davegee

I posted exactly the same thing in the other thread. DG

I can understand your concern, but could you please tell me/us why you HAD to download a new version (and get a new registration key) for W7/64? If you have been a user since 2004, your old reg key will still work and is transferrable to a new machine. DG

OK guys, my recollection was that you could open two shows and copy and paste between the shows. I may have been wrong. It is possible, as you say, to open a show and copy slide(s) and then open another show using File Open or File New and paste. However, it is also possible to copy the contents of a slides O&A panel when the two shows/projects are open AT THE SAME TIME. My feeling is that it was once possible to copy and paste slides between two shows open at the same time time. Since I do this very infrequently I can't remember when things changed (if they did). Thanks, DG

If someone asked me how to do this I would answer that with two shows open during the whole process copying and pasting SLIDES was the way to do it. With 6.5.x it now appears that the only way to do it is to copy the contents of a slide's O&A panel into the recipients show's O&A panel. Trying to copy SLIDES results in the PASTE command being greyed out in the recipient show. Have I missed something or is my memory wrong.......or is it a bug? DG

Andrew, I tried the Kodachrome show and it played all the way through without glitches. Transitions and animations were, however, not smooth and I felt that there was more animation than necessary for the super images you were presenting. The downloaded PTE show is smooth as silk and it beats me why anyone would want to watch the flash show when the PTE EXE is available. Minor point - the music was entirely inappropriate IMHO. Once again - super images. If you regard the flash show as a trailer for the main event (the PTE show) then it's OK. DG

Good Suggestion Jose! Ability to INVERT the mask would, I'm sure, be helpful. DG

Thanks Igor!! DG

Apply your first mask as usual. Then right click on either the Mask Container, the Image or the Mask and choose ADD / Mask. In this way it is possible to add a Mask within a mask. DG

Go with Ron, He's obviously put a lot of time and effort into researching this and his methods work very well. DG

Go to a page which has such a video embedded and then, in the Menu, click on VIEW / PAGE SOURCE. That will display the HTML code and give you a clue how to do it? DG

OK, The JPEG shows the O&A Objects pane for the way I did it. The Mask PNG is made in PS (not in PTE). The Stroke PNG is made INSIDE the inverted mask (again in PS). The shadow was made from from the Mask PNG and added to the Frame and sent to the back. Animating the Frame moves everything attached to it in the same direction. This way is probably not very far removed from the way that you originally did it except that a Mask has been used? Now stand by for various different (better) ways of doing it. DG

To answer the OP's original question: Is this what you had in mind? DG Mask.zip

Thanks Barry, but the accolade for that trick belongs to JEB. I merely expanded on it. DG

At what point is "nothing happening"? Are you able to "Browse" to the PNG file. You need to tick the box in front of "Show Copyright Logo". You will not see the PNG line in O&A - it only appears in preview or in the EXE. DG

In Windows Explorer (on the old machine) search the computer for reg.txt That should find it. DG

Go to Project Options/Advanced and click on "Show Copyright Logo". Load your pre-prepared PNG image which consists of a white line over a transparent background. Use a PNG which is the same size as your Project Screen Size. You can also put a line around an image in O&A, "Properties" Tab - "Adjust Image and Border". However, using the last method is not suitable for images with PZR effects. DG

I have now had a chance to assess for myself the USB facility on my new Sony HDTV for playing MPEG4 videos from a 1Gb USB memory key. The first trial that I made (on my XP Desktop machine) played the music track but showed a black screen. The second trial (made on my Vista laptop) showed the picture and sound. I deduced from this that my desktop does not have compliant video codecs - any advice on this welcomed. (MPEG4 plays OK in MPC on desktop but not on TV). Having got the laptop MPEG4 working it was obvious that my original 3:2 show was being stretched to fit the 16:9 screen and I can find no way of playing a non-16:9 format MPEG4 and preserve its aspect ratio. The options are Wide and Smart and neither is acceptable. I got around this by superimposing the 3:2 images on a 16:9 show. This resulted in a perfectly acceptable 3:2 show on my 16:9 screen with the obvious black bars on left and right sides. The down side of this is that the file size of my MPEG4 was appreciably bigger than the 3:2 version. The moral - stick with 16:9 and accept the file size. I am left with one "problem" - the white line "stroke" around the 3:2 format show disappears at the top and bottom of the screen image. More work to do on that - however if a 16:9 show is made with 16:9 images the white line is unnecessary and is not a problem. I can't comment on the relative quality aspects of the MPEG4 vs the Laptop/HDMI generated EXE at the moment - I have yet to try it. I will say though, that the convenience of the USB input vs the laptop with all its wires etc is, I think, going to outweigh any quality differences between the two methods (if any exist). Oh, by the way, it also shows TV programmes pretty good - HD programmes are superb. DG

Canico, When you click on the link in #43 it will give a "Download or Open" box in which you choose to DOWNLOAD. When you get it on your computer, unzip the file and double-click on the executable to install. If your existing 5.5 is a fully working version i.e. registered, the new version will recognise this and install without asking for a reg key. You are installing on the same machine as the machine with 5.5 on? I am guessing that you have never upgraded to VIDEOBUILDER so that part of the 6.5 version will not work but the basic version will.

Barry, The reason it is a work-around (and a good one for this purpose) is that you could only use it ONCE. If you wanted to paste multiple objects to multiple slides it would not be possible using this method. DG

It's called "thinking outside of the box" - well done - good solution. However, it is a work-around and the ability to copy and paste to ALL SLIDES would, no doubt, be useful for other purposes than just adding a border. DG

It might be worth seeing if the same thing happens to other locations other than desktop. i.e. create a folder on your DATA drive and put everything needed for the demo show in that folder. Then try to save the pte and exe files there. Then try to overwrite the exe at that location. It might produce the same results or maybe................ DG

Geoff, Displaying a PTE show on a different (higher or lower resolution) monitor is not the same thing as Zooming in or out. If the font size is FIXED then it would be the same size whatever the monitor. Font size 10 looks smaller on a 1920x1080 monitor than it does on a 1024x768. What I am "thinking" is that wheras an image can be made to "fit to screen" in PTE, if the font size is FIXED it is FIXED. Having the TEXT box sizeable with respect to the other objects in a slide means that it will maintain its size relative to all other objects when viewed on a different monitor. DG

Hi Geoff, I have the same setup as you on my desktop machine, i.e. V6.5.2, XP and SP3 and I don't get the problem/symptoms that you are seeing. It does not happen on my Vista laptop either. Based on that it is possibly a problem with your setup and not with PTE? DG

Geoff, I wonder how the Font Size as you percieve it would react to your show being viewed on a monitor which is of a different size to the monitor it was created on? The way it is at the moment the font size relative to the other objects in the slide can be kept constant. If the font is kept at a fixed size as in Word etc then when the show is viewed on a different (higher or lower resolution) monitor the relationship would be destroyed? DG

Are all of the MP3 introduced via Options / Music? Are they all in the same track or different tracks? DG