[Shows for Mac]

Hooray, I get it! At last.  I have had a play now with the Trial version of Pro, on my Mac. I might as well copy here the notes I have made for myself, as they may help some other 'beginner'. If I have said anything that's not correct, please correct me.

Under Publish, 'Safe Executable File for PC' makes a zipped file which when moved to a Windows pc, and extracted, makes a folder called the slideshow name, and that contains a .ptshow file which is the slide show, and an .exe file, both with the same name as the slideshow. Both these are needed to run the slideshow on a Windows pc.  The .exe will run the slideshow, but if you delete the .ptshow file, the .exe will not run. If you click on the .ptshow file (on a Windows pc) it asks you to find an application to open it with and you then have to navigate back to the .exe file.

On a Mac, this same zipped folder (made by choosing 'Safe Executable File for PC') will extract in the same way and contain the same two files. The .exe will not run,  and can be deleted,  the .ptshow will run, providing you have PTE AV Player.app installed in Applications.

If under Publish, you choose 'Show for Mac', it just makes the .ptshow file, without the .exe and it will run on the Mac, as long as PTE AV Player is installed. Before it makes the show, it asks if you want to download and install PTE AV Player.

Thank you Tom and DaveGee for helping me to get this far.

Ruth

[Shows for Mac]

Thanks again Tom. I think I need to actually see this, before it fully makes sense. I will go ahead and make a small test show, and then get to the saving bit, and see if it then becomes clearer. I must be a bit stupid with these things I think! I'll come back here again if I have any more queries.

Thank you,

Ruth

[Shows for Mac]

Thanks Tom,

Thanks for persevering with me! I'm pretty sure I understand it now. Once the 'player' part of what is in the zipped file is installed on a given Windows pc, does it remain there for future use, or is it temporary, and therefore do you have to make that 'Safe Executable File for pc' every time you make, on a Mac, a new show that you want to run on that same Windows machine?

I'm now also only half awake as it's my bedtime !

[Shows for Mac]

Thanks DaveG, I think I understand enough now to get as far as installing it. I watched Barry Beckham's basic tutorial and that made me feel happier. The interface looks so good and 'complicated', but I can now see that the basics are still the same as my old version of PTE. So here we go!

 

Thnakyou , Ruth

[Shows for Mac]

Thanks Tom. Yes, I do use WeTransfer.  So from your screenshot, I can create both an .exe and a ptshow file can I, both at the same time? or one after the other? Then I would have the facility to play the ptshow one on my Mac, and put the exe one on a flashdrive to take to the club and use on the Windows pc there. Is that right? Or might the Windows machine think the exe had a virus, unless I made it into a 'Safe Executable File for PC' first? Sorry to keep on, you're being very helpful.

Thanks, Ruth

[Shows for Mac]

Thanks Tom. I understand the first two sentences but not the last one. Could you expand that a bit please.

[Shows for Mac]

Hi, please can you explain something very simple.

I used to use PTE on a Windows pc. I have since then been on a Mac and unable to make slide shows. Now I intend to install the new Mac version of PTE AV Studio.

What I want to be able to do is make a slide show on my Mac, run it on my Mac for myself, but also be able to run it at my photoclub on a Windows pc.

As I understand it, It makes a slide show with the .pteshow file extension. To get this to run on a Mac, you need the PTE AV player app.  What I don't understand is will the .pteshow file play on a Windows machine? Do you need to put the Player on the Windows machine as well? Or does PTE AV Studio for Mac give you the option to make an .exe as well as a .pteshow .

Thanks for any help, clarification you can give me.

Ruth

 

[PC Housekeeping]

Thankyou, I've done it..I didn't know about Templates, I assumed it was a tool you could use before making a show, as a plan ,like Project, and as Project works well I didn't explore Templates.But now I see it is a post production tool, Maybe Igor could call it Archive instead. I reckon he's pretty busy with v.5 at present though.

So thankyou again, will keep looking in from time to time, probably won't need any more help in the near future.

Oh, one small thing, Ken said I should have 4.48, well I've got 4.47, is there any need to change?

Cheers, Ruth

[PC Housekeeping]

Hello again,

You were all very helpful about resizing images en bloc recently.Can you now help me with another gap in my knowledge,please.

I have now successfully made my Egypt show, and shown it at the club. Now I am disciplining myself to tidying up the images on my pc. Actually I made the project on my laptop, as it is portable and I could do it a bit at a time, anywhere. Now I want to move them.

I have a set of folders with the adjusted tiffs in and another set with the jpgs in,which is the source for the project. And of course the .exe slide show itself.

Now,I want to move the tiffs and jpgs to my external hard drive for storage. BUT I would like to be able to go back to the project at some time in the future and tinker with it, add more images for example, so I want to keep it in a useable state.( I realise that I would have to create a new show after this,but I don't want to have to add ALL the existing images again from scratch, I just want to be able to add some or delete some )

BUT, I find that if I move the jpgs,even to elsewhere on the laptop, the .pte project says the images are missing. I have tried also moving the .pte project with the jpgs but that doesn't work either.

I could make copies (more copies, gets difficult to keep track of after a bit) and store them elsewhere I suppose, and leave the ones the .pte needs on the laptop, but I'd rather not if there is any other solution.

Any suggestions, please? Sorry this is a bit longwinded.

Ruth

[Batch Processing]

Hello JRR, can you give me a more defined link to what you found on the Adobe User Forum? Its a vast site, no idea really where to go from the start page.

Thanks

I always use tiffs to work with in PS as you can see the thumbnail images in Win Explorer. Otherwise you can only see PSD thumbnails on PS's browser.

Ronnie --Does this colour shift you have noticed occur with converting tiff to jpg too, and does the change only happen with Image Processor, not Save as... ?

Ruth

[Multiresize.exe or CS2]

Thankyou again. I think I'd be on the same set of slides for ever if I tried to sharpen each one individually. 300 images is a lot to process, (for me anyway) so I'll have to stick with batch processing for now. But any that I think are wrong when I look at them in the project preview I can go back to the Tiff and redo the resizing, +/- sharpening.

That's the plan anyway. I've only used USM at 50, radius 1pix, so I don't expect it to be too much.

If I come back again about this I'll start a new topic.

Thanks all of you

Ruth

[Multiresize.exe or CS2]

Hi JRR,thanks for that, very re-assuring. I've now almost finished all the boring resizing and ordering part and tomorrow will get down to making a pte file and previewing how it looks. (It's about Egypt, BTW)

I thought might transfer the project onto my laptop, and connect the projector up, and view the thing projected on-big-screen, to see what customisations look best. Also I could then probably see better whether the amount of sharpening I applied as part of the resizing Action in PS was ok or too much.What do you guys usually do? Maybe I should start a new post for this question.

I'm very impressed with your helpfulness, thanks.

Ruth

[Multiresize.exe or CS2]

Hello again, thankyou all for your advice and helpful links. At the moment as time is short,(why do we always do things at the last minute?) I have gone with the link to the Simple tutorial you pointed me to, Lumenlux, thanks. Its guidance will do for now, although I have had to make separate Actions for Landscapes and for Portraits, which is a bore.

Now, having resized my images,(not all of them yet, but I'm getting there) I see that most of them are around 500-600 KB each. Now in PTE it is advised that each image should be no more than 300KB.

Can you tell me why that should be , and what will happen if they are bigger?

Thanks again,

Ruth

[Multiresize.exe or CS2]

Hello, I'm new to this Forum, I hope someone can help me with what i expect is terribly simple.

I am making a slide show, and have folders with jpgs in the right order, but they are not yet resized to 1280 x 960,landscape format, or 960 high by whatever, for portrait shots. I have downloaded Multiresize, but it seems you have to insert the width and the height box says auto. Well as I understand it, it is actually the height which is important to make sure the images fit on screen. How do you get to be able to insert the height and let the width be automatic? Failing that can you do an Action in PSCS2 that will cope with both formats in one Action?

Thanks so much for any help,

Ruth