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well, after many hours re-doing the slideshow using the timeline and custom synchronization, IT WORKED on other computers (as well as mine). i won't be able to run it on the computer being used for the wedding slide show in florida until friday. but it seems that it should be working and synchronized properly now for all computers. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP, REPLIES AND ADVICE! sincerely, shawn donnelly

yes, brian. i did read the post about the bulk load schedule etc. thank you for your continued help. i'm just trying to do it the best i can using the timeline and custom synch right now. but what do you mean by adding silence? how do i do that? do you just mean adding an mp3 of nothing to the top of the list of background music, or is there a way to actually add silence using pte? shawn

another basic question: so i've made low res versions of all the photos so they are all under 200kb. i've also downloaded v4.41 and am using that now to try and implement the synchronization. previously, i had the 2nd slide customized and that was the slide opening and starting the music (the one mp3 file) that plays throughout the entire slide show. but with the custom synchronization, it doesn't recognize the song that's called up from the 2nd slide and wants me to direct it to the mp3 file from the main project options. the problem there is that the music starts with my title slide, whereas i want it to start with my second slide. i don't immediately see a way to delay the music in the timeline or move when the music starts. does the music have to start at the start of the first slide or can i position it in the timeline to start with the 2nd transition? help! thanks! shawn

ok, i will download the newest version and use the custom synch options. but should i now go back to using separate mp3 files instead of the one long mp3 that i made joining all the separate mp3s? also, could the file size of the pictures play a role? they are all between 500kb and 1MB. thanks, shawn

and i apologize, lin, for referring to you as linda. no idea why i did that... think i've been staring at a computer screen for a few too many hours today...

thank you, jim and linda, for your quick replies. i just checked and no, i did not have "Synchronize slideshow to music duration" checked. i think i assumed that meant that it would be done automatically (even though i now see that it says 'custom' below it). the way i did it was individually inputting the seconds and milliseconds for each slide, using the slide's "customize slide" button. so for instance, i begin with a title slide exposed for 6 seconds, followed by a slide that is set for 4 sec and 250 ms and has the music starting along with it, followed by a slide set for 7 sec and 800 ms and so on and so forth for 88 slides. so i tried to avoid making the software synch the music with the slide transition, as i observed that to be making the music skip and produce other small errors. so i did it myself, by setting each slide time to go along with, what i made to be static, the mp3 times. from my very basic understanding of the software, i did do a custom synchronization, and it worked (on my computer). but would it work better if i actually checked the box and used the timeline etc (which i now wish i had looked into 4 weeks ago)? i assume it would have saved me a lot of time, but would it help in this case? from what linda is saying, it sounds like i might be out of luck anyway. would you recommend downloading the newest version of the software and trying to make it into a movie? i have a dvd burner... thanks again for your help

(i'm running pictures to exe v4.31) hello. thank you in advance for your help. it is much needed. i've been creating a slideshow using your great software. after a lot of searching, pictures to exe turned out to be exactly what i needed. i'm creating a slide show for a wedding, using about 90 pictures and about 30 different mp3s. there are some mp3s that are spread over as many as 10 slides and there are also some that have only one slide per mp3, varying slide appearance times from 4 seconds to 20 seconds. the first problem i ran into was that the software seemed to have a little trouble calling up so many songs so quickly. so i remedied that by joining all the mp3s into one file, using audio editing software. so now, i just have one mp3 starting with the second slide and playing through the entire 12 minute show. i've gone so far as to specify slide appearance times down to the millisecond to match the desired mp3 transition times. everything was great and i finished the show last week, as the wedding is this saturday. but when i tried to play the exe file on other computers, the timing is all off. i won't be using my desktop (in nyc) to run the slide show for the wedding in florida. i realized that i shouldn't run the file from the burned cd, so i copied it to the other computers and that improves the synchronization. but it is still off. i run windows xp and have experimented with both computers with xp and without. why would the exe file run differently on different computers? is the timing not precise enough? could it be a memory or processor issue? does the exe file need the software present on the computer to run properly, or might that help? would using the new version of the software fix this? can you recommend anything, anything at all that i can try??? thank you very much!