davegee

If my idea of Absolute and Relative Keyframes was adopted it would make things Oh so easy!! DG

Morturn, A great record of what looks like a marvellous piece of furniture. I am not sure that the video clips added anything to the AV although they did not detract from it. What would have added much more value is hearing your dulcet tones explain what you were doing with background sounds from the workshop. Thanks for sharing, DG

Thanks Peter, It would now be of interest to know where you stand on the original issue? With this in mind, I would like to suggest a little experiment for you to try? Please ensure that that you are feeling up to it before reading further because here I go again: Start off with a 1920x1080 Project (Windowed Mode) and gradually reduce the HEIGHT by 5 or 10 pixels. Each time, go to Preview. Stop when the margins of the Window FILL the width of the screen. Now examine the Resolution and AR of the project that you have created in order to fill the screen in Windowed Mode. An example for a 1920x1200 (16:10) Monitor Screen: Original Project Size = 1920x1200 (PTE Window narrower than Monitor Screen Size) Modified Project Size = 1920x1180 (PTE Window Fits Monitor Screen Size) - AR of the Project is not 16:10 but the AR of the PTE Window size is 16:10. I will now try to explain the similarity between this anomaly and the Border anomaly in PTE. If you start with a 1920x1200 image in a 1920x1200 Project the image fills the screen. By adding a 20 pixel Border to the 1920x1200 image it becomes 1960x1240 but the image fits the height of the screen and there are background coloured lines down the side of the Image. Now hit the Size button in "Size/Position" and you'll see the original image fit the screen again with the newly added border outside of the Project window. The Size of the image can be read as 1960x1240. 1920x1200 is 16:10 wheras 1960x1240 is NOT 16:10 (it is narrower). Now, at the risk of boring everyone here is another anomaly: If you try to replicate the above (Window Mode Anomaly) on a 16:10 monitor of a different resolution you will get a totally different result. Clarification - I'm talking about building a 1920x1200 project on a 1280x800 laptop. The required Project Size required to fit a PTE window to Screen Resolution on a 1280x800 (16:10) monitor screen is 1920x1165. If the project is built at 1920x1200 and the PTE window is adjust to fit the 1280x800 monitor it will not then show correctly on the 1920x1200 monitor. If I read Igor's comments correctly I think that he is saying that he has no control over the size of the "Frame of the Window" in the same way as we have control of the Border Aspect Ratio. In PS (CSx or Elements) it is possible to place a border Inside or Outside of the Image and thus control the Aspect Ratio. Igor has certainly provided the means to do this in PTE but it seems cumbersome and requires a lot more work to do it in PTE than it does in PS. I would like to say at this stage that I have not been influenced by Cosmic events and that I have checked my figures and theories and found them to hold up. E&OE. Best wishes, DG

My 600mm f1.8 is made by a Japanese firm working out of the Rhondda Valley - DaiHatsoff. DG

The replacement for this: http://www.europe-nikon.com/en_GB/product/digital-cameras/coolpix/performance/coolpix-p510 will probably go to 12-2000mm. You can't keep up. DG

The tripod necessary to stabilise it would probably cost as much as the camera . My 600mm f1.8 with the 2x converter will knock the socks off it! DG

You must have been thinking about me ?? DG

Gary, 'Twas Stu? DG

Gary, Just a question - nothing sinister Why 7.0.6? Is it not possible that any problems that you are experiencing have been cured in V7.0.7? DG

Thanks Stu. DG

Peter, I find your remark to be offensive and unbecoming of someone in your positionm I'm sorry that can't put my point over to you any better. DG

Nice spec Ken. Nearly ordered one and then realised it does not take NEF files.. DG

Here is a project which I have made to fit a 16x10 Laptop Screen. It is within a pixel or two of perfection Please feel free to have a fiddle around with it to make it perfect. DG 1920x1200_Sep29-2012_15-07-09.zip

Peter, Igor's solution to the Image Border "issue" is to go to "Adjust Image and Borders > Canvas" and reduce the overall image by 20 Pixels (for example) all round. Then go to Border Tab and add a 20 Pixel Border. You can apply this solution to the "Window Mode" with a little experimentation. Create a Custom Sized Project by reducing its resolution by x pixels equal to the number of pixels in the Window Mode Border. When the Window is then created it will bring it back to your Full Screen Window Mode that that you are trying to achieve. My argument in the other thread is that it should be possible, by choosing an option of an "Inside" or "Outside" Border, to avoid having to crop before adding the Border / Window. Both "issues" revolve around WHERE you add the Border / Window - Inside or Outside. Outside distorts the AR. Inside preserves the AR. DG

Peter, Using the 1920x1080 example: The Window is being added around the outside of the 1920x1080 and the whole thing then fitted to the height of the screen. Let's assume a 20 pixels border / frame / window. That makes it 1960x1120. The resulting AR is narrower than 16:9. It has always been the same and I tackled Igor about some years ago. It has the same implications as the thread regarding Borders. DG

This has been the same going back to v4. Dg

Peter, I am talking about EXACTLY the same thing as you. think about it?????? The border in window mode is added to the outside of the menu resolution thus distorting the ar.DG

Adding a border or frame to the OUTSIDE of an object / window etc changes its Aspect Ratio. The only way to preserve AR is to OVERLAY the object with the border of the desired width. Pixels are then lost - the equivalent of cropping and then adding the border. DG

It's an old problem - turn the Border off. I am currently trying to persuade Igor to add Borders INSIDE the frame AS WELL AS outside. I THINK it is the same problem?????? DG

Peter, I think that you are on the right track. I don't have any prepared icons so searched for .ico and used the WMP icon. DG

Peter, I just did it your way (I think) in W7: I added an Icon via Project Options. Created the EXE. In Explorer created the shortcut. Dragged the shortcut to the desktop complete with the icon assigned in Project Options. DG

Sorry Peter, It works for me in W7. If you are saying that you want the shortcut to carry your chosen icon with it then I agree it does not happen. But I am able to CHANGE the icon on the desktop in both Vista and W7. It's a one off operation and doesn't seem to me to be too much of a chore? Maybe someone has a better answer for you - Igor? DG

Peter, In Vista - if you right click on the desktop Icon and choose properties, you can assign an Icon for the Shortcut? Haven't tried W7 yet. DG

Ah, well done. That's one for the memory bank - never used it! I'll bow out then - I was foolish to think that I could have been of any assistance here. We all have our own ways of working and adapting to someone else's working practises is sometimes diffidult. DG

Presumably you still have the original e-mail with the key or the key somewhere on your hard drive? You can download 6.5 here: http://www.wnsoft.com/archives/ and start again. The installations of V7.0.7 and V7.5 Beta 7 SHOULD instal in a different folder and not interfere with your previous versions. Look in Program files and you should see a number of different PTE folders. V7 and V7.5 might need new licenses but 6.5 should continue to work? DG