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Igor, I think we might have a new bug in the forum software. I have received e-mail alerts to the presence of a new post under this topic twice this morning. One in respect of Henri's post and one in respect of your last post above. On both occasions when I went into the PTE forum and asked to View New Content this poll did not appear in the list of topics with new content. regards, Peter Note : this topic = Igor's poll about hardware acceleration

Go for it!!!! Peter

Hi Snapcam, Strange... it appears under Save As on my Photoshop Elements v5 but not under v7. No matter. Download IrfanView (free) and try that. It does support .ico files. Which leaves me with the unanswered question: where did I get the .ico support in Elements v5 from? regards, Peter

Hi snapcam, Yes, you need to prepare your icon file outside of PTE (using Photoshop, IrfanView or whatever). Remember that icon files are limited to size (usually 64x64 or 96x96 pixels). Save the file with a .ico extension. Then just go into Project Options...Main tab and click on the Assign icon... button and follow the prompts. regards, Peter

Isabel, I use the Zoom H4 for my sound recordings. I do the voice-over recordings in my study where the computer system resides - but I power down every piece of electrical equipment in that room in order to eliminate unwanted noise. I also have two chiming clocks so I'm familiar with that problem, too. It's just a matter of timing (recording between the hour and half-hour chimes) and doing a re-take if I get caught out. As for the accent, don't let that put you off. I firmly believe that regional accents are no barrier to successful voice overs. If you have never heard your own voice played back from a recording, be prepared for a big shock! When you hear yourself speak you hear your voice with your entire body - the vibrations of your voice box are transmitted through your body in addition to the sound coming in through your ears. When you listen to a recording being played back, the only sound route is via your ears. That gives your voice a, to you, strange sound. Have fun! Peter

Lay some old sheets or towels down when you do a recording session. regards, Peter

Isabel, I have chosen to record my voice-over away from my computer using a digital sound recorder. I then simply copy the sound file from the sound recorder to my hard drive and then import that into Audacity like any other sound file. I deliberately omitted any discussion of the technology from my document because different people do their voice recordings using different technology. But the points that I make in that document are independent of any particular technology. regards, Peter

Igor, I now build all my menu sequences using "Run Slideshow" or "Run Slideshow with Return" and leave hardware acceleration turned on. I've had no problems with this approach and find it works very smoothly indeed. What I have not done is to have animation in the menu sequence. I would be quite happy for you to remove the option to turn hardware acceleration off if this is going to make it simpler for you to maintain and enhance the PTE code. regards, Peter

Isabel, To understand the diagram you must study the time values encoded in the "flags" above the timeline. If you look at the times associated with the origin and end of the slide, subtract one from the other and then subtract the time allocated for the outward transition (1500ms = 1.5 seconds), you get 8 seconds in the first case and 16 seconds in the other two cases. regards, Peter

Bill, My dishwasher gets serviced by the medical people - I'm it! regards, Peter

Go to the Properties tab in O&A window and key the text you want, select your font, colour, bold, italic, etc. And drag the text object to where you want it and re-size it to the size that you want. regards, Peter

Bill, I think that test adds credence to Lin's view that you do not yet have appropriate codecs installed. regards, Peter

Isabel, For a simple "add a bit more silence to the ends" one-time edit, you will not notice any sound quality degradation by opening the original mp3 file in Audacity, doing the edit and then exporting to a new mp3 file. For a more complicated multi-track sound-track built up over a period of days, with frequent exports and re-opens, you probably would hear a noticeable degradation. But this where the Audacity project file comes into play. As you build up that complex soundtrack, save the work as an Audacity project file (File...Save Project As...). This file holds within it the expanded mp3 file. The uncompress is done once, when you import the mp3 file into your Audacity project. And the compress will take place only at the end of your work when you finally export to mp3 format. regards, Peter

Bill, Yes, I did alert Igor to this topic and he replied saying he would check things out. It may take his team a day or two to either recreate the problem or to understand it from the details contained in this thread. If they do find that there is a bug in PTE, I would expect Igor will attach a reply to this thread indicating when the fix will be released. In the meantime, Lin is working with you looking into the codecs issue to see whether that avenue can produce a solution for you. We don't give up on problems on this forum! regards, Peter

Text added via Objects and Animation - a Text Object Peter

Dave, When I bought a Vista-based laptop a couple of years ago I set about transferring all my software products across on to it. Speaking from memory there were only two that gave me any problems. Adobe Photoshop Elements v3 wouldn't pass Vista's compatability checks and Vista refused to even attempt the install. And my ageing PDA had to be abandoned because its operating system was too far back-level to be compatible with the Vista drivers. (This was no great loss since I had previously been using it primarily in connection with my employment as an IT Project manager. After being made redundant that use of it ceased). I bought a copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements v5 (which I have since upgraded to v7) and have had no major problems since. regards, Peter

I, too, would find such a feature useful. regards, Peter

What Gary and I are wanting is a feature that will globally change the font of all Text Objects (not Comments). Your suggestion has no effect on text objects unfortunately. regards, Peter

Gary, I, for one, would welcome the ability to be able to set my choice of font as the global font; and to be able to change my mind and set it to some other font without having to resort to editting the .pte file. So, if you do post a new topic under the Ideas and suggestions banner, I will certainly add my voice in favour of it. regards, Peter

Yes, The create exe for Mac is part of the DeLuxe licence. From the create button only PC EXE and Screensaver are base PTE, everything else is DeLuxe. regards, Peter

Dave, I was refering to the memory that sits between your ears - not PC memory. You had remembered that I use Vista. regards, Peter

Bill, If you get the problem with both v5.6 and v5.7 beta then it smacks of either a bug in PTE code or a fault of some other kind on your PC. Either way we need the help of the WnSoft technical team. I'll alert Igor to this topic - just in case he hasn't spotted it yet. regards, Peter

That's a fair point Eric but I think it is unlikely to be the root cause. My tests were done using a version of PTE without the DeLuxe key installed. On that basis I, too, should have seen the failure just as Bill did. regards, Peter

Dave, Nothing wrong with your memory! Yes, I'm a Vista user. On my first attempt, when I got to the File Save window and clicked on save, the window simply closed and returned me to PTE. I didn't get the "expanding green bar" indicating that the AVI was being created. And there was only a shortcut file added to the directory where I had pointed the File Save to go. On the second attempt, where the only change was to pick a Microsoft MPEG video codec instead of the PTE Video codec, after the file save I got the "expanding green bar" and after about 2-3 minutes the file was succesfully created and saved into the expected directory - and it subsequently played back OK via Windows Media Player. I'm baffled. It is starting to "smell" to me like either a bug or a corrupt installation. Which is why I've suggested to Bill that he tries the v5.7 beta release. If that fails - its a bug of some kind somewhere. If v5.7 works then his next step should be a fresh download of v5.6 and a re-install of that. regards, Peter

Bill, You're not tight for free-space on your hard-drive are you? The AVI file creation needs a fair old whack of temporary space and there have been problems reported in the past that were attributed to insufficient free hard disk space. Is this the only option that fails? Can you Create an AVI using the DVD-Video disc button instead of the Create custom AVI button? Let me back up a bit... Has this ever worked? If so, you need to consider what other, possibly related, changes you have made recently. Is the problem restricted to just this one sequence? If so, in what way does this sequence differ from a sequence that does work OK? Are you able to burn a DVD using VideoBuilder (Create...DVD-Video disc)? If the answers to all these questions are, essentially, not positive ones, then I think you need to report this as a possible bug in PTE. It would do no harm to download v5.7 beta from the forum and give that a go. The two versions will happily co-exist alongside each other. regards, Peter