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Thank You for deep answer, Lin! Actually I have done my job approximately as you suggested. According track view all seems to be OK. But in real life voice or music are starting at wrong time :-) Program does not take into account seconds waited if using option "Wait for key press to show next slide".

In lecture-like slideshows I often use the switch "Wait for key press to show next slide" as demonstration speed can vary in large scale. It is a pity that in version 8 I cannot use slide comments in this situation anymore. Having default slide duration 5s and linking mp3-file with 3rd slide, sound will start sharply after 10s. But sound have to start sharply after second key press... This was possible in earlier versions. Is it a Bug or I have Missed something? Can we get this possibility back?

Many thanks to all, who have taken time to enhance this topic! I would like to summarize some important aspects here. 1. Both AdobeRGB and sRGB have their pros & cons. Nice comparison about it can be read here. 2. JPEG files can hold up to 16.7 million colors. It is reasonable to use this space in a reasonable way. The essential power of AdobeRGB is to represent more accurately the hues of green. The latter is really important in nature photography: green is the most abundant color in forest areas and at same time it is the most perfectly perceived color by human eye. Why we have used (expensive) Fuci Velvia slide film for our landscape photography? Older photographers know... 3. As different monitors and projectors render colors differently we need color management even if our images are in sRGB color space! Presenting our slideshows in different places we have no idea which kind of projector we are going to use. Without using the color management it is impossible to prepare our slideshow ready at home. But it is simple enough to make special color profile of unknown equipment before slideshow using our calibrator... 4. Color management implementation has surely impact on performance. But how large? Last week I had to use my 9-years old laptop for presenting PTE shows due to problems with my new computer. All worked well (pictures with longest side of 2000 pixels + simple effects + music & nature sounds).

I have just read several topics about color management here and it takes me really think about why color management is meant to be so irrelevant topic. At time when PicturesToExe started sRGB colors where really enough for us. But at nowadays photographers have usually screens with nearly 100% Adobe-RGB support! Of course, converting images to sRGB is really simple using batch processing but making so we have to abandon some really nice hues that sRGB does not support! After all, our modern conference halls have also projectors that can use Adobe-RGB workspace. Just one example here: http://www.projectorcentral.com/Canon_REALiS_SX6_projector2.htm Unfortunately we cannot use PictureToExe anymore for prepearing high quality slideshows for high quality equipment. So my proposal to PicturesToExe excellent team: please consider usefulness of color management in mind in next development plans. Arne