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Hello Al, I was an eager user of SYNOPSIS PTE. And I am pleased that you are going with your genius excel-program ADJUSTOR the same way. Perhaps you can solve my synchronazation-problems with your excel-program easily. All my shows have the same structure: Project Options -> NO Background music for show S01 S02 S03 Play new background music file(s) | M01 S04 S05 S06 S07 Before synchronization M01 is ending here BUT M01 sould end at S09 S08 S09 S10 S11 Play new background music file(s) | M02 S12 S13 sound 01 S14 S15 S16 sound 02 S17 S18 Before synchronization M02 is ending here BUT M02 sould end at S15 S19 S20 and so on Can I synchronize with your ADJUTOR? May I get an prototyp according to the example? Take 20 sec for each slide. Many thanks Manfred

Hello Al, Jeff, John, Ken, Ron Many thanks for your responses. It was very interesting for me to hear about your solutions synchronazing slides and music. Because I synchronized all my show manually I am not familiar using the timeline. From there I have some stupid questions: Example All my shows have the same structure: Project Options NO Background music for show S01 S02 S03 Play new background music file(s) | M01 S04 S05 S06 S07 Before synchronization M01 is ending here BUT M01 sould end at S09 S08 S09 S10 S11 Play new background music file(s) | M02 S12 S13 S14 S15 S16 S17 S18 Before synchronization M02 is ending here BUT M02 sould end at S15 S19 S20 Is it possible to manipulate (shrink/extend) the duration of the slides using timeline? Moreover I believe there is a bug in V5. When I use 1 background music for my show - this music is always started when I <start preview from the currect slide> Yours Manfred

Hello John! Many thanks for your complete answers to all of my questions. I understand the technique you use to synchronise your slide shows. This method I believe is suitable if you do not interrupt your slide shows or if you are creating an AVs. Normally I create shows (lectures), which I can stop on well defined slides to make explanations or to answer questions of the audience So I have synchronised slide-sequences with music which should not be interrupted (for example: if I show the impressive landscape of dunes) and such slides where I can stop (left click). AAAAAAAAAAAAABBBAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBAAAAAA Synch M1 Synch M2 Synch M3 A customized slide with OaA B slide, which can be stopped My problem is synchronizing the A sequences comfortably. At the moment I do it arithmetical. I beg your pardon for my bad english! Yours Manfred

Hi John, many thanks for your great AV "Riding the Wind" Your show is precisely what I need. You solved all problems I have/had; but I am sure more elegantly. How did you realise the music problem? Is the linkage of music 1 and music 2 as backgroundmusic the best technique? I solved it in older shows with sound! (sound = music) and manual synchronisation. PTE 5.0 offers <Play new background music (files)>; but I think with no synchronisation. May I get an small .PTE file which shows your solution? How do you synchonize music and slide sequences? Timeline? Can the adjustor from Alrobin help? Thanks for your responses, Manfred

Hi, has anybody an example (.PTE) with many sounds and more than 1 background music? Is it possible to synchronise <new background music> and a number of slides? Many thanks. Manfred Achenbach mwo_achenbach@arcor.de

Hello Al Many thanks for your interest in my compatibility - problem. My show has lots of slides and sounds. If you give me your email address I will try to send you the template as appendix. It was my first experience with PTE. I believe that I can improve it with V5! By the way I can catch some word corresponding with you: Audacity, Audition, Cubase. What is plug-flattery? In September I start an motorhome trip thru Canada Toronto Ottawa Quebec Montreal Toronto. A big chance for a new slide show - foliage! Manfred

Hello Brian! Many thanks for your immediate answer. I believe you are right it was the word by word translation of the question in german. (my awful english!) I visited Ireland 1986. It was a year with lots of rain and high tide. Even so we had a tremendous boat trip on the Shannon. I like Ireland! Al has answered too. I believe the reason of the error message I get (assertion error) is the frequent use of the sound line. The show is a trip thru Namibia with many animal sounds: apes, lions, elefants, seals and so on. Even my comments are sounds. Yours sincerely Manfred Achenbach

Hi! What must I do to make a show (created under V4.6 / template-dataset) running under V5#8A? Who can help me? Many thanks! Manfred

Hello Lin, Many thanks for your immediate reply and the small example which explained the function of rectangles. Perhaps you can help me again. Your tutorial based on Adobe Photoshop?! Which product do you use? I am using Adobe Photoshop 5.0 and Adobe Photoshop Elemets 4.0 and I can not reproduce what you are showing! Best regards, Manfred

Hi Al! Many thanks for your immediate reply and help. I studied some tutorials and demos - now I am a bit shifter. But it is not so easy to learn by an example when it is made by an artist. I am an absolute beginner with V5. Is it possible to create an object list ordered by start-keypoint? Do you know when the official V5 with an users guide are released. Yours sincerely Manfred

Hello! perhaps I am a liitle bit stupid! I am testing V5B5 and the genius Objects and Animation. I have no problems with pan, zoom, rotate and timepoints but I do not understand what I can do with rectangles. Has anyone an tutorial which can help me? Many thanks. Manfred

Hello Garnot! How do you do? Our last contact was 1 year ago when a came back from a trip thru Namibia and I worked on my first diashow. Now I am back from a fabulous trip thru Scotland and I am working on the next show. I very often use your ingenious small programs. Now I have a problem with TextScoll. It is possible to use NL CR in a text? (Dataset text.text). Sincerely Manfred

Hello! I have a slideshow with 100 slides. I would like to play 211s of music with the slides 35-42 and 154s of music with the slides 83-90. Can I use synchronization (or timeline) to solve this problem? Or is it nessesary to calculate by myself? Thanks for help. Manfredmwo_achenbach@arcor.de

Hello Garnot, many thanks for version 3.0. Decrease/Increase Height will work very well. There is only a small bug. When the frame increases very much time informations appear on the slide. I’m a mathematician and so I am standing in numeric numbers. With the mouse it is impossible to create an precise frame - for example 1500x1157 (scaling of your frame size 700x540) Is it a lot of work to specify the width in pixels? Manfred

Hello Garnot, the best way is by email. mwo_achenbach@arcor.de Many thanks Manfred

Hello Garnot, I am testing the enhanced FrameToImage _ version 2.0 781 KB _ and I have some problems. I have 3 pairs of up/down keys on my keyboard but none will work together with Alt. Perhaps I do not use the correct version of FTI? Can you help me? Thanks Manfred

Hello Granot, many thanks for your immediate answer. You are a magician or in german a "Programmschleuder" (word by word translation: programcatapult). I am very interested in your enhanced program. I was 25 year the head of a software development center. We had huge computers from IBM , only some tools and we use the programming languages assembler, FORTRAN, COBOL, PL1. Gone times. What tools and languages do you use? HTML, VBA, C, C++ or others. May I get a small sourcecode of your program ? Many thanks Manfred

Hello BOXIG (Garnot), I have lots of slides (.jpg) with image size 1536 x 1024 (1,5:1) and I want to show these slides with frames. Yesterday I found your genius programm FrameToImage. But all your frames have size ~ 1,3:1 so my images will not fit to the frames. What can I do? Cutting all my images? Cutting all the frames? Or have you got a program to change the frames? Perhaps you can help me. Many thanks. Manfred

Hello! I am looking for user of the german version of PTE. Please report. Manfred

Hello! I am using the german version of PTE. Can I report my problems and proposals in german? Have you got some specialists speaking german? Because I do not run the english version in parallel with the german version I get into trouble reporting problems. Very often I do not know the corresponding term you use in the english version (for example Übergang = transition, or Stundenanzeiger?). Can I get at least a translationtable for tool-specific words and window-headlines (for example <Erstellen der AVI Video-Datei>). Manfred

I have a very complex slideshow with lots of customized settings and different music for specific groups of slides. I would be very happy off a listing (1 row/slide) with all settings/informations which belong to each slide (.TXT or .CSV-Format).

I am using the german version of PTE V4.31 and I want to create an AVI-dataset. But I can not find any AVI button in the main window of PicturesToExe as you describe. Can you help me in showing a screen snapshot?