davegee

Peter, You need to read Igor's initial notes when he introduced this BETA (and perhaps the other 100 or so replies in this thread). Many original functions do not yet work, including the Synchronised Music track. That will come in Beta#3. This Beta is purely for evaluation of the PZR facilities. DaveG

Igor, This is what I was doing: In the main view I was dragging a slide from the FILE PANEL to the SLIDE LIST and trying to create a new First Slide. With the Hold Timed Points ticked the new first slide would take the time of the original slide and the New Second slide would take on the time of the original 3rd slide. All keypoints after the first new first slide would then be out. With the Hold Timed Points unticked this does not happen. When adding a slide in the TIMELINE between two original slides with the Hold Timed points ticked only the previous slide's Keypoints are affected. When adding a slide in the TIMELINE with the Hold Timed Points unticked no previous or following Keypoints are affected. It is difficult to explain and it could cause confusion. DaveG

Jeff, Try this: If your first slide is 60 secs, the second 20 secs and the third 10 secs, try adding a slide with the "hold time points" ticked and then unticked. DaveG

Thanks Igor, I understand. I have to UN-TICK the "hold time points" to insert slides without affecting all of the other slides. On the PNG problem - I will investigate further and if necessary send you a sample. It does not happen every time - maybe it will be OK on the first "cycle" and show up on the second cycle (or vice versa). DaveG

Hi Igor, At present, it is impossible to add a slide at the beginning or middle of a show without affecting the following slides. Is this something which will be corrected when the 4.4 features are added or is it a problem? I am also getting unwanted bright pixels when PNG files are panned etc (the bright pixels travel with the PNG file) even though they were transparent when constructed/saved from PS. Any ideas why? DaveG

Thanks Al, I'm on XP - I'll try it. DaveG

Al, Please explain: "Enditall" ??? DaveG

Lin try this. Distort the text using perspective in PS so that your text layer (you will have to merge to a new layer before attemping this) is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. In PTE bring it in from off screen at the bottom and pan upwards while zooming from large to small. Don't let the text disappear off screen - fade it out toward the end and keep on screen. Otherwise it looks as though it is changing course. Add "Star Wars" music for effect - it worked for me. DaveG

The advantage of using a Gaussian Blur overlay as opposed to doing it from within PTE is that by varying the opacity of the Blur layer some interesting halo effects are possible. I have been using this technique in still images for some time.

You can position the first and last slide in a group and Click on first slide; Shift Click on last slide and then use the "Arrange Selected Slides" option. That should help you to do what you want. DaveG

Create a keypoint at the beginning of the second transition on the first slide in the timeline. End your zoom/pan/rotate at that point instead of at the end of the incoming transition. Keeping ALL PZR functions between the two transitions helps to prevent jerkiness for those whose Graphics Cards are not as "modern" as they should be. Has anyone got a better way of describing the two transitions/grey areas in the timeline? DaveG

Hi Igor, Many thanks for this new Beta. I'm happy to report that the Gamma problem with the NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64M card has been solved. Happy holiday! DaveG

Hi Igor, Thanks for replying so quickly. The results of the test: The Test_NoGamma is the closest to the original of the three that you posted. The others appeared to be brighter. Incidentally, on my machine Lin's Test show has the same appearance - too bright. Thanks again, DaveG

Hi Igor the card is NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64M and no settings have been altered - don't have any games. In PTE 4 and Photoshop - images OK Same images in PTE5 - much brighter. DaveG

Is anyone experiencing (as I am) that their images are brighter (too bright) in PTE5 compared to the same images used in a PTE4 show? My images in a PTE4 show look exactly as they do when I save them from PS but the same images are much brighter when used in PTE5. DaveG

Congratulations Igor!! Well worth waiting for. Installed smooth as silk - PAN, ZOOM and ROTATE all easily set and works likw a dream with my NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64M card. Now to read the instructions.

I, too, work with RAW only. I do the initial tweaking in Nikon Capture which allows the saving of the edits back to the original (or a copy of the original). Photoshop recognises the edits done in Capture and opens the RAW for the final editing and saving as JPEG for use in PTE. What this means in terms of storage is that I am dealing with 5-6 Mb files wheras, if I convert to TIFF, I am dealing with 34 Mb files (at 16 Bit). I also have two external 120 Gig storage devices. So my vote goes to RAW!

Bill, Many thanks - I FULLY understand that you are only hosting a link. I have heard from Dave and will make arrangements with him. It is not so much wanting to see the show as understanding why SOME have no problem any others do. Also my problem appears to be a different problem to Tony's (With the same PTE show). The question remains - why? Thanks to all, DaveG

Hi David, I think that it is probably to do with Win-Zip which I don't have. Like Tony Falla I get the invalid/corrupted message on one machine and on my laptop I get: "Please insert the last disc of the Multi-Volume set and click OK to continue" Pity, I had heard good reports of this one. Maybe it's a Welsh thing?

To get this one back on track: Bill, Do you have a problem with ELY? Ken, If you read the original post again, I said that I have tried it direct from Morturn's site - same result. (The Sunset Show mentioned above opens and runs OK - Music by the Wes Montgomery Trio - Canadian Sunset - One of my favourite Wes tracks!). DaveG

Hi all, Has anyone else had a problem with opening the ELY show? I have downloaded 3 times (via Beechbrook and direct from Morturn's site) and on each occasion I get an error when trying to open the zipped folder. It says it is either Invalid or Corrupted. Any ideas? DaveG

No, that was either Richard Penniman (Little Richard) or Charles (Chuck) Berry.

I always create any text elements in Photoshop and therefore save them as part of the JPEG file. I rarely use the Object Editor for this purpose. It is possible that the Fonts used by the Object Editor would be affected but I cannot see how the Fonts in my Photoshop created Text would be affected?

Yes Ken, Same goes for fonts. NEVER assume that anything you create on your machine is going to work on any other machine where PP is concerned. You can however (with fonts) choose to "Embed True Type Fonts" which takes care of that problem. Same does NOT apply to Codecs. I repeat, if you are not going to use your own machine to do the pres then checking it well before-hand on the machine to be used is advised. The font problem should not affect PTE exe files?

Don't forget that the appropriate codec (for the movie) must be available on the machine neing used for the presentation. If you are using the same laptop, for instance as the PP was constructed on you should be OK. If not the presenter needs to TRY IT before the date of the presentation - MOST IMPORTANT! I have been through this with students many times - just because it works on one machine does not mean that it will work on all machines.