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Hi Bill try DbPoweramp converter. If you do a search on this site you will a reference to the site, sent in by Alrobin, I beleive. Mike Mersea Island

Hi Caroline I would agree with Al, I find DbPoweramp, quick and very easy to use and accurate. Mike Mersea Island

Thanks to Granot I now know what a Quicky is!!!! Mike Mersea Island

Admin I have to totally agree with Ed. He has said it all right. A wave form may give a visual clue but in the end it is down to sound, feeling and experience. There are other areas for you to put your effort into to better advantage. Mike Mersea Island

Hi there goliath For 2 years I have not been able to upload a show to Beechbrook and I have definetly put it down to AOL, for I have tried to upload on 4 machines. Bill from Beechbrook kindly accepted it as an email which I see he has suggested you do (good Guy Bill ) One further point I would make, that I came up against in my first upload was That AOL has a file attachment limit of 15MB, so I could not send it as an email either, I believe other ISP's have limits too. Eventually people on this forum suggested a file splitting program so after a couple of frustarting weeks it all worked. So keep trying and I look forward to seeing your work. Mike Mersea Island UK

Hi All Just to say a new show is now on Beechbrook. I have actually only done the encoding for the show is by my other half, she is going to learn PTE soon, now that she can see how straight forward it can be. The original show was made in the late 1970's with a Zenith E Camera and brings back memories of our early days in photography where we did our shows on a mechanical dissolve unit controlled by a bicycle cable, (we still have it and it was used last month!) and I had to remember the sound track and manual synch it every time any show was presented, and we would do 2 * 45 minute presentations in an evening. Then we moved onto dedicated electronic units. In keeping with the original I have not done any fancy edit work in Photoshop at all for the re-making of this production. But I have now started cleaning up and generally improving the overall quality, but I quite like it as it is. We had real pleasure in taking an old show and so easily transferring it to the modern medium. Hope you all enjoy. Mike and Pat Mersea Island

Hi JG Just a few hours ago Igor released the latest beta version and this includes 4 mojor new transitions with 25 variations on them. Give it a go you may find more that you like. Mike Mersea Island

Hi Graham Not directly. People have tried by using PC emulators but with mixed success. Mike Mersea Island

Ralvis A pleasure to view and I look forward to seeing more Mike Mersea Island

Hello Michel I too have been a photographer for many many years, also a judge for both Photographs and audio visual shows so I know what you mean when you look at sloping horizons. I always called them 'uphill water' and people soon learnt to correct this fault. Very often the attention to small points can make the difference between something which is good and something which is worth many more points. Ralvis I downloaded your first version and had similiar feelings, now I will download you improved version in the light of both yours and Michels comments. Mike Mersea Island

First thing DO NOT format it! The order of your drives will have changed and you will still have info on it. Next we have to work out the correct solution. I will be back as no doubt will others. Mike Mersea Island

ON most of my shows I have managed to get the gaps between pictures down to to .2 seconds (where necessary) and provided it is syncronised they do run OK on machines from Pentium II, 200M upwards. Mike Mersea Island

nobeefstu Total agreement with you As I have said before its horses for courses and each piece of software suits each of us in different ways. Mike Mersea Island

Hi Granot I did download 'Dark Table' the day you annouced it and I tried immediately and found the way you had organised to be very good. I have meant to go back to it and put it thru its paces better but have not had time yet. When I do I will report further. But I like what I see so far. Mike Mersea Island

Hi Bruman You ought to contact Michel, one of the French members. About 12 months ago he did camera pics and shuttter sounds and he had a PTE show with these effects in. Mike Mersea Island

Still in the dark here too

Hi Lumenlux Once again you have you finger on the pulse. It was such a great idea of yours to get this thread going. Many regards to you. Talking about Christmas spirit, I would not mind a large whisky Mike Mersea Island

Greetings to all PTE users worldwide I live on a small island (7 * 3 kilometres) off the east coast of England near Colchester. Englands oldest recorded town. Mike Mersea Island

Bart Excellent. A central source of info for all. Thank you Mike Mersea Island

Hi All Its definetly Horses for Courses here. I, like lots of other members on the forum use different programs for their different facilities. Multimedia builder is excellent for making interactive type presentations. I think PTE is excellent for slide presentations. Hi Lumenlux As ever you get straight to the point. It would be good if we did discuss other than just technical matters as we seem to have been doing a lot just lately. Mike Mersea Island

Hi FromAtoZ Sorry if I gave you the wrong impression but I was quite clear in my suggestion. It is not a question of “wrong train” but rather one of “different trains”. At the end I made the suggestion that Igor could develop 2 different programs one along the line of the traditionalists and another tailored to those who want more along the lines of present day modern MULTIMEDIA. Next you state you agree with nobeefstu. QUOTE “I agree with Jim and nobeefstu, PTE is a nice slideshow tool, but it could be much more.” (Excellent would be a better choice of word than nice). Nobeefstu actually says QUOTE (see his contribution a few further up in the thread) “I personally enjoy PTE as a Slide Show ... and not as a multimedia player and viewer that will be limited to specific PC requirements ... then all these files become so huge and demanding and ontop we want them to play from CD... which is creating more min requirements to many users.” I do believe my contribution agreed with those exact thoughts as also expressed by JRR whose quote from nobeefstu attracted my attention. I agree that we all have different ideas about slideshows but I was not discussing what is a good slideshow or not, but the elements which go to make up a good slideshow regardless of its aesthetics. Regarding ‘joking ? losing its original ethos’ No I was not! I was not arguing but agreeing again with nobeefstu and Igor. QUOTE “Igor tries his best to maintain small executable size and provide best of quality and options ... for all PCs to enjoy.” I do believe that Igor has achieved all this and more. In over 30 years of making ‘Slideshows’ I have taken my shows to many, many places but Igor’s programming skills have allowed my shows to be shown all over the world to a far greater audience than I could ever reach personally. In conclusion this is because as nobeefstu says, “for all PCs to enjoy” the rest is due to Igor and all the people on this forum and their input. In my humble opinion Mike Mersea Island

Hi JRR You said "I would like PTE to continue evolving, but as a more sophisticated slide show, not as a media player." You are totally and utterly correct. Over the past 2 years or so I have seen many excellent shows on Beechbrook using various versions of PTE in its simplest and purest of forms. The beauty of a good slide show is in its simplicity and use of simple rules (from the days when we only had projectors to work with and in my case years ago simple mechanical blades controlled by a brake cable from a bicycle!) PTE developed into a sophiscated and excellent example of this principle. If we go much beyond this principle then we will have an oversized (PTE still fits on a floppy) piece of bloat ware that may appeal to many but lose its original ethos. I am not against progress but the point PTE has reached now I feel offers the majority of us the best of all worlds and just needs to be rounded out and not over developed. If Igor wants I am sure he can split his programming skills into two products ( Igor you can increase your revenue here). 1, the original PTE with improved facilities and 2 a more multimedia type program for those who require that type of product. Ok Guys what do we think? Mike Mersea Island

Hi Merlin you say "I recorded the talk in multiple segments so that it would be easy to change any one without the others." That to me is the answer if you have it all in segments then it is akward but easier to swap about if you do it a lot. A big file of audio means re-editing and re synch all the time. Mike Mersea Island

Hi Al My wife does lots of keyboard playing and wants to do similiar things, but it sounds to be like Mind Inducing Dangerous Input. Mike Mersea Island

Terry Both Al and Jims advice is right. I too still do 35mm shows (3 kodak carousels for sale soon) and find with the later PTE versions synching is fine by manual entry and viewing the wave form on a dedicated audio program, ie Cool edit etc. My Fields of Fire show is 16 min 23 seconds long and contains many very vital sycnh points. 4 within 1 min of the end. This was programmed last year in V3.18 before we had all these now extra facilities. We really dont want to make PTE too heavy in facilities because it then defeats its original purpose. An excellent programme that fits on a FLOPPY. Microsoft cannot do that! Mike Mersea Island