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Igor, Ok, good to know. I never noticed them before until we got into this situation with the PTE rotation commands. Just caught me eye because most other commands do work within PTE. Thanks... Gary

Igor, Yes, in 9.0.4, the 'Ctrl+F' rotates the file clockwise and 'Alt+F' rotates the file anti-clockwise. However, if you try to do it through 'Explorer', 'Rotate Right' or 'Rotate Left', nothing happens. I notice it does not work in V8, either. Gary

Igor, It just happened again. Let's see if I can explain what I was doing to create the error. I am starting to put together a new show. I had created a new folder for the images in MyComputer (Win10). I opened PTE to start a new project; I browsed to the new folder to poplulate the images in the File List. All the images were then put into the Slides. Now, while PTE was opened at this point, I went into MyComputer to transfer some new images from another folder into the folder that contains the images of the show that is shown in the File List (PTE still opened). As I closed MyComputer after transferring these new images, the File List was emptied of the images that were previously there and I got the attached error message. After I cleared the error message, I could not repopulate the File List. I could not either with 'File Open Recent Project'. It came back after I closed/opened PTE. I think this is how the previous error message was produced. I think I was doing a similar process with a different show. Gary

Igor, Haven't had this problem re-occur. I'll let you know if it does. Gary

Igor, The problem has not re-occurred. It happened only this one time. When it happened, I could repeat the problem, but once I re-opened PTE, it has not happened again. I did try to click on any single slide in the Timeline or Slides, but nothing could activate the O&A button. I'll let you know if I can make it happen again. Gary

Greetings, While working on a show in V9.0.3, I got 3 error. I was able to capture the first two. When the error popped up, the list of files in the File List disappeared. After I close and reopened PTE, the File List was back to normal. Gary

Greetings, I am making a new show. I "Inserted Blank Slide" at the end of the Timeline. When I click elsewhere in the Timeline, the O&A icon gets greyed out. Sometimes, removing the second blank slide brings back the O&A icon; sometimes it does not. If it did not, and I removed the first blank slide, the O&A comes back. This is repeatable. Also, if I removed both blank slides from the end of the show, and click elsewhere in the Timeline, the O&A gets greyed out. The O&A greyed out also when I was adjusting the slide time of a video and I got it back to working. After closing and reopening the show, the problem seems to have stopped. Gary

Igor When you try to 'Rotate' an image in the Slides, using Ctrl+F (clockwise), it rotates the image in the opposite direction. Also, the Alt+F (counterclockwise) opens the 'File' dropdown menu. I think this issue was also in older versions. (using Win10) Gary

Igor, Yes, 9.0.3 fixed the problem. (The download page still says '9.0.2'). Thanks... Gary

Thanks, Igor Gary

Greetings, When I open, for example, the 'Wedding' Style in V9 Beta22, I get certain information about the Style. However, in V9.0.2, there is nothing shown. Also, for any Style that I had in the Betas, there is nothing shown in that space in V9.0.2. (WIN10) See below. Gary

16. Allow a text input block in each Slide Styles for the user to input some text.

Jose, One new feature in V9 that I think is extremely useful is the ability to do animation within a Frame. This allows you to put in a Border around an image or video and do zooms, pans, etc., within the Frame. This comes in handy, at least for me, when you have video that might not have the resolution that looks good full screen. Also for images. I now have found in V9 that I like to combine a 'Border' (if you want to) with 'Aspect Crop' (16:9) within a Frame, and animate the image or video, giving more creative possibilities. So there are things, for me, that make V9 more useful. Also, I don't want to be left behind asking questions relating to past versions. Gary

Greetings Dave, Thanks for the screenshot. Well, I tried to come up with the same screen you show above. It is the most ridiculous search function I have every seen. I can not easily duplicate what you have shown. Please...whoever is responsible for this site, fix it so we don't have to go through hoops to get results. It is clear that, if two people can come up with 3 different results, there is something wrong. I did finally figure out that you have to put in a 'Tag'. That is a guessing game, only clear after I saw your example. And, yet the results are not like the results that Ken's search gave. Your search does not show the show's icon images, while Ken's does. Ken's search gave exactly what I am looking for, only the slideshows, with the slideshow image icons. But I can not duplicate Ken's results. And what's the difference between 'Member Search' and 'Search by Author'? How do you know what 'Tags' you need to enter? Your Search shows 6 results. Ken's Search shows 7 results, but it says "Content Count 17". (It shows I've made 7 Comments, so it still does not add up). So all this is just too confusing and I suggest it needs to be fixed. Gary

Dave, That's the problem. I don't know what criteria was used or even how you and Ken created your searches. Ken gave one result and you gave two results from searches. All three gave different results. In the attached image (a screenshot of the first portion of the results), you can see the differences and the links that were used to obtain the results, #1, #2, and #3.. #1-This is the best result. It give only the shows and no 'reviewed' comments. (Ken's search results) #2-This produces the shows, but it also included 'reviewed' comments I had made. (Dave's first search results) #3-This produces some of the shows, but misses many, and it does not include the images of the shows. (Dave's second search results) These are inconsistent results. The 'Search...' function needs to be fixed so we get the same results and the results we are looking for, and make it intuitive. Gary

It took me a while to find it in V9, but I did find it. Go to the O&A's Properties of the video. Click on 'Adjust Time Range' and the 'Video Times' window will open. Then adjust the 'Speed'. I haven't tried it myself in V9 but I think this is the place to do it. Gary

Ken, I noticed that your link, above, to my uploaded slideshows shows only the actual uploaded slideshows, which is what I am looking for. However, the link that Dave provided is different from yours. His link, below, shows the uploaded slideshows and any comments someone added: https://www.slideshowclub.com/profile/39-goddi1/content/ Can you tell me each step you made to get to your link? I can not figure it out. Thanks... Gary

Dave, Sure, I understand you can do that. My point is that the site's 'Search...' function is not understandable...not intuitive, and gives no results. If, at the top of the main page, you have a 'Search...' function, you should be able to search for all shows by the author or member's name. If I told a non-PTE user to find my or your shows on the Slideshow site, I don't think they would be able to find them. I wish that we could get a result of just the shows someone has uploaded (without the comments) made by others. If I wanted to see all shows by 'davegee', using the 'Search...' function, with 'All Content' checked, I get nothing. Why should I have to go deeper into the menus to decipher how to get the results. Whoever is responsible for this site should take note and make it usable to just do a simple search for shows by authors' names using the 'Search...' function. Gary

Dave, If I type 'lakelandlass' in the 'Search...' space, I get two shows by her, but it is searching in the text that someone posted as comments about the show, not the author or member's name. Same result when I type in 'akirkby57'. I get my show (Castelbuono) where I replied to his show and his name is in the text of my reply. So that does not work for trying to find all the shows uploaded by a particular author. And a search on my member name, 'goddi', produces nothing. Seems to me that that is all we should have to do to find the shows by an member that has been uploaded to the site. But the 'Search...' seems to only be looking in the comment sections. I tried the 'lakelandlass' in the 'Advance Search', and get the same results of the name it finds in the comment section, not what the member has uploaded. I tried to follow your steps but I don't see the same menu items you showed. I see 'Members' but not 'Member Search' or 'Member's Name'. When I try 'Search by Author', I get a notice to 'Please enter a term to search for, or at least one tag'. Really frustrating and non-intuitive... I just don't see what you are doing to get the results by author. How you got the 'lakelandlass' results or any results are beyond me.... Gary PS Just found the 'Members Search' and I found my shows. Gee...what a weird way to find someone's shows. Just too many clicks and menus. Ok, I got it now. It is just not an easy what to tell someone how to find your slideshows. I'd have to send a link. Thanks for getting me there. But it still does not seem to be able to give me only the uiploaded shows. It give comments made about the show.

Greetings, Ok...the "Find their other files" works. This is good if you start from a slideshow that a person has posted. However, how do you do a Search for member's shows using his member's name from the main home page? I have tried all kinds of ways but the "Search...", using a member's name, does not produce anything. Can someone show me the steps needed to be performed starting from the "Search..." icon??? Thanks... Gary

Steve, See if you have accidentally checked this box...

Yea, I liked the 'Close' button, too.

The 'X' in the upper right corner of O&A. Igor dropped the 'Close' button. Gary

Igor, I know you prefer each suggestion to be in a separate topic. But I think it would be more efficient to just make a list at this point. A know you are thinking of 9.01 improvements and I would like to make the following suggestions. These suggestions are not made for new ideas or neat tricks. I think they would improve what you already have in PTE to make it easier to use and more intuitive. They are not in any particular order, but all, I think, are important. Gary To-Do List Suggestions for V9.01 1-Add filename’s extensions to ‘Slides’ and ‘Timetable’. 2-Widen O&A’s ‘Properties/Name’ and ‘Picture’ boxes to see more of the entries. 3-Add horizontal sliders in the Folder and File List windows. 4-Add a ‘Length’ column in File List (to see length of videos). 5-Make the ‘Convert’ window always show on screen and not just as icon in Tray. 6-Allow the ‘Border’ setting to be made Global, with ability to turn off and adjust individual borders. 7-Allow the O&A’s default ‘Border’ setting (currently 1.5) to be modified. 8-Add in the ‘Project Options/Audio’ an additional option to ‘Add (or Copy?) Audio from Video’. 9-Allow the ability to ‘Trim’ a video file without having to ‘Convert’ or re-Convert (adding a second ‘convert’ to the filename). 10- When an ‘Open Recent Project’ or ‘File Open’ is performed, insure that the associated files (at least the location of the last save) of the project are displayed in the File List. 11-Indicate in the File List the non-main files that are used in a project with some notation (i.e., color or italicize, etc.) 12-Allow non-main files to show the ‘Insert template’ information. 13-Add ‘Rotate’ to the Frame function. 14-Create the ability to copy all of the O&A’s settings that were made to one slide to another slide (copy/paste). 15- Currently, if you have a video clip followed by an image file, you can move the image file to the left when in Timeline view) to shorten (i.e., trim) the end of the video clip (an easy way of trimming the end of the video clip). It would be helpful to be able to do this to the beginning of the video clip by being able to move the video clip to the left to ‘trim’ the beginning of the video clip. This would allow some fine tuning of the beginning of a video clip as you can with the ending of a video clip. ...Any comments from users?

Igor, It looks like you have the pricing backwards on the Forum site? Gary