Lin Evans

Hi Bob, Call up your Command Prompt (dot prompt) and navigate to the folder where your files are. Use this command: rename *.mod *. mpg then press Enter..... That should do it quickly Best regards, Lin

Hi Bob, Try renaming one of them with the dot mpg extension and see if PTE will recognize. I'm not "certain" but I "think" the MOD extension and the MPG extension are equivalent and you can add an MPG extension video to PTE... Best regards, Lin

Hi Gary, Yes, using 8.0.1 andI can't make it happen with my system running XP Home Edition which is why I believe it's a Windows issue rather than a PTE issue. On my other system with Windows 8.1 I can make it happen. This tells me that it's probably a Windows issue. It would be possible to resolve it with PTE changes, but it's not a PTE design flaw. Best regards, Lin

Hi Peter, I still believe this is a Windows issue. I can't make it happen with my Windows XP system. Best regards, Lin

Hi Gary, That's a Windows issue - not a PTE issue... Best regards, Lin

Hi Dave, There is one more option. While a little more expensive, if you shop around you can find an inexpensive web host where you have essentially unlimited bandwidth for downloads and unlimited storage space for a few dollars a month. You have the option of just using this server space as storage and/or building a website. I have a couple hundred gigabytes or more of shows, tutorials, images, etc., stored this way and have had such for over 14 years without an issue. Just provide a link for those who wish to download your files and there is never an advertisement or potential for clicking the wrong thing. I use One and One - link below. Just another option.... Link to One and One Hosting Lin

Hi Gary, Try removing the video and replacing it with a still image, change the aspect ratio then without removing the new image, insert the video and save the file. Re-open the file and delete the jpg and see what happens. Best regards, Lin

I think a clue might be that the aspect ratio reveals "Custom" which is not a choice. What did you put in the show in the way of files? Was the first slide a custom video by any chance? Best regards, Lin

Hi Ron, Looks fine .... I like the old steam vehicle .... The zoom was smooth and the images of the cars excellent. As long as you don't have any complex animation I think you could use either 720p or 1080p and would get good results with either. It's when you get some complex animations which seem to break down with 1080p - at least that's been my experience. Best regards, Lin

Nice job Charlie! Bests regards, Lin

Hi Ron, Just take the PTE defaults and you can publish to YouTube at full HD 1920x1080. Keep in mind, however, that many 1080p Youtube presentations do not play as smoothly as one might like. This is likely due to download issues and not system resources. After upgrading my computer to absolutely top-end specs, I find that most of my HD YouTube uploads still do not play anywhere nearly as smoothly as the MP4's on the system directly. I get better results with 720p than with 1080p myself. Best regards, Lin

Thanks Geoff, I'll look into that - sounds like the way to go for me. Old habits die hard and I "hate" learning a new OS.... Best regards, Lin

It's working out really well Judy. The system has all the power I need to do any conceivable animation and run it at 2560x1600. I just put a set of Klipsch Promedia 2.1 THX certified speakers on and I think my neighbors will probably call the police if I'm not careful - LOL. The sub-woofer will blow everything off my desk if I crank up the bass even half way. I put a 900 watt 1500 Joule battery backup on which gives me a full hour of battery backup in case of power failure. I really like the 30" display because I can actually "read" normal text. High resolution text in 12 point size on a smaller display is so tiny I can hardly make it out, but on the 30" display it's quite legible even at 2560x1600 resolution. I couldn't read text on my 21" CRT at 1600x1200 so I did most of my work at 1024x768 - not a problem with this big 30. Now I just have to save enough to buy Photoshop CS6 Extended for it and I'll be ready to work in PTE on it instead of my older system. I'm keeping it pretty lean and not putting too much in the way of surplus software on it. The C: drive partition is pretty small so I won't tax it Best regards, Lin

Hi Mick, A little more on the aspect ratio - in retrospect, the primary reason I've been using 4:3 is that I can cover my 5:4 aspect ratio display completely with the 4:3 plus a 112 percent zoom. There are still quite a few of my old clients using higher resolution (1600x1200 and higher) CRT displays which are 5:4 aspect ratio and a number of them with 4:3 displays. The new 16:9 is taking over the mid-range and HD resolution displays, but the top-end resolution right now is in 30 inch displays and they are nearly all 16:10 aspect ratio at 2560x1600. Seems it's not possible to make a single show which will suit all expectations.... I think 3:2 works best for me on the 16:10 because there is only about an inch of black on either side horizontally and the vertical aspect is filled. Best regards, Lin

LOL - it's not "your eyes" which are failing, I think it's mine!!!. I simply didn't see 3:2 so used 4:3 instead. I'll have to play with 3:2 and see what it looks like on the 16:10 display!!! Thanks for pointing that out! Best regards, Lin

Hi Barry, Unfortunately, an SSD wasn't an option so I would have to add it later, but the boot up on the small partition on the 7200 rpm drive is very fast compared to my old Win XP system. I'm still sorting out Windows 8.1 and trying to learn the easy ways to get it set up in some logical fashion. I found that it does indeed have a dos prompt so I'm happy about that! It takes me about 45 seconds including entering my password to get full boot so not as fast as the SSD but still within reason. Best regards, Lin

Hi Dave, I did indeed - that's Tommy on the guitar but I don't know who else is playing with him. Best regards, LIn

Hi Mick, The cameras actually are 3:2 but the closest thing PTE has to that is 4:3 so images from my cameras must generally go to 112% to fill the screen on a 4:3 aspect ratio show and display. If I tried to crop the images I used in that show to fit a 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio, important subject matter would be lost. If you take a screen capture of one of the images from the show and then crop it to fill the 16:9 or even 16:10 aspect ratio, you will see what I mean. Best regards, Lin

Hi Ken, The cameras which I use don't have a wide format option so I probably won't do that. I primarily shoot to make prints and the problem is that there really are no commonly available frames for the wide format aspect ratio. It's too bad that serious cameras and the entertainment industry can't agree on a format. Actually, even with consumer cameras, the sensors are not wide format so when you choose a 16:9 format you are just cropping what the sensor actually captures and throwing away a part of your available resolution. If the entertainment industry and the camera industry ever concur on an aspect ratio format it would be nice. Best regards, Lin

Hi Tom, Thanks! It was a bit much for my XP system with my nVidia 8800GT card too. It stuttered a bit on the zoom, but was smooth as silk on the new system. There are quite a few large PNG files with all the snow and that tends to make things difficult for less than optimal systems. I'll have to look into trying to do a snow slide style. I connected a new speaker system on my new computer tonight and after hooking everything back up, my modem failed. The lights would come on for about one second then go out. I called Century Link (formerly Quest) where I have my DSL service and they suggested I buy a new one from BestBuy. I just finished configuring it for my two desktop systems and my notebook and got everything up and running once again. Hopefully this one will last longer than the old one! Best regards. P.S. I'm typing this on the new system and the text is running all the way across the 25 inches horizontal of the screen I'll have to look at it on the other system to see if it wraps... LOL

Thanks Jim, Glad the download worked this time! Best regards, Lin

Yep, that's what happens when you use 3:2 aspect ratio. Best regards, Lin

Hi Bert, Thanks! My cameras shoot in 3:2 aspect ratio so trying to squeeze the images into a wide format causes more trouble than it's worth for me because I compose using the full sensor and screen. In order to do that (wide aspect ratio), I would have to either use images I've purposely shot as less than optimal zoom and cropped (very few of my hundreds of thousands) or recent photos done specifically for wide aspect ratio. Even my new 30" display is 16:10 rather than 16:9. Best regards, Lin

First one with new system. I "really" love the 30" high resolution display. Amazing clarity and easy on the old eyes to see with strain. Link For PC - about 30 meg zipped exe Link For MacIntosh - about 30 meg zipped native mac exe 3.2 format for wide screen zipped Win Executable Lin

Hi Judy, So far it's great! I can sit back a bit further with my feet up and still see the display very easily. The 30" display is truly great for photos at 4 megapixel resolution. It's not retina display pixel density - only about 103 ppi, but very, very sharp. Best regards, Lin