Jean-Claude

A new release of Sy(P) is available. Download Here (4.2 MB) New features in Sy(P) 1.10: - tool to merge and split PTE projects, - main parameters manager, - infos on sound tracks, - blank pictures inserting, - third image effect creation, - new effects introduced with PTE 4.40, - installation through a setup application ... and some other small goodies. Html help file for Sy(P) 1.00 is still valid. I have only added a complementary help file to take these new features into account. I hope Sy(P) continues to be a valuable utility for PTE users.

The new version of Sy(P) is coming later as planed, but it comes! Thank you for using it.

Yes, Sy(P) is a easy way: 1. Launch Sy(P) (download here or here) 2. Open your project PTE --> Sy(P) tells you that it doesn't find the images 3. Open the file name manager tool (menu or icon on the task bar) --> all the pictures are listed with the old path <F:/directory/..> 4. in the small device box select the new hard disk: <G> 5. In the right upper box select your new directory for the images: <G:/directory/> 6. Click on <Verify>, normally the result must be OK 7. Click on <Apply> 8. Same procedure for sounds 9. Quit file name manager 10. Save your project That's all folks

Igor, To provide the famous third image, I think it's difficult to implement in the new graphical engine, separate fade in and fade out times, but perhaps You can consider an another easiest way to reach a similar goal. For FADE transition which is today linear, I suggest to add only 3 new parameters necessary to define a new process (divided in PHASE 1, PAUSE, PHASE 2) : - p1 : percent of EFFECT DURATION for phase 1, (default:100 -> no third image) - o1 : percent of second image's OPACITY at the end of phase 1 - p2 : percent of PAUSE DURATION before phase 2 Phase 2 DURATION (p3) is the rest of initial effect duration. As far as possible, that would be a great improvment for PTE.

You can also try to use the specific function of Sy(P) software. thread is here

Today I made different tests with 4.40 beta#8 Jevans, I didn't notice the situation you describe. Here after see result of 4 trials: ------ 4 slides, duration time for each : 4 sec, effect time 3 sec. one music : 118 sec. 1/ no music, no synchronization, not open time-line: total time 28 sec. for the 4 slides, 2/ music open, no synchronization, not open time-line: total time 28 sec for the 4 slides, 3/ music open, no-synchronization, OPEN TIME-LINE : on the scale each slide appears for 4 sec, effect time is included in each image time, so, on the time-line the total time for the show is 12 sec. + 106 sec . for last picture. BUT, if you play the show: total time is 28 sec. for the 4 slides, (if you check 'close after last slide') 4/ music open, SYNCHRONIZATION, OPEN TIME-LINE : on the scale each slide appears for 4 sec, effect time is included in this image time, so on the time-line the time for the show is 12 sec. + 106 sec . for last picture. BUT, if you play the show: total time 118 sec. and duration time for each 4 slides: 118/4 = 29,500 sec. ------- Am'I wrong?

The current version of Sy(P) is in accordance with PTE 4.30. At the moment I work on a new version in order to make it compatible with PTE 4.40. Igor recently (thanks to him) let me know the last specifications. Next version will also include - merging and splitting PTE projects - modification of slideshow main parameters - possibility of adding external remarks (different from comments) to each pictures ... and some others goodies

You are right Gary, Picture pool, opening new images: selecting a block of images is confusing. I don't know why. Is it Windows or my development tool? First image selected becomes the last, last becomes the first. Others are correctly arranged. ...but, if you select first, the last image and then the first picture to define the block, order is preserved. Same behaviour and same solution when selecting non adjacent images with Ctrl + click. I don't have any explanation. Sorry. Future documentation will note this.

Thanks to you, Igor, Roger, Granot, Al and D67 for your compliments. Granot supposed well. Work started exactly one year ago after the first french digital AV forum in Hayange. At that time PTE didn't offer a light table. Answering to Al, Sy(P) is developped in Object Pascal language, and contains about 30 000 lines of code. Knowing that 150 to 200 lines per day is a generally admitted number, it's easy to calculate the amount of work. Help file comes simply from a Word document (with a great number of tables), saved in HTML format. I appreciated very much Granot's post regarding the necessarily ephemeral character of software products. As I already told to Igor I'm sure that future PTE versions will need less and less complementary tools. Sy(P) is a tool-box in which users can find tools which may seem somewhat complicated (e.g. all synchronization features, which don't seem being currently used in USA) but others are very easy to handle and don't need help reading(as print utility, modification of grouped image parameters etc.). Anyway, Sy(P) is a freeware and people are free to make use of it or not. There is a french proverb, by the way : "Il ne faut pas dire, fontaine, je ne boirais jamais de ton eau" which means "Never say, Fountain, I'll never drink your water".

SY(P) Software (freeware) Current version: 1.0 beta#3 Synopsis PTE: Sy(P) is a complementary tool dedicated to PTE users. A sophisticated "spreadsheet" and an elaborated "light table" are the highlights of this freeware I have offered to Igor and to PTE users community. Their features allow you to examine at a glance all the parameters of your PTE project from thumbnails to personal notes or "reminders" attached to any images of your choice. With Sy(P) you can add, delete, rearrange several images at the same time and modify any of their parameters with a click. AND MUCH MORE Download address: http://www.diapovision.com/articles/syp.zip (3 MB) Several tools are available: * A print utility, allowing you to obtain the synopsis listing, with or without thumbnails, * A light table displaying thumbnails of your pictures. With the mouse you can move a picture or a group of adjacent pictures. You can remove, replace, or duplicate images. You can also switch one picture for the other, invert the order of pictures within a selected block, move a selected block of pictures along the time-line, * A spreadsheet based on the main window set of information. By Right Clicking on any line you have access to the parameter editor and the text editor enabling you to apply any modification you want for the selected image(s): comments (font, size, colour), time code, picture time, effect (type, length). You can also edit an existing "object text", but you can't create a new one (it has to be present through PTE). However this parameter editor allows all edited text to be presented in a single window (otherwise scattered through the different rubrics, comments, object,etc), * A picture pool that offers the same features for new images as the light table. You can order and move pictures the way you want. You can also remove a picture from the pool. You can display a lot of information about your pictures in this pool such as name, dimensions, weight, * A parameter editor, that allows you to edit and change time-related parameters as well as types of effect. You can activate it when working in the main window as well as in the spreadsheet or the light table. You can edit a single picture or a block of selected pictures, * A time marker editor that helps you to carefully adjust time codes for one or several images. It enables you to assign a time Marker -i.e. a time code- of your choice to certain 'key' pictures. Combined with Audacity, for instance, this editor can make use of Audacity 'labels track' file to assign time-codes to some selected pictures that you want to match with aural events you marked on the sound track, * A block editor which permits you to shift anywhere in the project a block of images without changing following time codes, * A picture and sound files path and name manager which reconstructs the path to the image and sound files if these have been moved from the folders they were in when the project was created, * A direct access to *.PTE file contents enabling immediate reading of this file, * A full screen view of any selected image at any time. You move to the next image by clicking on it and by double-clicking or escape you return to your normal set out, * Finally, two languages are permanently available without restarting the program, including a full documentation in html format. HAVE FUN WITH Sy(P)