Contentawarephil

Mike, Try this: TEXT OPTIONs.pte Run in Preview and then go into O&A. Two Options. Phil

You can right click on the Timeline anywhere between the two slides that you want to maintain the positions of and "Insert a Blank Slide" as many times as you want without moving the previous or next slides. You can add you're images in O&A or by right click on the slide and "Change Image File". It does not LOCK the position of any slides but goes part way toward what you want to do. Phil P.S. The positions of slides added this way can be adjusted by placing the mouse cursor at the beginning of the slide until the double headed arrow appears and dragging in the Timeline. This also does not move the position of the next and previous slides.

You could try splitting you're show into a number of sections? (Smaller show's). The start of each section would be governed by (equal to) the Timeline position of the first "fixed slide" and the end of each section governed by the position/time of the next "fixed slide". The "next fixed slide" would be the start of the next sub section etc. When your happy with each of the sections just copy and paste into the "master" show. Phil

Interesting topic. Some of what you propose is already do-able. I can make a 6000x3375 16:9 EXE file from images out of my camera and by using 100% quality it is difficult if not impossible to tell the difference between the JPEG and the 16Bit RAW file conversion from which it was created. But the downside of that is the size of the EXE. 100 images comes in at about 1.5Gb. If the 50MP DSLR camera is used then your goal of "8K" is a possibility. This leaves no room for Pans and Zooms etc but in some cases this is not required. Using 6000x4000 (or bigger) images in a "4K" EXE would allow for some animation. Maybe now would be a good time to start making 3840x2160 Projects? They can be made to play on all monitors up to 3840x2160 but still play as normal on 1920x1080 etc Monitors. Regarding Bit Depth we can only work with what is available to us at any point in time. I have never used anything other than 14Bit RAW in camera but this always converts to an 8Bit JPEG. Will that change any time soon? Phil