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Hi Igor, Thanks for verifying the current situation regarding PTE and wide AVI files. I look forward to v9 where hopefully 3840 x 1080 will be supported. Ray

Hi Daniel, On the subject of supporting very wide screen formats, I just tried out 7680 x 2160 on PTE v6.0 PTE v6.0 creates a perfect AVI file of full 7680 x 2160 size as shown on the screenshot below. And it plays OK too. So the earlier version PTE v 6.0 did support very wide video sizes. I only wish PTE v8 had continued to do so. Ray

Hi Daniel, Yes thanks for the link to converter software from Sourceforge, it works fine. I did have another old converter program, but it was so slow that I did not like using it. On the subject of 3840 x 1080 AVI, I do think that it was a backward step to restrict the output to 1920 wide in the current PTE v8, after it was un-restricted in earlier versions of PTE that I have been using up to now (e.g. PTE v6). On top of that, with the availability of 4K and even 8K TV sets, I think that any PTE show should allow such high density screen sizes in any video output format. Ray

Hi All, On the PTE v6.0 program, I created a 3840 x 1080 AVI video easily, with no added software to the basic PTE program or anything else. I just went to the CREATE menu, chose AVI, and see the screen dumps below. The codec is Xvid-MPEG 4. It works with other codecs too, or indeed with no compression at all (but the latter give a huge video file size). The output AVI video in indeed 3840 x 1080 as confirmed by the AVI file's properties box, exactly like it ought to be. On PTE v8.0.17 as noted on post#1 above, on my computer, trying the same approach using the PUBLISH menu to create an AVI file, either PTE v8 crashes on trying the preset 3804 x 1080 size, or it will only allow a maximum of 1920 x 1080 in the CUSTOM option with any codec or even with no compression. I can only conclude that PTE v8 has been made to publish a maximum 1920 x 1080 AVI files, despite the existence of presets up to 3840 x 1080 in the PTE v8 AVI window's menus. Igor has been informed and he will respond I'm sure when he's had a look at this problem. There's no such restriction to 1920 x 1080 on PTE v8 publishing an HD VIDEO for PC or Mac giving an MP4 file. But I need an AVI file, just like I used to get from PTE v6. I hope that either Igor can issue a new version of PTE v8 to restore the bigger AVI file sizes, or incorporate such a wider AVI size of 3840 x 1080 in PTE v9. Ray

Just to be make it plain, I'm using PTE v8.0.17 here. My friend also has Windows 7 and PTE 8 and has the same problem with AVI not working above 1920 wide.

Hi DG, I've deleted the last post with my email address on it for security reasons as you suggest. Yes there's something odd here, Both my laptop and Tower 16Gb RAM are Windows7 and they both cannot go over 1920 width or over 1080 height on the AVI Custom in PTE 8, whereas you can. Everything on the AVI custom screen is identical here to your screenshot, except for the width and height values that I cannot exceed, with the padlock on or off. Ray

Hi Again. IT seems that the padlock is just a way of keeping the aspect ratio constant. Clicking the padlock off allows width and height values to change independently. On reading the PTE 8 user guide, I see that SD and HD are the only options mentioned for AVI video. It seems that PTE 8 has a maximum of 1920 width for AVI video. However, on thePT 8 AVI publishing window, the presets are much bigger, all the way up to 3840 x 1080 (see screen dump below). I cannot resolve this discrepancy between large stated presets that crash, and custom width restricted to 1920. PT 6 had no such restriction, it was and still is the standard downloaded version on my laptop, an it does 3840 x 1080 AVI straight off. However, PT 6 has no facility for including video in the shows, whereas PTE 8 does. Maybe that is why PTE 8 is restricted now on AVI video production. PTE 8 does still however do 3840 x 1080 on the HD VIDEO option, producing MP4 video files quite easily. Maybe I should get a video converter program, and just accept MP4 files produced by PTE 8 and convert them to AVI by a third party product?

Hi Dave Gee, I think we are getting somewhere. I was trying to use the standard 3840 x 1080 option on the AVI publishing window, as shown in the JPG on my original query above. I have now as you suggested tried to use the Custom option, and the resultant window is as shown below. There is a PADLOCK symbol next to the WIDTH box, and I cannot get any size more than 1920 in there. Any idea how to get the padlock off? Ray

Daniel, Thanks for your reply. However there is no need for any special 3D codec, the requirement is simply to produce a wide AVI screen size of 3840 x 1080, and no special codecs are required, it is just a wide screen size. The fact it will be used by Stereoscopic Player for a 3D show is secondary, and of no interest to PTE. Previous versions of PTE such as 6.0 and 7.5 both work perfectly in producing this wide screen format AVI, but PTE 8 does not, despite the specification of the AVI output requirement being the same in all three versions of PTE that I've used. If you have PTE 8, try creating a PTE show of just one JPG slide 3840 x 1080, with PTE screen size 3840 x 1080, and then Publish an AVI file of 3840 x 1080 screen size. It crashes for me and my two friends. PTE 6 and PTE 7 do not crash, they work correctly. Cheers, Ray

I need to produce an AVI file of wide screen slide shows. Screen size is 3840 x 1080 for 3D stereo (two 1920 x 1080 side by side scenes in one screen). Even just one slide at this size crashes PTE 8.0.11 to 8.0.17 when trying to produce the AVI file, the processing window declares 0% progress, and an error window appears behind all other windows saying ACCESS VIOLATION AT ADDRESS 00403287 IN MODULE 'PICTURES TO EXE'. WRITE OF ADDRESS 04C7A000. My computer is 4Gb RAM, Windows 7 64bit Home Premium, HD graphics, 500Gb HD. This problem also occurs with PTE 8 on two other bigger/faster computers with big memories and 2Gb video cards, running Windows 7, but with different ADDRESS VALUES to the above. PTE 8 on all tested computers works perfectly for making 3840 x 1080 EXE files, or HD Video files of .MP4 etc, but NOT FOR AVI wide screen files as noted above. Earlier versions of PTE such as v6 or v7 both do work perfectly and produce the wide 3840 x 1080 AVI files as needed above. Any help would be useful in solving this problem on PTE 8 only. Ray

I have purchased an external Matrox DualHead2Go converter to take a single wide stereo image 2048 x 768 pixels from my computer video output and split it into two halves LEFT and RIGHT, each 1024 x 768 pixels (XGA size). These two images are then sent to two XGA DLP projectors, overlapped on projection onto a silver screen, and viewed using polarising glasses, just like in a 3D cinema. However, the rightmost 100 or so pixels of the RIGHT image are missing on the silver screen, making stereo viewing impossible. I've tried swapping the projectors over, tried different P2E versions, tried different screen resolutions and P2E screen sizes, all to no avail. Other software that can do the same output of 2048 x 768 stereo pairs works perfectly, only P2E fails to display the full RIGHT image via the Matrox converter. P2E gives perfect stereo output to dedicated twin-output video cards in many other computers; it's only via the Matrox DualHead2Go external converter that there's a problem. Any ideas?