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Thank You. Much appreciated. Steven/kc3dow

Good Morning from Pennsylvania, It has been a long time since I have done a slideshow and find that I need to get some help. I Can anyone tell me if the version 10 help files exist and if so where they are located? I am not quite ready to switch over to version 11 at this time. Thank You, Steven/kc3dow

Hi Dom, I have enjoyed seeing your creativity and I would love to see you publish this as a style. I also happen to be a fan of vinyl records. Probably because of my age? Thank You, Steven

Barry said: I have to agree with Barry here. I have heard and seen folks getting hit with malware and ransomware same as everyone else. It is still a matter of what you click on and where you surf. As for the comment "Oh, you can always roll back" witness what Barry went through. Go to any forum that has a PC forum on it and see how many rollbacks there are that did not work correctly. I have good security software as well as a good malware program protecting my computer. Remember, Common sense rules. I back up every day using Macrium Reflect to a drive that is disconnected from my computer after the backup. Does that make me safe? Not really! Suppose the ransomware or whatever is on your computer when you backed it up then you need to use that backup image. Still I'm safer then those who don't backup. My point is there is no need for an upgrade unless you have problems. Security updates are still coming for win 7 and even there you need to be sure of what you download from Microsoft. I check out every download from them before I allow it on my machine. You would be surprised at the garbage they try to foster on you. Steven

So far I have not heard one valid reason to upgrade to Windows 10 from Win 7 pro. As far as security I have been installing security updates as they come. PTE runs excellent on my system as well as Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC, DxO optics pro 9, Affinity designer Beta for windows, Fast raw viewer, several Amateur Radio Programs, all of my web design programs all run as advertised By the time win 7 is no longer supported in 3 1/2 years I will be ready to upgrade my computer and then I'll get Win 10 along with it. If it ain't broke then don't fix it and Windows 7 pro is not broken by a long shot. If you are having problems with Win 7 then by all means a person should upgrade. Steven

HI, Before the new full sensor Pentax K-1 came out there were some folks that were saying how cheap the articulating screen looked and would never last. Thought folks would get a kick out of the following video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6bVqtb5SdI Wish I knew what he is saying as its in French I think but you know the old saying that pictures are worth 1000 words, right? Steven

Dave, The reason I added the longer word for "trim" is a habit I got into when using search terms when in the forums. I remembered that short words did not work. Eric, Thanks for the video. Good job. I muddled my way through it before seeing your reply and it seemed to work but your tutorial will help with the next 5 videos that I need to convert and trim. Thanks. Steven

Hi Lin, Thank you for getting the cob webs out of my head. I used to do this back in the version 7 days but completely forgot about it. I did go into the help files but got no results when I typed "trimming videos" into the search field but after your reply I went back and found the section on adding videos whic included information on adding, trimming, and converting. Thanks again for the reminder. Steven

Hello, I have recently started to get back into making slide shows after a very busy several months, I have missed it. I have run into a strange problem and am trying to figure out what I am doing wrong. I made a show which included an avi file from a couple of Canon compact cameras done 4 or 5 years ago and have had no problems. I then decided to add several other avi files but wanted to trim several minutes off of each one. I used Cyberlinks Power Director 12 to do the trimming then saved as an avi. When I go to my image file for PTE I find that the file shows the file name but not the image of the thumbnail and I am unable to select it. I then downloaded and installed Virtual Dub and ended up with the same problem. Same thing with 2 other video editing programs. Funny thing though is I have 3 video players: VLC, Windows Media Player, and MPC-HC and they all show the thumbnail image and play the file. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? My Computer: Operating System Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1 CPU Intel Core i5 4570 @ 3.20GHz Haswell 22nm Technology RAM 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 800MHz (11-11-11-28) Motherboard ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Z87-A (SOCKET 1150) Graphics PA249 (1920x1080@60Hz) Intel HD Graphics 4600 (ASUStek Computer Inc) 1023MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (EVGA) Realtek High Definition Audio PTE version 8.0.10 Thank You, Steven

I also agree with Eric on this. I made about 10 last year for my wife's family as they are elderly and not much into computers. I am one pace of making 15-20 this year for them as well as a group from a show I did for my wifes high school reunion has asked for DVD's so yes I do use the feature to make DVD's Steven

Hi, I finally joined the ranks of retiring my old 7 year old XP box and wow! what a difference it makes. Specs below: Asus Z87-A Motherboard Intel Core i5 4570 3.2GHz Quad Core 6MB 84W 2 x Kingston DDR3-1600 8GB RAM EVGA Geforce GTX 650 1GB Video Card Intel 335 240GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5inch SSD hard drive Western Digital Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s hard drive Asus 24x DVD-RW SATA CD / DVD Rom Atech PRO-35U USB 2.0 Internal/External Card Reader Onboard Sound Silverstone USB 3.0 PCI-Express card controllers Antec P183 V3 (Gunmetal Finish) case Antec TruePower New Series 650W Power Supply Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound Upgrade Windows 7 Professional 64-bit OEM SP1 Warranty: Lifetime Labor and Tech Support, 1 Year Parts I decided that I did not want to build this one but have it built and used a company that I knew had an excellent reputation, not only was I able to check what step the computer was in regarding the build process but they went so far as to send me thermographic images that they take while the computer is at idle and under stress. They use the images to reposition the fans if required. They also sent me copies of all the bios screens in case I need to redo the bios in the future. All junk was removed from the drives before sending the computer to me. I don't think I have been happier with a computer store then this one. As a test I opened firefox, thunderbird, photoshop CS5 with 5 large jpeg files loaded as well as 5 raw files from my Pentax K10D 10 megapixel camera, Photoshop Bridge with 12 photos selected, PTE, version 8.1 with an old 125 MB show loaded, Photo Director 12 with 4 reels of 8mm video loaded. I then inserted a thumb drive with PTE-Effects exe double clicked and the computer never even gave an indication that it was under a load. I am really going to enjoy working with PTE. Regards, Steven

There is another thread regarding audio in slide shows in the same forum HERE. I know because I replied to it by mistake instead of the other thread as they were running 1 after the other at the time. I do not feel confident in answering this one as I do not know enough about using version 8, although I am going through Barry's tutorial and upgraded to version 8 last week. I feel as though I am starting from scratch because it has been a tough time between June and October having lost my younger brother and then my wife lost her mom in Oct. I kind of lost the thrill of photography and slide shows for awhile but am just getting back into it. Anyway, thanks to Barry's CD and version 8 I am learning all over again but feel that we as PTE users need to stay on top of the questions about slide programs from other forums if we truly believe that PTE is the cats meow as it were />(and I think most of us do). Steven

There is a thread over in dpreview going on that most of you may want to take a look at about slide software being able to do professional zooming and panning. I figured some of you more knowledgeable types may want to get involved regarding PTE. http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3601070My link Steven

Hello All, From Popular Mechanics, March 1949: "Where ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons." Although this does not qualify for the subject of changes from the past 18 years I thought you all would get a kick out of it. Steven

I remember a Tutorial by Lin some time ago where he used Xara Xtreme 4 to create a 3d tutorial for PTE. I ran across this the other day in Dpreview's retouching forum that Xara was giving away Xara Xtreme 5 until May 20th to introduce folks to their software. I downloaded installed and registered the product without much fuss and even though it is an older version it is very good. The deal is only good until may 20th and as far as I can see there are no strings attached. Steven Web site link: http://www.xara.com/us/specialoffers/designer/