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maureen hit on part of the answer above. any machine be it lt or dt needs to be a high end gaming machine to satisfy everyones needs. my last two dt pcs have been gaming machines and i have jumped from 512mb graphics ram to 3gb on the new machine. barry made a very good point about the choice of machine for comps. although impractical a dt is preferable. dg

Hi Ken, Had e-mail off Bill saying he would look at it. However, it is available on P10. DG

Hi Ken, It is on Page 10?? (and it works from there). You should be able to download from the HOME Page, though. DG

Ken, Search for KeyCopy-Tool and press DOWNLOAD - nothing happens. DG

You're not doing anything wrong - that one appears not to be available. Could I ask why you want it? Don't you have copies of the serial numbers and keys spread out over those multiple drives? They are data - that's where they should be. Can you not connect the external drives to your laptop and search (one at a time if necessary)? DG P.S. I have e-mailed Bill.

good to see you back and in control ron. we had to talk about something while you were away. what was the beechbrook problem. dg

It takes around 30 mins to IMAGE the C drive and around 30 mins to reload it in case of a problem (100Gb). Obviously if the C drive needs replacing it takes a few mins longer. I won't recommend any particular software - that's crazy - but the one I use is MACRIUM REFLECT. I had cause to do it last year and it was easy peasy - no lost files, serial numbers, versions to deal with - it saves all of that - a virtual clone of your C drive. The only thing that I lost was a week or two of e-mails. DG

What do you use to IMAGE your C drive? DG

P.S. Mounting (as in MOUNT A DRIVE) an External HDD is not recommended. If it is unplugged or not switched on for some reason then the link is broken and the unexpected can happen. Multiple Internal HDDs are recommended. Partitioning a single drive is OK for Data but can fail if the HDD fails - Data, OS and Programmes are all lost. Putting Scratch Discs on a partition on the single internal drive is also not worth the effort - a processor cannot access information from two parts of the same disc at the same time. DG

It's a very useful tool that allows you to MAP a location on your C drive to another drive. Instead of writing info to the C drive it writes to the designated mapped drive. Go to CONTROL PANEL and search for MOUNT A DRIVE for instructions. DG

In addition to Barry's methodology another absolute essential is a separate HDD for Scratch Discs, Temporary files etc. This allows the software to access information from the programme files and the temporary data in parallel as opposed to waiting for one operation to finish before starting another operation NOTHING - or at least the very minimum - should write to the C drive during your workflow. For those applications that will not allow for changing the locations of temporary files MOUNTING A DRIVE should seriously be considered. The only reason that software defaults to writing to the C drive is because the programme does not know which other drives you have available. DG

This: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html ....will apparently list all of your hardware, software, serial numbers etc in a report. I have not tried it - it was an answer in another forum to a similar problem. DG

ron there should be absolutely no data on your c drive. it is for os and software. things like reg.txt should be kept on a separate hdd with a backup available. even a catastrophic c drive failure should not cause you to lose serial numbers etc. dg

Ron, Is this one query or two? No problems at Beechbrook. I'm assuming that you have been a PTE user as long as I have? Have you searched your computer and associated drives for "reg.txt" and/or "VideoBuilder_regkey". DG

Linda, This is a very old thread. PTE is now at V7.0.4 - it might be worth loading the latest version and trying that before progressing any further. It sounds as though you might have some HEAVY files/images in your project? Or possibly a non-standard music file? Take the music file out and try again. Tell us the size of your JPEGs? DG

Mike, I'm confused? You are on the thread with the link to 4.49. There was no 4.9 - there latest v4 was 4.49. Click on the link above? DG

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What is iFrame movie format? https://nikoneurope-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/51363 DG

Batch Cropping and Batch Re-sizing are not the same thing. Easy to get confused? DG

But I would leave it where it is. Perhaps I didn't explain properly - it needs a GLOBAL setting in PO as well as the current one in COMMON. That way when you look at COMMON it will default to whatever you set in the PO. It seems to me that if you choose the 16:9 aspect ratio, and you bring in a 1920x1272 landscape image, the left and right edges of the image would be placed at the left and right edges of the screen, as it does for the 1920x1080, and let the tops and bottoms extend past the screen. Only AFTER you press COVER (currently). The portraits would brought in relative to what the landscape images are. Giving left and right black strips only makes it necessary to include more steps to remove them. This is why the COMMON MODE would stay where it is - to cater for the anomalies. Alternatively, if the portrait image is 1080 high pressing SIZE in "Size of Parent etc" would sort that out. However, one of the problems with making Cover Screen a global default (at least how it works now) is that it is applied to portrait images the same way as it does to landscape images. The left and right edges of the portrait images are expanded so that the tops and bottoms are proportionally pushed out of the screen, making it useless. Also, it is all or nothing. You have no control over the results. With % of the slide to show main images, you can set the exact percentage and it is applied to each image (landscape or portrait) relatively equally. And you can always come back and tweak the percentage. The reason I think it is a better idea to make % of the slide to show main images the global default function (and moved to Project Options) is that you can specify the exact percentage you need to cover the screen for your particular images (that is fill the left and right edges of the screen, and let the tops and bottoms extend beyond the screen), so the portraits get enlarged (or reduced) by the same percentage you input. For my Nikon D7000, the 188% works fine; for my other cameras, I can use a different global percentage, or adjust certain images if different images are combined in one slideshow in the O&A/Animation/Zoom function. % of the slide to show main images is already a Global function in PO? DG

Re: the stop press. So now the question is, if I set the Q&A's aspect ratio to be 16:9, why does it not automatically fill the 16:9 screen to the left and right edges, regardless of the resized height of the image? If by this you mean the 1920x1272 images then you need to examine the definitions of "Fit To Screen" and "Cover Screen". One means that it fits INSIDE the screen (in this case) and the other means that the image COVERS the screen completely. You knew that? Now to my POLL - if Igor were to allow you to make "Cover Screen" a GLOBAL DEFAULT somehow it would allow you to insert your 1920x1272 images and get the same effect on all slides inserted (until you altered the default). I am still not absolutely certain that the 118% "workaround" is doing what you think it is doing. JMHO!! Best DG

We are getting into a different area here Robert. Fullscreen is the Normal Mode and 1920x1080 would fill your TV screen if you made an MPEG4 of your project and presented it to a suitable TV (with Media Player) on a USB Memory Key. DG

Hi Robert, Fitting 16:9 Images in a 16:9 project means that you will never see the Fit/Cover "problem". Try inserting a 3:2 image into a 16:9 project and then change from FIT to COVER in COMMON TAB. DG

Exactly Peter, I think that we have always agreed on this. DG

Robert: Example: A 3:2 image in 16:9 TV screen is an aspect ratio mismatch and will produce black lines at each side. Using Cover Screen will fit the image so that it fills the width of the screen - parts of the image will then be"lost" top and bottom and need adjustment by nudging upwards or downwards for best fit. Using Fit to Screen fits all of the image with the black lines. DG