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I would like to know just how to be sure that the slide timeline is not in operation such that there is no total time listed for the length of a slide show. Is simply unchecking the timeline box adequate for that purpose?

Thank you. I will set up my projector and do a run-through.

Do you mean "Permit control of show using keyboard" will let me move on to the next slide?

Recently I posted a question as to the timeline interfering with my slide shows which I prefer to advance manually and was told to ignore the timeline and simply choose the option to advance slides by mouse click. That seemed to work fine but this slide show included 3 slides which were short videos of flying aircraft from my IPhone . At the conclusion of the short video slide the timeline took over and started advancing my slides every 5 seconds without a mouse click. I was able to stop it by clicking the stop square on my computer but I will not have that option if I am standing in front of an audience advancing slides remotely with a handheld device. How do I then stop the automatic advance and return to manual advancing of the remaining slides?

For future reference, what should I do to prevent this failure of the captions to fit on the slides? When I set it up it seemed that they were ok. Is there a setting under "slides" that needs to be set? Do I have to change the resolution on my computer screen down from 1920 x 1200 or is that ok to be left there? I don't want to be going back and resizing each slide for the captions again.

Thank you very much. That helped.

It has been a while since I created a slideshow and never before on this, the newest version of P2E. I create slideshows where I do not add music and where I advance each slide manually. How do I get rid of all evidence of a timed show, i.e., no timeline, no number of minutes or hours, etc? Second, the slideshow I created is squeezing out parts of the captions that I have placed in the left hand border. I tried lowering the resolution to 1024 x 768 with no benefit. I tried changing aspect ratios, also with no benefit. How do I get the slide with the captions to fully display?

Thank you for your help.

I may be wrong but it seems to me that some time ago I was doing a slideshow manually and the show seemed to time out before I was finished myself. I don't want that to happen again. So if the timeline says thirty minutes and my talk goes 45 minutes will the program stop and have to be restarted?

I have created a slideshow which I wish to operate totally manually with no time limits. I will advance or reverse slides by mouse click. But I cannot seem to set the show without having time-duration numbers on each slide and/or a total minutes for the show indicated. There should be no total running time if I am doing it all manually, I should not be seeing 32 minutes listed for my show.

I have figured out my problem. In order to do this I have to expand the vertical left hand column so that, when I click on timeline, the "timed points" option is visible. By dragging a slide in, clicking timeline, cut transitions, and reset all points my new slide becomes recognized. Thanks for everyone's input.

I placed the new slides into the vertical column on the left along with the others. As with the first group I simply dragged each to the spot in the sequence that I wanted them placed. But when I tried to click or highlight them I could only highlight the ones on either side of the new foursome. I then went back to the file column and clicked add this slide to the bottom row. They all appeared after my final slide but, again, I cannot highlight them, move them, or do anything with them as they are not recognized as part of the show. They are all color slides, not B & W. Did I forget anything?

It has been a while since I created a slideshow. I had no problem creating a show of some 330 slides which I trimmed, labelled, etc, and saved. Now I return to add 4 more slides. When I add them to the others they do not seem to be recognized and I cannot highlight or do anything with them. What do I have to do to use them?

Thanks to all who have been helping out here. I will definitely plan to Create Backup in Zip. Now comes the uncomfortable part as it seems like a kindergarten level question but here goes. Yachtsman1 set up a very nice set of directions but how do I go about copying the hummingbird icon to past it into the folder, i.e., where is the icon that I can copy? How do I copy the images with their headings as they appear along the bottom of the P2E screen (the ones I have selected from those in the vertical folder and processed)? Is the folder I create done outside P2E as when I make any usual folder or am I to do something inside P2E. I think I'm getting closer but I am afraid I still need a boost.

Yikes! I thought when I hit the Save tab I was saving the images as they appeared in the show with all of the titles, etc. Thank you for the info; from here on I'll know better but my current show is so large that I think I will simply give the program as it was assembled last year and not try to update it with more recent images. Lesson learned!

When I create a slideshow I first click the "save" tab and that gives me a pte file with the hummingbird icon. I then create the exe file which gives me the slideshow itself with all of the titles, borders, etc. Now when I click on the pte file icon I get a "pictures not found" response and a full listing of all of the blank image boxes along the bottom with a blue stripe through them saying "image not found" along with the name of the image.

I have version 6.0 and previously created a manual-advance slideshow on bird photography including several hundred photos which I had labelled and framed. I would now like to bring up that slideshow in P2E and add a couple of dozen new images but I can't seem to bring up the original slideshow. What do I need to do to accomplish this?

Almost all of the slide shows that I create are for my computer and for projection. Today I need to create one that can be played on a CD/DVD player and television. What exactly do I need to do when it comes time to hit the create button to make this happen?

Thank you all for your input. What I have been doing is (1)open a slide, (2) click on O&A, (3) pull the margins in enough to create a black border around all four sides. Some, but not all, slides require that I add a caption, usually at the bottom but sometimes on the left side (for vertical slides). I then (1)open the text by clicking on the A, (2)shrink the text line, (3) type in the words for that particular slide, (4) move it to the correct location and resize if necessary, (5)click on the A on the right side, (6) select the gray color square, then ok, (7) click off the caption margins and close. It looks to me that I will have to continue my current, somewhat laborious, technique as I have to individualize too many aspects of my captioning process.

A simple question if I may. In putting together a slide show I would like all of my captions to be gray in color. What do I have to do to apply the same color to all slide captions rather than having to select the gray color each time a create a caption?

A bit of closure. Thanks to 45 minutes on the phone with Lin it was determined that the single final sound track was faulty. Re-ripping it failed to help but replacing it with another track from the same album did the trick. The prompt responses from Laszio and JRR are most appreciated and the beyond the call of duty assistance from Lin warrants an A+. Great forum!

I tried changing the music, leaving the first song with bird sounds at the beginning and end and then adding several tracks of piano music. The music syncs just fine. There is something about the other music/bird sound tracks that is fooling something in P2E.

Lin, I have posted the slide show on Media Fire and sent you an email. Thanks Joe

Thanks Lin and Laszio, I will try and answer Lin first before I try and send anything or try Laszio's recommendation. Here goes: (1)All music was added in Project Options. (2) All are MP3s. (3) I set up all 6 to run consecutively with no specific ties to any slides. The total time based on the CD designation of each track and the total shown on P2E match, i.e., 37'53". (4) As for the graph, the number under the main image says 37'53". The graph shows slide #365 (of 366 total) to be positioned at 37'41" on the graph. For some reason I cannot see the final slide (#366) but each slide is positioned 6.2 seconds apart so # 366 is presumably at the 37'47" mark. Again, thanks much. I will try to follow through on both recommendations as soon as I can manage. Joe

I have done both of the above previously; no dice!