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Carol: Great show, wonderful transitions, page set-ups etc etc And the pictures were good too !!!! <grin> Must have taken you a day or two to set create it ! A friend who watched it with me was fascinated with all the underwater creatures and the colour. You should publish a program to go with the show so we will learn about what we are looking at. Congrats !! PS: You are an excellent student of Oleg's !

But I learned everything I know from Oleg and his shows Same goes for me. Oleg is a wonderfully creative person. Maybe he should do a world tour and offer seminars ?

femart: To add to Stu's good advice, if you really are trying to play two tracks (Narration plus music ??) at once in synch mode, you can do it by using the sound line under the image list (on the main screen) for the appropriate image. But this second sound file will cut off when the image transitions off the screen.

Why not use Beechbrook Cottage ? here

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Adding to Fred's answers: Question 1: Music added via PROJECT OPTIONS>MUSIC tab will play as background and will loop if you ask it to. Unless you synch it, it plays indepenedently of the images You can add music on the SOUND line under the slide list for particular slides. This sound will play along with the background, only while the associated image is on the screen. You can add music under CUSTOMIZE SLIDE>MUSIC. That music will over ride the background music and stop it. QUestion 2. As Fred says there is no sound editor to fade/edit sound files within PTE. Only program that I know that has that is Adobe Premiere, it only costs $1000 But if you use the sound line you can synch your images throughout the show to the music and line up a slide transtion as the music changes.

Pete: I agree with Stu. I have used the new feature in 4.20 and it works like a charm

Jan: Funny you should ask that, I was talking to someone about that the other day. I am not sure that PTE has a colour corrector (I know that is not the right term...) My images are all sRGB as I do not print them. But the reality I suspect is, how many people who will see your show, have their monitors calibrated ? So while we can use the "correct" profile on our images, few if any will see them the way we intended anyway.

Roger: The OBJECT editor as Al says is very useful for the type of process you want. However it is not automatic. If you grouped your images in some fashion, you could put links to each grouping, but it would be a lot of work to link to each image. I understand what you are asking for. I am not sure what the "demand" for such a feature would be, or where it would fit in the priorities list. The demand might be evidenced by the response you get on the forum

All my shows to date have used background sound files. For various reasons I am trying it slightly differently on a new show. This time I am putting the narration on the sound file line under the slide list. At this point I have a silent sound file for the background so I can initially synch the show with having sorted out the music yet. (Further synching will of course be done when music is added) Unless I am doing something wrong, when viewing the draft show via the TIMELINE, I am not hearing the narration. But if I use the "full" PREVIEW mode, then I do hear the narration. If I have not missed a hidden "switch" is this something that could be put on the list of possible changes Igor ? It will be easier than going back to my regular method of mixing the narration and the music in the background. (Of course if we had the sound editor within PTE we would be all set - I suspect that might raise the cost somewhat - Adobe Première has it, that software is only $1000 )

Thanks Merlin, Ken and Oleg. I was also looking for specs for a lap top too, but I just looked closely at my posting and spotted that I had a sunglasses face icon in lieu of my "b". It seems if you type "" you get the icon not the letter "B"..... After several attempts to fix it, I succeeded so the desire for lap top specs stands out more now Any thoughts ?

This has been around for a long time and discussed a couple of times in the past on the forum. It is not so much a bug as a different approach Igor is taking on that item. As Leif says: use SAVE AS and CREATE AS and you should have no problem

Assuming I won the lottery etc, what would people recommend for specs if I were to go buy: 1) Desktop - to be used for sound editing (Audacity), PhotoShop, PTE design 2) Laptop - PTE presentation (plus per above when away from home base) Specs such as: - Chipset - RAM - sound card - video card - etc Thanks

Ray: I am not into DVD so I can't help. But FYI there is another forum where the "DVD'ers" "hang-out", you could try posting there as well. You will find it here: here

Oleg, Carol and Natasha: Thank you for your comments !! The cheque ($$$) is in the mail I can thank Carol for inspiring me with the frames and Oleg for my "daring" to show more than one image on a screen. This is the first show in which I did not use my own images. The "Family Memories" show is the first follow up to my recently completed Family Tree AV show that I put together in PTE with 106 interlinked shows (using OBJECTS). I did not want to scare Bill and try to load the 211mb show to Beechbrook - if he thinks he bandwidth problems now.... Natsha - Thanks for suggesting that I should be a journalist. But I don't have time, I am too busy trying to learn from your Dad's (and Mum's) great work.

Welcome dpd ! Just to add to Oleg and Alrobin's suggestions, Al's darktable works great. I have sometimes used Thumbplus, I move the images into a gallery, sort them and do a batch re-number within the gallery.

Did Alrobin's suggestion not work ? (see the other post you did here

Hi Blastoff: I have not had thay problem, but from time to time PTE will stop displaying the images as you scroll down the files. This was discussed several weeks ago. The solution to that, and maybe your problem, is to close PTE and open it again. The odd time, I re-boot the computer. If we could nail down when this happens regularly, we would let Igor know and he would fix it.

Hi Bruman Have you tried it the way that Alrobin suggested ? Another way is add (in sound editing software) the .wav file to the end of the MP3 file that you have playing as the background and synch the picture of the camera to come up when the clicking sound starts. But I sense you have a problem with that. That is why Alrobin's way is likely best for you

Answer to this much-asked question is: No Sorry

For help on using the TIMELINE you might want to download Alrobin's PTE Tutorial 101. It is on page 3 of Beechbrook. here I am not sure what you want in terms of the .wav file. Are there to be no images on the screen, but you want the music to play ? Why a .wav file and not a MP3 ? I am not sure if you could play it using the "Run Action after last slide" on ADVANCED tab of Project Options, try it but I doubt it. Or you could merge the .wav file into the music for the show and have a black image on the screen after the last normal image. The other route is to add the .wav file under "Customize slide>MUSIC", that will cut the background music, but you still need time on the timeline to keep the show (ie the .wav file) going. I am sure others will have more thoughts

Joy: It is not possible within PTE, but if you do a search for "flash" using the search engine at the bottom right, you find references to using Flash to achieve what I think you want

Peggy: Welcome to PTE. Your issue has come up before and has several possible causes. If you are running the show from a CD, the communication between the CD and the CPU might not be fast enough. (I suspect you are running it from the C drive so this is likely not the issue.) It could be your image sizes are taking up too many CPU resources. Images should be maximum 200kb plus or minus. As a general rule use 800x600 if fading faster than 2 seconds, or 1024x764 if fading slower. Use quality 5 jpgs. It could be some transitions are too close to each other. The CPU needs a little space to breath between image transitions. I try to use half a second if I am squeezing images together, but I can sometimes get away with even less time. Hope that helps. Others will come along with further suggestions

DJ Welcome to PTE !! You will also get lots of help at the main PTE forum here This forum tends to deal with presentation on the Beechbrook site (which temporarily is down )

Bill: Thanks for your e-mail note to let us know what is going on. As per my posting on the main PTE forum, bandwidth issues aside, as we have said in the past, you should not hesitate to charge a fixed fee for posting shows on your site. There is no way you should be out of pocket for providing this great service for us all. Hopefully for your sake (and ours too ) you will resolve this soon.