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MANY THANKS TO ALL. My questions were answered perfectly. Aloha.

Hi. I'm the guy who asked the original question. Now I know how to stretch or contract the timeline on the horizontal. But is there also a way to zoom in or out on the timeline -- that is, to make the timeline and its photos bigger (height and width) or smaller? I believe that the two screen shots posted by yachtsman were trying to explain how to do this (??), but it certainly didn't work for me. And many thanks to xaver and peter for nicely answering my original post.

I can't figure out how to zoom in or out on the timeline -- that is, to make it spread farther apart or come closer together. Surely the software does this, doesn't it? Thanks much. ------- PTE Deluxe 7.5.10

Hi Lin: Just an off-the-wall sort of question -- hope you don't mind. I'm a longtime newspaper and book editor, so my eye can't help but jump to oddities in spelling, usage, style, whatever. I've often been curious about the reason you might have for putting quote marks around words that obviously don't need them. I'm sure you have a good reason -- or is this just some sort of formatting oddity? The above posting has such text as this: If a file is larger than this or really even "approaching" two gigabytes then it "may" exceed the limits . . . . Next "attempt" to "replace" the blue error . . . . most likely there is "something" about the file . . . . As an editor, I've seen it all, and I'm sure willing to learn new and better ways of writing. Thanks much for enlightening me on this. Don

To all those who were willing to offer help to someone who should have been able to figure it out on his own -- Many thanks. I now see how simple it is to add multiple shows to a disc. Don

Maybe I'M the one who's missing something . . . . . VB seems to allow me to put only a single PTE show (not multiple shows) onto a DVD. Then it instructs me to eject the DVD. At that point, the only alternative I'm left with is to reinsert the DVD and try to add another show, but VB then says the "disc is not empty" and won't accept the new show. Am I using the wrong type of DVD? What am I missing here? (By the way, the size of the shows is not an issue, since I can readily fit several of my shows on one DVD.) PS: If/when I figure out how to add multiple shows to the disc, I'm still unclear how I would give the viewer the option to play only selected shows (rather than all of them). Again, thanks much for any help. Don

Oops, maybe I should have put this question into the general PTE forum, since it doesn't relate to video (only slide shows using stills). But anyway, thanks for any help on this.

I'd like to put several PTE slide shows onto a single DVD. But Video Builder seems to require a new DVD disc for each show. Is there a way for me to create a multiple-show DVD, with a start menu that lets you viewer decide which of the shows he'd like to see? I suppose I could take several shows and combine them into one, and then make a DVD of that. But how would the viewer then choose which show he wanted to see, if he wanted to see only a particular one? Thanks much. Don

Still no solution to my question. Neither the "My Profile" page nor the "About Me" tab on that page give me any apparent way to edit my profile. Nor does the "My Settings" page. So for the moment, I'm stuck with my original writeup about me and my interests -- a writeup that I'd like to revise.

Unless I'm missing something, it looks like I need to start over every time I make a DVD of a PTE show, even if all I want is 20 copies of the DVD. What's the most efficient way to go about this? I ask VideoBuilder to create a DVD for me. I create a title and intro screen for it, insert a blank DVD, and Video Builder then goes through a minutes-long process of preparing the file for burning. Then the burning begins. Then for the second copy, it seems to go through that same minutes-long preparation process -- rather than going directly to burning . . . . a time-consuming and seemingly unnecessary process. Thanks for any tips on this. Don

Many thanks to Alena, Ken and nobeefstu for your timely help with my problem. I've downloaded the new key sent by Alena, so my former PTE 6.0.4 is now upgraded to 6.5.8, and I again have access to VideoBuilder. Don

In years past, I had hassles with loading a PTE key. Now here we go again . . . . I paid $34 on August 11 for an updated Video Builder, since my old key had expired. I received the correct email notice from PTE that told me how to download the program. I was told I had 14 days "before the links expire" (which would be tomorrow, August 25). Another email gave me the registration key. I followed the directions precisely. Here are the directions I was given: 1. Run VideoBuilder (Start menu -> All programs -> PicturesToExe Deluxe -> VideoBuilder). 2. The program will ask for the license key. Click "Load a Key" button. 3. Copy the license key above (including both the KEY BEGIN and the KEY END lines) and paste into the window of VideoBuilder. 4. Click "Activate" button. 5. Restart VideoBuilder. First of all: There is NO option to "paste" the license key "into the window of VideoBuilder." The only option you are given is to locate a file in which the license key resides. When I do that -- identify a file that holds the key -- I receive the immediate rude response: "Invalid or damaged key!" What's going on? I'm exasperated, of course, but thank you in advance for correcting this problem, as I know your support has always been very good in the past. Don

Thanks for any help. Don

MANY THANKS TO LIN, PETER AND DG.

I need a little fatherly advice: I've just paid to bring my registration up to date ($34). I've been using PTE 6.0.4 and of course have some precious shows in that version. I'm hesitating on downloading the version that I've already paid for, just in case there is any potential incompatibility between the new version and my shows that I've created over the past 3 years. Thanks for any advice on this.

YACHTSMAN: That was it! THANK YOU THANK YOU.

Two quick questions for the wonderful experts on this site: 1. I am working on a new show. When I click on the "Start Preview from Current Slide" button, the visual preview starts at the current slide, but the music INSISTS on starting at the beginning of the show. First time for me with this vexing problem -- all earlier shows still work fine, 2. In the new show, when I click on Pause on the Navigation Bar, the visuals pause, but the music just continues blithely on. Again, first time with this problem -- all earlier shows work fine. Many thanks.

October 25, 2006 Dear fellow PTE fans, I’m still using PTE 4.48 and I have a longtime vexing problem with it. I’d appreciate any tips you might have. (And maybe the problem will be solved in 5.0.) I always use a lot of custom settings for the length of time that various slides are displayed. I simply move each slide along the timeline so that each one is shown for the number of seconds I want. By the end of a timeline, I might have 200 or 300 slides, painstakingly organized with just the amount of display time I want for each one. BUT . . . . if I dare to add new slides somewhere within the show (or delete some slides), all the slides from that point onward are renumbered -- and the display times stay with the NUMBERS rather than staying with the photos themselves as they should. Ouch! I end up going thru the numbing process of reassigning my desired display times to all the photos. Any tips? Am I doing something wrong? Many Thanks. Don

Thank you again, Lin. For an outside audio editor to use in conjunction with P2E, would Audacity be your first recommendation (or are there better ones you'd recommend)? I have Premiere Elements and I can use the audio editor in Premiere and save the audio as a single MP3 file that can be brought into P2E, but perhaps this is too cumbersome an approach. ?? Don

Lin: Thanks much for your help. Also, any idea if PTE plans to add the ability to trim an audio/music clip to a desired length within the program (an "audio trimmer")?

Hello Igor, I love the simplicity and quality of the slide shows I can create with Pix-to-Exe. Is it correct that you are adding pan and zoom effects in 5.0? What about ability to show rotation of images (as in ProShow)? Any chance that more than one audio track can ever be added (3 tracks would be wonderful) to permit a music track plus a narration track plus a sound-effects track? And any chance that some sort of basic sound editor will ever be incorporated so that music and other sound files can be trimmed to a desired length within the program? Thank you for your great work on this fine program.