Mike Reed

A tremendous piece of work Congratulations to all involved. I appreciate this work may never end but is it possible to download a PDF version. I much prefer to have a manual to work with rather than neck ache looking at a screen.

When I am wanting to obtain exact registration of one slide over another I tend to use the slide view on the time line and drag one slide over another to check the registration. I then fiddle with the size and positioning of the slide. Is there any better and more accurate way of doing this without having to resort to Photoshop?

Thanks just could not get my head around it.

Something odd has happened. Previously I have always had the thumb nail picture in the slide view whilst constructing my programme. For some reason which I seem unable to rectify all I now see is a ;list of the slides. The thumb nail image appears when I change to the time line view. How do I get back to my preferred way of working?

Hi Lin Is it possible to save any of your tutorials inPDF format. I have found a supplier who will print and bind PDF manuals. I find it easier to read from paper but so few suppliers these days offer their manuals in a printed form.

Hi Almark I have an I Mac 27inch prior to 2009 running Mountain Lion (OS x 10.2.3. Crucial have recommended an up grade by 8GB. I am not over technical so any guidance you can give on installing would be much appreciated.

Thanks guys. I will give both options a go.

I have purchased DVD from which I wish to copy a small section. It plays well in Windows Media Player. I believe that my IAC licences will cover me although I am not planning to show this anywhere else other than at my camera club. Can anybody walk me through the process if it can be done.

Can anybody tell me why it is when loading brand new dvd disks ready for the video builder I keep getting 'Disk not empty' messages. Yet when I force the issue two or three times the Video builder begins to work. The finished disk shows no sign of there being any other material on the disk.

Thanks everybody. Did not have it turned on, silly me!! Happy Christmas

Is it possible to have a full screen preview commencing from part way through a sequence? When I click Preview in v7.5 it always starts from the beginning.

In the days of slide projection we tried to obtain a third image by holding the transition at the half way point so that the combine effect of the two slides produced a third image. In these digital times I know we can obtain simulation by using photoshop and layers but I am not sure if it can be done by using a dissolve pattern in PTE. That is unless somebody out there has discovered how to do it. So if it can be done entirely in PTE please tell me how to do it.

Hi Igor Any news yet on how PTE for Mac is progressing?

Hi Igor I have used version 4.9 as a menu programme running in Windows XP and displaying a variety of sequences made with all versions of PTE. This was on an old lap top which I have just upgraded. As the version 7 causes this flashing I really want to download version 4.9 again. I had hoped I could just copy it across from the old lap top but for some reason I cannot find the programme although it loads successfully from a desk top icon. I have even done a search for it and that show nothing there. Most perculiar. Can you send me a version of 4.9 p[lerase. Mike

This one really is for Igor. I have seen mention recently of the flashing of monitor screens when using the current version of PTE set up as a menu screen to manage a series of sequences at a show. This never happened with the Version 4 series and it is disturbing as the projector also goes into hibernation mode and has to reset itself when the picture comes back. In view of this I would like to also have a copy of version 4.9 on my lap top. Is it possible to download this version. Thanks Mike Reed

Many thanks to you both. Mike

When I try to insert a slide and then delete a slide from the time line using the delete key on my computer PTE seems to adjust the timing of other slides in the time line. In earlier version one could tick to hold the position of slides on the time line. I cannot see how to do this in v7. I have looked in Project options and Timed points to no avail. It must be there somewhere.

Many thanks. So simple and as for 1204x768 that was a typo.

Hi I have searched the forum but cannot find the answer to my problem. I wish to have a panorama. I have stitched together two images making a slide that is 2048 x 768. I have PTE set to 1204x768 but when the slide is loaded I get a black band top and bottom with the whole image showing. Many moons ago I seem to recall that one could push an image of this size across the screen thereby achieving a panorama but I cannot seem to achieve this with V7. I have tried making the panorama two separate images at 1024x768 and using the push effect to no avail. Help

Thanks everybody got there in the end. Mike

I have previously constructed a menu page and buttons using v 4,9. I have tried to do it in v7 and am struggling. I have searched the comments made previously on this subject and have put my EXE files into the same folder as the menu file but I cannot get the buttons to have anything visible on them other than the word button even though I have typed the correct title into the text panel (common tab of Objects and Animation). What am I doing wrong?

I am about to change my lap top as I find that sequences with much movement require faster processing chips. My present lap top has a Intel i3 chip and I see that the latest is i7. Does anybody have a view on this subject.

Thanks Peter. It has also occurred to me that I can copy the slide at the end then past it where I want it then delete the one at the end. There is always a way!!!