davegee

In Slide view or the Timeline View highlight all of the slides which are effected. Click on Customise Slide and set slide duration (in Main Tab) to 6 seconds and in the EFFECT Tab click on "Use Own Transition Effect" and change the Effect Duration to 2 seconds. This should cure your problem. If you have "Keep Full Slide Duration" ticked and you are NOT inserting Video - UNTICK it - you don't need it. You can now adjust your slide durations and transition times as you require them making sure that you don't cause an overlap situation. DG

Open PTE Click on Help>About In V6.5 the CONTROL Tab was labelled ADVANCED. Can you post a screen shot of the TIMELINE showing the slides that you can highlight but not see in Preview. Your transition times are probably longer than the overall slide duration. DG

Ken, What we need now is someone on a MAC with pseudo Windows to try the same thing? DG

Further thoughts, I frequently exchange data with a friend who has a MAC. When trying to copy from his DVD to my PC Hard Drive I get a lot of "Cannot Read Source" or "The Filename, Directory Name, or Volume Label Syntax is incorrect" similar messages. This usually means that the file names on the DVD have characters in them which PCs don't like and once they are on the DVD they cannot be changed. My XP machine actually reads the original characters (" is one which causes a problem) but won't allow me to do anything with it. My Vista machine however, substitutes an "underscore" for the (") and allows full copying moving etc. My Vista machine will allow copying of a file with a semi-colon ( in the name but will not allow me to write that file to another disc. If I make an identically named folder on my HD I can sometimes drag the CONTENTS of the folder (which may have no obvious errors in the file name) from the DVD to the new folder on my HD. This indicates to me that there is a hidden problem with the folder's properties which involves "forbidden characters". Perhaps this is what you are experiencing in one form or another? DG

Seabird - tell us which version you have installed? The latest version is V7.0.1 DG

Hi Joy, See post #9 above. There is a utility in CREATOR (and TOAST?) which, when you double click on an ISO file, opens up a module to "Burn ISO to DVD". I have never burned directly to DVD from PTE since VERY early days (when Peter's "joke" would have possibly been a serious comment). http://www.roxio.co....CFUsZ4QodlgI80g I don't know if you would be able to create an ISO in one platform (PC) and burn it in another platform (MAC) so the choice of CREATOR or TOAST is a crucial one. DG P.S. I don't have W7 so I can't answer but someone else might be able to answer that - and also whether any built-in burner in W7 is capable of burning an ISO file. One way to prove it would be to double click on an ISO file?

Peter, I don't want to put too much emphasis on this because people get upset about it, but: If you were to create your menus as you describe and copy and paste them so that there are sufficient of them (four in this case), then using "Keep Full Slide Duration" all that is needed is to drop a video in between each of the menus and the timing aspect is automatically taken care of. Furthermore, each video and menu will automatically fade into each other and the transition (fade) time is adjustable to suit the video. Choosing any slide from any menu slide is possible. Stopping the video before it is finished is (I THINK) only possible with the alternative method?? Pressing ESC would close the show, however, pressing the right arrow would probably advance the show to the next Menu Slide. DG

my standard test is to burn the iso instead of the disc. if this is successful then it is the burn which is faulty. i always do this and i then use creator to burn the disc. dg

Peter, I still don't read the OP that way - but now he has two possibilities. DG

I like the humour! But if TOAST is as good on MAC as CREATOR is on PC then I thoroughly recommend it. DG

The equivalent of ROXIO CREATOR for MAC used to be called TOAST. DG P.S. Still is.

Create your Menu EXE with Buttons. In O&A Common set Action on Mouse Click for each Button to "Run Slideshow with return". In Project Options untick "Use Hardware Acceleration". Insert each video into a seperate PTE EXE show Consider putting a short Blank slide before and after the video - same Background as Menu. If I have got anything wrong Peter will be along and hopefully correct me. DG P.S. It works fine - thanks for the question!!

I think he is still writing - stand by for a long one. DG

LRRH, If you are using a Nikon camera and shooting RAW then nx2 (or nx3 ) is essential software (opinion). Otherwise you do not need it and any editor will do. DG Edited to supplement Ken's previous post.

Someone might be able to download it - I can't. Follow Peter's suggestion above. Open LEVELS and drag the black slider (Left) in until it touches the graph/curve. Drag the white slider (right) in until it touches the graph/curve. It should then look a lot better. You could do this easily in Igor's (FREE) PIXBUILDER - download from main page. Once you have that someone can give you simple instructions. DG

See Page 79 of the Version 7 User's Manual. DG

As Barry said, strip out everything in the address before "Myshow.exe" for every button. Put the Menu and 8 AVs in a folder and transfer the folder to the laptop. Should work OK. DG

Does it happen in the mini player? Does it only happen in the EXE? Does it happen on a different computer? DG

If the positioning and size of the video clip(s) allow for it you could split it into about 5 shows and use "Run Slideshow" on close? You would need to get it down to 5 x 50Mb sequences to use YouSendIt but providing that they are put in a folder at the other end they should run sequentially and seamlessly. DG

Jill, What's a "Photoshop Layers"?? You have to remember that, just as some of us no longer have the need for Audacity for instance, some of us have very little need of the Adobe products. DG

Upset - definitely NOT! Disappointed - of course. DG

Agreed. But make them switchable to cater for those with small monitors? DG

Jill, Where on earth did you get that idea from? DG

Oh, what a profound statement!! It applies to most of the "discussions" going on at present. We don't need a video editor - we use an external editor! We don't need Audio editing facilities - we use Audacity! You can't have a large monitor because I don't have/want one. etc etc etc. DG

Jill, You're dragging 'em up now aren't you? DG