rayhopper2

It's not that hidden actually as it's a Tip of the Day ! OTOH I hadn't really taken in that PSG produces exe files. Thanks once again to all those who've contributed to this thread. RayUK

Many thanks for your response (and Lin and Ron) and your welcome. 1. I obviously did not make my Q about multiple slides clear. Pro Show Gold, eg, allows you to, say, zoom in 30% and then pan, and then apply this movement to the next n slides. This is very useful if you want to make a very quick slideshow. I'm still not clear from your various replies if PTE 5 can do this. 3. I have a newish 37in Panasonic Plasma with a 15-pin PC-in socket and a channel set-up for PC monitoring (although I've never used this facility). Unfortunately, poking around my laptop this afternoon, I find it only has an S-video TV output port. Lin - the whole point of my question was to avoid the tedium and instabilityof DVD rendering. I'll be spending the next few days studying some of the demos. Thanks again RayUK

Hi all Have just purchased PTE and beginning to explore version 5 and this excellent forum - (although some of it's a bit over my head at the moment). I've been using Pro Show Gold for making slideshows but as they increase in size I find the rendering time excrutiating, the transitions and movements a bit wobbly and DVD production sometimes unstable, so the idea of an exe file that needs no rendering and produces smooth transitions is very appealing. I have a no. of queries, which I can't answer with a quick search. 1.Can v.5 apply pan + zoom to multiple slides ? 2. Is it possible to have 2 audio tracks - I want to add some background music to dialogue/commentary.Also is the audio track volume contollable ? 3. Any suggestions for displaying exe files on a large screen TV - presumably I can use my laptop as a source - any other suggestions ? 4. Is it possible to repeat a slide sequence or do something else in order to match precisely to an audio track. Sorry if these queries have been asked/answered before - please point me in the right direction. RayUK