Lin Evans

Hi Davy, Thanks! She is also a talented writer and accomplished dancer - now if I can teach her PTE she will be the "compete" woman - LOL. Lisah is really a great lady. He art career is finally beginning to blossom and hopefully she will soon be recognized for the truly great talent she has. Best regards, Lin

A slideshow I just did for my lady friend Lisah. It spans the years from 1980 through present and features Lisah, her art and her voice.... Nothing fancy - no animation - simple fades between images.... http://www.lin-evans.org/lisah/art.zip (about 29 meg zipped Windows exe) http://www.lin-evans...isah/artmac.zip (about 29 meg native MacIntosh executable) http://www.lin-evans.org/lisah/index.htm (web video version) Lin

Hi Eric, If your Olympus recorder is tough on batteries, then rechargeable batteries are much less expensive. I use a 15 minute rechargeable which works very well for some of my Sigma cameras which take eight AA batteries. It would cost me hundreds of pounds a year if I used anything else. Good rechargeable batteries will take as many as 1,000 recharges and they really don't cost that much more than standard batteries. You can even recharge them from the 12 volt accessory plug in your vehicle while you are on the road..... Best regards, Lin

Hi Davy, I think some audio control of the audio stream within a video is on the table for planning for the next version of PTE - maybe it's already been done but we will have to wait for 7.5 to see. Audio improvements are a big part of 7.5 as I understand. Best regards, Lin

Hi Boogie, I bought it at Walmart so I don't know if there is a distributor in the U.K. or not. This is the same unit, except mine has a 4 gig rather than an 8 gig capacity and was $34.95 rather than $44.95 USD. The picture is with the Menu Display shown where I had a jpg displayed on mine. http://www.adorama.c...m_source=pgrabl Best regards, Lin

Hi Peter, Click on the little icon (with the dots) to the far right of the file name and that will bring up the file name in a window where you can rename your file. Best regards, Lin

I bought a little RCA MP3 player yesterday so I can play MP3's in my Toy Hauler/travel trailer through the aux inputs on my built-in radio/cd player. Since the player in my RV doesn't play mp3 from a CD like my old one did, I can hook up the output of the player which normally go to the earphone buds to the input on the RV unit and it works great! Interestingly, this little player has an FM radio complete with "recorder" and also can play videos which are converted by the included software. You get a little mini-USB to charge the battery and connect the unit to download music, audio books, video, etc. It's a pretty sophisticated little device and cost me less than $40. It has a 4 gigabyte capacity and I found I could output my slideshows from PTE, run them through the "converter" and provided RCA EasyRip software and they play great on the little player.... 3.5 inches long, 2 inches wide by 3/8ths inch thick. Lin

Hi Brian, The only problem I have with understanding the issue he is having is that when he puts his D7000 original MOV in PTE it plays jerky on his two systems. When David played SG's MOV on David's system it played perfectly. When I put my original D7000 MOV's in PTE they play perfectly smoothly and likewise for several others who are using D7000 videos. Assuming SG has the same software as everyone else from Nikon including any necessary codecs, etc., doesn't this then indicate some difference in "hardware" between his system and others? This is not to say that there could not be a "software" conversion "solution," but that the actual problem he is having playing the original MOV file smoothly on his two systems is likely hardware based? Best regards, Lin

Hi Brian, The only problem I have with understanding the issue he is having is that when he puts his D7000 original MOV in PTE it plays jerky on his two systems. When David played SG's MOV on David's system it played perfectly. When I put my original D7000 MOV in PTE it plays perfectly smooth and likewise for several others who are using D7000 videos. Assuming SG has the same software as everyone else from Nikon including any necessary codecs, etc., doesn't this then indicate some difference in "hardware" between his system and others? Best regards, Lin

Hi Gary, You're confusing apples and oranges. What you are looking at are two separate programs - one is Objects and Animations and the other is the Slide View. Even though you can "see" both of them if you play with a windowed view, they are not related by program. They are entirely separate entities. What you are seeing on your screen are entirely different code segments which are not connected. This can be done with numerous programs, but like PTE, you can't have separate windows running and expect one to affect the other - as Stu said, the program isn't written that way. It's as if you had PTE and Microsoft Word both visible simultaneously, but changing something in one has nothing to do with the other. There is no slide view in Objects and Animations. Best regards, Lin

Hi Gary, Your images show the O&A screen as an overlay on the Slide View. I'm totally confused as to what the issue is I'm afraid.... Best regards, Lin The O&A screen should look like this - there is no "slide list" on my system in the O&A screen....

Hi Gary, You've got me scratching my head. How do you advance from image to image in O&A in the "Slide View?" To my knowledge, there is no "Slide View" in the Objects and Animations screen. Do you mean when you are advancing from image to image in the Slide View rather than in Objects and Animations? Best regards, Lin

LOL - Davy, They have a special room reserved for you and me - it has rubber walls and people look in through a tiny window every so often to make sure we have not "slipped" our bonds and run amuck! Loved it! It speaks to me! Best regards, Lin

Hi SG, The video card is likely at least part of the problem. If you go here: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/ Click on the "Search For Your Video Card" and type in "6530D" you will find that it ranks 258th with a G3D rating of 540. A decent video card today will have a G3D rating of probably better than 1400 and the top one is 3958 so probably investing in a new video card would definitely help. Laptops are generally worse than desktops and one has to be careful when choosing a laptop to get one with a good video card as well as good CPU and RAM performance. On your desktop, before you do anything, check and see if you have an open slot to plug in a video card (yours "could" be built into the motherboard) and also that you have available power cables from the power supply. I had to buy a new power supply for my Dell Inspiron 530 because it had no available power - all leads were used. I put a micro quiet 750W power supply in (had to shoehorn it into the case) and the new video card (this was about four years or more ago) and it made all the difference in the world for animation smoothness and video. Best regards, Lin

Hi, I too have the Nikon D7000 and my videos run glass smooth in PTE regardless of resolution. I'm wondering if perhaps there may be some issue with drivers or possibly video card. I'm running Win XP with 4 gig RAM and an older nVidia 8800 GT with 512 meg RAM. Best regards, Lin

Hi Igor, There is no need to apologize for the camera - those are beautiful images in every way! What a wonderful place to visit, so serene and peaceful. Thank you for sharing your experience with us and thank Robert and Maureen for showing you one of the most beautiful places in the U.K. Best regards, Lin

Hi David, VideoPad Video Editor (free version) allows rudimentary audio editing. You can fade-in, fade-out, mute and adjust volume on audio tracks with it. I primarily use it to do fades.... Best regards, Lin

Hallo Karl, Die Mediafire Download funktioniert nicht für mich. Erstens, bitte entschuldigen Sie meine Google Übersetzen - ich spreche kein Deutsch. Ich sah Ihre Präsentation auf Vimeo. Ich glaube nicht, dass ich richtig verstanden habe den Punkt Ihrer Präsentation. Ich konnte keine Informationen im Internet über Karlus, Vorhersagen und 1551. Es scheint jedoch, dass Sie eine sehr schöne Aufgabe mit dem Entfernen von Objekten und Personen aus Szenen und ersetzt sie getan. Es scheint jedoch, dass die Größe der ausführbaren größer als erforderlich ist. Vielleicht ist die Morphing braucht viel mehr Dateigröße als erwartet? Willkommen auf der PTE-Foren und hoffentlich kann einer unserer deutschen Muttersprachlern als Vermittler zu helfen mir zu verstehen, die Präsentation besser zu handeln. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Lin

Hi Gary, This also might help you understand the 29.97 versus 30 numbers being bantered about: " About Drop Frame and Non-Drop Frame Timecode NTSC video (black-and-white) originally had a frame rate of 30 fps, so the timecode counted at 30 fps. However, NTSC color video (the only kind of NTSC video in use today), has a frame rate of 29.97 fps. This subtle difference between 30 fps and 29.97 fps seems practically negligible and, in many cases, ignoring this discrepancy is fine. But not always. What editors needed, especially in expensive broadcast markets, was timecode that accurately reflected the exact duration of a program on tape. There are two types of 30 fps timecode for use with NTSC video: non-drop frame and drop frame. Non-drop frame timecode is simple: for every frame of video, there is a corresponding timecode number. The timecode increments without any compensation. In almost all cases, timecode is non-drop frame. In fact, drop frame timecode only matters in the case of NTSC video. Drop frame timecode compensates for the fact that the NTSC format has a frame rate of 29.97 fps, which is .03 fps slower than the nearest whole number frame rate of 30 fps. Timecode can only be represented by whole numbers, so timecode numbers are periodically skipped in drop frame timecode. This way, the timecode number always matches the seconds and minutes of video that have played. NTSC can use either drop frame or non-drop frame timecode. Important: No video frames are dropped when you use drop frame timecode. Only the associated timecode numbers are skipped. You can think of drop frame timecode as being like leap years on the calendar. In the case of leap years, an extra day is added every 4 years except when the year is divisible by 400. This compensates for the fact that the way days are measured and the way years are measured do not align exactly. Even though the difference is slight, an unacceptable error accumulates over time unless regular adjustments are made to the count. More About Drop Frame Timecode and the NTSC Frame Rate NTSC video has a frame rate of 29.97 fps, but the timecode counts at 30 fps. To better understand this subtle distinction, remember that the main purpose of timecode is to uniquely label and address each video frame, not to tell time (another name for timecode is address code). Consider what it would be like if frames were labeled a different way, without any reference to time. For example, if each frame had a unique address coded with five letters of the alphabet, starting at AAAAA, AAAAB, AAAAC, and so on until ZZZZZ, editors would refer to shots and scenes by their individual five-letter codes. A director requesting a particular shot could look in the log notes and tell the editor to find frame ABAAA on a particular tape. On tape or disk, each frame lasts 1/29.97 of a second. Since there is an address affixed to each frame, the timecode moves at the same rate as the video (29.97 fps). Now, instead of using a five-letter code to uniquely tag each frame, consider using an address code in the format 00:00:00:00. Remember that these numbers don’t reflect time; they are simply unique identifiers. The first frame of NTSC video is labeled 00:00:00:00. The 29th frame is labeled 00:00:00:29, and the 30th frame is labeled 00:00:01:00. Again, just because a frame is labeled 00:00:01:00 does not mean that 1 second has passed. The frame could just as easily have been named AAABD, in which case there would be no temptation to read the label as a time value. Only the frame rate of the video can determine how much time has passed by the 30th frame. In the case of NTSC video, 0.999 seconds have passed by frame 30. By frame 1800, 60.06 seconds have passed." Best regards, LIn

Hi Gary, The only one I'm certain of is 30 fps is actually 29.97 fps. "Probably" the others are likewise, but I can't say from experience because I only use 30 and 60 myself. I'm far from an expert on video and I tend to stick with what I find to work well. Best regards, Lin

Hi Tom, It snowed here yesterday, but it didn't stick long - hopefully better weather coming soon - I'm headed for New Mexico for a week on the 11th so hopefully it will clear up. It was almost 90 a couple days ago, then snow and cloudy and cold. I hear from a friend in the San Francisco area that they have had rain too so it must be up and down the coast.... Best regards, Lin

Hey Ken, Thanks! LOL - probably - I didn't hear it when the cabin started smoking! Lin

Hi Guys, An "expressed" frame rate of 30 fps is "actually" 29.97 fps. The number "30" is commonly used for convenience. Lin

A little Rodney Crowell tune and fun animation.... Starts with fireplace then sequentially we light the candle to the right of the fireplace on the hearth, the candle on the far left (as viewer sees the mantle) of the mantle. The candles to the right and then we back up and light a fire in the little cabin so smoke can come out of the chimney. A slow pan both ways lets the audience see Colorado snow out the windows of the cabin's room and the television is turned on for Frosty The Snowman. After Frosty finishes, the tv is turned off and we end with a little animated text ad for PicturesToExe and PanosFX. http://www.lin-evans...smaproject2.zip (zipped Windows exe) about 24 meg http://www.lin-evans.org/sample/plasmaproject2mac.zip (zipped MacIntosh native exe) about 24 meg Lin

Hi guys, One of the things which you will eventually run into is the need to "stabilize" your videos. Though there are numerous software "solutions" out there for that purpose, Adobe After Effects has, by far, the finest way of doing it. It's called "warp." Of course After Effects is over $1,000.00 U.S. and beyond my means, but they do "rent" the software for about $40 per month. I have a friend who does videos on the west coast (San Francisco area) and he does them that way. He simply saves his work which needs stabilizing (walking around hand -held shots or not too smooth head on tripod, etc) then when he has a dozen or so, he rents After Effects and does the stabilization. Also there is a 30 day free trial available. After Effects will not work with any Windows OS less than Vista, so we old XP folk are out of luck. Best regards, Lin