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Also we're working on porting of PicturesToExe to Mac. That's all I can say now.

Hi Tom,Lin The slideshow runs very smooth on my iMac(2008) with outstanding sharpness and quality (only the sun/earth animation shows some hitches). Lin, many thanks for all this time you invest for our education! regards, Henri.

Hi Tom, I had the same experience with Parallels 4, so then I decided to work with Bootcamp on a separate partition. I hoped the new versions of Parallels and VMWare were performing better for our purposes, but most of the time I have pretty heavyloaded slideshows..... Last week I also had a slideshow(heavy loaded in the O & A layers) transferred to a Mac 'exe' with suddenly some pictures unsharp on the Mac; it's a zoom from small to fullframe, but the pictures came up unsharp and stay unsharp. Not a bit unsharp, but more like clouds, I hope you understand what I mean. The Win exe file is OK. All together I'm back to my Bootcamp partition and that works fine for me with no failures... I'm afraid that after all we still are waiting for a native Mac version of Pictures to Exe! regards, Henri.

Hi Tom, thanks. Somewhere in the forum you wrote Parallels to be faster, so I'm curious about your next tests. regards, Henri.

Hi folks, Can anybody answer this question: is it possible to use VMWare or Parallels while having Bootcamp with all this Windows drivers etc. on a partition? thanks, Henri.

Hi Ken, Of course the forum must be organized and I'm convinced you're doing a very good job here! But I still think I have some points too; but let's see... Thanks for your efforts, regards, Henri.

I'm not sure it's a good decision to separate the Mac users from Windows users: we are using Bootcamp, VMWare or Parallels, but that means still using Windows. There is no Mac version of PtE till now... regards, Henri.

Hi Bill, congratulations... Yes, I also make one soundtrack using Logic; but of course in Logic I use a lot of audiotracks to make a final mix for PtE. That is a mp3, the backup on an extern harddisk is a wav or aiff file.That works fine for me. regards, Henri.

Hi Barry, Tom, Igor and Dmitry told us betatesting for the Macviewer was a success, so why not for the PtE Macversion? I think the WnSoft team knows what to do in this case too... Regards, Henri.

Hi Mau, I use the same and don't have the problem you described.. I suppose you have all the system updates. Did you tell the Macbook to use the 9600 card? You know probably that this can be done in the Systempreferences and then via Energy... regards, Henri.

Hi Mau, What OS is installed on the Macbook, Leopard or Snow Leopard? regards, Henri.

Hi Tom, Thanks for sharing all this useful information. I'll give it a try with the demoversion; I have Bootcamp, but it seems that VMware can run in Leopard while Bootcamp is installed. Thanks again for your efforts, Henri.

Hi Tom, I also would appreciate very much to read about your experience with Fusion; I tried Parallels with Leopard(XP sp2) but somehow the software didn't see the Ati Radeon card(iMac 2008) in the right way, and as you know hardware acceleration is vital nowadays in Igor's new versions of PtE... regards, Henri.

Hi Ken, Bill is using a new Mac OS. Snow Leopard, the new Mac operating system, is introduced in September. I always wait some months to install a new OS; in the meantime I read anything the fora and magazins are writing about this new system and after all, Leopard is a very stabile system. For instance I read that one of my favourites, Adobe with Photoshop, is still working on it. Of course I have Snow Leopard here on my table, after all $29.- is a bargain for a new operating system, don't you think? So that's one reason that "other Mac users did'nt pop in with an answer"... Regards, Henri.

Hi Lin, Thanks a lot for this tutorial, a very good example of education on a difficult subject. And btw, everything goes smooth and easy on the (Intel)iMac with Quicktime player 7.6.4. Regards, Henri.

Hi Lin, The cube is like a balletdancer on my iMac, very smooth en good picture quality too... Are you really considering making a template? regards, Henri.

Hi Igor, Great new icon!! regards, Henri.

Hi Lin, Thank you. Fascinating to see how working with PtE sometimes can be so different in practice all over the world! One of the reasons I really like this forum, I suppose. Enjoy your cup of tea... regards, Henri.

OK Eric, maybe we can ask some practical questions to Lin Evans.... Hi Lin, So you prefer a big led screen and have no trouble transporting it all over the country; so far so good. Question 1. Don't you also enjoy a camera club in the USA? You are talking about clients, what kind of clients? Businessmen or artists or musea? Question 2. The experience of sitting in the dark with a good projection-screen and your photofriends around you is a psychological experience not to compare with using a backlight display in a normally lighted room. And then I'm speaking of emotions, I think... I don't know much of psychology, but being an TV producer/director for many years I feel the difference. So you never use your PtE-shows with a projector this way? Would be a pity, because I think you miss something. I can fully understand that Yachtman's 1024/768 is very satisfying in cameraclub conditions! Question 3. A more technical one. What's the size and weight of this giant screens you're using there? Is it always 16-9? Yachtman is talking of 4-3 shows, and I also have a lot of PtE-shows in this format. Please, can you give this numbers in cm's and kilograms too? Thank you. Question 4. What are you or your clients using to provide this screens with slideshows; laptops, a complete computer, blueray players or something else what also add to the weight you have to transport? Question 5. Last question: is the sound output of a led screen sufficient in a small hall, or do you have to use an extra sound rig? Would be very nice to read your answers, so thank you in advance.. Regards, Henri.

Hi JCG, Bootcamp is a free solution too! And then you have the whole computer(partition) for you and PtE... You probably know that in the meantime, with Windows-drivers certified and approved by Apple, the Mac has become one of the best Windows-computers and with all the new possibilities the WnSoft team has developed, like the brandnew 3D algorhythms, I really think it's better to use the latest versions of PtE in a clean configuration and not embedded. But of course you can stay with an older version of PtE... I don't know which Mac you have, I suppose the iMac or MacBook Pro like the most of us working with graphical stuff (being the Mac Pro really expensive). I'm afraid the Mac Mini is less advisable for these algorhythms, because the graph.card is not separated from the mainboard, although good enough for slight transitions like simple dissolves and fades probably. regards, Henri.

Igor, I fully support this idea of nobeefstu! Please, consider it (again). regards, Henri.

OK, thank you folks, I have the answer I was asking for... So Peter, it indeed didn't real help me, but don't sorry: the fact that you, forummembers, immediately were here is just as important and pleasant to experience. (but wouldn't it be very nice during a festival with entries you don't know?). regards, Henri.

Hi JCG, Maybe this is off topic but I think my answer can be rather short: I've tried virtual machines on my iMac and it didn't work well with PtE because the virtual machine didn't use the graphical card in the way PtE demands. After installing Windows XP sp2 with Bootcamp everything went fine! You indeed have to restart, but I think in this case, with a lot of graphical mathwork, that's better too. For this you must have an Intel Mac, of course. regards, Henri.

Is there any clever chap who can tell me about the possibility of a relation between the size and the duration(playtime) of exefiles? So to say: the exe is 25.314kB, than I take my calculator, do some tic,tic,tic and there is the time of 2 minutes and 37 seconds... In other words: is 1 Mb equal to a certain amount of seconds etc. or depends anything of the content(sort of pictures, zooms, rotations, pans etc.)? regards, Henri.