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Patrick. It is an option when you log in - to the right of the log-in. If you are logging in automatically you will have to log out and then back in - but be sure that you know your password before doing this? DaveG

For some reason, when all the changes took place, I was asked for my user name and password to enter the forum and, of course, I had forgotten my password. In spite of Igor taking a personal interest I have been unable to recover my original account, so daveg is now davegee. It is not worth pursuing this as it will take up valuable time which could be better spent on other things. davegee

Richhaas, Having just purchased a 1280x1024 monitor I have some sympathy with your dilemna. Up to the purchase of the monitor my shows have always been 1024x768 but the advantages of the extra resolution outweigh any other considerations so what to do? Allowing "fit to screen" is not an option for older shows as resulting image degradation is not acceptable so for those I do as you do: 1024x768 in a window or make the show 1280x1024 and show the 1024x768 images over a plain black 1280x1024 background. But this only works if you have no panoramas i.e. push transitions otherwise there is a vertical black line between images in the push. Re-doing the panoramas at 1280 width is a good solution if there are not too many of them and you can accept the jump in size. From now on (until I purchase a monitor with higher resolution) I'm working at 1280x851 for images (to take advantage of full width for panoramas) on a 1280x1024 background for my own uses and producing a 1024x768 show in a window in addition for those still using that format. Cropping images to fit screen formats is not the answer because it makes batch processing difficult/impossible. DaveG

Hi, The Forum is still loading VERY slowly and the "Forgotten Password" function is still not working? I get a message saying that an e-mail has been sent but it never arrives - anyone else? DaveGee (DaveG)

You can approach this in a number of ways - here's one: Firstly the music can be added as two seperate files or merged in Audacity, Audition etc into one continuous mp3 file (prefered) and added to the project (Project Options / Music). Then, using the timeline and Custom Synchronization you can position the last slide in the first section and select all of the slides in the first section (click on first; shift click on last). You can then (in TIMED POINTS) click on ARRANGE SELECTED POINTS. This will evenly distribute the slides in the first section. Repeat this process for the second section. Hope this helps, Dave