Anthraquinone

What you say is more or less what I do. I also frequently save my working file with an incremented number that at the end of a session I save as the original file name and deletete all the working files.

I like the Autosave option but I do not like how it works as it overwrites the original file I started editing. I would prefer it if the Autosave addred a suffix to the file name say "auto" plus an incrementing number so I can go back to an earlier file in that session. This increment could be reset for each editing session. As I work round I now open the file to work on and immediately save it as working.pte - That is if I remember. It would be better if I did not have to do this. The option to switch this behaviour would be need if you were short of disk space.

Thanks Jill - not quite what I was hoping for but it sounds a possible work tound. Thanks AQ

I give talkes based on nature photography. With Proshow it was possible to hide a slide in the middle of a presentation. I found it very useful to leave reminders to myself of what to say during the shown when I rehersed it but then did not display during the talk. I cannot se ho to do this in PTE. Is it possible ?. AQ

I should have said - at the moment I am copying and pasting the text from one slide to the next and then changing the name. Is there a better way? AQ

I am creating a simple show consisting of some 300+ images from a safari. Each image is a still and has a caption that identifes the bird or animal. So nothing fancy and it is just for my wife and myself. Not your standard AV but memories for us. I want the caption to appear in the same position and at the same zoom on each slide with the same custom colour and drop shadow. This text fades to zero opacity 3 second into the slide. Is it possible to create a style that will easily apply this to each slide without me having to enter all the parameters for each one? As I said the main image is just a still. AQ

I have been using Proshow until now but as they have moved to a subscription model I am looking at alternatives. One of the features I really liked in Proshow was the ability to collect all the project images, sounds videos etc into a separate folder and then automatically use that folder to create the AV from. See image This just movers all the AV resources into one folder. When I added more images to the AV from anywhere on my drives I could then use the same command again to copy all the new files to the "collected" folder and continue working from there. These collected files were then safe from any changes I made to the original names or even if I deleted the originals. From the frequently asked questions forum I found this from 2009 If you haven't worked this way but feel that you want to adopt this way of working proceed as follows (assumes you are using PTE v5.0 or higher): create a new folder for each of your sequences open each sequence into PTE do File...Create backup in Zip locate and open the Zip file and export its contents into your new folder File...Open the project file from within the new folder File...Save the project file Is this the still only way to get all project resources into one folder ? The Proshow "collect Resources " command sounds much neater for the end user. Can I just move a .pte into that folder and will it then read the files from there or is the absolute file structure save in the .pte file AQ

I am becoming dissapointed with Proshow as it keeps crashing and I have not had much help as to possible causes. So I an trying P2E. One of the features of PS I really liked was the ability to collect all the slides, video and audio used into one location where I also keep the final shows. This is very useful as it protects the files if I rename or change any of them in their original locations scattered through several hard drives. I have yet to find a way to do this in P2E. Is it possible ? AQ