Margann

In that this was a feature of pro show,producer and pte av studio has the ability to adjust all slides to the same duration which is even less helpful than what I am suggesting, the calculations to adjust proportionally is just a matter of arithmetic. Whether it works for you is a matter of personal preference. The feature I’m suggesting is an improvement over the current option. Choosing to use it is for the user to decide. For me the audio is secondary to the images

Hopefully this is the place to request this feature. I see that others have in the past used macros in excel to modify slide durations based on percentages used. -[the timechanges-5.zip is no longer available on the forum.] I played with that in excel some today but was not completely successful and am looking for a solution within the software. It seems to be a relatively simple calculation to relatively increase or decrease a series of durations. One of the features that I most employed in Proshow Producer was the ability to quickly sync up audio and video. I could easily add or delete slides knowing that any timing adjustments would be maintained on a re-sync. When looking for a new program to replace Producer it was important for me to have a similar feature. However, I find that the sync feature in AV studio comes up short compared to Producer. After spending much time fine-tuning timings in AV studio particularly for those slides with multiple images and complicated arrangements, it’s disheartening to know that were I to sync the audio and the video, all slide timings would get the same duration. Adding or deleting even one or two slides would require more manual effort. So I just avoid that option and consequently spend more time than I want manually syncing. I was just looking at my implementation of Producer and the function that AV studio is missing is the ability to “keep the proportions the same as existing times” which is an option available on Producer's “Synchronize show to soundtrack menu.” I would hope this feature would be available in a future release, or maybe someone knows of a work around.

I am very interested in knowing how to modify slide durations by a percentage using excel. I saw a zip file mentioned in another thread that is unavailable (timechanges-5.zip). I frequently used the sync feature in PSP to,sync using existing percentages and am disappointed this feature is not available in PTE AV studio. I have many slides with multiple images that naturally need a longer duration than ones with a single image. Syncing whereby all durations end up the same just doesn’t work for me. Any suggestions would really be appreciated