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So I've made a slide show and it works fine but I'm still new to this and have a few questions. Just as a comparison I had tried the demo of ProShowGold and I liked the many transitions so wonder if more can be added to PTE? I also liked the many different ways PSG offer for text intro's like flying on letters to make up the title and then sliding off the screen....how do I do such things with PTE. What I love about PTE is the ability to synch slides with points in the music.....something PSG as far as I see cannot do and for that reason alone PSG is a pain. So for me what I would like to see or do are more transitions and especially adding text in exciting ways as an intro screen or on a slide and this for me would make PTE perfect. I'm hoping its just my inexperience with PTE and what I would like to do is possible hence asking for advice here. Not sure if I mentioned it but I bought PTE AV Studio. Thanks for any replies

Perfect....many thanks.

Need a bit of help now.......with demo (standard version) I somehow managed to make a blank slide and add vertical scolling credits in script font. I did this by clicking on Objects and animation and added a text field and I can see I can select my font and add the text I want. Then I go to animation and use the zoom % to make it fit the slide as required. Then I went to Pan and entered a number in the Y box and by trial and error I could see I could push the text south off the slide. I entered 200 in the Y box. Now my issue was how to get it to scroll up the slide. So I believe I selected Pan modifier and was able to selecy Y shift and by trial and error I found putting -400 into amplitude I could get iot to sort of do what I wanted without really knowing how to use this correctly. Anyhow - so happy I bought the standard version and decided to have a play around with the credit slide to see if I can ...well ...figure it out to be totally happy. But now Pan modifier only offers to change animation speed....no sign of Y shift? I realise there might be a better way to add a slide with vertical scrolling credits coming onto and going off the slide. I'd like to be able to pick a nice font too. Can anyone help....thanks Oh...and thanks for the help and replies.

Well ....just made my first mp4 slide show and am very pleased with it. Some 200 photo's and 4 video files and used PTE to strip the video audo as it was rubbish, music tracks added with fade in and fade out, scrolling credits at end and of course various fade in and fade out between slides. All done with the standard version though I'm sure the Pro version makes music fade in and out and text scolling easier as well as maybe able to chose font size rather than having to use zoom animation with standard version. So at the moment cannot find anything I want that this cannot do but will try again with pro version to see what it offers thats worth having. Only issue, might be my old desktop pc with no special graphics card, is that the slide show that is 25 mins long took 1hr 15 mins to publish. So am I correct in thinking a good graphics card would speed things up or offer some advantage? ......and my pictures are 18Mb each and my TV is 55" 4k QLED but I'm thinking publishing can be speeded up by reducing picture from 18Mb to ?.....without losing quality? Anyhow - thanks for the great advice and I hope you can shed some light onto my questions above... Thanks again Kevin

So managing with the sound with standard app and so far so good. Also got the hang of using Slide tab to navigate away from TimeLine view to Slide view so I can change slide order........though done this a few times and I can't help feeling some slides are misplaced during the auto shuffle.....I need to keep a check on this.....have about 100 slides and half a dozen vidio clips added to time line and music....managed to separate sound from vido clips and deleted them. So have to try some video clip editing to shorted it.....if thats possible.....then some text credits.....then export to mp4......did try this quickly but had to stop it as it took 1 min to do 1%......though it was processing the first video clip so I thought it would speed up on following slides.... My Lenovo lappy is about 6 years old though 4GB ram and i5 quad core......thinking of getting a newer one though not latest expensive one....I'll try PTE on my desktop as it had 8GB though still i5 quad core (HP8200). Looks like W10 might force me to buy new hardware.....though W10 runs fine on the HP8200 and on Lenovo lappy.....but maybe PTE needs a little more cpu power? So I'm very happy so far.......just to make a mp4 and see..... Thanks again for advice

Thanks for some great replies and advice......will give it all a go hopefully during next 7 days......started playing with PTE slide show and love the great youtube help so this looks like what I'm after.....just need to make a few mp4's to try it....already found standard version does not allow you to ramp the music down or up which is a pity but I'll live with that for the moment. Bit busy at moment with other jobs ....so will keep reading this for tips and advice and I'll ley you know how I get on. Did think of using slide view to rearrange ...but at the moment its how to add slides from picture folder when I can't see it in slide view......unless I add all and then delete the ones I do not want.....I will try it.....but sometimes 100's of pictures as in the digital age I take 1000 - 2000 of pictures on my travels.....then edit and narrow down to the ones I like and still 100's. But I will give it all a try...many thanks. Good forum too ...thanks.

Thanks Jill. 2 hours is way longer than I need........maybe 20-30 minutes per slide show I'm thinking for mine. Nice to hear it can handle menu's ..........I will try it. I am finding one irritation at the moment......using timeline view when I start a slideshow I see lots of space to the right to add slides but then after I've filled the screen I can not scroll right to see more space to add slides by drag and drop but can add them by right clicking on them and then add to end of slide show....but then I have to mess around spacing them out. I'm thinking by adding music tracks this fixes this until the music track runs out then I need to add another music track. If this work around works then fine but normally I'd add slides to get them in the order I want then add the music. Am I missing a trick?

Hi - Just trying the demo on Win7 pro 64 bit os but I will be updating to W10. Anyhow, are there any limitations of the demo?....and is there any limitation of the time lenght of the mp4 show that can be produced.....is this the same for standard and pro versions? Looking for a movie maker to make mp4 from my holiday photo's/video collection. Can you make a menu with hotlinks to chapters in the slide show.......I'm thinking not but I'd thought I'd ask. Thanks for any replies.