. The pics are mine using a Canon EOS400 with EFS 17-80mm lens and were literally made as we walked and canal-cruised during the limited time we were liberated from the cruise ship (in Oct 2008). There are more faces in my original show, but many are my wife and she doesn't want publication. Just for the record, you may notice in the slide just after the flower market, Bill Clinton was seen cycling with flowers, presumably for Hillary!
I find zooming the most difficult to judge and object to the inevitable shimmering. Point taken.
On my earlier post, photographing in London, it was more discreet to use my compact Panasonic DMC-TZ7 which includes an effective long lens stabilizer.
Regards, Brian
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Hello Brian,
Thoroughly enjoyed the show. The crispness of the images and the different transitions and pictures within pictures worked well.
Thought the music was great , may I ask what it was or should I know it?
Hi, Antbrewer. The music is En Bateau by Debussy
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Thankyou to all above for your comment and compliments. I have just uploaded another show to Beechbrook and have asked for assistance in the procedure for providing a direct link from here to my particular items on Beechbrook. If you can help, I would appreciate it.
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Amsterdam I am on an ego trip, having just uploaded my first PTE show. There is, or will be shortly, on Beechbrook a sequence of shots during a day in Amsterdam. Comments/ critique would be appreciated
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British museum Mar 2010I have viewed this site for many years but I have not published shows because mine are almost always personal records of family and holidays. But here is a starter of an afternoon at the British Museum. Like others before me, would appreciate comments and advice to develop the art further. This can be located as British museum Mar 2010
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Anyone reading my previous post, please ignore it. The old images I used for version 6 trial were previously bordered and I had just forgotten that significant point. Just goes to show why I am categorised as a junior member! Sorry to bother you.
bripat
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I have just downloaded version 6 beta 20 and am delighted with the potential of 3D effects. But the images open, by default, with a border/stroke. I searched intuitively for the means to cancel this without success. Could someone please provide instruction to do so. Is there yet a user guide from Lin or others specific to version 6?
Thanks, bripat
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Brian,
I doubt if the quality of DVD (even high-definition) will ever be as good as an "exe" file shown directly on a pc or projector. It has something to do with the fact that your high-resolution images are squished down to 720 x 480, (or 540, or 576, or some similar size), in the process, and then expanded out to fit the screen. With this happening to your images, the video results can never be the same as in your original show.
It's a little like taking a piece of paper, cutting it into pieces, throwing away some of the pieces, rolling it all up into a ball, and then trying to smooth it out and put it all back together again. It can never look the same as it did.
The amazing thing is how good the image does look on a TV set, considering what it has been through.With high-definition TV, there are codecs which don't scrunch your images down as much (e.g. 1920 x 1080, or 1035, or 1152, or whatever), but that is a ways off in the future for us. Even here, I'm sure the images will go through some sort of a degenerating transformation in the interests of overall compatibility.
Thanks for that Al, you have confirmed what I suspected. I shal try to stick to .exe files straight onto my LCD TV.
Brian
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Brian,
I doubt if the quality of DVD (even high-definition) will ever be as good as an "exe" file shown directly on a pc or projector. It has something to do with the fact that your high-resolution images are squished down to 720 x 480, (or 540, or 576, or some similar size), in the process, and then expanded out to fit the screen. With this happening to your images, the video results can never be the same as in your original show.
It's a little like taking a piece of paper, cutting it into pieces, throwing away some of the pieces, rolling it all up into a ball, and then trying to smooth it out and put it all back together again. It can never look the same as it did.
The amazing thing is how good the image does look on a TV set, considering what it has been through.With high-definition TV, there are codecs which don't scrunch your images down as much (e.g. 1920 x 1080, or 1035, or 1152, or whatever), but that is a ways off in the future for us. Even here, I'm sure the images will go through some sort of a degenerating transformation in the interests of overall compatibility.
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I have been using this excellent program for 4 years and always displayed results directly from a laptop to either my LCD TV or to my digital projector/screen. The image clarity is excellent. I recently had need to produce a DVD, for distribution to family, a family event .exe show. I used ROXIO My DVD software.
I followed recommended settings such as interlacing, but the picture quality from the DVD on TV and Projection was noticeably inferior to that directly from my laptop. I had believed that the digital process would give effectively a cloned image quality..
What is the experience of forum members in this respect? Am I expecting too much? Would it ever be possible to achieve equivalent quality on DVD?
Brian
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Am now fully converted to V5 with its challenging features and opportunities. I use PTE for family and holiday pic slideshows and have always set up the 'control slideshow' feature to pause on left click,exit on right click, mousewheel to go forward/back. This is to cater for requests by viewers to linger on a pic of latest grandchild or great vacation view. But this control feature is not yet operational in V5,beta6. Could admin give an indication when this feature can be activated. Thanks
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Am now fully converted to V5 with its challenging features and opportunities. I use PTE for family and holiday pic slideshows and have always set up the 'control slideshow' feature to pause on left click,exit on right click, mousewheel to go forward/back. This is to cater for requests by viewers to linger on a pic of latest grandchild or great vacation view. But this control feature is not yet operational in V5,beta6. Could admin give an indication when this feature can be activated.
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I think you mean Autostitch? Here is the link:-
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
Its OK but the best I have found yet is PTGUI, its pretty much automatic now and does a great job especially when you use it with the free SMARTBLEND plugin.
Hope this helps
Thankyou ADB and Ken Cox for prompt response. This indeed is the link I was referring to. I did initially use the search facility but typed "photostitch" and so got negative response.
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I'm pretty sure that while browsing this forum a little while ago, I came across a link to a site run by college students offering a free download of photostitch software. This being particularly pertinent with the intro of v5 beta. I would like to take advantage of this . Can anyone help to provide the link please.
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Ok sorry to be so dumb. I'm now better educated,
Brian
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Brian
now go one step further
ver 5 will make a zip file of what you have done so far
file/create backup in zip
ken
Thanks again for this tip Ken. I have just created a Zip file of latest project, saved it to my audio visuals folder, but when I click to open it I just get the option OPEN without any recourse to opening from v5. So I get same notice as before and end up opening v4.48 apparently with no alternative, thus not able to extract my show. I'm reasonably competent otherwise, but this has me stumped. Can you spare the time to help further?
Brian.
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pte 5 will open a pte made with pte 5 only
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pte 4 series will not and thus the message
and pte 4 series is the default opener
you must open the pte program and direct to open the pte 5 pte
it is not a good practice to have programs on the desktop only s/c's to te programs
ken
Many thanks Ken for prompt reply. I have now retrieved my beta 5 first exercise and have moved the beta 5 download to my Program Files.
Brian
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I recently downloaded v5 beta 3 and positioned it on my desktop leaving v4.48 independently installed. I have used v5 for my most recent vacation slideshow but when I select "save as" for the pte file I get a warning notice "project files created with Pics to Exe v1.00-v1.60 are not supported now OK" I press OK to get rid of warning (there being no other option) but find on trying subsequently to open the file ( for second thoughts improvement to the slideshow) that my hard work has disappeared. ie the pics are no longer shown on the work panel. Fortunately I created an .exe file so I have my first effort but nothing to return to. Has anybody else experienced this and how can I securely save my work. Help please you expert guys and gals!
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P to X supports gif files and I have used Adobe Image Ready to create an animated gif. file which displays the intended movement when opened as a stand- alone file, but when imported into a P to X project,just displays a static image. What can I do to achieve the movement seen on the excellent Granot productions.
Brian Brasier
Just for a laugh
in Slideshows & AV Shows
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I have loaded a brief show on Beechbrook, titled Just for a laugh, in which the intention is to draw some humour from some pics I have accumulated over time. It would be interesting to see if it generates a chuckle.