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Yachtsman1 - thanks very much for your advice, I'll definitely try that as a solution!

Hi Tom - in answer to your questions: What version of PTE? 8 Are you using Publish Show -> DVD to create the DVD? Yes Problem on more than one version of PTE? I've used them all since version 5, and its always been a problem for me. I don't actually think the problem is PTE though! If you play the DVD on the PC does it sound the same as the PTE slideshow? Yes Have you tried another DVD player? No - I will try that later today and let you know.

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if you can help. I use my PC to create slideshows that will be used in multiple formats (including DVDs). When I create the slideshow in PTE with multiple mp3s in the soundtrack, the volume level across all the tunes sounds consistent.. but when I burn a DVD and play it on a DVD player, some tracks are much louder or quieter than others. So then I edit the volume of individual mp3s in the project, and when I play it on my PC in PTE, the volume sounds roughly the same... but when I play a new version of the DVD on the DVD player, the sound changes are much greater. Any idea what is causing this? Is this because my PC is doing some clever auto-levelling when I play back in PTE? If so, that's been the case not only on my current windows 8 PC, but also my previous windows 7 one, with a different soundcard/hardware? I actually find the levels when playing on my PC exactly what I want in the finished output! But having it sound different to what it does when playing on the DVD player obviously makes it very difficult to edit the project appropriately. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Thanks, Tim

DG - thanks very much for the link (and for your time creating the multi-step tutorial). Actually goddi hasn't said he wants to create a border: "I want the image to stay at the '86%' size and keep the same boundary of the '86%' frame." You've interpreted that one way, and I've interpreted it another. Goddi - can you clarify your reason for wanting to do this please?

Hi everyone, I just joined this forum... so I hope I'm not speaking out of turn (and apologies if I am). goddi - are you changing the main image size to 86% to fit the slideshow to all TV screens? If so, then I think the problem may be to do with the necessity to do that in the first place (and the lack of an automatic crop when zooming). There should be a very simple way of saying "output for TVs - crop to 4:3" or "output for TVs - crop to 16:9" etc., in such a way that when a slideshow is played, a zoomed image is cropped within 4:3 or 16:9. And in both cases the 86% thing should just happen - a user should not be expected to know they need 86% of a slide to show main images, to fit within most TV screens). I know there are workarounds with rectangular PNGs etc... but this is version 8. Isn't it about time a user should be able to create a slideshow that looks the same on all screens and projectors when zooming, without having to know about percentages and masks? Thanks to the developers for an excellent program by the way!! Tim