RoseW

Yes, perhaps my one sentence 'assumed' I have an internal drive justfor these video projects and Lightroom database. At the moment a main folder on that drive is PTE and subfolders within are the Projects. At the moment, of course, ONE Project and it is subfoldered to have audio,images, saves, produce My Lightroom export preset allows for choosing the precise folder so D:\Video Slideshows\PTE\Project\and then the mentioned subfolders. So for this test run the images were exported to D:\Video Slideshows\PTE\Color-Light(the project title)\images. Later this whole structure can be moved elsewhere or archived.....whatever...I have a lesser speed hard drive that is holding past projects ...a green WD...the working drives are Black WD... Anyway I was a little disapointed with the setup of the Proshow export preset and that was when I first started using the software in Mar 2013. It assumes the user needs to be almost automated but Lightroom features are omitted. Rose

I got the fading of one image into the other to be as I envisioned. This meant a couple of keyframes with varying levels of opacity so that the fading from one to the other is gradual The time for the slide was increased to reflect the total of the previous 2 slides. I already had the music in and there were particular images matching some sections of the piece so post edit has to be 'careful' I wasn't success with TWO text inserts. Likely I didn't have the patience to fiddle with the text to match the second image. One line of text indicating there would be saturated and desaturated images following was used on the first image only and it went to invisible at the layer change. When that type of content changed a different text line indicated that colour and black and white images were over. You wrote:'Put another keyfame at about the mid point for your time to display the two images" Figuring out just where the 'midpoint' is located is NOT totally obvious. The various 'blocks' on that box where keyframes go can be distracting and must have a meaning??? Finally I noticed a dialog box with numbers in the right side column and assumed this was the data defining the 'time' and calculated what would be the midpoint between those numbers. Before that it is rather hit and miss choosing a location along that bar line. Also, that tab of text info beside a keyframe can influence user to think it has to be all displayed when in fact if an increasing opacity level is being set those keypoint dots are practically beside one another and the text tag gets buried. I'd be thinking about redesigning that ui <grin> That whole section could just be bigger since its a major control input.....but all of this is a new comers observation (and I'm on a 27 inch(diagonally) monitor <LOL!>) Is there a choice for display of the image file list that would indicate which image has been inserted and which has not? I am often using up to 300 images which can be in subfolders but even 200 is a long column if they sort by image number-date-title. Examining code of the transitions and templates shared and applying them has been most informative. Rose

I downloaded the export plug in for lightroom (version 4.4)for Proshow Gold. It is just an export preset. It did not have export sharpening included in its actions although resizing was there. I contacted Photodex and they are not interested in that feature. I modified the preset to include my usual routine which includes export sharpening, saved as my own export and abandoned the Proshow export. Just set up a PTE folder structure on the target drive and include a folder for 'images'. There can be subfolders as well. Direct the Lightroom export to that folder. I export regularly at 2880x1620 with standard sharpening to such a folder structure Rose

Another 'AHA' moment.... I haven't downloaded your sample yet but I could visualize your description. I'm beginning to 'see' the value of keyframes I have completed a 2 min 7 sec test project and the only thing that was a 'nose twister' was these two captions. The caption was Summer Day Saturated and the Black and white had 'desaturated'... Back to the drawing board....<grin> Rose

I used this 'cloud' transition with a reduced opacity (25%) which is effective. Since I'm new to keyframes I wondered what procedure would be taken to slow down the panning in a 3 second transition? Rose

OR....use the Quick Transition from the list of choices. It displays the caption title immediately and all the configurations from the various keyframes display (panning,size increase,lessened opacity then to zero opacity) But I'd still like to know what procedure to include regardless of the transition style Rose

I'm 'trialing' PTE Previous experience since Jan 2013 to date FFdiaporama and purchased Proshow Gold in March 2013 Productions are for horticultural clubs usually 30 min in length using an Epson projector from a laptop in 16:9 mpg format. Combination of the pdf manual, some utube videos and the 'transition template' forum here I have begun to get an overall concept of handling the software setup. I could not translate what was behind Keyframes but an older utube tutorial by a British lady explained it PERFECTLY. That was an AHA moment. My test show includes a combination of colour followed by a bw version of the same image so I have a text caption at the top. The images are transitioning nicely from colour to black and white. I cannot figure out how to include ...or to see...the text as the transition takes place between the two versions. I'm using the phrase 'include text in the transition' because that is phrase used in Photodex Proshow Gold. Basically the text merges into view rather than leaps out as that slide presents. I tried positioning the text OFF the slide boundaries and panned it in but its showing up midscreen as soon as the transition is complete then it goes on to use the panning and fade out keyframes that I put together. Tested the two slides again and it appears if I'm using the 'gates' transition it had better be a horizontal type (Top to bottom) then the text positioned at the left is seen immediately, it pans,increases in size slightly, continues panning and goes into a lowered opacity as it pans to the edge--fades off.. and the image is finished. So is it that one has to be alert as to which transition to use if text is to be seen from edge to edge? Rose