Lin Evans

Hi Dave, Though I'm not familiar with the game of Cricket, I liked the action and the "out" looked "painful" - LOL.... Thanks for posting the show and welcome to the PTE forum! Best regards, Lin

Hi Tom, Looks great to me. As a former gymnast myself, I can say with some certainty that your grandson, Harvey, has a great future in gymnastics if he stays with it. He has exceptional balance and limberness for his age and this will eventually transfer to superior floor exercise and tumbling. Though there is a good deal less "help" from mats and the gym floor, he already shows great promise and that natural ability can be cultured with training. I'm assuming he is already in a program because the moves he exhibits are not typical for untrained youngsters. The capture was, with the exception of a bit of camera movement at the very early part of the video, very stable. It appears that PTE has done a fine job as have you for a first time use of video within the program. Best regards, Lin

Hi Igor, That's why I couldn't see them. I wasn't certain whether you had just done a fantastic job of combining the two or whether there were no stills!! The zooms and pans were perfect, something one rarely sees in videos! Very nice indeed! Best regads, Lin

Hi Igor, Beautiful expression of Spring! I had to watch it two times to see where the stills and video were combined - very smooth and the stability of the video (tripod I assume) was incredible so that the still images and video were perfectly compatible. Congratulations!! Best regards, Lin

Hi Jeff, Sorry, I didn't see your earlier post! Yes, in O&A where you adjust Image and Border you also have an Animation tab. In there you can set both the speed for the animated gif display as well as the option of setting the number of times it repeats. Best regards, Lin

Hi Dave, Typo - I think you meant "left click" on the newly created frame to select it then right click to paste .... Best regards, Lin

Hi Gayland, It's a bit confusing, but the "start" time is how far into the song the sound begins. What you want is to leave the start time at zero and set the "offset" to the amount of play time before sound starts. So set the offset to 54.4, leave the duration alone and the "start" to zero and you should be fine. Best regards, Lin

Hi Peter, Scroll up about seven or eight posts and you will find the template. Best regards, Lin

Hi Colin, I was fortunate to have a number of celebrities for clients in those days. The company I worked for had exclusive service contracts with businesses which supplied electronics and associated services to many of the Hollywood crowd. Some of my personal clients included Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, Lorne Greene, Jayne Mansfield, Hans Conried, Red Skelton, Roy Rogers, and Suzanne Pleshette to name a few. All were really nice people to me and very down to earth. Jayne was one of the most intelligent girls I've had the pleasure of meeting. In person, she was totally different than her public persona, a real sweetheart. Best regards, Lin

Hi Rick, Thanks - great times the 60's - and be sure to see Colin's show on the 50's for some great posters and pictures. Best regards, Lin

Hi Colin, Great stroll down memory lane indeed! When I saw the picture of Jayne Mansfield it brought back a flood of memories. Jayne was one of my customers when I was a technician for Nielsen & Neilson in Silverlake, California in the early 60's. I was at Jayne's home in January of 64 when she brought her last baby home (Mariska Hargitay) - I held diaper pins for her while she changed diapers - LOL. Jayne and Mickey Hargitay had recently divorced and she was living with her two boys and thirteen year old daughter in the big pink house on Sunset Blvd. You have some incredible pictures from the 50's in that collection for sure. Those were great times - thanks for the memories! Best regards, Lin

Hi Dave, Yes, there's lots to "digest" when getting into non-square constructions - sometimes one gets surprised even when they "think" they have it figured out - LOL. Experimenting make one even more appreciate the things that JPD was able to accomplish with PTE. I wish I had a tenth of his ability to project a thought and create a concrete representational pattern of the idea. The ability to see multi-dimensional seems to be a gift few are fortunate enough to possess. The rendering was just a thought for some possible variations for your template. That one I created in Photoshop, but I think there are a number of them which can be freely downloaded and used to dress up the possible "skins" for some sophisticated frames. Best regards, Lin

Hi Tom, Thanks! Yep, I ran a separate MP3 for the audio - it was just too much trouble to try to sync it to both the videos so I opted to sync to the still sequences - the audio on the Statler Brothers video wasn't all that clean anyway and lots of crowd noise too. I could have muted and tried to sync the video to the audio by delaying the start or using offset on the video, but then the whole sequence would not have been as clean so I just let that video run muted.... I suppose I could have taken more time to fine tune it, but it was just a fun quickie on a lark.... Best regards, Lin

Yep, just messing around sometimes can be great therapy... The cereal wasn't too bad either, I ate it dry while I was making the box - LOL. L

Hey Roger, Those were the days! Nothing like the 60's and 70's for fun - wish I could get a do-over and live through them again (well, "most" of them - 67, 68 and 69 were no fun for me)... L

LOL - got to have it to complete the "bad boy biker" outfit... L

Hey Davy, Yep - ghostly quiet - LOL. That's my "bad boy" biker alter ego - My daughter didn't even recognize me when I posted the pix on Facebook - Sturgis is a crazy week. Last time my wife, Sherry and I were there we didn't have our bike and felt like we were in a zoo, only we were behind the bars. Sherry came from a biker family and was practically raised on the back of a bike as a kid. I've been riding since I was about 15 - used to race in the old days. When my daughter (now 43 years young) was a little tyke, I used to take her out on one of my dirt bikes and do jumps, hill climbs, etc. She would sit on the tank in front of me and hold on to the cross-bar support between the handle bars from the time she was about three years old. She absolutely loved motorcycles. These days it's just me and the highway, but hey, maybe I'll meet a friendly biker babe in Sturgis - after all there will be around 300,000 or more there so the probabilities are favorable - HA! Best regards, Lin

Hi Dave, Cool !! Check your messages... Lin

Nice one Davy, Burning man is a great gathering, but terribly dusty and dry. Sturgis, South Dakota is a sleepy little town in the Black Hills with a permanent population of about six thousand. Between August 3 and August 9 the population will swell with bikers to well over 600,000 and could be as high this year as 800,000. The population of the entire state is less than 700,000 - LOL. I'll try to take lots of pictures and maybe put up a slideshow in August if everything goes well. Best regards, Lin

Hi Sheila, Most enjoyable and very well presented! It's a shame you never had the chance to participate with your little white ribbons and sporty outfit as a child.... It looks like great fun was had by all and a really nice sense of community - something rare today in the hectic world we live in. Thank you for sharing this with us!! Best regards, Lin

Just playing folks.... http://www.learntomakeslideshows.net/demo/statbrothers.zip (about 22 meg) Lin

Hi Eric, Ideally, you must use 64 bit drivers for peripheral devices with Windows 7 - 64bit. There are probably 64 bit drivers available for your printer. Best regards, Lin

Hi Dave, No trickery is good!! Whatever it takes to "get er done" is what's important. There are usually several ways to "skin the cat," and for me that's what makes PTE so interesting. Best regards, Lin

LOL - I need that for Sturgis, don't I ???? Lin

Hey Ken, LOL - dang, if I had known we were competing, I would have replaced the landscape with a naked lady and labeled the demo "R" rated - HA! Best regards, Lin