Antbrewer

Hi, I am amazed by the very strange thinking on adusting one's monitor resolution in order to view a slideshow as the author intends it to be viewed. This particular show by Barry with all the super blends and montages can only be seen at its best at the original resolution. How difficult is it for anyone to change their monitor to view the show? Afterwards they can put it back to their very own precious settings. To suggest that the author has to 'adjust' is just plain silly. Anthony

Hello Xaver Thank you for sharing your Mallorca show with us. I thought the images were lovely and certainly brought back some wonderful memories of my one trip there with my wife over 30 yrs ago. However I hope you will forgive me if I say that my first reaction was one of 'why the pan and zoom?' In all but a few of the shots I didn't feel that the movement subtle as it was, really enhanced the sequence to any degree. Also being perhaps unfairly critical maybe the transitions were a little too fast? Though I felt the music and timing was fine. We all see things differently and as I'm now understanding the mechanics of the PZR in version 5 I feel it would be easy to'use' these facilities because 'I can' more than where they actually would benefit the show. Maybe I'm alone with these thoughts but very often I think good images (as yours are) will stand very proud on their own. Anthony

Hello Dave, I have just watched your show and thoroughly enjoyed it. The photographs were super with wonderfully saturated colours and the music matched perfectly the sense of the open spaces of this landscape (obviously your intention). The transitions were bang on and 'no animation'. My screen is 1152 / 864 ...a small gap on either side which didn't upset the viewing at all. Well done. Anthony

To all those that have doubts on using laptops with PTE5 like Henri I have no problems at all. I purchased from PCSpecialists a laptop in November 2007 with Windows XP 2 Gb ram Intel Core 2 Duo 800MHZ processor 512 GEFORCE 8600GT graphics card 160gb hard drive. I believe the graphics card is the important component. This all works really well. Anthony

I too have had a number of failed attempts at downloading PTE5.1. Initially the download time stated to be 1hr 20mins and then another time 1hr 15mins so I canceled. Further attempts stopped after about 500 to 600kbs so I gave up. Then a day later it sailed through.....?????? Not used it yet though

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Thank you DaveG for coming back so soon. I do not need it to fill the screen only to appear on a background and not the computer desktop with the icons etc. However if it filled the whole screen that would okay too. Even with the 'run' button (the only one I have on that window) off the screen due to the window's size I just hit the 'enter' key to start the show running. I appreciate the show will fill the screen in Version 5 but it's just a 'messy' introduction using this window unlike the professional appearance of 4.48. Anthony

Thank john for coming back to the 'Startup window' question. I'm not sure if DaveG has the answer or if I should wait for Igor to pick up this and hopefully address it if it is possible. I await in anticipation

This may be difficult to explain....but here goes. In PTE4.48 in which I am very familiar and use a lot the 'Customise Startup window' in Project options 'main' tab will allow a window ( of one's choosing ) to be displayed before the show starts....This is displayed on the background created in the 'screen' menu in the project options box. All very straight forward and ideal for a short verbal intro before the show. However in PTE5 this 'Start up' window appears with the desktop and icons etc visible around the edges. I cannot seem to override this effect. Is it me or am I missing something?