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Ronnie, I might get Audition again later on; you are right, it seems to be an excellent program. I am a big fan of the Adobe software any way. Andre, Thanks !!!!!!!!!!! I did as instructed. I am listening to the music in Audacity as I write! No problem now. Ken, The wma files come from my own CDs. Al, I never tried to open any RAW image files in Audition or in any other sound editor; only the music files. What happened is that after the Audition installation was completed, and as I work often with CS2, I noticed that the RAW files from my D2X were not being recognized any more. The problem might have been caused by my rushing; might have checked the wrong box and Audition apparently had switched Bridge to an older version during the installation (?). After my previous post, I downloaded the Bridge update 1.0.3.106 and every thing is working fine once again. Thanks to you all for a great and fast learning experience!

Andre, Ken, My sound card is a NVIDIA GeForce 6200. I do not have any MP3 files in this computer yet; only wav. I was trying all the Audacity menus, that's how I found Project/Import Raw Data and went through this option, but of course, it did not work. First, I had tried to open a wav file through File/Open, but it did not work for me either! I could see the wave form/name of the song, but I could not play the music. By the way, I had to get rid of Audition; it messed up the CS2 Bridge and the Adobe Camera Raw. I had to reinstall Bridge and the Raw plug-in this morning, but I am still unable to see the Raw thumbnails. That's it for Audition, do not want to see it any more! Thanks for your input, Ligia PS: I just realized that the files are wma, not wav; that might be the cause of the problem with Audacity. I am still a little confused though; the wma files play in Cool Edit fine.

Al, I just played with the objects, cool! Had no idea that this existed, already love the feature! I also downloaded Audition. Never imagined having so many sound editors in my computer! It is by far the easiest to understand, in my beginners' opinion; was able to fade and time the music. Nevertheless, I have not been able to even play the music with the Audacity program yet, all that it does is weird sounds. I imported the files as raw, but yet, cannot get it to play the music. I have been visiting the Audacity website for more information; have the feeling that it must be the simplest of all once that I find out how to use it. I would not mind buying Audition, the only concern is that Audacity might give me all that I need and it is free. I am not planning on getting extra fancy with the music or doing any recordings/mixing; all that I need is the fading music effect for the slide show. By the way, your avatar is awesome! Thanks for all your help, Ligia

Al, The slide show will be divided into segments. I do not know exactly the meaning of "objects" yet, however, I have titles that I have created in PS for each segment and will add them as another image. I also have the extra black screens; thought that it would be easier to setup the trasitions between the segments this way. And you have already answered one of my extra questions, thanks! When I went to the Audition website. I noticed that this program was formerly called Cool Edit; was wondering about the Cool Edit file that I had downloaded and its veracity. The examples at Beechbrook are mind boggling. Will hopefully get there eventually ... For the time being, I will be happy with knowing how to set up a good music synchronization; and with the fading effect. Best regards, Ligia

Thanks very much, Al! I just downloaded Audacity following your recommendations; also a trial version of Cool Edit Pro. I also check the Audition website. I have my hands full for tomorrow! Your instructions are very helpful, I immensely appreciate them. I believe that I can manage the segments quite well by following these instructions. Next step will be to figure out how to use the sound editor; I would really like to incorporate the fading music effects that I have seen in some of the examples created with PTE. Just when I thought that it would be *very* simple ... forty-five minutes of combining music with images does not sound that simple ... More questions are already accumulating, but I will say Ciao for now. Best wishes, ------------ Ligia

Hi all! I am new to PTE. I already learnt how to create a simple slide show; however, I would like to create one that will have several segments and with different music for each. How do I synchronize the music for each segment and how do I fade it? I would appreciate it your letting me know or, please direct me to the place where I could find this information. Thanks very much! ------------- Ligia