Davidh12

Discovered something myself recently. When PTE crashed doing animations on my laptop outputing to projector. The cause I discovered was I had set the power options to medium to get a bit more life from the battery. When I changed this back to best quality (forget the exact wording, not near laptop) everything was fine again. David

Andy Your correct I meant bigger display on desktop (20 inch) and increased pixel count. I was playing some shows I had created 1024 x 768 and it does stretch but the pixilisation, if that's the right term, was noticable. As you say of course it is not noticable on the projector which is 1024 x 768 no matter how big the image is displayed. Next show I do I shall try 2048 x 1356 and see how it turns out, thanks. Barry It would be nice to leave the photos at full resolution but computer resources and all that mean I have to cut down the size. it should play well on my machine but if I send them to friends with less powerful ones then it's a problem. I have one of your DVD's on picture borders I must revisit it (I can't remember if it was a png or not) that' an idea thanks. David

Thanks Jeff That's what I was after .Post or send send me a copy when you get one for this year and I'll try and make it. Thanks Ken I'm much more informed about Snods Edge. David Sorry to hijack the interesting post on aspect ratio. I haven't really solved the problem myself. My work so far has been 1024 x768 but having recently aquired a bigger screen set up for 1680 x1050 it's becoming an issue. Should have really gone for full HD I suppose but not really set up for that yet.

Jeff What is Snod's edge? Feel I'm missing out on something. David

Freebird There is another program you could try. 'Roxio Easy Media Creator 10' in this suite of programs there is one called Videowave. This will allow you to combine video and pictures. The program is not that difficult and will take a wide variety of video file formats AVI, Mpeg2 and Mpeg4 the last of these a lot of the latest camcorders make. The program costs about £40. It is also possible to capture from video but that gets a lot more complicated. David

To right! I downloaded a trail copy of Proshow Gold because I wanted to add a bit of video. put the stills were vastly inferior compared to the quality of PTE. That is bye the bye, what is important is that you have a great time away Igor you deserve the rest. You and your team have surpassed yourselves with another great upgrade in 5.5. Thanks. David

Looking through the previous threads of Ray and Lin regarding flash players I have been playing around a bit with a video converter I saw on the same site, Aplus video converter. Downloaded this on trial and playing around with it into different formats. (There is novelty value in converting your pte show to3PG to play on your phone). I also downloaded on trial Avs Converter that looks a bit better and will input MP4 from camera but the output qulity does not seem to be as good as Aplus. There is quite a few of these programs about. Anyone recommend one before I fork out for probably the Aplus? Thanks David

I suppose it depends how people define AV. For some it is Just bunching a group of related slides together and adding a bit of music and I have done that myself. OK I have tried to be a bit more thoughtful of matching slides, and timing transitions to the music but all that I wanted to do was show some photos I had taken at an event. For some that wouldn't really be AV in the truest sense I have heard as much said at competitions. For those people and maybe the author of Barry's comment AV's should be researched and compiled documentary's or well thought out and worked stories. I have had a go at one of those and there is a lot of hard work involved it's enjoyable and I could understand (if not agree with) the snobish, nose up at the former simple shows. I have seen a couple of Barry's shows in which I would say fall into another category that of Art. Wonderful images merged into one another with great use of the 'third image'. All different but the same? You've brought up and interesting topic Barry David

I have had Vista Service Pack1 installed on my Laptop for, must be a month at least, with no problems. In fact it could be my imagination but I am sure downloading from the net and copying files and a few other things are working much faster. What I would be interested in hearing is if anyone has installed the new XP Service Pack. Since the warning on this forum I have turned my updates off in my desktop which has XP. Any updates from those in the know? David

I have a Canon Powershot A620 that delivers really good sharp results in good lighting condition but disappointed when it comes to flash photos. I have been thinking about buying a new camera and have been looking at the new Canon 450D but have been put off by reviews saying the Jpegs are a bit soft. Shooting raw would be nice but I like to take lots of pics if I'm taking for an av's and don't think that would be practical. My other thought was the new entry level Nikon or new Pentax. So may take the above suggestion and try them out in the shop and see which one feels right. Thank you for starting this timely (for me) thread Dom and the option of a bridge camera. David

Dear Confused of Ely Don't worry yourself my love. If it works for you just do it. Don't worry what the other boys say. I use Vista as well with no problems on my lap top its just I know someone, we'll call him Mr desktop who feels terribly inadequate he can't run Vista and is rather worried what they plan to do to his XP. Claire

Lin & Xaver Thanks for the reply and the advice. Looks like I will be sticking with XP as it is then. I have that on the desk top with Vista on the lap-top which although a higher spec machine I don't use that much, only to feed a projector. Thanks too to Brian and those members who keep us up to date with what's going on. Great forum this. David

Brian Maybe what Jeff was meaning and it had crossed my mind too, was if you don't install SP3 then you wont have access to any new patches like security etc. Do you know if it will still be possible to install future security patches if you don't install SP3? David

Tom I'm not sure about XP Pro but it is my understanding that only if you go to the new 64bit Vista will you be able to read 4Gb of Ram. 32 bit Vista only reads up to 3 Gb. You can have more but it won't use it. I stand to be corrected of course. David

John Surely a way of doing it would be to take a note of the length of your music and divide by the number of slide you have this will give you the number of seconds between each slide which you can set in project options. you might have to subtract the time you use for animations to be more accurate. But even though it is just for family a show timed to the music will be much better than one that just might hit an obvious change point ever so often even for the ordinary layman as Fh1805 suggested. David