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Interesting and I value you leaving a comment, thank you. I tried the "shutter sound" only and without music but did not like this option. It remind me of the old slideshow of the slide cassette changing without music. I also tried different volumes for each track. I guess in the end, my approach of not letting good get in the way of perfect presided and I finalised this project. I appreciate that as an art form, not everybody likes the same thing and it is very subjective. For me, the end result was good, and hence I released it to the world. Thanks for commenting and I appreciate your POV. Ciao Mark

Thanks Bert glad you enjoyed them. I guess the amount of images is the problem, too many shots and too much time to decide what to include and what to leave out. The slideshow above was a selection of the images from 2025 only and I wanted to limit the show length. For me personally, I try to keep the show length to under 5 minutes, probably a carryover from my old slide AV days. Thanks again Mark

No worries. not sure what the problem is but when I click on the image in the reply to Bert, it opens my Flickr Bird Gallery. Not sure where to go to from here. No time to make another slideshow unfortunately. Regards Mark

No problems Jim, horses (or should that be birds) for courses. I would spend more time culling to get to nder 5 minutes before other fell asleeo. I take thousands of images of birds each year - see the link below if you wish to review them at your own pace.

No worries Bert. If you like something slower have a look at my Flickr Gallery where you can review at your own pace. Not as up to date as this, but still a couple hundred photos.

Captured throughout 2025, these images depict birds in their natural environments, shaped by the seasons, light, and their surroundings. Some frames celebrate the poetry of flight, where wings intersect with shifting light, while others rest in quiet observation. Together, they explore the artistic relationship between movement and illumination in the living landscape.

Thanks Igor, I have downloaded and installed it.

Hello Igor, PTE developers, and forum members. Best wishes for a happy and wonderful 2026. Do what you like and if you cannot do that like what you do. Cheers Mark

Hi Jeff Meant to reply earlier but I am now just back in front of my main PC. Music is extremely difficult to select for me as most of my "style" of music has copyright attached and YouTube and other platforms do not allow it ot be shared. I am not a hge music giru so maybe that is why I struggle. There are numerous free music resources, including Eric Matyas It is challenging as often I find that the music I select is not necessarily what others would have chosen. Once I had the idea of selecting music first then making the AV but that did not work either. I have come to the conculsion that some music is better than none so just keep experimenting. Enjoy your AV journey. Mark

Nice work, thanks for sharing.

Hi Thanks for sharing this with Forum members. Here is my version of the template with best wishes for a safe and happy Christmas with a prosperous and peaceful 2026 Mark and Geraldine.

Hello everyone Thanks for commenting and feedback on the previous version of this. I made some changes to the previous version, so if you have 5 minutes to spare, have a look at this version.

Thanks John - appreciate your feedback. I do normally fade the audio but it must have been missed when I swapped it out. The next version does have a fade. Except for about 6 weeks in Europe, most are within a 2-hour drive of where I live. I'm not sure that names of those places would mean anything to most in this group, but I will investigate for the next version to include on images from Europe. The music has changed for the next one. It is different and not necessarily better. Back to editing. Mark

Even what I have been told is copyright free has been banned by YouTube and Vimeo is the same. The only exception is FB which you need to share on their platform. I have changed the start in V3 and done a little editing of the images. I am also working on a "Bird Year Story". Thanks again Mark

The 360-degree imagery requires a special application to make the videos which can then be further edited in PTE AV Studio. The original 360degree video cannot be edited directly in PTE. Glad you enjoyed them Mark

360 degree images are what they call equirectangular (2:1 aspect ratio). In this instance they were captured with a dual fisheye camera for ease. The area I live in is just 2 hours from Brisbane and right on the coast of the Pacific Ocean so I have nature around me and the city not far away. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks Alex,the final version may not change that much. Interesting comment about the music, I thought it was very quirky and suitable and was not looking to change it - mainly images. Music is much more personal than images and takes more time to select for me. Obviously, copyright is not an issue with the images but most "popular" music has associated copyright. Maybe I will give this more thought in the final version. Thanks again for commenting and making me think. Mark

Thanks for sharing this - very well done animations. I am more of a photographer that makes AV's than a digital creator that makes presentation but I can appreiate the work in creating this. Thank you again for sharing. Mark

Hello everyone Best wishes for a safe and happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year. I have started creating an AV of my travels this year. I was aiming for one photo per week but did not quite achieve my goal. Most weeks I take hundreds if not thousands of photos depending on location and subject. I spent 6 weeks in Europe in April - June, so there are a few more from this trip to the other side of the world. The images are captured on a mirrorless camera, drone, mobile camera/phone and 360 camera. This may not be the final AV but it will be very close. Cheers Mark

Hello I am by no means an expert or Advanced User as I tend to do the same thing all the time and omly make AV's of my images. One thing that I found was that if I deleted the image from the "Timeline" tab, the slide time was altered automatically. If you deleted it from the "Slides" tab and had unlinked, you could manually adjust the slide and audio timing. Hope this helps. Mark

Fabulous, great show, very well done. Best wishes to you and your family for safe, happy and festive Christmas. Mark

I created a slideshow for a group I am Admin for that use the letters "MAGIC" at the beginning - see screenshot. For another AV, I now want to save another version of this show without the first 5 images and the audio files on the first timeline. I can change or edit the audio file on the second timeline more easily. From memory I remember there was a way to remove the audio file and images without affecting the timing of the other slides? I have looked at some options in the Project Options Tab but there has been no success. Thanks in advance. Mark

Some more Rainbow Bee-eater action. This is a series of around 1,230 images from a 1,310 series of images taken over an 1 hour and 5 minute on Thursday November 20. The same family of Rainbow Bee-eatrs were very busy although they did sometimes fly over the nest and return to the branch without feeding the chicks in the nest. They would return to a branch with and without food for a clutch of chicks in the nest nearby. During the process, a small snake came by the nest (in the ground) and there was a flurry of activity to chase it off (unfortunately not captured due to the timelpase framing. All images are full frame on a Sony A7RV so there are quite a few single frames for use in the future. It took quite a while to process this AV at the best resolution. Ciao Mark

The first AV consists of just over 1200 images taken in the morning over a period of approximately 65 minutes. The Australian rainbow bee-eater has a unique method of preparing prey by rubbing venomous insects on a branch to remove stingers. They can consume up to 300 insects daily, which minimizes their need for drinking water. In this AV you will see them fly off and catch insects near the roosting branch. Sometimes seen hitting the insect on the branch to remove the sting. Additionally, communal colonies are now common in the area in summer, where sandy soil is perfect nesting material. Sometimes creating tunnels up to 1.6 meters long, and their mating is monogamous, with pairs potentially returning to the same nesting sites year after year. Often, juvenile birds from a previous brood assist the parents in feeding the next lot of chicks. You will see up to 4 birds that were feeding the same nest. While capturing the sequence for this AV, I witnessed the family bomb diving a small snake that ventured into the area. This is a very short AV with limited display time for each image. The second AV has about 180 images from the time-lapse of the birds in flight. I struggled with the number of images from the series and the duration of the AV to hold the viewers' attention. The duration of this AV is around 4 mins and 37 secs. I was back at the nesting site this morning to get some more images, as they are very restful to watch them come and go. Mark