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davegee, in yesterday's message board postings, you made a suggestion to me about my 3:2 project. Here is the excerpt: Although your prefered AR is 3:2 (1080 High) consider superimposing this on a 16:9 Project (1920x1080) so that it is fully compatible with the current TV AR. Save as a 16:9 version. Yes you will have black bars at the sides - AR mis-match - you can't avoid that. If your project has animations - Pan / Zoom / Rotate you will need to put a "matte" over the images to preserve the 3:2 - if you need to do this just ask? I'd like to give this a try. Just to be clear, my project has all 3:2 images, all with animation (zoom/pans). In my PROJECT OPTIONS, I selected 3:2. Since you said to try saving my project as a 16:9, I assume you mean do this in the PUBLISH page, i.e., output. I would chose 1920 x 1080 and end up with black borders. That's fine. Now, what about the matte you referred to to protect pan/zoom?

Jill and Tom, thanks for those suggestions, too. Everyone here has been very helpful.

I think the best solution is to burn one file to a disk, in a format that everyone can play on their PC, and forget about everything else.

davegee, Thank you for your post. Good stuff. Very helpful info. It all makes sense except for the last part. ME: Let's assume I wanted to duplicate your output strategy above. Can the single published disc, with all the above formats, be saved on the PUBLISH page in one step? Meaning, check all you want to do and PTE magically makes it happen or is it a manual, multi-step process? YOU: NO - you create the CD or DVD as a DATA CD/DVD to send to whoever and they take it from there - transfer to PC or MAC - transfer to USB Key - Transfer to iPad using iTunes. If I want to have a file in some format to play on a PC, (like .mov or .wmv) AND have second file format (TBD...h.264?) for a DVD player to play to a TV, can that be done on one disk? If so, I would guess I publish and manually save the 2 separate files as described above, then burn a Data Disk in Windows with the 2 files?

Yachtsman, thanks very much for that. Great info. What I thought might be the most quirky goal seems like, perhaps, the easiest.

DG, thanks very much for your response. MPEG4 is the option to use for TV - IF the TV has a USB port and a Media Player. I probably misspoke. I meant TV via a DVD player, not via the TV's USB port, but that's something I'd like to try. Great suggestion See the PUBLISH options. MPEG4 is also compatible with WMP (on my PC!). EXE and TV are not compatible. Gotcha Although your prefered AR is 3:2 (1080 High) consider superimposing this on a 16:9 Project (1920x1080) so that it is fully compatible with the current TV AR. Unfortunately, keeping the photos' native aspect ratio was a first-timer's "mistake". It's taken me 3 weeks to get from 6,700 photos to 80, so the last thing I want to do is re-edit each photo again into 16:9. Taking your suggestion about superimposing this on a 16:9 project, what will the finished project look like? 3:2 photos inside a 16:9 box with black borders? And is it as simple as changing the project to 16:9 then SAVE AS? If you MUST have a DVD please come back with specific DVD questions. Ugh. I'm lost here. I don't know what questions to ask. For PC use 3:2 (1080 High) EXE. My current output strategy is the following, all on one CD. EXE for PC Gotcha EXE for MAC Gotcha again here MPEG4 for TV How would the TV "know" it's supposed to play this file? MPEG4 for iPad 3/4 Let's assume I wanted to duplicate your output strategy above. Can the single published disc, with all the above formats, be saved on the PUBLISH page in one step? Meaning, check all you want to do and PTE magically makes it happen or is it a manual, multi-step process?

Hello all. I'm new to most of this and have been doing a lot of reading and learning on these forums. I'm doing my first project and have a couple of questions. Here are my basics: Windows 7, high-end Nvidia graphics card, PTE 7.5. 80 jpegs shot with a DSLR at 3:2, all resized to 1800 x 1200 (3:2) mp3 music Current project is being built in 3:2 aspect ratio. I will be distributing the final product to several people and would like as much compatibility as possible for the various ways people might view the project, specifically on a PC and DVD to a television. Looking at my output options.... I did a quick test project and published it using the custom output resolution option setting at 1800 x 1200 but playback failed using Windows Media Player. I used WMP because virtually everyone has it and want this project to work without having to download a special player. I published the same project with other output resolutions until I found one that worked at 3:2 - 1440 x 960 (I think I did h.264) It was a saved file on my PC, not burned to a disk, and played back through a PC. 1) Can someone suggest a safe output resolution and format for viewing on a PC, while retaining a 3:2 output? 2) Same output resolution and format question for publishing a DVD for TV? I assume this would need to be published as an EXE. 3) Can both files be saved to a single physical disk? How? 4) Do I publish two separate projects (as determined by questions 1 and 2), save them to their own folder, then burn a disc separately from PTE using my Windows software? 5) A few of these discs will go overseas where different formats of PAL (B/D/G/M) are used. This could get messy. I have no problem publishing one finished project (based on Question 1) and telling people they MUST play it back on their PC only, if that is the best solution. Thanks in advance.