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  1. Best size monitor for PTE

    in Equipment & Software

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    Royo,

    I currently work on a 17" monitor that is driven by a graphics card that operates at 1280x1024 pixels. If I was having to replace the monitor I would probably consider a 19"; anything bigger than that would be a struggle to fit in on the worktop.

    Thank you Peter

    It is very good to have members so Knowledgeble and helpfull

    I have decided I will either stick to a 19" or possible 20" not wide screen for the new PC I intend to by

    My Camera is a Cannon 20D DSLR

    and my Projector is a PLUS U5 633H Aspect ratio 4:3 support 16:9 1024 X 768

    Many thanks again

    regards Royo

  2. Best size monitor for PTE

    in Equipment & Software

    Posted

    Royo,

    In order to advise best for you - please tell us:

    Do you have a Point and Shoot Camera or a DSLR?

    The first is a 4:3 aspect ratio and the last a 3:2 aspect ratio.

    If you have the former a 1600x1200 would be great.

    If the latter then something wider would be preferable - not necessarily wide screen.

    P.S. Do you use a Projector to do your charity shows? If so what resolution?

    DaveG

    Thank you Dave

    I have a 20D Cannon DSLR

    and a Plus projector U5 632H

    Aspect ratio 4:3 support 16:9 1024 x 768

    I have it set up for 1024 x 768

    Thank you for helping me

    Regards Royo

  3. Best size monitor for PTE

    in Equipment & Software

    Posted

    Hi Royo,

    Let me see if I can clarify matters for you:

    There are three points that need to be considered: the resolution (measured in pixels x pixels), the aspect ratio and the monitor size.

    Resolution is expressed by the two pixel counts. The first count (e.g. 1024) indicates how many pixels (dots of colour) there will be on each horizontal row and the second pixel count (e.g. 768) indicates how many dots of colour there will be in each vertical column.

    The aspect ratio is simply the ratio between the two numbers making up the resolution. So, a resolution of 1024x768 is an aspect ratio of 4:3 whilst a resolution of 1280x1024 is an aspect ratio of 5:4.

    Monitor size is most often expressed (in the UK) as a number of inches (e.g. 17inch, 19inch). This represents the approximate diagonal length of the viewable area.

    Any monitor could be running at any resolution. The maximum resolution is determined by the graphics card (in a desktop system) or graphics chipset (in a laptop). It is possible to set the graphics to a different resolution (one whose numbers are lower than the maximum) if so desired.

    To summarize: the resolution captures the detail, the monitor size allows you to see the detail and the aspect ratio determines whether you are looking at a nearly square picture or a wide-wcreen picture.

    Hope this has helped your understanding.

    Thank you Peter

    What size would you buy for PTE

    I get easily confused partly down to my cancer drugs and my age

    Thank you for your help. I get a lot of pleasure in using PTE and undertaking av shows for my local charity.

    Thank you

    Royo

  4. Best size monitor for PTE

    in Equipment & Software

    Posted

    I have decided on a 1920x1080 monitor which will cover all aspect ratios and projector resolutions up to and including 1920x1080.

    The current state of play with projectors is mostly 1024x768 but I expect this to change to mostly 1400x1050 within the next year.

    Following that I expect that there will then be a change to 1920x1080 projection very quickly.

    I want a monitor which will allow me to see PTE shows at "ACTUAL PIXELS" at all projection resolutions. I have proven to my own satisfaction that the most "efficient" aspect ratio monitor for AV shows is the 16:9. When making shows of 3:2 aspect ratio (same as camera) or wider it allows you to put more pixels on screen resulting in greater definition etc.

    DaveG

    Thank you DaveG

    But not being conversant with all these resolutions. Can you please explain what size your monitor is i.e 19,20, 21,or wide screen, Being disabled and in my middle 70s I am a bit of a slow learner but enthusiastic and willing to learn as I get a lot of pleasure from photography and realy enjoy the wonderful PTE software.

    Thank you for your help

    Royo

  6. PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.1

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Yes I have downloaded version 5.1 and It is very good no problems encountered.

    Thank you very much Igor for all the hard work you put in.

    It gives me great pleasure to use this program to show sequences to my association and at my age with poor health it encourages me to go on.

    Have a good Christmas and a Happy New year

    Thank you Igor

  9. Holy Island (Lindisfarne)

    in Slideshows & AV Shows

    Posted

    Here's a sequence that I built earlier this year with PTE4 and have just spent 3 hours this lunch-time (don't worry, folks, I'm semi-retired!) re-building in PTEv5.

    http://www.mediafire.com/?9rdy2vy9moy (File size is c.15MB)

    I decided to rebuild it because I originally used a font that I subsequently discovered wasn't on every PC. So the show didn't always have the look and feel that I had built into it on my own PC. The only use of new function in PTEv5 is the use of rasterized text stored as PNG files. Now, the show really is WYSIWIS - what you see is what I saw!!!

    The images were taken during a five day visit at the start of May this year. The weather was glorious on the Monday and then went rapidly downhill. By Tuesday evening it was dull, overcast and occasional rain showers and stayed that way. It brightened up again 2 hours after I left on the Friday.

    For the benefit of the overseas viewers, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne is located off the north-eastern coast of England just a few miles south of the border with Scotland. It is accessible across a causeway for 3 hours either side of low tide. At all other times it is truly an island. It is famed as the cradle of Christianity in England and has association with St.Aidan, St.Cuthbert and others from the Celtic Christian tradition around 650-750AD. It was through my faith that I was directed to go there and take photographs to set to this particular piece of music - but that's another story!

    Enjoy!

  10. Holy Island (Lindisfarne)

    in Slideshows & AV Shows

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    Sorry to let you know after download All I got was on opening File not found or damaged

    and I could not open it. I only have a dial up connection and it took over an hour to download.

    Can you post it on beechbrook and a zip file instead of the web page you have chosen.

    I vist Northumbria at least once a year and i would have liked to have seen it

    Royo

  12. DVD Aspect ratio

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Converting digital camera and/or computer images into a movie (DVD) format for the television will result in either a distorted image or a cropped image. This is because they are different standards. In addition, analog TVs (everything except the latest digital HDTVs, and only if they are being run in digital mode) vary from set to set and the image that can be seen depends on how well the set is adjusted. This is why there is a "TV Safe" zone function in most programs for making movies. It shows you what may not show up when displayed on any individual TV set. This is the easiest way to go when you want to be sure certain parts of the image show up in most people's TVs.

    If you are talking about just your TV, and it is well adjusted, I've found the default settings in P2E do not produce the best movie, in terms of coverage and distortion. I've had better success with movies on my TV set to create a Custom AVI file with 740x480 dimensions (P2E adds two 40 pixel black bars on either side to preserve the aspect ratio of the photograph and at the same time put it into the correct dimension for the DVD format) and burn it with a DVD authoring program. I'm not certain if the latest betas with the DVD Builder included have the same problem as I haven't had much luck burning DVDs with it. With the Custom AVI, I see almost 100% on one axis and 96% on the other using standard 1024x768 photos from my camera and no other settings adjusted.

    Ken Nickles made some good points on this matter in a post to the forum in 2004. The best explanation for this (which he also referenced) is a web page on aspect ratios by Jukka Aho

    http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~f76998/video/conversion/

    but it is a technical paper. The actual paper starts several pages down.

    Steve

    Tucson, AZ USA

    Thank you for your help Steve

    Royo

  14. DVD Aspect ratio

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Royo

    When creating a show specifically for DVD

    In ver 5 are you using the “Show Safe TV Zone” feature?

    Objects and Animation – Tools – Show Safe TV Zone. (Guidelines)

    Ver 4:48 it is located in the Object Editor – top part of screen.

    “Show TV Safe Zone”

    Thank you Ralph Still not quite sure what I need is a tutorial of Wnsoft DVD Builder

    When you get to late 70s things are not easily understood.

  16. PTE Stalling

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Royo

    sounds like you do not have enough graphics board ram

    please supply make and model of graphics board

    and

    make sure you have the latest version of MS DIRECTX

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.mspx

    MY LATEST VER IS 9.0C

    start/run

    and type

    dxdiag

    and the directx version is on first screen

    can you run Igor's demos ok

    Example of slide-show created in PictresToExe v5.00

    1) "PteShow" - http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/PteShow.zip (12 MB) EXE file

    Source files of this project: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/PteShow_sources.zip (12 MB)

    Powerful slide-show with high quality 2400x1500 images. Intended for modern video cards.

    2) "Flowers" - http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/Flowers.zip (1.5 MB) EXE file and source files.

    1024x768 images. Works fine almost on any video card.

    3) "NoResizing" - http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/NoResizing.zip (1.5 MB) EXE file and source files.

    This example shows how to display images as is without resizing on any screen display. Exactly pixel in pixel. But personally I don't like this option. It better to use scalable images, as in settings by default.

    ken

    Reply to Ken

    I have a Viewsonic VP19b on Radeon 9800 pro card with a memory of 256

    I also have Direct X ver 9. I am using a Windows XP Pro with 1 gig of ram.

    This stalling only happens when I use PTE version 5.5 I do not have a problem with version 4.8?

    So I will continue to use 4.8 until PTE is out of Beta.

    Thank you for your help Royo

  17. PTE Stalling

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Has any one experienced an image frozen on screen during a PTE sequence?

    I was using PTE version 5 Beta 5 when it got a slide 52 the image stayed on screen even though the music kept playing I have also experienced similar problems when playing Demo versions of PTE 5 where my screen shows diagonal lines? :huh:

    No problem when I use PTE 4.8

    Thank you.

  18. The old and the new.

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    We have seen some brilliant slide shows made with version 5 and, to some extent, we seem to have lost sight of the good old version 4.

    I like the pan & zoom but it can be overdone I think, so I made a quick show (version 5.4) just using the pan effect for the opening intro and the closing credits. It seems to work fine and keeps the slide show simple.

    Download it here: Click here:

    Let me know what you think.

    Ron

    Just to Thank you Ron for sending me your tutorial on Scrolling Text I found it to be excelent and easy to understand. I tried to download your other tutorial on Pan and Zoom but I get a dialog box asking me to sign up to Send It ? which I did not do. Is there another way I can download this tutorial. I will look at your website. Thanks again royo

  19. Classical countdown

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi everybody,

    I made a new intro, a classical countdown, that you can use for your own slideshow.

    icon_pa_download.gif

    This is only version 1 beta #1 ;) , I have several ideas to add to this countdown :

    - add a classical film projector with its rolling tapes

    - add a screen

    - add an "animated" ray of light

    And all the ideas you can think of...

    Thank you for your suggestions.

    PS : I already have 2 new ideas for other intros.

    I only need time... :)

    By the way Igor, I always have this annoying display bug I already mentionned here (thin white edges).

    Did you have time to think on how to resolve it ? :unsure:

    Hi everybody,

    I made a new intro, a classical countdown, that you can use for your own slideshow.

    icon_pa_download.gif

    This is only version 1 beta #1 ;) , I have several ideas to add to this countdown :

    - add a classical film projector with its rolling tapes

    - add a screen

    - add an "animated" ray of light

    And all the ideas you can think of...

    Thank you for your suggestions.

    PS : I already have 2 new ideas for other intros.

    I only need time... :)

    By the way Igor, I always have this annoying display bug I already mentionned here (thin white edges).

    Did you have time to think on how to resolve it ? :unsure:

    I tried to download your Countdown but I keep getting page not found?

    Why is this?

    Thank you

  21. Masks ? What for ?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    An other little demo to show how "masks and layers" can be used with PTE v5 (10,5 Mo).

    icon_pa_download.gif

    Honestly, nothing revolutionary, but simple things just to give ideas. :)

    As usual, if you have other ideas or possible improvements, you are more than welcome to tell...

    It would be great if I could down load your demonstration but I am only on a dial up.

    Have you got a printed tutorial

    Thank you

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