RayPar

Is yours "bald" too? Sorry, I just couldn't resist that one.

I am drooling all over my keyboard. Any plans for a Fibre-Channel attached 2TB storage subsystem?

I agree 100%. However, the results are well within the acceptable norms. As for the PITA factor, I think being able to pop a CD or VHS tape into your DVD/VCR player and watching your show with the family makes it worth while. Unless of course you have a 50" plasma display in your living room and could plug your computer or laptop's monitor port directly into it. All I can say is just wait until we hear from Lumenlux sometime next week. It's all in the eye of the beholder!

Hey Dana, Same old, same old. Just busy trying to make a living in this awful economy. I just finished a video editing project using Studio 8 and Premier. I can't wait till Igor provides the AVI capability for PTE. It will sure save a lot of conversion time. Hope you and the family are doing well. Take care, Ray

The answer is yes. Once you have the MPG file then you can use a VCD/SVCD CD burning program (Nero for me) and create the CD. You can then view it in your DVD player (if it supports SVCD) or on your computer using WinDVD or PowerDVD or similar programs. You can also use Windows Media player if you have the right codec on your PC, but I prefer using a DVD player software. Mail me your presentation and I'll be glad to convert it for you. Ray

Dana, That shouldn't be hard to do with a SVCD/DVD authoring tool and the use of chapters if you have your presentation in an AVI format. Granted you won't be able to use PTE's menu buttons, but you can implement your own with the authoring tool. Ray

I can convert any of my PTE presentations to any format with no problems (VHS, VCD, SVCD, DVD, etc.) via my laptop. But.......here's the catch: My laptop has a TV output port which can output at the resolution of up to 1024x768 (although not as crisp on a TV monitor). The pictures however look very good on the TV monitor and I don't loose any portions (edges) due to over scanning of the TV monitor. So to get my shows on VHS, I simply plug my laptop into my Audio/Video receiver and tape the presentation. To do VCD, SVCD, or DVD requires a bit more. I plug my laptop into my Video Editing PC’s analog capture port (Pinnacle DV500) and capture the presentation as an AVI file. I can then take that AVI file and encode it into VCD, SVCD, or DVD either through my NLE software (Adobe Premier) or by using TMPGenc. I can also incorporate the captured AVI as part of an edited video show. So if you have a PC/laptop that has a TV out port you can easily record your presentations on at least VHS tape. You can also do the latter if you have a second PC with an ordinary inexpensive capture card. If anybody wants me to convert their presentations onto VCD or SVCD, just let me know. I’ll be more than happy to do it for you so long as I don’t get hundreds or requests (or I’ll have to start charging). Ray

Do you not have the registration registry key anymore? move that file to the second computer as well and double click on it.