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Brian: Appreciate your simple but thorough explanation. What has us (me anyway) stumped is why, in out tests anyway, this is only an issue on zooming outside the original portion of the image. Zoom inside the original portion and all is OK. Pans of course by definition take you outside the original portion and thus are problematic

John: Thanks for the report. Glad you had access to a Canon Sx50. The issue on the Canon certainly is less than on the Panasonic and we found the Canon issues to be intermittent (there 50% or more) whereas the Panasonic was constant. Yes it is too techie for me too! Thx again

Thx Peter I am quite happy to recognize that as software gets more sophisticated, we need to keep our hardware current. No problem with that. The frustrating thing here is that we don’t know (yet ?) what we need to upgrade to what to enable us to project what I would think is a basic normal pan and zoom (that goes outside the original display portion). In the past we seemed to know what hardware we needed to update Again Peter, thanks for your assistance and time !!

Tom: I have an Edirol R-09 sound recorder. Edirol I also have a RODE NTG2 shotgun microphone for it Rode Mic (sorry the RODE website seems to be off line right now so I gave you a link to a store that carries it in Canada) I have used it with and without the microphone for wildlife and voice recording, both with good success. (The mic is obviously the most successful, but I was more than happy with what I had achieved before getting the mic)

Colin: Ed has asked that discussion on this thread be moved to here as we have done more investigating and it was felt to be a new topic

Yachtsman: Thanks for running a test. Yes some image files are larger than recommended, but our point is that ALL the transitions/animations run smoothly on a monitor, but the projectors that we tested had difficulty with some. Especially with panning outside the opening image portion on screen.

There might be a potential problem downloading the file Ed referred to in the above post from: http://www.mediafire.com/?ymwmyurgvik Ed used the ZIP utility in WinXP and that retained two folders that had the test PTE shows in them. However, I use WinZip and that removes the folder separation in the file and threw everything in together in the ZIP file when I opened. That might create problems when running the two show (1024x768 and 1400x1050) as the image files have the same name but are different sizes. So to be safe, if anyone hits that problem with the download, we have broken the original zip into two files (both have the pdf files in them). One for the 1024x768 show and another for the 1400x1050 show. They are available from: 1024x768 1400x1050 Sorry for any confusion

Tony: In addition to the good advice above, you might want to check out: Projector Central

Peavey's website indicated a strong UK presence through manufacturing facilities etc . Guess my assumption of the availability of the Escort in the UK was incorrect

Mike: I use the Peavey Escort system here I had a small boom box which worked fine until I showed up to a presentation that was supposed to be for 25 and 150 attended. The next day I went looking for a replacement. It is certainly bigger (and more costly) than the Aego M speakers that comes up in the link Ken gave associated with Maureen. I haven't seen the Aego Ms in action but I understand they are fine and VERY compact. The Peavey gives me total flexibility for any size crowd, and everything comes in a wheeled case. Our Camera Club (150 members regularly attend meetings) use a similar Fender system. It has slightly better sound than the Peavey, BUT it is not on wheels and the speaker stands are not contained in the case and have to be carried separately. Just another option.....

interesting idea You might want to post this in the "ideas and suggestions for next versions" forum. Got to PICTURES TO EXE FORUMS and click on the 4th forum

Lin THANKS for all your help (e-mail et al) I installed your recommended codecs (took a VERY long time and I actually stopped its virsus checking part,) but install went OK Your .avi shows are working fine now and the images on .avi file from the pte show are much better than they were before. Still not as good as the .exe images, but passable if I have a need to use them on an uniformed audience

As we often see here on the forum, many computers react differently.... I have had no problems with viewing .avi files, but was having problems creating .avi files with PTE. So I downloaded and installed the package recommended (see above) It did not add any CODECs in the PTE "create avi " And Lin Evans' tutorials no longer work on my machine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another .avi file I use frequently does still work but I get a warning screen which I have to close. As I say different computers react differently, so be careful

Thx Brian

For us luddites.... How do we know which codec to use ? What one does Windows Media Player like (Although Lin doesn't like WMP and uses different software )

I have a Nivida 6200 card and the pans were quite smooth for me. There was a very slight "bump" when the previous object finished its transition. But nothing like what I see in another "gold" software that I won't mention I have 4 gb of RAM

Thx Xavier I thought it might be that, but I wasn't sure Better to ask than......

Pardon my naiveté (Luddite-ness), but where does one type this command line ?

Igor: Thanks for your help. Not sure why I seemed to be the only with the problem, but thanks for pointing out the problem to Invision

Maybe should not say anything, but fingers crossed, but as of 4pm everything seems to be back to normal. Something happened somewhere between 1pm and 4pm.... Thanks

Igor: We really appreciate your dedication and hard work, but you do need/deserve a GOOD break, so do as I say and not as I do and take a break from the forum as well Have a great vacation

Hi Ken I checked The Dom's forum, plus two other forums I am a member of and no problem. Not sure they use the same forum software though As I say, everything else seems to be normal I have rebooted twice just in case... I am on Firefox 2.0.0.14

Thanks Peter: Thanks for the tip re the auto-save (The default seems to be set to "off" so I was OK) I understand now what you are saying. I had expected from what you were saying that the last slide to move back to 5:48 time point, but the end of the music marker moved to the (proper) 5:50. So yes, doing that extra little step and all appears OK. I will have to experiment more as time permits Thanks again

Thanks Peter Not sure I want to that with existing shows. For one thing that would throw off the synchronization at the end of the show. It seems the synching is fine up until that last two seconds. When (if ) I switch to 5.5, I'll have to add two seconds to my sound track I guess ??? Maybe Igor will find a solution for it

Is anyone else having problems reading the forum ? 75% (or more) of the time when I click on a posting, I am told I am forbidden to go there. Hitting the refresh key triwce usually brings the posting on screen, although some of the buttons are missing (REPLY, REPORT, TOP etc etc) I haven't had any problems with others sites on the Internet Here is the message I get: "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /forums/index.php on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/1.3.39 Server at picturestoexe.com Port 80"