jnight

Well thank you for your kind comments. I use the sound editing software Adobe Audition which I got cheaply off e -bay. Audacity is a free download and useful for shortening music and fades but I find Audition a really good tool for mixing sound. Barry Becham has a tutorial disc which tell you simply how to use both these software. Hope this helps Jean

Oh dear, I don't know what happened to my slideshow? The quality of pictures (now dark) and sound(now weary) has gone in the compression to zip file I think. I wonder have I done something wrong when uploading. Jean

Hello everyone, I've just put together an AV of my holiday in Wengen in Switzerland this year. I thought I would also do a first for me and upload it to Beechbrook. I would really appreciate comments on the work please. I hoped to capture the atmosphere of the place and record memories of a beautiful place. The yodelling music was an experience we heard while there and I thought this recording went perfectly with the mountain scenery. Next holiday I will take my recorder with me and capture original sound Jean

Hello everyone I am in thinking mode at present about my next PTE project. What I want to create within it are effects of fire and burning. I wonder if anyone has done this before and would care to share their ideas. Maybe flames to lick around the edge of a scene are starting from the middle and burning outwards Regards Jeannight

Yes you are right, the sound was only on cd and not on hard drive, Thanks Jean

hello everyone Ihave not been here for a while but I am about to start a new AV. It is probably a little thing I am doing wrong but can't see it for looking. I started my process by putting all my resized images into a folder nemed Durham av. I open PTE and search for the file. I double click and bring all the slides onto the bottom screen. I use the project key to set the fades and add the music to give me a first look at what i'm doing. I then save and title as a project. All seems fine. This morning I go to run the slide project and although the slides are still seemingly all there the Error box comes up and tells me images can't be found. Can anybody tell me whats going on? Jean

Hello I do have my Exe.key still on my desktop jeannight

Hello everyone I have just got myself a new computer and it is to be kept separate from my old one which I am keeping to be kept for internet connection. This will keep my photography work clean and safe. I seem to have lost my original PTE intallation stuff.How do I go about downloading another PTE installation which I can burn to disc and put on my new pc. upstairs? I have already done this with audiograbber and audacity. thanks in advance jeannight

What's RTFM Ken? Jean

Hello again and thanks again Ken for your time and energy but I think I've got there. I found a tutorial on Sony's site. With the new SonicStage 3.3 you don't seem to need a WAV converter any more. When bringing in the file from the mini disc. you have an opportunity to convert to WAV file straight away. Also there is now the capability of saving the files to my documents. So thats simlplified the whole thing. Whew!! jeannight

Hello Ken If I plug the mini disc into the USB port and access it that way the files that are there are not able to be opened. The computer says something like it does not recognize this tpye of file. They are HI-MD IND files. I have AudioGrabber and Audacity on my pc which I have used before to edit music from CDs without problem. jeannight It drives you crazy!

Hello all I am wanting to make a digital slide show documenting the farming community where I work. I am trying to tape interviews with them. Following advice from Jeff Evans I have purchased a mini disc recorder Sony MZ-NH1 and a good Sony mic. to go with it. Software Sonic Stage came with it to upload from the HiMD disc to the pc. I then learnt I needed a WAV converter. Also this would only work, I read, if I have SonicStage 2.1 or higher. It coming with only version 2.0, I downloaded the latest 3.3 from the Sony web site. Now the WAV converter, when I try to run it, keeps telling me I need SonicStage 2.2 or later which is frustrating when it is sitting there on the desktop. I am wondering if the WAV converter won't work because the computer isn't up to it. It suggests Pentium II 400MHz or higher. I am not technically minded about the computer. My system says it has AMD Athlon processor with 900 MHz, 256 MB of RAM. I am getting a new computer in the near future but is this really the problem? Is there an easier solution? Joe Webb mentioned something about Audio Clening Lab or Music Studio from Magix. What are these? I am trying to keep good quality sound without too much compresion. Who would have thought it so difficult to make a recording suitable for PTE. PLEASE HELP jeannight

Well thanks all for your great advice I've been looking at the mini disc recorders and found the Sony MZ-NH1 which looks pretty good in that it will upload back to the PC in WAV format and the review I read suggests the recording quality is good. Costs about £170 I might just go for it. Thanks jeannight

Hello all I would like to do some recording outside to add to a sound track for a PTE slide show. This will involve interviewing people outside. I would like some advice on the kind of equipment to use bearing in mind it has to be changed into a digital format. Thanks in advance for any advice jeannight