ianbutty

Hi How can I easily fit my slideshow to music, without making all the slides the same length? For example, I have a slideshow that is 10 mins 15 sec in length with say 150 slides. 120 of the slides, each containing one image, are 3secs each, and 30 slides (with multiple images) of 8.5secs each. My music track is exactly 10mins in length... ie 15sec too short for the slideshow. If I use Fit to Music - it makes ALL the slides exactly 4sec - this means the single images now show too slow and the multiple images too quickly. What should happen is that each slide should be reduced proportionally, eg the shorter slides reduced to 2.94s and the longer slides to 8.24s The above is a very much simplified example - in reality my slide shows have short slides, medium length slides, long length and very long length slides in them and the total length is often well over 10mins. Prior to moving to PTE AV I used an old version of Proshow Producer, which did the proportional fit to music with a single click and which I used on almost every slideshow I produced. How can I achieve the same with PTE AV? Thanks Ian.

Just looked at this - it kind of does the opposite of what I need it changes the slide style but not the transition. What I need to do is do a mass change of the transitions without changing the slide style or the timing of the transition.

BRILLIANT! That solves that one! Thank you! You won't believe the amount of time that will save.

That's what I've been doing - but it is a real pain when you have 100 slides and discover that 25% of them scattered through out the show have the wrong transition, because unless you are playing the show you can't see what the transition is. What I need to do is just select them all and set all to the same transition, without ruining the timing. The problem appears to be that the styles I created - some of them appear to have odd transitions in - I have no idea how, nor can I work out how to change the transition that's associated with a style. But thanks for the reply.

That was my first guess too. It is definitely off. The odd thing is if I apply the slide style by itself, it has the correct duration and transition length, but apply it as part of a theme it gets it wrong. If it was consistent between the two I wouldn't mind, but half the time I'm applying my style individually and half the time via a theme which means 50% of the time I have to go back and change the slide duration. It's VERY frustrating.

Thanks for the reply - I have watched several of his tutorials (first place I went!) but they don't really cover these very specific that I am having. I see a few others have replied and I'll work through their suggestions. Thanks.

Anyone? It's been 2.5 months and no help. Please can someone assist. Also - I've got a slide show where all the transitions are different lengths (to sync with soundtrack) but I need to change which transition is applied (need to change them all to disolve) when I select all the slides and change the transition effect it changes the timing of the transition to be the same on each slide. I really like this product but these three things are causing me lots of problems.

I'm new to PTE and trying to understand a few things. Firstly, I have created several styles. The duration is 3.5s with a transition time of 0.8. When I apply the style directly to an individual slide, it works fine and the duration is set as expected. However when I include the style in a theme, the transition time of 0.8 is correct, but the duration is set to 4.3s - As 4.3 is the sum of 3.5 and 0.8, I assume that I've set something wrong. What do I need to look at to get this to work? Secondly, my main use will be for slideshows of theatre images - typically 150 images in a fast-paced slideshow - I'm using a theme to set some standard styles, but maybe about 30 or 40 of those images (at various points in the slideshow) I want to apply a 'special' style to. I can CTL-click all the images that the style needs to apply to and can apply the style, but when I do all the selected slides are moved within the slide show so that they are now all consecutive immediately after the first selected slide. How can I apply a style to multiple slides without them changing position?