Lin Evans

Hi Bert, Take the one with 320 kbps into Audacity and export it with the default, change the name and replace the one in your show with it. Export the MacIntosh native exe again as a zip file and I'll "bet" that it will all be fine... Best regards, Lin

Hi Frank, I would be inclined to change my antivirus software to perhaps Microsoft's Security Essentials which actually is very good but doesn't get in your way... Best regards, Lin

Whatever was causing the problem the first time you tried to upload manually may have been causing the same problem when you tried to upload via PTE. What I would do is to make a very small video - maybe just a couple slides and a very small video clip and try to upload that via PTE. If that works you can delete it from Facebook and assume that the problem was not with PTE. There really have not been any upload issues with Facebook discussed, so my first guess would be that it may just be a web issue. If a very small test video doesn't upload then we can look further. Best regards, Lin

You didn't mention the "size" of the project as a video. Facebook has a limit of 20 minutes and 1024 megabytes for video. Does your video exceed a gigabyte in size? If you are within these limits, try uploading it manually and see if that works.... Best regards, Lin

Hi Jim, Thanks! Excellent and informative! The narration was concise and the overall experience was rather like being there! It's very helpful for anyone planning an African trip to understand the differences in topography, photo opportunities, accommodations, means of travel, etc., in the various locations. Very well presented. Best regards, Lin

Hi John, You would have had a good laugh at my pronunciation of places in the U.K. on my first visit! It's always difficult because even "correct" pronunciations are often violated at local levels on a frequent basis. Here in Colorado, Spanish words for even the names of major cities are often wrong by tradition. For example, the town of Pueblo, Colorado (Pueblo being a Spanish word and correctly pronounced Pweb Lo) is "never" pronounced that way by people who live there. The local pronunciation is "Pee ebb lo" and if you pronounce it the "correct" way, people there immediately know: You're not from around here, are you??? LOL Best regards, Lin

Hi John, I enjoyed your presentation very much! Having grown up about nine miles from Los Angeles, it brought back many happy memories. Other than the pronunciation of a couple words and some low resolution images which began the presentation I could find nothing to complain about!! Nice job. Elysian Park is pronounced ( L LEE Shun) and check the origin of early settlers were from Sonora (Sone Aura) and Sinaloa (Seen ahh Low ahh) Mexico... Thanks for a great presentation, Best regards, Lin

Actually, the PZR hasn't changed - but I "should" have suggested you look at the further tutorials on "non-linear" motion. I believe they start with #5 where I discuss the requirements for separating, gluing, etc. Here's a link to my entire collection of tutorials - browse through the subjects written in red and I think maybe some of them might be helpful. Click on the "tutorials" link to get to the collection: My link Best regards, Lin

Good one Jim!! Thanks!!! It's great to see how the big commercial operations work. I have friends in Vermont who still do it the old ways. When I was visiting them in 2010 I cut a cord of wood for their "sugar shack" to help with the process. They usually produce about 25 gallons of great tasting maple syrup each year and tap their trees by hand and collect in buckets. It's all boiled down in their wood fired evaporator and their 10 acres of maple trees have been producing for about 30 years now... Best regards, Lin

See if this doesn't do what you want.... My link Here is the procedure: set all three to smooth. Click on the down arrow beside "linear" then click on "smooth" Do this for all three "Pan, Zoom and Rotate." Click on the down arrow beside "Smooth" and then click on "Setting Up." Click on "Separate Here" and the designation will change to "Glue Here." Click on "O.K." Do this for pan, zoom and rotate. Save your work and try Preview and everything "should" work as you expect. Best regards, Lin

Two possibilities: Either you did not go into Custom and Glue all keyframes after doing the perspective zoom or you have some slight rotate or pan which did not get keframes glued. The essence is that whenever you do a pan or a zoom or a rotate, it's just good insurance to set the same values on the other two actions. There is no penalty for doing this and it is excellent practice. So you made a perspective zoom and you notice that the action has changed to custom... This means that somewhere you have a non-linear action set between keyframes. If you click on the Custom tab down arrow and then click on each place where it says "separate here" you will resolve the issue. Again - here is the link to the tutorial on PZR which is good to review. Scroll down to the first tutorial #1 and download and watch.... My link I would review this - if you can't resolve the issue, please make a zip backup of your project and post a link. I'll sort it out for you and explain where the problem is. Best regards, Lin

Just to clarify what Xaver has suggested. If you simply click on any keyframe and then in the Animations Tab of the Objects and Animations screen where "any" action is not "Linear" - click on the little down arrow and simply change the action to "Linear." All keyframes will be automatically separated and returned to Linear motion. There is no need to separate individual keyframes. Best regards, Lin

It sounds as if perhaps you have something other than "linear" set for your initial PZR's. In order to get it right, you must do all your programming in Linear mode then make your changes to smooth, accelerate, etc., "after" all the keyframes and position or size or rotate values have been made. If you have made keyframes then changed to a non-linear mode, you simply need to select a keyframe and change back to "linear" then make your keyframe changes and once again set the non-linear mode desired. So the procedure is highlight keyframe one and create a new keyframe. Drag the second keyframe to the position where you want the zoom or pan to stop. Make sure your second keyframe is highlighted and "drag" the image to the new size and/or position. Create a third keyframe drag the keyframe to the timeline position where you want the pan or zoom change to end then being certain your third keyframe is highlighted, drag the image to the new PZR position. All of this should be done in "Linear" mode. Once this is done, highlight any of the keyframes and set the PZR (do all of them regardless if only one has changed) to your new choice of non-linear movement. If you want to "hold" a position for a period of time, you will need a fourth keyframe. In other words actions on keyframes are continuous and to hold a position such as a zoom, pan or rotate value, you need a minimum of an additional keyframe with identical value in terms of zoom, pan or rotate as the preceding one. Probably a good idea for you to review PZR by going to the Tutorials section and checking out some of the tutorials on how this works. Best regards, Lin

Hi Romit, There is no way to manually change an executable show. What you "could" do is make multiple executable shows with different slide show times then call them from a menu as desired, but you can't change the display time of an existing executable show. The executable file is created by code within the .PTE (dot pte) file which gives the computer instructions on how to assemble the executable file. Once assembled, the exe file is no longer changeable. To make it different, a new PTE file would have to be available and the show compiled into a different exe file. So you will never be able to modify an "existing" exe file; only create a new one and that can't be done without the PicturesToExe software. So users watching an exe file or even a video file for that matter, can't control the timing per slide because it's not a "real time" preview such as available within the PTE software. When you change a parameter then "Preview" you are creating a new temporary exe file on the fly, but that requires the parent software, PTE to do. Best regards, Lin

Hi Lynneo, I can't answer the question about not being able to burn a DVD - Windows 8 can be problematic. Some have had excellent results while others have had problems. Perhaps someone else on the forum can help here? As for not being able to see an AVI or MP4 on your Mac - please try to output instead a native MacIntosh executable file. Do it by choosing the "create in zip" option. See if that works for you. Also try running other MP4's on your Mac and see what happens. For an AVI not to play "could" be that you are missing a codec necessary. MP4's are usually compatible with most every computer so that is unusual. Hopefully, we will be able to find a solution for you. Best regards, Lin

Hi Jim, I'm glad it finally came through! Not sure what the problem was but the very "quick" download from Mediafire may have not been a good one.. it "should" have worked with the password. There are lots of issues with web downloads which we have little control over with so many intermediary connects, etc. Best regards, Lin

Try this again - no capital letters, all lower case - tommyeee I just tested it and it works for me... Best regards, Lin

Hi Jim, Hard to say what the problem might be so I uploaded it to MediaFire for you. You will need this password to play it after downloading "tommyeee" The name of the file is tom.zip.... Here's the link: My link Best regards, Lin

Hi Gary, I believe the confusion is that the meaning of "replace it" is that the developer intended this to mean "use" this one instead of "that one" in your show - not "overwrite" it... Best regards, Lin

Hi Gary, That's a "safety" feature. Let me try to explain. You have created an AVI file and you then modify it and what you "intend" is for the modified version to overwrite the original. But PTE is very careful to not overwrite anything so it creates your "modified" version with a similar file name and adds the "2" or "3" to the name so you know there is a difference. The word "replace" is confusing here because it is generally used when you "substitute" one file or image for another. That's where my confusion came from. I suspect perhaps a different word might be used in the menu to avoid wrong expectations. PTE will "never" overwrite one of your files - that has been discussed many times in the past. It will overwrite the PTE file if you choose to use the same name, but it doesn't overwrite data files such as images, video's etc. Best regards, Lin

Hi Gary, Could you explain a bit further. It's not clear to me what the problem actually is. Are you saying that you have an AVI file - regardless of where it came from (the confusion here is "when you publish/AVI File") then you want to change that AVI file in a slideshow to a "different" AVI file? Is this an operating system issue you are talking about? What isn't clear is what you mean by "replace it." Best regards, Lin

Hi Eric, I'm going to try doing that one of these days - it would be fun to really have a place like that - Hey, we can all dream!! We get so much snow here where I live that I get a lot of practice trying to make it look real LOL Best regards, Lin

Hey Jeff, The cabin is mine, in my dreams - LOL. I'll tell you it takes a lot of fish to train a pet eagle to fly by on cue! They don't like flying in snow either - HA! It's great to have a faster connection. I wish one were available here. Mine is not nearly as fast as cable like Comcast, but it's better than dial-up - just a fairly slow DSL. Bryce was a great time but Honey, the old lady (she's about 11 now) and I froze our butts off at the Bryce Canyon Campground. We didn't take the toy hauler - just a tent and we had to share the campground with a Cougar the first night. Stayed up until about 2:00 am with my camera trying to get a shot, but she was too stealthy. We took my little Subaru WRX to save money on fuel. It worked out pretty well except for the cold temperatures. I live between Longmont and Loveland in northern Colorado in a little town called Berthoud. We used to have a pretty good sized ranch about eight miles from here but lost it to foreclosure just before Sherry (my late wife) passed away, so the dogs and I moved into a little house at the edge of town. My old pit dog passed away too so now it's just me and my last dog Honey. Sammy would probably love it here, it's still nice and cool. This year we can't seem to get spring to happen. We just had another storm and super cold weather - dropped another four inches of snow on us day before yesterday, but today it was warm and sunny. We've had 27 inches in the last 9 days so I would love to see spring happen pretty soon - LOL. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to take another trip to New Mexico later in the summer - I have a friend who is really anxious to make the trip and she's been dropping hints so I guess I'll have to consider it if I can afford the fuel.... Best regards, Lin

Hi Jack, You can't really "create" a button or feature which copies a particular image in your slideshow using PicturesToExe. The way you have to proceed is to create your slideshow with manual advance and then use a screen capture software to capture the image and save it to a file. Thought there are a number of screen capture software programs, some free, actually perhaps the best one was created by a former PTE forum member named Granot. This is a very tiny executable file which allows you to simply press a keystroke and it captures and saves the image currently displayed on screen. I can't tell you exactly how to use it - I believe it is pretty much self-explanatory, but here is a link to the zipped exe file. Granot named it RestorePTE. Link To RestorePTE I'm not certain if this version linked above will work with the latest versions of PTE. The issue is how to get the control box on top of the PTE show if the show isn't running in a window.... Perhaps someone else has a better and newer solution for you. You also may want to look here: Free Screen Capture Tools Link If you do a search on the PTE forums for "restorePTE" you will find discussions about this. Best regards, Lin

Hi Jorg, I'm confused. First you say you want this to appear on "each slide" then you say not on "all slides." "because it is not meant to be in **all** slides." "I am doing another one, but wanted to have the flight path as a video displayed in the top-right corner of each slide". What Dave has told you is correct. Perhaps you are confusing the term "slide?" You have to copy and paste the "video" in the first slide on the Objects and Animations screen as the "Master." Size and position it, pay attention to the numbers for zoom and pan. Then on the second slide make the same "video" link to the master in the Properties Tab. Put in the same values in the Pan and Zoom blocks for this video. Now copy and paste this video from the second slide which is linked to the Master, to each successive slide in the Objects List on the Objects and Animations screen where you want it to appear. The pan and zoom values which position and size the slide will be transferred to each successive slide that way. The "sound" for this video will continue to play if you "skip" copying it to one or more slides. The only way to stop the sound is to "Mute" the audio of the video (do this before you copy and paste), then add the video as an audio, then control it via the waveform for those slides you don't want the sound on. What you are trying to do is complex and you may have to spend a bit of time learning how this all works, but it can be done. It would certainly be easier if you just had the video appear sequentially on "each" slide from the time it (the video) starts until it ends. Sorry, there is no way to magically give a single command to make the video appear on all or some of the slides. You must copy and paste it to each slide where you want it to appear - that's the way PTE works. If you use CTRL V to paste it to each slide this can go very fast, but there is no single command you can use to tell the program you want this video (or an image) to appear on every slide in the same place. Best regards, Lin