mandarinfish

Hmmm, I think something more fundamental is wrong with my setup. Other functions, such as start preview from slide, also don't seem to work for me. When I have the timeline up, and I select a slide, the preview button goes from grayed out to normal, but when I click on it, nothing happens. Also, right-click doesn't seem to get me anything with the slides. I'm running XP. Any ideas? thanks...

Just wondering if the auto hide mouse function is supposed to be fully functional? It doesn't seem to work for me. I have it autohide after 3 seconds. The cursor shows for 3 seconds and then hides (whether I'm moving it around or not), and I cannot get it to reappear. Maybe I'll try this on another machine with a different type of mouse; the one I'm using is an optical USB mouse.

Quicktime works fine for still image slideshows. Liveslideshow generates Quicktime movies, and there is some capability built into the latest Quicktime Pro for still shows. You don't need a frame rate of 29 fps to display stills. You can get by with as few as 7 fps, even with the transitions. Also, not all of those frames need to be key frames, and if you have a decent codec, the bitrate is not that bad. I've done some slideshows in Flash movies with a very low frame rate, and it was fine. The size of the movie was smaller than my PTE executables, but the problem I had with Flash was that the audio wasn't smooth (Flash just isn't designed for it). I've only been trying the demo version of Liveslideshow, which only allows 5 images, but for those 5 images (approx 800x600 not highly compressed), running nearly a minute, with transitions, the size of the QT movie was only 517kbytes (no audio added yet). And it looks fine.

I'm very interested in this information as well. I would like to create slideshows that folks on Macs can enjoy. I've even looked at LiveSlideshow which creates Quicktime slideshows, but the interface is so clunky compared to PicturesToExe. I wish there were a way to create Quicktime movies from PicturesToExe; that would be perfect. It would be nice to have a solution which doesn't require the viewer to have virtualpc, but if I know that works well, I could at least recommend it.