Hartmut Scherer

Hello Lin, I enjoyed reading your response, the work-around and the converted video files. Now I can see all slides and the video without any problem. Thanks also for your kind words regarding the photos. All three of us enjoyed the trip to the Allgäu (Bavarian region). With kind regards, Hartmut

How can I avoid the flash of green rectangle? Hi, In “Known issues” Igor mentioned that a flash green rectangle may appear instead of a video clip. This happened to me yesterday. How can I avoid it? I created a very simple slide show in PTE 7 beta 11. The frames of all slides are 1920 x 1080 px, but in project options I set the virtual size of a slide to 1280 x 720 px, because of the two video clips (720p) in avi format. The same green rectangle appears in beta 12. In vlc media player, I can watch the two video clips without any problem I suspect that my computer may be too old. My Toshiba Satellite is running with Windows Vista, Intel T7200 @ 2.00GHz, 1022 MB RAM and DirectX.11 version. The graphic card is GeForce 7600 with integrated RAMDAC and 504 MB. Here is a link to the zipped project: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26955163/Rettenbach%202011-720p_Jun27-2011_4-54-03.zip I appreciate your advice. After June 29, 2011 I will have access to the internet again.

JP, Did you hear anything regarding your proposal?

Peter, Thank you for your reply. I tried it again and found out what had happened. Somehow I had unchecked the box "Permit control of show using keyboard". No wonder it didn't work.

Hi Igor and team, I am impressed with the new version. Thank you for all your good work. I am not sure if I missed something or did something wrong. I opened the beta version first, than I opened a project that I had done with v5.1. All slides should advance manually, but in preview mode I can see only the first slide. No key will show me the next slide. If I save the old project with the beta version, the exe-file doesn’t run either. The mini player works fine. I am using Windows Vista Home Premium.

Hi Xahu, I experienced something similar during a presentation in October 2007 with a Canon X600. I am using Vista Home Premium, all images are 1600 x 1200 although the beamer has only a native resolution of 1024 x 768. On that particular evening the presentation was already "running" (first slide was a black slide; manual advance) while I gave a speech. Before I finished my speech, the "no signal" sign appeared on screen. After this experience I changed my power settings to never turn off the display, never put the computer to sleep and maximum brightness for both conditions (on battery and plugged in). This has helped me so I know longer see a black line running from top to bottom. I also exit the anti virus program and firewall and clean the cache of Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Bridge. When I look carefully at the slides with panning (either horizontally or vertically) I can still see some minor shimmering. As I rarely use PZR effects in my presentations I can bear with it. I have to admit that I never tried the show with images adjusted to the native resolution of the projector. That's all I can say to your post. As I will travel until February 26, 2008, I may not be able to access the Internet.

rogereld, I am not sure whether I understand your problem. If I hit the "end"-key, I will jump to the last slide of the running show.

Some time ago I used "macromaker" for some common tasks on my computer. It is a freeware program and able to work within other programs. Perhaps it will help you, Mike. I didn't try this program with PTE. http://members.ij.net/anthonymathews/MacroMaker.htm

Thanks to all who took the time to respond to my post. I really enjoy this forum and the many creative people. As far as I understand your answers there is no way to fade out the music on the last slide with PTE 5.03 except by doing it manually. John, you understood me correctly. I hope this feature will be included in PTE in the near future.

I am preparing a short presentation of 5-10 minutes with one or two music files in the background. My wife will comment on the pictures during the presentation. All pictures are set to "Stop at the end of this slide." The last slide is blank. I would like to fade out the music on the last slide, but I couldn't figure out how to do this. Can anybody offer a solution or a workaround?

Hi to all, I started to use PTE in August 2006. Whenever I found a piece of information that was helpful to me, I added it to my WordPerfect PTE help file and hyper linked the topics. The hyper links are not working in PDF, but you can search for each topic. I am indebted to Lin, Al, Dom, Ken, Jeff and many others. Quite often I forgot to mention the author of the post in my personal help file and I sincerely apologize that I have not given due credit to the authors. So if there are any objections to this help file, I do not mind, if the moderators erase this post. I don't want to confuse or upset anybody. The attached file helped me to get a better understanding of PTE and how to use it. PTE_Help_File.pdf

Hi to all of you, I really like this forum and I hope that one day I can contribute something to the answering side instead of just asking questions. Thank you for all your advice and for your patience with me. I enjoy using PTE combined with Photoshop and I will try out your advice this weekend especially with smooth text combined with anti-alias. (Friday afternoon) I just followed your advice, Al. and used smooth with anti-alias. It works and looks nice. Thanks again for helping me.

I like the page effect with text. With the newly released program I want to combine it with panning. I just produced a sample text of three lines. Some of the letters seem to "vibrate" during the panning. How can I avoid it? Sorry, if this question was asked before. Then, I would kindly ask you to point me to the answer. Test_with_text___3_lines_panning_Jun21_2007_21_56_09.zip

Runtime Error! Yesterday evening I started to burn DVDs. I never did it before so it may be that I did not follow the proper procedure. In all cases I used DVD-R 1-16x from TDK 4.7 GB. I used a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K17LF ATA device. When I tried to burn a DVD-video disc I got the following error message: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program: ...nSoft PicturesToExe\5.00 Beta 19\VideoBuilder\author.exe abnormal program termination This happened when the program executed: VOB files multiplexing. I attached the project options. Project_options.pdf

Igor, Thank you for explaining how "Stop at the end of this slide" can be used to manually control the presentation. This change can be done easily and quickly, but does not effect the customized timing for each slide. Again and again I am amazed about the versatility of this program. Thank you and your team for all your effort. It is highly appreciated.