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Well, I'll be darn... I did not know the keys were different! This is on a different computer and I had never installed PTE on this system. Went back and loaded my older PTE key from 2002 and magically it fixed it! (I try to never throw anything away) I would have thought the newer key would have been inclusive! But obviously not! Sorry I jumped the gun on your request it would have been nice to know for sure but it's fixed now! THANKS!

I too am having this exact same problem with 6.5! The only difference is I am using a 5.1 key. I have tried loading the text, and loading the file. Both produce similar results. This is on a Windows 7 X64 machine. (could that be the problem)

Lin, Looks like your vision must be improving!!! (I see you are spending more time on the Forum) I opened your link in Firefox, Netscape and IE6. All three instances created the full size image "enlarged and it greatly affects the quality". Pretty much got the same results as LumenLux

Unfoutnately I cannot specifically compare PTE 5 to PSPv3.0. However when I was first shopping 5 years ago I was very unhappy with everything else I tried. What I CAN tell you is that PTE 5 is still in beta with the typical GOTCHA's you would expect to find in any beta release. However the great features version PTE 5 will give you are worth the minor headaches. I have the oppertunity to see lots of stuff other people put together with other programs and am usually disapointed with what they have done. My suggestion to you would be to download some of the stuff others have done: http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showforum=3 and look for yourself!! There is another site with many examples too: http://www.beechbrook.com/pte/index.asp

Thank you both... No... If you assign an image to it, then the start button is disabled (that is why I was needing to use it) I kind of suspected that this feature was not fully implemented. I was merely making sure Igor had it on his "to do" list!!! Fred, You may be on to something here!!! (I do have one contributor that is giving me huge image files) I am resizing all the images as I am typing.... FOLLOW UP COMMENT: Resizing the images fixed my problem... And in addition, now that it runs correctly (even on my laptop)... I discovered that PTE did not assign ANY QUICK Transitions whatsoever!!! (But the check box IS still missing)

Created a show that lets PTE select select specific group of random transition effects. This show has about 400 slides and runs about 12 minutes (so it already has a pretty quick pace) I have discovered that some of the slides are only on the screen for just a flash!!! (a half a second) While others seem to hang on the screen for almost two seconds. I am pretty sure this only happens when the program has decided to use the "Quick" effect. So I thought I would just disable it and force the program to assign longer transitions! Well on 4.48 the check box for "Quick" used to be the very last box on the selections. Beta 5.8u does not list it at all!! I cannot turn it off The problem seems to be much worse on my Laptop than my PC (obviously a better Video card). (Unfortunately I WAS needing to use my Laptop for the show) If I had not spent so much time developing a fancy opening using PTE 5 effects, I would return to 4.48 for this show!!! It does not seem to make a difference whether it is an EXE or Preview. I have not tried to burn a DVD (yet) In addition, I have noticed that when using a "Start Up Window" the background is transparent not black. (you can see the computer desktop under the window)

Lin, Sorry to hear about your accident!!! I appreciate all of your help in the past and probably one of the last things you need to be doing right now is reading this post!! (So I for this post only, am making the font size easier for you to read) Best of luck, and you will definately be in our prayers!!!

Well, I suppose, adding silence will work IF I calculate the correct number of blank slides to add too. Aaaaaaa Beta is as Beta does! (or was that VHS)

Oh boy... My problem is a bit more severe!!! I do my slide shows with a projector for a very large audiance. I have "When Show ends keep last slide in show on screen" enabled. It is necessary for me to do the last slide as a "fade to black" so the people in the audiance do not have to look at my computer desktop after the show. (unil I can kill the projector and audio) In my case the music starts to repeat until ESC is pressed. With the EXE file the exit is VERY ugly with the program slowly exiting in almost a "crash mode". (not pretty) Will version 5.9 fix this and are you expecting it to release soon? If not, do any other of the beta versions not show this problem? I have tried checking and unchecking just about every box related to sound I can find. Nothing seems to really be a satisifactory solution!!! I have a show to do in about a week and I have kinda built the new show around version 5!!!

Yes, of course... I know "beta is beta' Just wanting Igor to know about it in case he is intersted in addressing it some day (in all of his spare time) Probably nothing at all!!! Just call me superstitious for wanting to run the show through several times. Start to Finish. Just to BE SURE there is not some sort of problem.

Sometimes when I am debugging a very long slide show, frequently I want to let the show run and go off to do other things while the show is running. I may ALT-Tab to my e-mail or something else. Then switch back to the slide show when I am getting close to something I am wanting to pay attention to. I did not have any trouble using this feature in PTE v4. But this does not seem to work with PTE v5. The music continues to play, but the slides to not change until I Alt-TAB back. Yes I know there is a "Start Preview from the current slide" feature, but sometimes I do not completely trust that function! (Isn't it amazing how much trouble we can get into to keep IGOR busy)

Well.... My problem turned out to be solveable on my end. The slideshow I was trying to create the AVI for had been created with Version 4.41 The slide show would run correctly in preview mode, but when you when into the "timeline" the Duration was showing 6:17. Deleting the Transition points several times did not solve the problem. Deleting the MP3 did not solve it either! I feel that I tried just about everything I could think of several times over and the duration was still 6:17!!! Finally I did everything that I had already done over and suddenly the duration was correct! I have no idea what sequence of buttons I pushed to fix it... But it appears that the REAL problem was that Version 8R did not like the 4.41 file!!! NOTE: I see now (hidden deeply in another post) that older versions are not compatible with the Video porton of version 8

Stan, I believe this is an optional feature with PTE... When a person is designing their slide show they have to choose whether the mouse is active or not. I believe that you will find that some slide shows work and others do not. I am wondering... Do you have the ability with your custom mouse setup to execute an ALT+TAB? If so you could leave your keyboard screen on a differnt page and TAB over to it. Other than that I cannot think of a simple solution to your problem.

It will be intersting to learn about "Mr B's" result with his FX5200... Neither slide show had any significant jerking on my FX5200. "Test PZR 1280" DID have a slight ripple appear about every 2 seconds (during the 1st long set of pans when the screen was rolling from top to bottom). I suspect these were image splices? This was NOT annoying except to the most critical eye and I did not catch it until I was actually looking for it. "Fantaisies florales" showed absolutely no jerking at all!!! BTW: It has incredible animation too!!! It appears that perhaps moving multiple smaller objects around on the screen is not as much as a resource hog as a PAN or ZOOM. (In my original post I even noted that in the same slideshow my PAN was jerky and the annimation was not) Mark Wilbur

Lin, I am assume you have to be asking about individual picture files not PTE or EXE files: Before modifying the pictures were 150-273K After Modifying the picture file sizes became 50-70K I forgot to mention that I am running a NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 with 128mb (Hmmmm... Me thinks I see a connection) Mark Wilbur