splitter64

I agree. It's very risky for the author of the program PTE (do you think I don't know who he is?) to send me special backdoor/spyware/trojan (test) application, which isn't available to the public. You are showing a good knowledge of computer security ethics, thanks. And besides, the author of the program PTE just have confirmed potential problem of the program PTE, so you don't care about other users who may face it, right? It's rhetorical.

Um, I guess so. Can I trust you?

Igor, thanks for your attention to the problem! 1. Over 9 GB. (Over 9000 MB ) 2. Yes! 3. Screenshot attached. 4. All my tests were even less than 10 seconds (one slide with all settings by default).

nobeefstu, I don't understand your point at all. If CPU/GPU of a PC is limited, it can be hard for it to play HD video only because it's a real-time task. Encoding video isn't a real-time task, it just can be too slow on a slow CPU. Also, I don't think that built-in encoder is so dependable on a video card, such solution is quite not universal. Anyway, a program should warn the user about insufficient resources in such cases. - I think my netbook will play well only SD/H264 video, but I didn't check it - Windows XP Professional SP3 The test you suggest have failed, empty file. Several free megabytes of memory (somewhere around 7 in my case, I checked that ) shouldn't help much during encoding process. Any other ideas?

Okay, thanks. I'm still looking forward to see some more thoughts on the problem here.

I've just tried PTE 7.0.5 on another computer with GF MX440 video card (drivers and DX9.0c installed). PTE refuses to open "Objects and Animation" window complaining about video card, Minimize Video Card Usage option doesn't help ("Objects and Animation" thing works fine on my netbook though). But that's not the worst part , rendered .mp4 files are empty again.

Are you using version 7.0.5?

My hardware is a netbook, Atom N455, 2GB of RAM, and Intel GMA3150. I've just tried enabling that option (I was pretty hopefull about it), but still no success. The result is the same.

I don't think the problem is there. Project1_Mar30-2012_15-35-53.zip

I'm not on a Mac, I'm using Windows XP SP3. Okay, I've reinstalled PTE (also deleted stuff generated by PTE from register and profile folders before installation), version is still 7.0.5, the latest one (downloaded setup file again). I've run PTE as administrator -- still the same behavior, it generates 0-length video files. Generation process is not momentary, it takes a while to render even a single-image slideshow. I have no idea what to do with it.

I have enough free space on all my local drives to fit a one-picture slideshow (at least several GB). I've just tried saving video to My Documents folder (so, permissions should be OK) -- still 0 bytes. So, are you guys saying it should work out of the box? I don't need any additional codecs and stuff, right?

No success .

Um, no. I've used SD (800x600) and medium quality. It doesn't actually matter, I've just tried using the best settings as you suggested, the result is the same -- 0 bytes. Exporing video for iPad and iPhone also doesn't work (0 bytes output).

I've decided not to create another topic though my problem isn't exactly the same. I can't export a slideshow to HD video. The program does something, I can see the progress bar, but the output file is 0 bytes long. What can be wrong? I'm using version 7.0.5.