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Hi Ronnie From the PC, I use the Publish Option "Executable File for Mac" then copy to the Mac. I don't use any Mac software nor have I installed anything. I've not had problems with this method. The Mac is light, portable and powerful enough for my needs. Eric

Thanks guys for taking the time and trouble to comment. I did realise that the video would play OK at full HD resolution, however my original laptop was not powerful enough so the idea of scaling back resolution and/or quality was forced on me (and the thinking that it was necessary). I currently use a MacBook Pro and will investigate further. To Barry: I personally think that the whole show full screen looks smoother ( and better). Up until now I have accepted that my video would not be full screen but DaveGee has shown me a way forward with some lateral thinking. It also has the fringe benefit that I can choose whether to crop the video equally on the LHS and RHS equally or not - clearly it depends on content. To DaveGee - Yes I knew to override the default resolution and yes, you have persuaded me - I have upgraded to v8. (well almost; I'll tidy up my current projects then install......and perhaps read the manual) Cheers, Eric

Currently I use version PTE version 7.5 to make up presentations which will be displayed via a Canon Xeed projector. This has a resolution of 1400 x 1050. My presentations are mainly stills where I use Photoshop to re-size/crop images to the projector resolution. Increasingly I also like to include video clips. These are HD i.e. 1920 x 1080 in resolution so there needs to be some work done. At the moment I resize from the Video Converter which takes the resolution down to 1280 x 720. This has the obvious limitation that the video no longer fills the screen. So I have been looking at converting the video to the projector resolution beforehand. There are plenty that offer cropping facilities but few do what I want but I found one that did. Looking at the converted videos, Windows Explorer indicates that they are 1400 x 1050. However when I drop them into a PTE presentation they are no longer 1400 x 1050. They have changed to 1408 x 1056. As a result they do not quite fade smoothly from the still image - they have become slightly smaller on screen. (There's a small black margin on the RHS and below the video). This happens irrespective of whether the videos are optimised by PTE. Has anyone any experience of this problem or can comment? Perhaps I have missed something obvious. Many thanks in anticipation. Eric

Hi Peter, thanks for taking the time and trouble to reply. In fact I had tried what you suggested but it made no difference. However I have got a solution by doing it in a different way. Previously I added the Sound using the "Add Sound or Voice" at the top of the slide preview. No joy. By using the Customise Slide, Music Tab, Add Music it works just fine. Perhaps I should have been doing this all along? Anyway, I'm happy.

I am using PicturesToEXE version 7.03 and finding that the flag "Do not interrupt sound comments when the next slide appears" is not working - it makes no difference. I have used this feature successfully on earlier versions. My shows have a long slide duration so that slide changing is activated from the Mouse or arrow keys. Is anyone else having this difficult is is it just me? Any comments welcomed. Eric

Many thanks Lon for taking the time and trouble to reply. I think I will stick with PTE5 and go for lesss integration. Thanks

I wish to make PTE5 presentations with a mix of dissolved stills and movie pictures. My problem is with the moving pictures. I don’t have experience with creating them, nor converting them for PTE5 At the moment I am in the (perhaps ideal?) position where I do not have a camcorder to capture my moving pictures. However, there is nothing in the specs of camcorder that will tell me whether a particular model is suitable for my purposes. I am quite attracted to the Panasonic SD5 as it seems to promise high quality and the SD card system should be robust and easy to transfer to computer. It store images via “MPEG4-AVC/H.264 (AVCHD standard compliant)” Can anyone tell me how I can determine whether any particular model (and the Panasonic in particular) will be suitable foe my purposes. I previously tried adding (Compact camera) clips to a PTE version 4 project. I abandoned it because the clips were 640 x 480 and the projector’s resolution was 1024 x 768. This meant that the projector detected the change in resolution and so interrupted the flow for about 4 seconds until it changed to 640 x 480 (rather than run the clip inside a Window. At the end of the clip there was a similar interrupt as it reverted to XGA. I seem to need to insert an AVI file into PTE5. Do I need Video Builder? I’m sorry if I have asked a few questions – I’m sure I am not alone with this situation. Any pointers appreciated.