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PowerPoint in PTE was dealt with by Ian Bateman Wantage Camera Club in October, 2005. If you go to PTE Presentations, links to Members, and look down the list you might like to ask Ian again. He said that he had included a Powerpoint show inside a PTE show. Whether this is exactly what you want I am not sure but perhaps it helps. John

I followed through your instructions and all now works perfectly. Somehow I had muted Synth. Many thanks, John

I have done exactly as you say, and all now works perfectly. Many thanks, John.

I downloaded the smaller puzzle test a few weeks ago and it worked fine with sound. Then for some reason I deleted it, but have in the last week downloaded it again - NO SOUND. Is this something to do with your end Lin? The visuals work fine. John

I have just made a 5 minutes sequence with v.5.0 Beta #3 and it all works perfectly except when it ends the first few words of the commentary occur again without any pictures. The box is ticked to end the sequence after the last slide and the fault is not on the soundtrack. Any ideas please? John

This took about 15 minutes to download on Broadband. It is a super exhibition of photography and PTE v.5.0 Once again, like Hubble the PZR are done very gently and convincingly. Trying to be constructive, I just wondered whether the zooming out is overdone a little. There are several magical moments, but one that I remember from only one viewing is when a white headed animal's head changes from one angle to another. Was this Opacity or just a dissolve? You didn't appear to use Opacity very much, unless some of the dissolves are done that way (?) and I feel that it has great potential. I liked the music very much, the bird sound seemed a little overdone. The one piece of music was probably recorded at a camp fire, and although we could hear the fire, it was a pity we didn't see it occasionally. Most enjoyable and satisfying despite being about 27 minutes long. May I use this too at the AV Group meeting on September 20th, as a demonstration of what can be achieved in PTE v.5.0? The quality of the fur etc., on the animals, as well as the actual capturing on camera of them is superb. I hope that it projects at 1024 x 768 as well. I do believe it will. John

Thanks for updating the font. It is certainly easier to read. By the way no difficulty this end in downloading it either time, - sorry you had difficulty uploading at your end initially. John

Nearly ten days since the last reply, but having just downloaded and viewed this sequence and read all the comments, felt I had to say how much I appreciated it. LumenLux on July 1st asked for viewers who doubted the use of PZR to comment and I am one of those who do not like too much of it without purpose, but here it is done to perfection. I could imagine how much poorer it would be with simply still images dissolving into each other. The music I would not normally like all that much, but it is entirely suitable to the subject matter in this case and I quite enjoyed it! The text at the beginning and the end I did find rather difficult to read due to the font used and the amount to read in the time. I certainly do appreciate that it may be shown on a none commercial basis, and is a valuable demonstration of PTE Beta #5. I intend to use it in September at an AV Group meeting. Thanks again. John

Although a Junior member I have been making Audio Visuals for over 30 years. I too am a bit doubtful about too many pans and zooms although yours are tastefully done. I liked the music - very suitable but why oh why did you not arrange the pictures to end with the music. The Photography was excellent and I would be interested to know Camera/Digital or Film. The exposures were superb and composition very good. I noticed a slight jerk when some of the pans started. Would it have been better in colour? Was it shot in colour and reduced to B & W? That is not to say that it was nice to have something different in B & W! Thanks again for making it available. John.

I have a 1024 x 768 DLP Pojector and a laptop that can have a higher pixel rate. I have reduced the laptop screen to 1024 x 768 and the file size of each picture to the same. On projection everything is fine. I hope that this helps. John

Would adding the same slide (in other words duplicating the slide) after the one you want another transition on, solve the problem? You could then put another transition in between the two identical slides. John

I have to agree with all the words in Jim's reply particularly the words after "BUT". The panning did make me feel dizzy in a sequence I saw recently. Somehow it is different to good panning in video, although that doesn't wamt to be done too often. With regard to zooming, in the sequences that I have seen, - there is a need to zoom to something specific rather than just a general zoom to nothing in particular. John

Try www.picasa.com which is a free program. You will be invited to register which you should do to immediately receive instructions by e-mail on what the program will do and advise you of any updates. It provides a most convenient way to sort and view you images on your hard disk and is a pleasure to use. It will batch images so that you can re-size them. Another program which is fairly new is Adobe Photoshop 3.0 Elements which has a comphrehensive organizer and browser but as it also includes most of the important Photoshop features costs £70. but sometimes there are special offers.

BURNING A DVD FROM PICTURES TO EXE USING NERO 6 VISION EXPRESS 2 Have ready a blank DVD-R or DVD-RW (a 1x-4x was used in this experiment) Open PTE v4.30 with sequence completed and click Video at bottom of screen. PTE Video Dialog appears: Making of AVI Video File:- Radio Button Create Custom AVI Video File should be selected. Interlaced already ticked. Click Create AVI. Next Dialog: Save As (if necessary navigate to where PTE is to save AVI file). Eg: my music>file name. File type: Microsoft AVI Files (.avi) Click on Save Computer creates .avi file. Message: don’t click finish – leave PTE open and on screen. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Open Nero Vision Express Click C. Make DVD (Makes MPEG-2/DVD) Next Dialog: Click Add Video Files – Open Dialog Appears – navigate to AVI file Eg: my music > select and open –file type: all supported video files. Adds file details, Click Next. Alter features as required (eg: background titles) when finished click Next. Burn Options – Select Drive (eg: Pioneer) and Click Burn. In this experiment a 3.34 minute sequence took about 20 minutes to burn and then played well in a DVD player on TV. John Ruffell

BURNING A DVD FROM PICTURES TO EXE USING NERO 6 VISION EXPRESS 2 Have ready a blank DVD-R or DVD-RW (a 1x-4x was used in this experiment) Open PTE v4.30 with sequence completed and click Video at bottom of screen. PTE Video Dialog appears: Making of AVI Video File:- Radio Button Create Custom AVI Video File should be selected. Interlaced already ticked. Click Create AVI. Next Dialog: Save As (if necessary navigate to where PTE is to save AVI file). Eg: my music>file name. File type: Microsoft AVI Files (.avi) Click on Save Computer creates .avi file. Message: don’t click finish – leave PTE open and on screen. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Open Nero Vision Express Click C. Make DVD (Makes MPEG-2/DVD) Next Dialog: Click Add Video Files – Open Dialog Appears – navigate to AVI file Eg: my music > select and open –file type: all supported video files. Adds file details, Click Next. Alter features as required (eg: background titles) when finished click Next. Burn Options – Select Drive (eg: Pioneer) and Click Burn. In this experiment a 3.34 minute sequence took about 20 minutes to burn and then played well in a DVD player on TV. John Ruffell