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You are welcome. DG

Try DaveGee7 and see if one of those is what you are looking for? You can Edit the Transition and see how it is done. If you need help with it please PM me? DG

Hi Colin, Further to the above, I have created a Standard Template which anyone can try and get a comparative set of timings for creating an ISO File and Burning the ISO File to DVD. The details are as follows: Project Size - 1920x1080 (16:9) 128 Slides - 2 Images (2112x1405) repeated with Pan, Zoom, Rotate and 3D Turnover. That's 8 Slides - repeated 16 times to make the 128 slides. Total time of show - just over 10 Minutes. A 1 Minute audio file was added in Loop Mode to keep the file size down. The resulting EXE is 4.39Mb. The ISO File is 558Mb and took 3m 15s to complete. Burning the ISO file using PTE Video Builder took 1m 15s. Burning a HD 1920x1080 MPEG4 for TV using the 1920x1080 Preset at High Quality took 22m and its file size is 1.730Gb. I am pretty sure that there are many systems out there which are faster than mine. I have PM'ed you a link to download a "Backup in ZIP" of the STANDARD TEMPLATE. Anyone else wanting to download it can PM me and I'll do the same. DG

Colin, Lin's suggestion of a standard test is IMHO the best way forward. If just two alternating standard HD images are used and repeated say 50 times with a standard Dissolve that might form the basis of a test? I would advocate splitting the test into two parts - ISO and BURN. Both of these can be done from PTE's Video Builder.In your case I would respectfully suggest that you system is somewhat "dated"? DG

Just one observation. A TV with built in MEDIA PLAYER and USB will allow connection to your own 500Gb HD for this purpose. Mine does and plays standard PTE MPEG4 files with no problems. If you already have this facility and that sort of quantity of material then the external MEDIA PLAYER is not required. If you don't have the USB facility on your TV then you might feel that the cost of a Media Player would be better used if put toward the cost of a new TV? DG

Dawn, Untick everything other than the ISO option and save it in a location other than your C drive if possible. If you have a programme on your PC capable of doing it double clicking on the ISO file should open the correct burning module. If you do not have anything capable of doing this then you need to get something like ROXIO which does. Lin suggested a freebie above. The reason that I always suggest the ISO option is that if the ISO completes you are 99percent sure that PTE is NOT the problem. DG

Wil, The version that Igor posted above is just for TEST purposes. Follow his instructions and send him the text file in the Main folder after closing the programme following the error. I have already done this but another test may show extra info. DG

OK stand by. DG

Umberto, "Trick" = "Workaround"? /> DG

Put a frame between parent and children and apply the compensation to the frame?? this could be done retrospectively.DG

Gary, I don't think that you would work that way? The PNG file would be your "FRAME" for your Project Window - 1920x1080 etc and would not vary. For everything else you would use Border/Canvas. You could copy an image from one slide to another with a Border Canvas setting of 3 pixels. You change the Image in Properties and, regardless of any differences in Image size or AR, the same 3 pixels border/canvas would apply. Did you try the Copyright method? DG

An interesting fact for those who are not aware of it. I have been constructing a Menu for a forthcoming event and have found out that I can start a particular project from the menu and work on it (in PTE) while my menu is still running in the background. By choosing "Run Application or Open File" from the dropdown and then navigating to the .pte file [change "Applications (*.exe; *.msi)" to "All Files"] - select the ".pte" file. When you run the Menu in Preview or as a EXE and click on the Hyperlink, PTE will open with the correct project ready loaded to work on or demonstrate something. Best wishes, DG

You could also add it as a Copyright in Project Options which would not require adding it to every slide. The downsides are that it does not show in O&A and you cannot remove it on an individual slide should you need to. PNG is best. DG

Artem, See your PM. DG

OK - I'm convinced - please stand by. DG

Artem, I can start a new project in 7.5.4 and add ANY Video and it happens. Point me to any video and I will try it? The Laptop is Vista 32 Bit. Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 2.1 GHz 4Gb Memory 1280x800 Screen NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT GPU 256Mb Ram DG

Artem, I can only reproduce this on my VISTA Laptop - W7 is OK. It does not depend on specific Video Files. DG

I tried it on a Vista laptop.More testing required.DG

A png "stroke" line copied to all slides is the way I do it. It is probably not the only way. The "enable border" changes the ar unless you alter the canvas by the same amount. Dg

It's normal Gary. If you want to behave the same as the "stroke" command in PS then you need to use CANVAS in conjunction with Border. Set canvas (all 4) equal to Border. DG

You are right - it is easy to reproduce. As well as producing the Error message it turns the Video from Colour to B+W? DG

If I might add an opinion as a non-professional />? No. It is possible with a single keyframe object to move the key frame to wherever it is required along the timeline (relative to the slide's animation) and make any changes neccessary at that point. DG

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That makes sense. (Assemble at Monitor Width). DG

Hi Umberto, Trying to change the figures in the way that you show does indeed produce an assertion error. If you click on the folder dropdown instead it takes you back to the mask dialogue where any changes made do not produce the Assertion Error. Perhaps it would be best to not have the parameters in the Properties box or, as you say, make it read only. DG