JEB
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Mike,
As someone who has not yet had the courage to publish anything and a lover of Venice may I say that I thought your Venice show (not yet looked at Yorkshire) was superb. I for one enjoyed the effects you created. The only comment I would make, and this appears to be a common trend, is that I would prefer to have the images stay on the screen for a longer time after the transition. Having said that many shows for me keep the image too long on the screen! There must be a happy medium – but what??
Well done.
John
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Thank you both.
As soon as I started to read yor reply Ed it started to come back to this senile brain of mine!
John
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Can someone please tell me how to open PS from PTE?
There was a post recently on the subject but I can't now find it and stupidly didn't take a note of how to set it up.
I have just been reorganising my PC drives and have moved both to a different drive and of course it wont now work.
Sorry to be a bother.
Incidently what I have done is put PS, PTE, Audition etc. on one of my two internal 160 GB drives and plan to also save any AV working resources (templates, working copies of images etc) on that drive. My other drive will be used for other applications and storage of original images. I also have an external HD on which I plan to back up valuable files.
Apart from security and general housekeeping I understand that it is beneficial to give PS as much resourse as possible - any views?
Regards
John
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Thank you all for your help. I can now get to work with a little more confidence.
John
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Jim, Al,
Thank you both for your replies. I will take on board your comments about cropping to enable more sympathetic overlaps, Jim. I had not given that much thought which just shows how green I am.
Also Al, thank you for confirming that there is merit in having the same resolution on the Laptop and Projector.
Can I assume that my concern about preparing my shows on my desktop with its screen resolution set to 1280x 960 or 1280x1024 as explained in my initial post will have no impact on the final projected show provided the images are prepared at the laptop/projector resolution (a derivative still to be decided of 1400x1050 in my case)?
What are your views on push and pull regarding vs.5? Have there been any suggestions that this may be achieved in a different way thus making this consideration redundant? I can see that you are very active on the Forum hence my asking.
I am interested that you have gone down the wide screen route. My “mixed up” interpretation of what I have been reading recently suggested that there were fairly fixed standards so it is encouraging not to feel that I have to be too restricted.
Thanks again
John
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I suppose I should say that I am sorry to raise this old nutmeg again - but it would be a lie.
The truth is that I am petrified and also just a little desperate!
The facts relating to my needs (sorry to be selfish) are as follows:-
My prime purpose in producing shows is to project them through MY OWN Digital projector and laptop.
Of secondary importance is that it would be nice if family and friends could view them via a CD on their own PC’s or laptops (no doubt a variety of screen resolutions) and perhaps in the longer term TV (DVD).
With the development of wide screen TV (I don’t have one but will have to upgrade sometime) and perhaps with likely improvements in AVI and all that stuff (!?) I should perhaps keep this in mind. But this is not a high priority.
Of lesser importance is that they could possibly, though unlikely, be viewed via other projectors and PC’s of lower resolution.
I have recently purchased the Canon SX50, which has a resolution of 1400 x 1050 (1.33 aspect ratio) and a new laptop with the same native resolution of 1400 x 1050. My understanding is that a direct match is important to obtain the best possible results?
The other resolution consideration is that I prepare my shows on a desktop PC with a maximum screen ratio of 1280x1024 but have been up till now using 1280x960 which I understand to be its “native resolution”. How important is the “native” resolution at this stage? Is this not more important at the laptop/projector stage?
My camera also a Canon will capture (in its high res setting) a landscape at 3504x2336 which, as I calculate it, equates to 1400x 933 (1.5 aspect ratio). This assumes no cropping. The other option is to crop to 1400x1050 (1.3) in line with what I understand is the present conventional aspect ratio of 1280x960.
I am very tempted to the 1400x933 option as being a tight fisted Scot I am reluctant to throw away hard earned pixels by cropping, and from what tests I have done I can, I think, live with the top and bottom border. My other reason for favouring this line is that I suspect that this aspect ratio more closely meets the ratio of modern TVs.
I would very much appreciate the views of others out there who I am sure have a better understanding of this than I do. Clearly I am keen to maximise the potential of my kit and meet the criteria I have outlined above.
Thanks in anticipation!
John
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As a new member I don’t feel competent to provide any particular image but will give it some thought.
However I am delighted to note that the use of National anthems is unlikely. As a patriotic Scot I don’t believe I just said that! One thought that has occurred to me is that perhaps the use of a quotation from perhaps the most International of all Scots, Robert Burns, may be considered suitable. I have in mind the last verse of “A Man’s A Man For A’ That”.
“Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a’ that,)
That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth,
Shall bear the gree, an’ a’ that.
For a’ that, an’ a’ that,
It’s coming yet for a’ that,
That Man to Man, the world o’er,
Shall brothers be for a’ that.
The use of the compete poem may even be possible with someone – preferably with a Scots accent (Nationalism creeping in!) reading the poem over appropriate images and even, where necessary, English/French/Spanish/American!!/Russian superimposed translation!!! – I’m now getting carried away (perhaps I should be carried away and be locked up too.)
P.S. As Igor will confirm Burns is big in Russia. I think he is quite well known accross The Pond too!
John
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Sorry, I can’t provide any info on above other than that available on the web.
However, I am also interested as I will soon be looking to purchase a projector and it seems to me that it may be worth bighting the bullet and going for this or some other 1400x1050 projector, particularly when I read the thread initiated by Igor “Maximum Quality Images for Slide Shows”. It would seem that 1280x960 is gaining support.
Can someone please enlighten me or am I being naïve in assuming that preparing a show in PTE at 1280x960 and projecting it via a 1280x960 laptop with a 1400x1050 projector will give an improved quality over a show prepared at 1024x768 (or, 1280x960 – see above mentioned thread)) and projected with a 1024x768 projector?
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Thank you all for your responses.
Ron, if PTE is good enough for such illustrious bodies then it must be good enough for a novice like me!
Jevans, your response is just what I was hoping for. I felt sure there must be someone out there who was coming from the same direction as myself. Your solution on the synchronising of audio tracks is encouraging. I’m not sure that I totally understand it at this point in time, but as Brian points out, I have hardly explored the package to date.
In time, I will take you up on the resolution topic, as this is something that also interests me. I have actually raised a related issue concerning resolution and projection/DVD elsewhere in the forum.
Thank you all.
John, JEB
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A few points:
For those of us who project shows at camera clubs etc. the likelihood is that we will be using a 1024x768 projector. These are affordable to most enthusiastic photographers these days whereas the higher resolution projectors are less so.
The file size of a 1024x681 image at quality 10 is 271Kb while the same image at 1280x851 at quality 10 is 402Kb. This is clearly a significant jump in file size to maintain the same level of compression and quality. (If however the file size is kept the same then the quality obviously has to suffer in the 1280x851 image).
So, if ultimately the photographer is going to project his/her shows via a computer and LCD/DLP projector at 1024x768, what is the point in using 1280x851 images? Igor has already stated (I think) that the end result of using 1280x851 images in a 1024x681 show (in a 1024x768 window) is that the images look no different. PTE is capable of compressing images in high quality but is not capable of enlarging images in high quality.
The only advantage that I can see in using 1280x851 images in PTE shows is that dual exe files can be created to suit a variety of end users i.e. an exe file in a 1280x1024 window for one friend/customer etc and another exe file in a 1024x768 window for another friend/customer etc. I don’t see a “one size fits all” scenario here anywhere.
So, for those like me, who are trying to formulate a “STANDARD” I think that it has to be a 1024x768 window. Using “Fit to Screen” is an extremely dangerous option because the worst case scenario is that your 1024x681 images could end up being enlarged to 1600 by whatever on a friend/customer’s monitor/LCD Projector and Igor has most definitely ruled this out as being not recommended.
For those who like to go down the DVD route my opinion is that the end result is so dreadful compared to the exe file on a computer monitor (at this point in time) that the advantages of 1280x851 over 1024x681 are negated anyway! Does anyone agree/disagree?
Long live PTE!!
DaveG
Dave
I am new to this game so forgive me if I sound naive. I am beginning to think of purchasing a new digital projector to replace my existing Epson SVGA (800 x 600) in order to achieve the best possible results. The most obvious economic choice appears to be XGA (1024 x 768), however is this a short-term solution in that SXGA (1280 x 1024) looks like it could become more viable (if Canon are to be believed!) in the near future. Both my desktop and laptop can be set to SXGA.
I am also interested in your comments regarding DVD as I currently see that as the way I would like to go given that my preferred methods of presenting my shows are by projection and TV. I have a small portable DVD player for both options but would the laptop be better?
John
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Jeb
welcome to the forum
do you have a specific question?
have you seen any of the show's that are done by members
ken
Ken,
At this point in time I would be interested in users views as to what in their view makes PTE a better option than "all in" products such as Studio 9.
I have one other particular issue regarding resolution/projection which I will take up on another thread that is prenently running.
If I continue down the PTE route as I think is likely no doubt I will have other questions.
Thanks for your interest.
JEB
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I have very recently downloaded the trial version of PTE having heard good reports and would like some reassurance before committing to this route. My interest is in producing slide shows primarily for digital projection but also TV both preferably via DVD. I have been dabbling in AV slide shows for some time having come from PowerPoint through Opus, Roxio and most recently Ulead VideoStudio 9 (acquired for a specific Video need but used latterly for slide shows). What concerns me at the moment is the separation of audio (music, voice, background effects) and titles from the main programme. What attracts me is this source of common interest and specialist help.
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I have very recently downloaded the trial version of PTE having heard good reports and would like some reassurance before committing to this route. My interest is in producing slide shows primarily for digital projection but also TV both preferably via DVD. I have been dabbling in AV slide shows for some time having come from PowerPoint through Opus, Roxio and most recently Ulead VideoStudio 9 (acquired for a specific Video need but used latterly for slide shows). What concerns me at the moment is the separation of audio (music, voice, background effects) and titles from the main programme. What attracts me is this source of common interest and specialist help.
Laptop computers
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I have two questions coming out of this thread, the first I think is for Igor and the other for any other guru who is prepared to take the time.
I have recently purchased a new HP Compaq (1400x1050) laptop to go with my projector (SX50) which has I understand an ATI Radion XPRESS 200M graphics card fitted. I don't see this listed on your post Igor, can you comment please. I have had no problems so far but should I expect some?
My second question concerning audio is perhaps a bit of a diversion. For some time I have been aware that perhaps in the future I may wish to enhance the sound I presently get from a couple of small PC speakers I plug into the side of the laptop. Other than being aware that a USB bit of magic or card can be used to connect to an external amplifier and speakers I am totally ignorant. Can anybody point me at a web site that would explain in layman terms what would be a reasonable option? Any indication of cost would be useful in case I get too excited!
John