mikej998

There are many great suggestions already posted on here, and I have to admit that I did not read through 14 pages of posts so this may be a repeat of previous posts. 1. Is it possible to make it where there is no delay between slides? For example you could use push effect and set the slide display duration for zero and the slides could seamlessly scroll across the screen without stopping. 2. Allow independent volume control for the background music and sound clips for individual slides. Right I have trouble with background music drowning out the narration on specific slides. Volume control within this program would greatly simplify the process! 3. Create transition effect where the background is stationary during the transition. For example, if you have a background color that fades from one color to another in the top to bottom format and slides transition using the push effect from top to bottom, right now the background and everything moves. I would like the background to remain motionless and let the picture slide. Thanks, Mike

I am a frequent visitor to the forum, but not often a contributor. I'm always looking for some new tidbit of advise or information. You guys never dissappoint! This discussion is the perfect example of what makes this program the best! My wish list of 3 changes/upgrades for the next version would be: 1. Light Table 2. Pan & Zoom 3. Have the ability to make the background stationary while using the push effect. I would like to be able to choose if the background was stationary or moved between slides. I use it now with the moving background and will continue to have a use for that feature. The stationary background with a moving slide would enable me to make scrolling text, say for credits. Of course to use the stationary background, the background would have to be the same on both slides. I am not a programmer and am not sure what is reasonable to expect. I do know that I did not expect the awesome amount of upgrades and advances that has been made to P2E since I bought my copy! Even if none of this makes it to the next version I am still very happy with what I have. Thanks Mike

Seasons greetings from South Western Colorado (USA)! Amazing to read through the posts to see this program in use literally all around the world and even several people close to home. I am in Durango, Colorado. Many mountains around, beautiful photos all around. Has not been above freezing for a few days here and we have had snow for several days now. Makes for great skiing! Hope everyone has a wonderful new year! Mike

I usually try to resize the photos down. The finished file size is 100-500kb I have a 2.5 Ghz machine and even it will choke when I run large photos too fast. When it does it is usually the sound you will notice first, skipping and stopping. If I am making a show for someone else I also will make the MP3 file smaller just to try to make it easier on their computer. I use Audacity for that. Good Luck! Mike

Check EBAY! I live in the USA (Colorado) and have been looking for a place to get royalty free music for use with P2E, or popular music under license as our colleagues in Europe can. Unfortunately, the music recording industry is on a rampage over copyright violations from online swapping sites. I think they are well within their rights to do so, but it has made it difficult for me to get any information from them about a system such as is available in Great Britain. I sent an email asking about it and I thought I would have the police at my house before it was all over (they are really up tight about this stuff right now) I have decided to avoid the subject of copyrighted music for the near future at least. I have found that royalty free music can be quite expensive to purchase from the source. I have started buying a collection on Ebay and have saved a lot of money! I know it won't be the music that my clients want, but they will have to live with it for now. If anyone has any other sources or information about this I would be very interested. Mike

More complicated than I thought! Thanks anyway! Mike

Boxig, Thank you so much for all of the wonderful utilities! I have a request, if it would not be too much trouble. You may already have it made and I just haven't found it yet! Could you make a screensaver installer? Something that could be clicked on and would perform the installation for you? I would put this utility on CD possibly with Autorun for clients. I find it difficult to explain to everyone how and where to put the .scr file to make it work. If you could come up with something like this that would work on all versions of Windows from 95 to XP you would be my hero. Thanks, Mike

I have come across a problem with the new Beta. I was working with the new customize slide 'advanced options' to run an external application. I checked the box but am not able to browse for the .exe I want to run. I tried manually typing in the address but found that if it is too long it will not let me finish. I can enter something with a short address for example C:\Wedding and it works like a charm. I may just have to refile all of my linked shows to make it work for me. Now that I'm done whining, I have to say thank you for all the hard work and programming to make PTE the great program it is! Mike

I have had this same situation arise. My problem is that clients are very specific as to the music they want. I have been wondering about those music download sites where you pay per download. I have tried but have not been able to get info out of anyone there about copyright. What if I downloaded the one copy and it went into the show, so basically it was the licensed copy? I would even be willing to pay a higher fee to be able to do this. The current fee is $0.79 per track I believe. If this were possible then I could use popular current music to accompany my show. Not that I dislike the royalty free stuff, I actually use it too, it's just that most of it people have not heard much of before. If anyone has any idea where I could get info on this I would greatly appreciate it! Mike

The autorun.inf file is exactly as follows: [autorun] open=TempCd.exe This is the same format I use to run just the slideshow.exe and do not have any problem with it there. I have not heard any feedback from anyone else using XP, so I'm beginning to think it's just an XP compatability issue. Thanks, Mike

Granot, I have downloaded your updated TempCD utility and tried it. I am running Windows XP and had troubles with the original version of the utility. The new version still has trouble ( I assume it's with XP) but now it does something else. I made a CD and when placed in the computer, after a few seconds it opens MY COMPUTER looking at the files on the CD. It does not do anything else. If I click on TempCD here it does it's thing perfectly. I have not tried the CD I made on the XP machine on one with a different version of Windows yet, but hope to soon. I have tried it on a second XP computer and got the same results. It may just not work on XP, but I really hope it can, it's exactly what I need. Thanks, Mike

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Well, you guys were right. My autorun did have an error. It is corrected now and looks as if it is working, but now I get "can not save to C:/temp" ??? The temp folder is definitely there but? I use Windows XP - any known problems with that? Thanks, Mike

I forgot to say, if it will make any difference, the show I am trying to run is about 23Mb containing 180 slides. Thanks, Mike

I have a quick question about this utility. When I try to use it I set up everything as the instructions say, but I get a "can not find /autorun" error. It may be something I am doing wrong, but I can't find the problem. I'm using a Pentium 4 2.53Ghz machine with 512Mb of Ram. I usually do not need the utility for my computer, but would like to use it to help on other machines. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Mike

Jim hit the nail on the head. Probably a little more squarely than I had in my attempts. This is just something small on my wish list for future versions that would add more flexibility to the software for me. Hopefully others would be able to make good use of the feature as well. Thanks for all the comments! Mike

I just was able to access the cottage, although it was a little slow loading. I may just be lucky so far but have never had any trouble yet.

To make a title page I use a program such as Adobe Photoshop and make an image that contains the text, graphics, and what ever else I want and save it as a .jpg file and simply make it my first slide and choose the effect and timeing I like. Then just add the rest of your show behind it. You don't have to use something as eloborate as Photoshop either. I think you can even use paint in windows to make what you need.

I was thinking, if there were the option of selecting the delay time you could set it for as much as 30 seconds or something which should be ample time to load any new presentation on almost any computer. The old show just runs in the background after the new one starts over top and then the old one closes, I think probably without effecting the new show. Although as was pointed out in the other posts on this topic, there may be other, better ways to program this function. This was just what my simple mind came up with as a solution to suggest. This feature I would use in making an interactive slide show. If what you had in mind was giving them a break between shows, I would not link them like this. I actually do make mostly non-linked shows, this would just provide a new technique for me to put my shows together. I do want to say that I think P2E has almost no comparison, especially for the price and the ability to give feedback and suggestions in a forum like this, and actually have them read by the programmer! Igor's the MAN!

I would like to be able to create a slide show on my PC that could be viewed on a Mac. I have had to turn away several customers because of not having that ability now. A version that could 'bridge the gap' there would be a great use in the future!

I found a new use for the buttons object editor. I place a button(s) on the last slide of an un-synced show which gives the viewer choice of direction of the show. I would like to have another choice of function for a button. Right now the choices are - open another exe and leave this show running - open another exe and close this one I would like to add - open another exe and close this one after delay time this would allow the first show to close so you don't have multiple shows "stacking up" but prevent the desktop showing before the new show starts. If the delay time is made adjustable then you could make it delay long enough for any size of new exe to be loaded. Let me know what everyone thinks of this feature, and if it would be useful in a future version. Mike

I hate to bring up the subject again but... A long while back I read a post here that talked about an organization in England that you could belong to, which would allow you to obtain license(s) to use copyrighted music in your slide shows for either private or commercial use. I am a professional photographer and get asked quite often to use new popular music for a slideshow. My question is, does anyone know about such an organization in the United States? I am hoping to find one (if it exists) that can grant me the use of almost any song for use on slide shows that I sell as part of my business. I would even be willing to pay for every song, for every use if I need to, I just need to know how to go about it. Thanks, Mike

Lumenlux, I don't have any way right now to recieve an email that large. I'm working on it and I will let you know when I can. Thanks, Mike

I use WinZip to extract the file. Mike

I've tried to re-download the show and always end up with the same result, at least with the "Fields of Fire" I'm not sure what it may be, but it does it on 3 different computers all of which run windows (2 are XP and 1 is 2000) I've been able to get other shows to run over time but that one I can not make work.