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would'nt work for me either - same as Yachtsman. Greg

Maureen - Great show - Awesome sharpness!! What camera & lens are you using? Greg

I loved this show - it's a keeper. HDR is perfect for these types of shots - great job. Greg Gordon

Davy - Great transitions!! Greg

Maureen - I echo Bill's comments re; Sharpness, colors and exposures. However, for me, I found the music a little out of place but still, a great sequence. Did you use a tripod for some of the shots in the cathedrals or were you using high ISO? Greg

Janet - Awesome video and amazing work. I checked out you site - very impressive. I love fractals. PTE is the perfect vehicle to display this type of images. Greg Gordon

Dave - Great sequence of images. I never get tired of pictures of the old world ruins. Like Paul, I would've liked to see more. I remember comments that you have made regarding slideshow length which is usually shorter is better. I don't always agree and in the case of this show, it was way too short, IMHO of coarse. Greg

Lin - Sounds like you're having a blast playing with all these images. I have hundreds of Hubble images myself - simply amazing. It's almost impossible to comprehend the vast distances across space. Greg

SPACE, MY FINAL FRONTIER. Lin - I love space scenes. Greg

The last posts from "BEB" and "davegee' have me totally baffled. I wasn't trying to offend anyone, I was simply offering my thoughts based on the opening post. I don't know what the intent of "I mention my criteria and this sends you off at a tangent" by DG or "at least I upset someone" by BEB. I'm not condemning others for what they would like to see prior to downloading, I'm just pointing out that my criteria is not as intensive as others - it's no big deal, just a statement. Greg Gordon

Dave - I guess I'm not so demanding as others. Like I said earlier, it's all about the title and the author. I don't need to know how many slides, the length of the show or the aspect ratio. If I held strong to the "need" to know as some do, I would miss out on a lot of good material. Eric said many times in the past that he would not download anything larger than 20 Mb. I remember thinking , how sad for him, he's the one missing out I'm happy to hear that he has raised his limit significantly. when I post a show, I include info relating to: title, file size, PTE version and a brief description. I feel no need to indicate the no. of slides or aspect ratio. I've included a screen shot of a portion of my websites slideshow download page. Greg

If the slideshow title or topic interests me, I download it. If the show comes from an author that I usually admire there work, I download it. It's as simple as that. Greg

Lin - when I can't get to sleep, I get back up and work on fractals. Like your animation. Greg

It depends on what I'm going to do with any given image as to what Jpeg compression I choose. If the image is non-animated, I'll save at 8 but if there is animation involved, I choose 10. Most of my clients like to watch their shows on large TV's, thus the higher quality setting. The only down side of coarse, is the final file size but I'm OK with that. Aspect ratio for non-animated image is 1920x1080 however, for zoomed animated images, I may go as high as 3840x2160 to ensure that I don't go past 100% at either end of the zoom. PS It's nice that Eric has moved past the 20MB limit - good on ya! Greg

I know that most users would like to do everything in PTE. When it comes to audio, I use "sound forge". It is a great stand alone program which I have been using for many years. In the case of overlapping music pieces, I create the fade out of the first piece (2 steps with the mouse)then create the starting point of the second piece(could be a fade in or just at the original start of the piece - depending how I want to merge the two pieces together. I then copy the second piece to the clipboard and do a "mix" paste to where I want the 2 pieces to overlap. If I don't get the placement just right, I simply undo, move the cursor and reapply the mix. It works like a hot damn. Greg

Lin - Your animation is much more complex than anything I do however, it's so frustrating when I have an object with multiple key frames - say 4 or 5, and I have each frame set for an action along with specific timing, and then there is a need to move the object's actions back or forward along the timeline in the "objects and animation" window. When you move the frames one at a time, the timing gets screwed up and you have to redo it. Now, if we were able to click on the first key frame and then "shift" click on the last key frame to highlight them all, you could move them all together and the timing would remain intact. I'm always having to adjust key frames as I often will have 3-5 objects (images) on one slide and they all have to have their own key frame sets for individual actions. Igor seems so wrapped up in video, I feel he's losing sight of what PTE is/was all about - manipulating stills. Greg

I've been asking for this feature for years but Igor won't bite. Maybe with the focus on video for version 7, he might now get back to the desires of us users working with stills and multiple key points. This feature would make things soooo much easier. Greg Gordon

Barry - I think I've seen this type of animation before, Hmmm... Greg

Barry - Great montage. Viewers need to watch several times - the images pass so fast. Liked the effects at the beginning - blinking eyes - nice touch. Greg

Howard - I thought your show "Ride to the Wall" was/is fantastic. You're right, this is an unusual remembrance video and that's what so great about it. Pink Floyd and Harley's - great combo. Your photography is spot on - sharp, vivid, bold. Excellent . Greg Gordon

Maureen, Great images and awesome music that added a level of calm & warmth. You listed the music as being from "sagan". is this a movie or an artist or.... I'd like to hear more. Greg

Barry - This is the type of show that first got me interested in PTE - the transitions and 3rd images - simply incredible. Greg

DaveC - What have you been smokin'??? Greg

Barry - Great sequence. I'm not usually a fan of rousing music for slideshows but in this case your choice was perfect. The music is majestic along with several of the images and when the music calms the images suite the change of the tone of the theme. Very well done indeed. Greg

Noel - I watched your show a couple of times - the premise is good however, the gradient backgrounds on the text slides showed some banding, this can be corrected by adding 1 percent of noise. Also, the portrait images looked a little over sharpened or maybe, you didn't choose to tick "fixed size of slide in pixels" in the "project options". Failing to do this will allow the images to be enlarged on a screen that is larger than the one the show was built on. It's best to make sure you tick this option to make sure that your show can only run at the same resolution that you produced it in. Greg Gordon