Ken Cox

Tom welcome to the forum am not familiar with movie factory 3 but if it is like the other authoring programs you will have to import all 4 avis' made by p2e so you will have to create the 4 avi's -- you will have 4 instances of p2e open -- and dont close any of them until your dvd is complete ken

geordie welcome to the forum there are several tutorial p2e exe's resting at http://beechbrook.com/pte/index.asp?catego...yid=4&view=View ken

Mike Igor has got the pixels so excited thus the picts are sharp - they are just quivering in their excitement- nothing to excite them in ProShow i guess:) ken

Mike found this quote that might make you feel a bit better -- you are not alone with problems for testing your show before the final try using the zoom feature of your dvd player to hide the verticals -- then you can see how it will look and possibly help you decide on a fix ken quote by Sam Chow Copyright © 2005 Future Shop "Why is it that when I play a home movie DVD on my computer, the size of the screen is accurate, but when I play it in the DVD player for the TV, it appears to have been cropped?" Overscan This may be a simple case of the original video stream not being authored to compensate for TV overscan. Because of the limitations of regular TV sets, the screen is usually calibrated so that the edge of the picture is off-screen. Almost 20% of the entire picture is out of the viewing area. Usually this overscan area is taken into consideration when producing the video so that you do not lose anything important from the picture. Since computer monitors are generally more precise than TVs there is no need for overscanning. As a result, you see the entire picture when watching video on your computer. There are two methods to solve the problem of overscan. First, there are a few DVD players that will allow you to zoom out incrementally until you can see the entire picture or to adjust the X/Y scaling to offset the overscan. The other way to correct overscan requires that you make adjustments on your television set. There is usually a hidden service menu on your TV that lets you tweak various settings. The problem here is figuring out how to access the hidden menu, as well as being careful not to change the settings so that the picture becomes worse, or even unwatchable. Note that making any changes in the service menu may void your warranty. Conversion When burning home movies or other content to DVD from an MPG or AVI file, this sort of problem usually can be fixed in the software settings. You can often adjust the picture so that everything fits within the "TV Safe" area, with the rest of the area filled with black bars, the result being similar to letterboxed/widescreen video. It may also be an improper conversion from PAL to NTSC. PAL, a television system used in Europe and other areas, has a higher vertical resolution, so perhaps part of the image was cut off while being converted.

Garris welcome to the forum for other comments on this subject see http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...sions+installed ken

Andrew i resent 2 zips an hour ago my mail isp has been down most of the afternoon the sept 13 04 zip has 36 picts in it i will resend again not in a zip ken

Mike there have been many entires re wiggly verticals when shows are made for tv do a search of the forum for starters see http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...t=ST&f=4&t=2454 it is a complicated subject the simplest fix is forget about borders if the end result is meant for tv and run the screen size 95 to 100% get your fiddlin hat on and you will win:) ken

Malcolm see http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/ what's new and if you start p2e help / about gives some of the names of developers etc Bill Hines the owner of " Beechbrook" saw a "need" for a central "depositry" for members to share their shows and supports it on his own and by Member Donations. Can't say how the French sites got started but i would imagine they were developed along the same lines - people from the AV world need a "place" to share not only shows but photos , club news , a problem forum similar to this forum. Now DESERT DAVE has started a gallery and forum -- he is located in Arizona - http://www.creatingslideshows.com/forum/ - you might write him at [email protected] also see http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...act=ST&f=3&t=87 for other members sites and email addies. ken

did you try full screen mode? ken

mine is xp home sp2 as well and ok here ken

Andrew no prob with my test show i tried 4.4 b1 on an existing show - 123 slides -- 3 mp3's 7:37 music time standard sync -- 21.7 mb exe -- 1 gig ram win xp 2.8 ghz ken

Igor navigaton bar - customize LOAD _ RESTORE _ what do these functions do? future navigaton bar improvements?? "No new Navigation bar in beta #1 yet." "This beta doesn't contains all new features." what is missing from from this beta that is mentioned on the list? this is quite a meal you have served us Igor, it will take some time to digest - maybe just a light lunch would have been better ken

Al even multimedia players have the nasty habit of associating --either it is sloppy code or big egos of the authors:) ken

Terry, glad we got you going if by chance you install another graphics program, be very carefull that it does not re associate all the things acdsee does now, to itself they have a nasty habit of doing that ken

Candi you cannot make a dvd using a cd-r you can make a vcd or a svcd on a cd-r depending on the original file size your burner may not "like" dvd+r discs - mine drive seems to prefer dvd-r disks -- out of 100 dvd+r discs it balked on some disks -- put in a dvd-r for first copy and it worked - for second copy i put in the dvd+r it had rejected and now it accepeted it buy dvd-r and try have you read Igor's "how to make an avi" and imported the avi into movie factory there have been some problems with movie factory - use the search feature of the forum Igor thought he had the problem's solved we also need to know what version of p2e you are using operating sustem description is also helpful ken

Terry what is your default graphic editor what program opens a jpeg when you double click it that is your preferred editor so in the left row of pictures - name - size - date and you right click one of the picture icons, the roll out gives you the option to open the picture and if photo shop is your default editor it should open it is this what you are looking for ? ken

Dan can you explain exactly what you want do you mean you want to automatically insert an auto run feature to a cd? ken

Birding thanks for the answer we need all the info we can get for the database ken

Birding what exactly fixed the problem? ken

quote from a group I sub to re : jpegs ken <*> To visit group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/advanced_cdr/ Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:32:58 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Crowley <[email protected]> Subject: Re: DVD Recording Modes & selection thereof. On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Anthony Green wrote: > Also, as I see that there are three burning modes, I don't have to worry > too much as to which sort of blanks I need to buy [i think] as all should > work "just as well as each other". However, I would appreciate some > feedback from those more experienced than I as to which mode is the most > successful/appropriate, and does this have any bearing on what function > the > DVD disk is going to be put to? > > i.e. 1) Storage of family created films for playing on standard(?) DVD > players attached to TV's. > 2) Storage of files that will only be accessed from a computer. > > One thing I worry about is burning all my family pix to a DVD, and not > being able to be read by relatives if the DVD player in their computers > can > not handle the mode that I've burnt the JPGs. I guess that this comes > down > to "Which is the most 'Standard' mode that everyone should be able to > handle? DVD-R is likely the most compatible format - it will not play in most "early" 1996-1998 DVD set-top boxes, but should be OK in everything after about 2000. After 1998 most set-top box manufacturers realized that they weren't doing much good in preventing movie piracy by not playing recorded discs. To make a disc for any sort of set-top box, you need to make it a real DVD Movie disc with a movie authoring program. There are ways to make this with still pictures, but do not rely on some boxes's ability to display a disc full of JPEG pictures. I know of no realistic differences between DVD-R and DVD+R discs in terms of data storage, longevity or readability - except older DVD-ROM drives will read DVD-R discs and not DVD+R discs. I would recommend DVD-R for everything unless you know something about where the disc is going. -- Paul Crowley CD-ROM Productions / InfinaDyne http://www.cdromprod.com / http://www.infinadyne.com

Birding welcome to the forum not too big at all try running w/o the music report back your findings ken

Right on Harry you the man congrats ken

for Reflet description SEE http://photofiltre.free.fr/utilitaires/reflet_en.htm ken

yxg WELCOME to the forum. Is this what you were looking for? project options main customize startup window fill in your details and the check the box to show start up window or project options screen Caption of show -- fill in the window ken

did you order a 100 dvd spindle did you talk to your dr about getting some valium the fun has just begun just remember "PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE" may all your disks be keepers ken