Bill Artman

Conflow; Thanks very much for your help and for the audio trimmer. I have tried it and it works greats for what I need. I still think that if PTE would have something similar build into the program that would be very helpful. Thanks again!!

I am the person who originally started this post with the simple question asking if PTE can do a fade at the end of a song and I have asked this same question on this forum maybe once a year since I have started using PTE several years ago. I have been following the thread carefully but have not responded until Xaver asked for a response. I am a professional photographer in the USA that uses PTE to create slide shows to show my clients their portrait images when they choose their poses and order their portraits. I do not consider myself a PTE power user by any means. If the song I want to use is too long for the number of slides I have and if I have PTE sync the length of the song to the number of slides, each slide is on the screen for a LONG time which is not good. All I am saying/asking is that it would be nice if PTE had the capability to make the song shorter then add a fade at the end of the song. In my humble opinion, I don't think this "simple" capability would add to the overall complexity of PTE as it would be a "simple" addition to the program. I am not a programmer so Igor is probably reading this and thinking I am crazy!!! That's my two cents worth!

Brian; I totally agree with you about the "simple fade" feature. I am sure everyone would use it. Today I made a wedding slide show video for one of my clients. The video actually has 7 PTE slideshows, one for each phase of the wedding. I had to calculate the total length of the music for each of the 7 shows then trim the length and add a fade out in Audacity. It took me long time to do that. Thanks for your thoughts!

Xaver thanks for your great answer! Have a great week!

Xaver ; You mention a cross fade - what is that? Is it different than just having the music fade out at the end of the song? Thanks!

Lin; Thanks for your answer. I have Audacity installed on my machine but have never really tried to use it. I will look at it now as all I need to do is to make the song shorter and then add a fade out. Have great day!

I am using PTE Deluxe 5.5. When I make a slide show with many images I set the time interval for new slides to 5 second per slide. I do not check the box to auto spread the slides along music. I also have the Clsoe show aftger last slide checked because I don't want the last slide to remain on the screen until the music runs out. When the slide show ends before the music ends the music cuts off without any fade. Is there a way to make PTE fade the music out on the last slide? Thanks for your help!

Igor; I would like to say again that everything worked perfect with PTE 5.5. The problem started with 5.6. Answers to your questions: 1) My video card has 3 outputs. 2 outputs go to 2 monitors. The second monitor is used for my Photoshop palettes. The 3rd output is S-video connected to a 65 inch projection TV for presenting portrait images to my clients. When I am not using the TV the video card driver is set to switch the output connected to the second monitor to "extend desktop". When I use the TV for a client presentation the video card driver is set to switch the video output from the second monitor to the S-video connector to drive the big screen TV. 2) I am using Fullscreen screen mode 3) The presentation software is not downloadable. I would have to try to upload it to you if that would be possible. You would then have to add my registration code and I would have to tell you how to operate the software to the point of loading images and running the PTE 5.6 slideshow so you could actually see what is happening. I have this same problem when trying to run a PTE 5.6 slideshow from within the presentation software on a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine and also on a Windows XP Pro SP3 laptop so I don't think this is a machine problem. I did notice that the Project Options Screen tab in 5.6 is different than 5.5. Would the virtual size of slide setting make the slideshow run in the upper left corner of the screen instead of full screen? There is a preference in the presentation software which tells the software to simply run a PTE show if it recognizes a .exe file in the same folder with all of the individual images. The 5.6 slideshow runs perfect from Windows Explorer. There must be something in 5.6 that is not there is 5.5. I hope you have some thoughts. Thanks very much for your help!

Hello Igor; Sorry it has taken me a couple of days to reply. I am using Windows XP Pro SP3. I am a professional photographer in the US. My computer is connected to a 65 inch projection TV and I use a presentation software program to show portrait images to my clients so they can choose their poses and order their portraits. The presentation program has a special capability to recognize a PTE file by looking for the .exe file extension. I place the PTE file in the "image viewing" folder which contains the portraits. When I click on the "slide show" button which is part of the presentation program's splash screen the PTE slide show automatically starts and the slide show displays FULL screen. This has always worked properly until PTE 5.6. When I was using 5.5 the slide show would display FULL screen. When I use 5.6 the slide show does not display FULL screen but instead it displays about 75 percent of the screen and in the upper left corner of the monitor. I have attached two files. The file name PTE 5.5 shows the slide show playing FULL screen. The file name PTE 5.6 show the slide show playing less than FULL screen in the upper left corner of the monitor. When I play the 5.6 slide show from Windows Explorer and not from within the presentation software the slide show plays in FULL screen properly. The trouble appears when I play the 5.6 slide show in the presentation software. I have talked to the man who writes the presentation software and he told me his program just starts the exe slide show file and it should play FULL screen but it is not doing this. This is interesting to me because 5.5 works perfectly and runs in FULL screen in the presentation software but 5.6 does not. This would make me think the issue is something in 5.6. Do you have any thoughts. Thanks for your help. Have a super week!

I recently installed PTE 5.6 and I having an issue using it with another program. So I can try to figure out what the problem is I would like to download PTE version 5.5 and install the older version. Is PTE 5.5 still available for download? Thanks!

Ken - thanks for your information - I have already looked at the tutorials! Davegee - Thanks for your reply. I agree with you that for my application where I am photographing people full length, head and shoulders and close up that the pan and zoom may not be the best for me unless I tweak and adjust each image (typically about 60 per portrait session). The pan and zoom in the slideshow really makes a nice presentation though. Have a great week!

I am using PTE 5.5 Deluxe and I am a professional photographer. I use PTE to make slide shows to begin an appointment to show my clients their portrait images so they can choose their poses and order their portraits. I have been using Tom's Random Slide Show Generator version .1. I am unable to get version .4 or .5 to work. Tom's application works very well but many of the photographs have the person's head cut off when the panning and zooming occurs. I create many slide shows per week and I wish there was a better way to automate the creation of a pan and zoom slide show where the peoples heads wouldn't be cut off when the slide show runs. Does anyone have any thoughts and ideas? Thanks!

Bruce; I'll try what you are saying. Thanks for the info!

Ken and Brian; Thanks again for your help and for the links. I was able to figure out how to install the license key. It would be nice if the process was easier and less confusing like it was when I originally purchased PTE many years ago. Have a great week!

Ken, thanks very much for your fast response. I will follow your instructions. Have a great week!