DavidP

Sorry I didn't make myself clear at first but Jean has it right. Thanks (but no thanks ) for telling me I can't do it. Presumably adding an overlay, as Peter suggests, would simply mask off the edges of every image, which is what I don't want. I have seen P2E shows that show every image effectively in a 'window' against a coloured background. Since P2E allows one to specify the background colour I'd rather hoped that there was a way of specifying the size of that 'window' for a complete show.

Thanks, Peter, but that is exactly what I was doing. It works fine for all images, whether portrait or landscape, as long as I've not used the 'objects and animation' button. That button is used either for a slow zoom into the image or to add text that fades in on top of an image. In both cases the whole image remains at 100%.

Sorry guys, I need to resurrect this thread. I've just put together another sequence. As before, it is fine on computer screen but gets clipped all round on DVD player. If I set the 'percentage of slide to show' to about 90% it is fine on the DVD. EXCEPT this percentage only seems to be applied to static images. Any images where I have used animation remain at 100%. Anyone have any idea how to get around that? Supplementary question. There is a facility in P2E to set the background colour and even a drop shadow. How does one show an image smaller than full screen against a background. Is it simply by using the percentage or is there another way? Thanks for any clues,

Barry, Lin, Thanks from me, too. Works a treat.

I would like to apply exactly the same animation (pan and zoom) to a whole series of images. Ideally I would set up the animation on the first image and then copy and paste it into the others but I can't find a way of doing this. Any ideas?

Sorry for recent silence - been away for a few days. Yes, reducing the sizing to 90-odd percent looks the easiest way to go and I'll try it next time. Unfortunately I'd been through and added spaces before I read these useful replies. I had tried increasing the offset but that moves the comment up the screen as well as left (from its bottom right position) and I didn't need or want that. Many thanks,

Thanks for that, Ralph. It's the 'TV safe zone' that is the problem. I hadn't realised that Tvs do not show the whole image. However, my TV shows much more than the safe zone indicated on P2E - I only lose about one third as much. Unfortunately that third includes part of the comment, which I have set for the bottom right corner. I'll just have to go through the whole show and pad out the comments with a few extra spaces. David.

I have the same problem. Everything appears fine on the PC but the DVD seems to be cropped by 3-4% all round (e.g. comments in the bottom right corner lose their final two letters) Images are all oversized, typically 2048x1536, so that I can zoom in without pixelation. David P.

I've just gone through 600 pictures and captioned them all in Photoshop Album. The captions are all embedded in the EXIF data. Any idea how I can get PTE to use these captions as comments, without having to re-type it all? David P