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Hi guys & gals,
I've suffered an eye trauma which will prevent me from much in the way of forum participation for possibly a couple months depending on how recovery progresses. It's nothing permanent but my vision is greatly affected temporarily and it makes it difficult to see what I'm doing. I apologize to those whom I promised more AV Tutorials on how to implement the snow effects, etc. I'll try to keep working on it if I can make out the screen but it's slow going right now....
Best regards,
Lin
Oh, I thought you were gonna say you slipped and fell on all of that snow you got. Hope you have a speedy recovery.
Have a good one,
Jason
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I've burned a couple of DVD+R shows via the DVD Builder and they have played just fine on both my TV and PC.
JE
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hello Ken, I created an exe file,and then an AVI file which I burned to a DVD/R, which played on computer but not on DVD player,also would not play on daughters player. Do I haveto "finalise" ?
Thanks for prompt reply. Bill
Bill, You will need to use some kind of DVD authoring program to convert that AVI file to a DVD complaint file that your DVD player can read. I use Movie Factory 5 for this, but there are plenty to choose from.
Jason
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Hi Jason,
Thanks, that works well!
Best regards,
Lin
Hey Lin,
No problem. Thats one of those things thats not documented well and lots of people over look.
Later
Jason
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Lin,
The way to get Proshow to apply the same motion effect to several slides goes like this. Set the movement you want with 1 slide. Then highlight each slide you want that same motion effect for by holding down the shift key and selecting each slide. Then on the slide that you have set up the motion effect right click in the text box that represents the value you want applied to the other slides. The right click will bring up a menu that gives you the option to apply that value to 'All Slides' or 'Selected Slides'. And thats it.
That also works for most settings that can be applied to a slide.
Jason
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I have made a little demo in V. 5 #6.
It is, in fact, the introductory sequence for a Slideshow being prepared for showing at our local Camera Club.
As it’s very topical, thought you might like to see a preview.
Al Robinson has kindly offered to host it on his site for a few days.
It can be downloaded at http://www.alrobinson.com/Autumn_Demo.zip
John
Wow, what a nice piece of work. I bet that took some time to do...or should I say it would have taken me some time to do.
Nice work
Jason
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Lin,
I, at first glance, had the same reaction as Jason. However, I probably know you better, and knew you would never bad-mouth a forum member in public, so I read your post through more thoroughly. It's so easy to give a wrong impression in a posting, just like it is so difficult to conduct business through emails sometimes. Believe, me, I have been burned several times, but that's a long story!
Probably the ambiguity arose because you referred to 2 posts, and there had been exactly 2 replies to Cindy's question. It always pays to be VERY precise in posting to the Forum. (Again, I have learned this, personally, from the school of "hard-knocks"!
)Al,
Thats exactly how I read it. 2 post and mine being the 2nd one. It is hard to sometimes interpret a message correctly in a forum. Before I posted my reply I read my original post several times along with Lin's reply and I couldn't figure out what I had done wrong. As it turned out the only thing I did wrong was read too much into it.
Jason
Lin,
Thanks for understanding.
Jason
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Uhh Jason,
The response wasn't to or about you - it was referring to the two posts referenced by Cindy - I have no idea who made the quotes she references.
Lin
Well, dont I feel like the rear end of a horse. I guess from our past crossing I thought you where taking jabs at me. I'm sorry I assumed that. Please forgive me.
Jason
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Hi Cindy,
Neither of the posts demonstrate a great deal of knowledge on the part of their posters as evidenced by the thousands who download P2E slideshows without a single known incident of virus. The second post shows the bias as well as inexperience of the poster.
All program code for the PC is furnished in executable or command format - that's what they use. The VAST majority of PC users have adequate virus protection software which would quickly detect and delete any virus associated with an executable file.
If you want the high quality, high resolution slideshows for your clients then that's what they need. MacIntosh has more of less three percent of the world market for PC's. The rest are Windows. If you have large percentage (unusual) of MacIntosh clients then furnish the shows in wmv, flash or DVD format for these few. the other 98 percent will be very happy with the superior executable format.
Frankly, the majority of P2E users create slideshows for specific purposes, not for general web distribution. There will always be those few who wrongly "think" that a virus can't be distributed via a DVD, CD, etc. Believe me when I tell you that they absolutely can. I have received virus code from major software distributors on their distribution CD's so there are no guarantees. Visiting a web site which infects one's computer is the primary way virus and trojan codes are transmitted today. It's simply false reasoning to think that eliminating executable code is in any significant way helping to avoid infection. The "best" way to avoid infection is the regular and dedicated use of a very good anti-threat software such as NOD32.
Best regards,
Lin
I removed my mistake and gave my apology to Lin
Jason
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If its just a matter of sharing a show to be sharing a show on a forum or website with a general audience then just create a nice high quality video file. I myself will not download and run a PTE EXE or any other EXE from someone I do not know. However, after awhile on any forum you start to learn who you can trust.
However, like Al said, if your making a show for a client/friend/family member then there should be no problems here. You have to use good judgement when downloading and running EXE's.
JE
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I have put on Beechbrook 3 slideshows made with V5 and announced as V5 (as somebody asked on this forum) and there AVI files in order that those who have problems to see V5 files can see them. The AVI file's downloaded today are more than half of the exe, I could think that about 35% of those who see slideshows thinks they will have problem with a V5 slideshow. I only hope I am wrong.
What do you think about this subject ?
For me its security/safety. It would be extremely easy to include a virus or other harmfull code with a PTE slideshow with it having the ability to run external code. Given a choice of downloading and running an EXE file versus downloading/streaming a video file I will take the video file 100% of the time. Sure the quality is not as nice, but its safer, especially since you dont know who you can trust on the net.
Thats my take anyways.
Jason
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Al had an excellent suggestion to improve the realism of the curtain opening on stage effect. His suggestion was to compress the drapes on the horizontal plane as they open, thus simulating the normal compression of folds in the material as drapes are being opened. I incorporated it and it's now included in the download at:
http://www.lin-evans.net/p2e/stage.zip
I think it adds a good measure of realism - any comments? Great suggestion, Al.....
Best regards,
Lin
Lin,
Thats a nice improvement to an already nice effect. It does add a bit of realism to the curtains. Good suggestion Al.
Jason
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Jason
Good to see you lurking (well not so much lurking..
) around the PTE forum. I think the competition between PSG & PTE is a healthy thing, they both possibly motivate the respective developers to continually enhance their product. I think its probably fair to say they are both developing their own niche markets and this also is a good thing.Hope we see a lot more of you over here as I know you have a wealth of experience and knowledge to share.
I haven't watched a full frame show from PSG for a while but I will be very interested to see Lin's comparison between the two shows.
Hey,
Actually, lurking is what I am doing. I only replied because I say my real name in your message and thought wow I must be a jerk...LOL.
Your right, the competition is great for all of us regardless of what program we use.
Well, you will not see more of me over here. I'm not converting. I just like to see whats new and improved with the different programs as I own many. And I'm surely not here to start trouble either as this is P2E's forum and I would never do that. Version 3 of Proshow is being worked on and thats will I will spend the majority of my time. I will continue to check in here and play with the new betas as they become available.
Thanks for being nice
Jason
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Lin
I dare you to upload the shows and send a link to Jason Edwards
I double dare you !!
Please do. I look forward to viewing it like I have the rest of Lins shows. Just for the record I have nothing against P2E, I just prefer Proshow and I am a big supporter of it just as you guys are of P2E. However, I like to keep up with whats new and exciting in other programs. From what I have seen so far with P2E v5 is that its going to continue to be an excellent tool to work with. And once its ready for primetime it will be in my toolbox. I did have problems running some shows on one of my older machines, but my newer machine runs the demo shows created by Lin and others very well.
I started making slideshows using P2E and I still use it from time to time. I also use MOTV 3.
Have a great day guys and yes Lin, please post a link as I have always enjoyed your photography skills.
Jason
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You have to burn the downloaded Itunes MP4 songs to a CD as MP3s then rip them back to your harddrive, you then have MP3s which you can use in PTE or most other slide show makers. I'm not vouching for the legality of this operation but there are about 100 million others who do it daily so you can at least fall back on the "everyone does it" defense. If Apple and the other music re-sellers would get it together with an arrangement that allows you to use the already-purchased music in your personal slide show presentations then none of this would be necessary.
Actually, you need to burn them to cd as an audio cd and not a MP3 cd. iTunes will not allow you to directly burn them as mp3's. Once you have the audio cd, then you can rip them back to your hd as mp3's
BM
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Great comments on Pan & Zoom. It's interesting that with the wide range of transitions in PTE and I assume in other offerings, most users stick with fade. Will Pan/Zoom be just a passing fancy? Conflow's comments on some of the other programs with Pan & Zoom does not cause me to rush into another program at all. I am very happy with PTE as is now, and if there wasn't all the excitement about 5.0 over the past few months we probably wouldn't be talking about it so much in anticipation.
Another issue for me, I will stay with PTE until Barry Beckham goes to a different program!
Bill
How can Pan/Zoom be a passing fade. Its been around for many years now. Its just finally becoming available in consumer level slideshow makers. Its a marvelous effect if used correctly. Much much better than the boring old static slide on the screen.
Thanks for listening
B
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Hi FX Designer. You wrote:
Finally, when creating computer output to DVD, SVCD or VCD be aware of the differences in formats of your movie/avi files. If possible always output your final product to DVD as a MPEG-2 formatted file - it is a cleaner and higher resolution output than MPEG-1 formatted files. On the otherhand, if producing a SVCD/VCD you should stay with the MPEG-1 format for most DVD players that support SVCD/VCD only do so with those created as a MPEG-1 data file. (SVCD supports MPEG-2 , VCD onlys support MPEG-1 but either may not work on all DVD players).
You are mentioning something here which I need help with.
I am burning with Nero. My intended DVD version of a slideshow is not playing on my tv's dvd player. I can play what's on the disk through my lap top pc, but in low visual quality. My DVD player rejects the disc as unreadable. From what I have heard and what you have written above, it would seem that various DVD players might read any given slideshow, while others reject it. If I am to put slideshows onto DVD for my clients, how can I be sure that they will be able to view on their set-up? I had once a show which played on my modest-priced player, but would not play on an expensive B & O player. It seems a bit lame to say it might play to a client. Am I best sticking to .exe files?
Any tips or suggestions? Thanks in anticipation.
Ian
Just thought of a possible factor. My Lap Top PC (Fujitsu Siemens Amilo) burns only DVD+Rs. Do we have to use DVD-Rs?
First of all no you dont have to burn to DVD-R. DVD+R is just as compatible.
Second, are using an authoring program that convert the mpeg2 file into the required file format an directories required by a DVD player ? Just burning the mpeg2 file is not enough. Just thought I would check as I've known people to have done that. The mpeg2 file would play in a DVD player connected to the computer because it might be pulling up a video player that can play the mpeg2 file.
And to reply to the main post. You do realize that most people are looking at the content/pictures and are not sitting in their rooms talking about the quality of the pictures and how much more sharp they could be. I make DVD slideshows all of the time and never had I had 1 single person comment on the quality of the show. Consumer level software including P2E, Proshow Gold and MOTV can create spectacular DVD slideshows even on our not so spectacular low res TV's. Quit nitpicking everylittle freakin pixel and enjoy your shows.
Later
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Much easier: right-click in iTunes on the song or selection of songs and choose "convert to mp3".
That only works if the song is not a copyright protected song downloaded from iTunes music store. If its a copyright protected song it WILL NOT convert it to another format.
Thanks
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I'm a newbie as well and am encountering this same problem.... so I attempted to burn the selected
itune songs on cd like someone had suggested, however it tells me those cannot be burned to a CD? how can i get these mp4 files to an mp3 file so I can use them in this program?
otherwise where can you get mp3 files on the internet for use in this program?
You cant convert them directly with iTunes. What you have to do is use iTunes to burn the songs to an audio cd and then use iTunes to import the newly burned songs as mp3's. I do it all of the time.
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Newbie here - first time adding music. I downloaded som iTunes songs and am finding they won't work. Am I doing something wrong or is it just not the right format? Thanks in advance.
You are correct. They are in the wrong format. You also cant just convert them to mp3 from within iTunes. What I do is burn the songs to a CD via iTunes and then use iTunes to import the newly burned cd to my hard drive in the MP3 format.
Hope this helps
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We understand you taking your time to get it right, but how about posting a demo slideshow made with the new version. That might help satisfy us for a little longer seeing what the program can do.
Thanks and looking forward to the new version
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I'm very much looking forward to the new release of version 5, however, I dont think its going to leapfrog as you say Proshow Gold or Producer. P2E has always been very stable, but I will have to disagree about the UI and being miles ahead of the others in terms of features. Seems to me if anything P2E is now catching up to the others. Ability to add video, Ken Burns, Title effects are things the other programs have had a while now. Creating EXE's there is no doubt P2E is the winner, but the overall winner its not. Its moving in the right direction thought.
Steph
An Observation
in General Discussion
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Man, you guys are obsessed with Proshow for whatever reason. And you know there is false info about both Proshow and P2E floating around out there. That message is months old. How much time do you spend reading the Proshow forum and then emailing people over their since you no longer post there ?
And to think you call me a Proshow 'Fanboy' that drinks the coolaid. Seems your no different except in your choice of coolaid. LOL.
Anyways, if you want to see false info then look no further than at Igors press release for version 5. It states a couple of things that aren't quite true. For example, it says something about slideshow made with P2E 5 will run on ANY computer. Thats just not true...at least ones utilitizing pan/zoom. It takes the right hardware and that hardware needs to be pretty beefy or you do not get those 'butter' smooth motions if it runs at all. He also makes not about P2E 5D being the only affordable slideshow maker to make DVD's with. Thats not true either as there are several in this price range. Maybe not as feature rich, but it didn't state that, which it probally should have.
Ok. I know I am being picky with the press release so dont beat me up too bad. But before you do please know that I have mentioned several times recently that I think when it comes to EXE shows (not DVD) that P2E is the one to use. If Proshow ever gets hardware rendering then I may have to issue a retraction.
Seriously though, this reply is intended to poke at you a little Lin since we haven't argued in awhile. And to prove I have no ill intentions or feeling about P2E I recenlty purchased the upgrade to the deluxe version but dont tell anyone. :0
Later guys and remember....be gentle with me.
Jason