JudyKay

Thank you Ronnie. Good to hear from you.

My thoughts: If you use the software for business, by all means upgrade now. Some users may just use the software as a hobby, or be on low income. But if you use it for business, good grief. Just upgrade. You know your financial situation, but investing the price of a PTE upgrade in a product that makes you a profit makes business sense to me. On the other hand, if what you are using is meeting your client's needs for now, then wait.

I think it is ALWAYS on sale. The bang you get for you buck is vastly greater than anything approaching equivalent out there. I don't think anything else out there really is equivalent at any price.

Nicely done. And the music is breathtaking.

I could comment on "Pals" but not on "strange things." Wish I could!

My continued thanks!

You may be right. I didn't think of that. Thanks. I forget the behavior in the past, but in this recent instance, it really would not start after trying computer restarts. Maybe I gave up too easily and was too busy. I have some new tricks, thanks to you. I have called Adobe several times, and so far they never mentioned any of this, yet I have a hunch you are on to something. Of course, by the time I call them, the internet works and CC works and I don't really need them by then. They just want to know, "Is it working now," which if course it is. I can't just make the message pop up, so I guess I have to wait to see. Maybe it has to with switching licenses around, but I am diligent about doing that before going out. The problem has been rare, and I shouldn't fuss about it over much. Maybe it will never happen again!

Dave, That is a very good idea. I will try that. Thanks! You may have just made my day! I could also try to block access through the host file, which should buy 30 days. I may try that as well.

Just for the record. Three times in the last month I had Adobe CC products refuse to open when I got off the grid for an extended time. That was after critically checking thoroughly to be sure I had licensing right on the correct machine and that it was working off the grid. As a result. I was unable to produce several hundred important images in a timely way to a client. Sure, I was only a few days late, and in the end it didn't matter that much (which is why I waited), but because I sometimes perform work that is very time critical, I maintain an old version of Photoshop just in case. This seems to be an anomaly, but Adobe has not yet resolved it. Yet, it would not occur without the licensing nonsense Adobe has in place. Photoshop is an unequaled product. The Adobe CC subscription system is not.

Great contribution! Thanks.

I have upgraded or helped upgrade 8 computers so far. Every single one of the 8 upgrades had some problem. All were minor problems, except one Bluetooth problem which never has been resolved. I still have not upgraded Daddy's computer (He is in a different country, so I cannot do it in person), because he is older and I am not there to fix whatever is certain to go wrong. Having said that, I personally like Win10 very much and think it worth the upgrade.

I am beginning to get the picture. I wonder if a solution would be to take those images in series and create compressed video such as MP4 and then add that to P2E. The results might be more satisfactory. You are asking a lot of software and hardware, and apparently, unnecessarily. At 24 FPS you simply don't need that kind of resolution, you can't see it anyway. That's my opinion anyway. You can do it the awkward expensive way, or the easier, streamlined way with possibly better results. Who is your audience? How are you planning to project or present this? What kind of projection system / high res monitor / size of screen? Or are you just experimenting to see what the limits are?

i sure hope we get to see this when it is finished! How long does it take to run through the whole thing?

I haven't tried it yet, but thanks Dave. Life is springing back to the forums with the Lunar New Year!

Wow!!!! So very glad to see you back! We have this: e

Thank you very much. I like what you have here.

This is not really a PTE software question, rather it is a best practice question. I have not been future proofing my slide shows well. Yes, I zip them up, usually with 16:9 aspect ratio, 8 bit, 1920 X 1080 images. Have been for years. Some of those shows don't size well or look ideal on my high res laptop. Not bad at all, just less than they could have been if I had future proofed better. Nothing to worry about yet. PTE does its job perfectly, but I have not done as well. But now that 4K screens are ubiquitous, and 8K beginning to appear, now that we have 10 bit color in Rec 2020 and DCI-P3 color space on the horizon; now that we are hearing about HDR 10 format video with nit range of .05-1000 or more, I wonder about backup strategy that might better future proof shows than what I describe at the top. Of course I have all those old images at original res, 16 bit originals stored safely in Lightroom, but don't fancy finding and re-exporting them and then fitting them to correct filenames (some of which I altered for numerical arrangement) in PTE to recreate a show. Your thoughts? Just go with the current times? The past was beautiful, but the present and future are only getting better, so should we just shrug and let the past be the past? Should we go ahead and save images at 32 bit and export images at 8K 7680×4320? Good grief, our Canon 5D's produce only a paltry 5760 × 3840. Most of us are capturing originals at 12 or 14 bit. That's all we have to start with. Should I swing by B&H and pick me up a new Hasselblad and shoot 60 mp 8956 x 6708? If 8 bit images produce about 11 stops of dynamic range and the human eye can see 10-14 stops, how much are we and our grandchildren going to miss?

Great commentary on the world we live in. Very well told story.

Merry Christmas to you all! Special thanks to you. Igor, for making PTE happen. Igor, I hope you are keeping warm, way up there in the north. JK

Amazing! What an incredible, beautiful, creative work! Thank you. Merry Christmas!

Beautiful, thanks! The "Merry Christmas" girl has such red cheeks!

How complex of an answer do you want? I am no expert on such things but have mild interest. The limiting factor is...complex. Start here: http://www.godevtool.com/GoasmHelp/64bits.htm where you might happen across this which may be relevant: The executable "image" (the code/data as loaded in memory) of a Win64 file is limited in size to 2GB. This is because the AMD64/EM64T processors use relative addressing for most instructions, and the relative address is kept in a dword. A dword is only capable of holding a relative value of ±2GB. Keep your Executables smaller than 2 GB to be safe

Good to have it back. Thanks.

Mark, I am sorry you have not been well. God bless you and may you have a merry Christmas and much better health next year! JK

You must have a much more stable internet than I often experience when traveling. You must go to very tame places! Be thankful. All but a handful of times attempting to deactivate/activate, I have had to call Adobe. Try making your phone a hotspot with iffy Edge connection and then connect with wifi and get Adobe to cooperate. Doesn't work. This is rare of course, but has happened. Thankfully Skype keeps the cost down for direct calls when needed. Perhaps you think it is nonsense to be concerned with such minor things. I should throw the towel back at you! Getting facts right is important for all of us. I am grateful to Umas for his suggestions and examples. Barry, you are an experienced PS user. Some others here are also quite accomplished PS users as well, perhaps with enough experience and needs that have led them to explore further then only Photoshop (which seems to meet your level of need) and offer other superior software suggestions. You have good answers, but not all the answers, only those answers that work best for your limited scope of need. Keep offering those as you have in this thread. I am grateful for your generally excellent contributions, Barry, and for the excellent contributions of others as well.