Lin Evans

Hi Dom, Thanks for watching! Actually, it was done for my daughter who loves rodeo and competes in rodeo barrel racing so really not intended for a general audience which is why I warned "only for die-hard rodeo fans". That's why I didn't just put a few selections in a short slideshow. Best regards, Lin

It seems like this works except for the difficulties in coordinating your reaction time. I know of no way you can synchronize a single keystroke with both programs. Since you can precisely begin your sound and place it where you wish with the timeline in PTE I'm not cetain of the advantage of doing it this other way over looking at the precise nature of knowing to the fraction of a second where you are beginning and ending your sound. It seems like your method allows reasonably precise positioning of perhaps voice-overs into a single sound track with the background sound/music using Audacity, so in that way may be somewhat quicker than using individual slide "sound comment" or "customize this slide" in PTE, but I guess it's easier to get your timings for voice-over, etc., within a time frame of a single slide this way. Best regards, Lin

Hi MC, Yes, that's correct - your upgrade from 4.48 is free if you own an earlier version of PTE and you can purchase Video Builder separately for the difference in price between the deluxe and regular versions. Lin

Hi Gary, Here's a sample - quick and dirty....

Hi Gary, Video Builder is a purchased video "library" so perhaps there are some things which are not so easy to do as with one's own code. I don't know enough about the details of how it's incorporated to really give you a good answer. Developers often use what are called "libraries" which are code segments written by specialists in certain areas. These libraries are seamlessly integrated into a product and though modification and additions "may" be possible to some extent, it's not as easy as making changes to your own basic code so there may be technical reasons why this is more difficult than it may seem to implement. You have the ability to add as many as 99 different PTE projects (avi files, etc.) to a single DVD. To place more than one on your DVD you simply drag them down from the large (upper right) window into the smaller long horizontal window below. By creating a couple one page PTE "do nothing" files you could drag them down and include them with the file you wish to use for your DVD. For example. Create a PTE file with a single image just displayed for four seconds and save it. Create another perhaps identical with a different name and save it. What you then have will end up as two tiny files which if converted to DVD would just result in a four second display of a single image on a DVD. Drag down your main PTE show then drag down the two "dummy" shows. First move the two dummy shows thumbnail to an obscure location such as the far upper right corner. Set the display size to something like one pixel and the display to zero opacity for each. Use the little text which says 2 filename 3 filename for additional text lines with each having its own font and color and change the "2 filename," etc., to whatever you want for additional text. As long as the user doesn't click on the text (and they would have no good reason to do so) they would just serve as additional text lines saying whatever you wish. The arrow button then could be moved under the thumbnail to start and run the show you intend to the viewer to use. Yes, it's a bit "cludge" but a viable temporary "work around" until a better solution is found. Best regards, Lin

Hi Gary, You can have as many lines as you wish and up to two fonts by doing as you have now discovered (pressing ENTER after the first line) but also using the text which appears under the thumbnail image as your second font choice. This text may be moved anywhere, sized as you wished and fonts, colors, etc., selected independently of the main "text". The "button" is all you really need to run the show so put it under the thumbnail, etc. You could also "cheat" a little by adding a couple tiny avi files which do essentially nothing, setting the attribute for their images to zero opacity, moving the images off to a corner and resizing to a single pizel or so then modify their text (2 show 2 - 3 show three, etc.) to use a yet more text each with a different color and size. Obviously this isn't as "elegant" as having the features you want but it will "work" until those feature may someday be added. Best regards, Lin

That's the down side of any good image/file recovery system - it works against the protection formerly provided by executable files, but truthfully, there never really has been true protection from a dedicated thief. The only real protection is to limit the resolution of the images used in the original and, of course, that defeats the main strength of a PTE show. We must simply accept the fact that anything we put out there for public consumption is going to be vulnerable to theft. The best we can hope for is to keep the honest people honest and to not get too upset when we find our images stolen. It's happened to all of us who make our livings in photography and long ago I learned to stop fretting over things I can't control. Best regards, Lin

Hi Caperucita, Actually it has been very productive. The false positive has been identified, the developer is now aware of it and will advise AVG so you have done a favor for both the developer and for the PTE forum users. You have pointed us to a good solution for recovering images and music when we have the executable but have lost the images or music. Not bad work for your second post! Best regards, Lin

Hi Marian, Actually, it's not the same. Yes, a CTRL Print SCR can be used as can any good screen capture tool to capture anything shown on the screen but it only captures the screen resolution and not the original file. This program extracts the original as it is embedded in the EXE file. It can also extract your MP3 and a host of other formats so it is actually a very useful program. Best regards, Lin

Hi Caperucita, You have no reason to feel like that. You did not provide a link to the software you simply suggested it. You are not the author or distributor of the software so any responsibility for a trojan being in the code or not is that of the distributor. You should not be offended by a warning because of a positive or false positive and even if the threat turned out to be real this is no reflection on you. There have been warnings in big red letters just like this one for some of our own slideshow executables made with PTE when AVG and other software returned false positives after checking them. This is nothing new here, it's been going on for several years. We must take computer virus warnings very seriously. Some virus infections have been so bad that it's not been possible to remove them from the computer requiring a complete hard drive re-format so we take potential trojan and virus warnings very seriously. The large red letters simply alert users to the possibility that a threat exists and no one blames anyone because they suggest a software which might be infected. Do not let this experience affect the way you feel about this forum or the people here who appreciate your efforts to provide a solution for a problem. But do not be surprised when virus or trojan infestations are reported in large red letters because we owe it to the forum users to warn them whether the software is our own or from some other source. Best regards, Lin

And your point? As I said earlier, it does little good to announce a potentially dangeous threat if people do not see it. You are complaining about something which is unimportant. The point of the large red letters was to make people aware. If you don't believe that making people aware of a potentially dangerous threat is important then you obviously have never had a bad experience from a virus or trojan infection on your own computer. You are a new poster on this forum and your second post was to suggest a software. When this software trial was downloaded my AVG 8 anti-threat software revealed a trojan infection. I have a responsibility to let people here know about that potential threat and the best way to do that is to be certain that the message is noticed and the best way to do this is exactly as AVG does, with large red letters. If you find that offensive then I'm sorry for that, but I will not apologize for using large red letters to reveal a potentially dangerous software. Best regards, Lin

If that means I want to be certain that the message was noticed then I'm proud to be an "alarmist". It does little good to announce a potentially dangerous threat from a download if people don't see it does it?? We appreciate the information, and I understand that English isn't your native tongue which is why I mentioned that you probably meant "unlock code". Best regards, Lin

I just received this reply from the MultiExtractor developer: I suggested that he contact AVG to report the false positive.....

Hi Peter, AVG 8 reports the indicated trojan on the identical download. It didn't report while the download was in process but does report the trojan when I run it on the downladed exe file. I could be a false positive because that has happened with AVG in the past with PTE executables. Best regards, Lin

Hi Caperucitaroja, I'm not sure what an "alarmist" is, but I have a responsibility to report what I find. I always run new executable code through my virus detection software before installing it - I think it's only prudent to do that. Perhaps you have never lost hours or days of productivity because of virus or trojan infections, but I have, and since my living depends on my computer systems perhaps I am cautious for good reasons. It could turn out to be a false positive - I have advised the developer of the program of my findings and I'm certain that he will test it for himself and if it is indeed a false positive then he can contact AVG and get it cleared up. Meanwhile, it is up to any person who downloads to determine whether or not to try the software but it's important for awareness that the potential for a destructive trojan infection exists. I would hope that if I recommend a software that any user finding a positive for infection reports it in the same way. I'm a little concerned about your comment: "crack not included" Why would one expect a "crack" for a software program? A "crack" is an illegal theft of intellectual property. This software sells for as little as $2 for a single purpose extract. For PTE most would only use jpg, png and prehaps gif retrieval unless they wanted to extract their music so why would anyone want to "steal" this code from the developer? People here are not thieves and they expect to pay for their software not steal it. Perhaps you mean "unlock code" and improperly used the term "crack?" Best regards, Lin me='caperucitaroja' post='55220' date='Jul 30 2008, 03:55 PM'] Lin Evans you are an alarmist. It is right, but I think this is a false positive. Here a link to Multiestractor 2.72c Crack not included. http://www.mediafire.com/?mmimot1ty1s There is not any virus or troyans. I scaned with AVG 8 and with ZoneAlarm Security Suite. Caperucitaroja

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Hi Bart, It's not quite working correctly yet. I tried to log in and the site wouldn't accept my password so I gave my email address and was sent another. It wouldn't accept the cut and past from the new password either so some bug still remains. Best regards, Lin

Hi Ralph, Thanks for looking! It's a fun time for all in Cheyenne for Frontier Days and lots of fun to watch and shoot. Best regards, Lin

Hi Tony, Thanks for watching! Hope you get time to see the entire show. Best regards, Lin

Hey Ken, Wow! I can't believe anyone actually downloaded 1.09 gigabytes! It was done for my daughter, son-in-law and grand kids but I thought perhaps some might find it interesting - especially rodeo fans so I uploaded it to my site. Thanks for the feedback! Best regards, Lin

Hi Dom, Beautiful captures and beautifully presented! Best regards, Lin

Hi Mark, You've captured the essence of Yellowstone in winter beautifully! Best regards, Lin

Hi Steve, You're absolutely right. I should have explained that the "perception" part comes from "perspective correction." The "perspective zoom" when zooming out starts fast and slows and when zooming in starts slow then speeds up near the end of the zoom. The "perception" of a linear zoom is that when zooming out, as an object gets smaller it appears to accelerating in zoom out even though the actual rate of change is linear. As an object grows larger and closer it "appears" to be moving toward the observer more slowly even though it really is changing size at a linear rate. So the "perspective" zoom "corrects" for our perspective by reversing this process. At least that's the way it appears to the human eye in most cases. Best regards, Lin

"IF" you have a fast broadband and "IF" you love rodeo, this is a tome! I had the pleasure of shooting one of the fine rodeos at Cheyenne Wyoming last week. Rodeo is a way of life for some here in the western U.S. - when I was young I loved the sport and still have some scars and mended broken bones from my follies of youth. These days I'm content to feed my 31 year old quarter horse and we both prefer to "watch" the kids participate in the "Grand Daddy of Them All" at Cheyenne. No frills, no zooms, pans or rotates, just 62 minutes of pure western sport with about six seconds per frame and some great rodeo music by the late, great rodeo cowboy and singer Chris LeDoux and the pride of Canada and former rodeo cowboy Ian Tyson and his former wife Sylvia Fricker. Not for the faint of heart - and contrary to my normal shows and against my own advice, a huge hour-long tome but worth it if you are a rodeo fan. Note 7/29/08: reworked resampling algorithm to reduce size to ~730 meg on same link: http://www.lin-evans.net/cheyenne/Cheyenne.zip (730 meg download) Best regards, Lin

How are you displaying the images on the TV? If you are using a DVD player check the settings. If you are using cables from the computer which type are you using? The aspect ratio is correct from the output of PTE as are the number of pixels so the issues are either in settings or cables in the device which feeds your television. The only thing which could upset the output is if you are not using "Original" mode. Fit to slide or Cover slide will not give you the correct output for the television so be sure you are using "Original" mode. This won't look correct on the computer unless you have a 16:9 display device. Computer wide screens are usually 16:10 aspect ratio. Also read this: http://www.cnet.com/4520-7874_1-5140690-4.html Best regards, Lin