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Jill, Could it have been a corrupt download? Both installations from the same corrupted download? "The reason I need to switch between the two options is when I am giving a talk & need to demonstrate to people what the options do. I always do live demos as it is much easier for people to understand if they can actually see it happening". I think that during a demo situation I would start a new project to demonstrate each of the two methods? DG P.S. I have now installed PTE V7 on my XP Desktop machine and while I am still getting the VIEW problem I am NOT getting the timing problems that you have described - I suppose that I have to consider that I too might have a corrupt download?

Jill, I think that you have to at least consider that you have a corrupt installation? I have followed your steps above on my Vista Laptop and I get what you were expecting to get. In other words I'm not seeing what you are seeing - logically, I can't see any other possibility. Would you consider uninstalling and re-installing? DG

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Jill, I think that you need to use one method or the other (in isolation) and not try to mix the two in the same show/talk. I have been working with the V7 method of timings and find them to be completely logical BUT I haven't switched back and forth between the two methods - I can't concieve of a reason to do so. DG

Jill, If you stay with one method or the other are you then finding that things work as you would expect? DG

Lennart, AVG Free 2012 APPEARS to have solved the problem. I'm not getting the problem any more after updating AVG Free 2012 around noon today. DG

Lennart, AVG Free 2012 APPEARS to have solved the problem. I'm not getting the problem any more after updating 2012 around noon today. DG

Changes in Slide Duration Version 7.0.1 Part 2 With “Keep Full Slide Duration” un-ticked: Works as you would expect for a V6.5 project. With “Keep Full Slide Duration” ticked: If you add 6 new slides with e.g. 8 seconds duration and 2 seconds transition you will get: Slide 1 transition = 2 sec Slide 1 Duration = 8 sec You must, however allow for the fact that Slide 2 Transition is also included in the Slide 1 Duration Time. If you want 2 sec transition followed by 6 sec time between transitions and the 2 sec transition of slide 2 must stipulate a duration of 10 seconds. If you make changes to single or multiple slides in Customise Slide you get exactly what you ask for: If you e.g. change the duration time and transition time for the first three slides to 12 seconds and three seconds respectively, that’s what you will get. Be aware though that in this example you will not have changed the transition time of slide four. Therefore slide three will be: Incoming transition = 3 seconds. Time between transitions = 7 seconds Outgoing transition = 2 seconds 12 seconds as requested. Moving slides: In my example the last slide would still be 8 seconds duration including the incoming transition of 2 seconds (no outgoing transition). If this slide is moved to become slide 2, it will maintain its 2 second transition time and its 8 second duration time. However the 8 second duration will now include its incoming transition (2 seconds) and the transition time of slide 3 (3 seconds). Therefore the time between transitions for (the new) slide 2 will be 3 seconds. 2 seconds > 3 seconds > 3 seconds = 8 seconds. This will also have an effect on the time between transitions for slide one which will become: 3 seconds > 7 seconds > 2 seconds = 12 seconds The original Slide 5 will become slide 6 and will maintain its 8 seconds duration but have no outgoing transition time. E & OE. DG Once again I would like to state that I am not necessarily endorsing the new Changes in Slide Duration - I am merely trying to explain what you should expect if you use it in conjunction with video.

Harold, You and Ken are both on Windows 7 - coincidence? I updated to version 2012 a few days ago - maybe version 10 has not yet been updated? DG My version of AVG is 2012.0.1831 Database Version: 2090/4545

Ken, I have tried it a second time and it works OK - VISTA. I was also able to run the original file that started the problem off for me without problems. DG

Stu, Please keep an eye on it? It does not happen with me (VISTA) every time and when it does happen closing and restarting PTE cures it. I have opened three or four times this morning and it has only happened once (with a NEW file). DG

I have just updated my AVG created a new show with V7.0.1, published it and all appears to be OK. Anyone else care to confirm or otherwise? DG

If you need to insert video into a show then you will have a problem publishing. If you don't need to insert a video into a show you can still work in V7 but to publish the EXE you need to use V6.5. When you need to Publish EXE open the show in V6.5 and Publish from there. DG

Thanks Phil, I am seeing this on a Vista laptop - I think Jill is XP. DG

Ken, What happens if you transfer a V7 EXE from your W7 to your XP. It will flag it. DG

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Peter, I'm hoping that Igor is working on this V7.0.1 bug while AVG are working on theirs. Just as AVG would sit up and take notice when more and more people declare problems I think the same goes for Igor. You don't have to Publish to see this bug and V7.0.1 can be installed without overwriting V7. Igor also wants feedback on his proposed new options which I am (at present) in favour) of. He hasn't been around much lately. DG

Lack of response could mean that Jill and I are the only ones seeing this? Or is it that Jill and I are the only ones to have installed V7.0.1? DG

Peter, Link not working. You mean this one: DG

I prepared a 1Mb EXE specifically to send to AVG but it failed to send. DG

Mick, Can you make a single image EXE and send that? DG

There appears to be a bug in PTE V7.0.1 whereby on opening the programme it looks OK and the "Keep Full Duration of Slide" tickbox is UNTICKED. If you (without doing anything else) click on VIEW in the MENU the tickbox immediately becomes TICKED. Closing PTE and restarting usually cures the problem and the next time it opens clicking on VIEW does nothing other than open the View Menu. It then (in my case) operates the way that Igor describes. One other person (Jill Kb has seen this behaviour (I'm seeing it on a Vista Laptop - Jill's on an XP M/C). If you can add anything to this please add your experiences here? Positive and negative replies welcomed. Also, IGOR posted V7.0.1 in two posts - thinking that they were different Betas I installed both, with the second one overwriting the first. The current Beta is here: http://www.picturest...dpost__p__89111 Please read the thread to the end - Jill appears to be getting additional problems that I am not seeing. Thanks, DG

Jill, One at atime. I tried your first example. When I opened PTE I got the problem with the Box becoming ticked when I clicked on View so I restarted PTE. OK second time. I duplicated your figures and got 2/7, 2/7, 2/7. Switched to timeline and got 2/7, 2/7, 2/7. Overall time=21 secs. I can't explain it. One thing though - Igor has (I think) put out TWO V7.0.1 Betas - have you got the most recent? DG

Jill, Thanks for the confirmation of weird behaviour. I'll ask Igor what he thinks. You didn't comment on the 3.5 / 4 /3.5 explanation that I gave you? As to the reason for the new timings, all I can say is that I remember someone having a problem with inserting a video and it was stopping incorrectly. Igor saw the new timing system as the only answer to that problem. Like you I don't claim to understand the reason for it, but I think that I understand how the new system works. NOW, Can you give me a single example of the unpredictable result you are getting when moving slides so that we can talk about that? DG Predictability: Example – moving slide 8 to become the new slide 2. With KEEP FULL SLIDE DURATION ticked. If you move the slide then the following circumstances are PREDICTABLE. The incoming transition of original slide 8 (new slide 2) will become the outgoing transition of slide 1. (Slide 1 will maintain its original incoming transition time and overall duration which will now include the incoming transition time of the new slide 2/ old slide 8) The new slide 2 (old slide 8) will maintain its original incoming transition and duration but its outgoing transition will be the incoming transition of the original slide 2 (new slide 3). The new slide 8 (old slide 7) will now maintain its original incoming transition time and duration but its outgoing transition will be the incoming transition of the original slide 9. (If the original slide 8 was the original last slide then the original slide 7 will now become the last slide (slide 8) and therefore have no outgoing transition time). Please remember that this is not written in support of the new V7 timings but rather as an explanation of how it works. DG

Daniel, You said: "new problems : - open a new project - option unticked - drag and drop 3 slides - 2/7 2/7 2/7 - Via project options I specify new values 4/9 it comes - 4/9 4/9 4/9 then I've ticked the option, it comes : - 4/5 4/5 4/9 That is OK except that the slide duration indicated in the Customize Slide window is not in line with the slide duration specified in Project Options which is not logical and will be misleading" I took this to mean that you changed the status of the "Keep Full Slide Duration" during your trial project. DG