speleodave

I'd thought of just putting in a long time interval, and when I do that I can get the effect I want, but it seems like there should be a better way. However, any time I try setting the Time Interval for New slides to 0, and then hitting "set for existing slides" I get whatever I had last entered. It just won't go to zero. I figured that might be because I had a fade transition set to 1.5 seconds, but even with "no effect" selected I can't get zero to take. Any other number works fine. It also sometimes takes several presses to get a new number to take. I'd say this is a glitch in the program. Otherwise there are few other settings. No music, 175 images at 1280x1024, build slide show selected. A few slides have text overlayed. I did try the menu bar but I still get some sort of auto-advance. What's needed is some sort of built-in way to disable that, that would just disable or bypass the duration dialog. quote name='jfa' date='Oct 5 2007, 04:56 PM' post='46298'] Dave I just tried setting the Time interval for New Slides to 0 as you did and it also worked fine for me. What other settings are you using? Are you using any music?

I was about to ask a similar question until I saw this thread name. I simply want to make a show where only the user advances the slides with a mouse. I have gone through the whole PDF manual just posted here, and cannot seem to make a slide show where the slides aren't moving automatically. I set the options for the mouse buttons to advance the slides in the Project Options Advanced tab, yet when I make the show the slides still advance automatically after a few seconds...though clearly responding when I use the mouse. I tried setting the duration of the slides to 0 and still they go automatically. I am using a fade transition of 1.5 seconds duration. It's odd, because I'm sure I was able to do this in earlier versions of PTE, but can't do it in version 5. They need an option that just says "Control slides using mouse or keyboard ONLY. Dave

I found an mpeg4 codec already listed in the PTE list in the AVI dialog and tried the one there. Happily, that solved both issues, making a standalone AVI as well as removing my flicker issues. Thanks for all the good advice!

Yes, I was doing the preview in the "creat AVI file" dialog box. I tried disabling hardware acceleration, but that just makes the synch in the show very poor. I have a top rated video card (ATI Radeon 1650) running at 2560x1600 at 60 hz so probably that's not the problem. I just discovered another weird thing. You see, I'm not trying to cut a DVD, just make an AVI file that can be shown on the computer. But PTE has this lame feature where it only wants to make the AVI temporarily, and write it to DVD, then nuke it once you click "Finish." In fact the only way I could find to save it is to copy it to another disk BEFORE clicking finish. But now I notice that the one I copy to another drive plays without the photos, just the sound? So now my more major issue is how to just create and SAVE a basic AVI in the first place I'm using the PTE codec with it, and playing in Real Player or Windows Media.

Ken, The images vary in aspect a bit (from different cameras) but are 1250 pixels max on the long axis. My processor speed is 3000 mhz. I don't see the flicker in the regular show on the PC, but it shows in the video preview.

I use mainly fades as my transitions in shows and was very disappointed in the flicker this produces when making an AVI file. I did some experimenting in the ouput but nothing seems to improve the problem. I'm using the anti-flicker filter and tried both auto and progressive modes. Are there particular codecs that might work better, or anything I can do in the show parameters itself, that would improve the AVIs made from my shows?