Henri.R
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Lin was nice enough to recompile his stress slideshow to Mac binary format. I'll be testing it on my Mac mini in a few hours. Maybe others will want to test their Macs.
Thanks Lin.
Tom
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.
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I wish I had a Mac version of Lin's slideshow so I could compare it running on the native OS.
Tom
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.
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Hi Tom, thanks.
Somewhere in the forum you wrote Parallels to be faster, so I'm curious about your next tests.
regards,
Henri.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hi Henri,
leopard 10.5.7
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.
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Hi Mau,
What OS is installed on the Macbook, Leopard or Snow Leopard?
regards,
Henri.
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All of this running on my Mac Mini with Nvidia 9400M and 2GB ram. Not sure about your Ati Radeon card. The good news is that VMware allows you to have 30 day demo for testing. I have not upgrade my Mini to Snow Leopard, but I will soon.
I will try VirtualBox next, but I find no fault with Fusion 3.
Tom
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.
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I think I'm going to try either the free VirtualBox software or the recently released Fusion 3 since they are supposed to support DirectX.If I do I'll let you know how well it works (probably using XP or Windows 7 VM image, NOT Vista).
Tom
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.
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Bill
i am surprised the other Mac users did'nt pop in with an answer to help you out
ken
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.
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.......there was some discussion and one or two forum members were curious about how this was done. It is much easier to see visually than to explain verbally, so I created an AVI tutorial which shows the exact steps one may use to create and manipulate their own 3D cubes in PTE version 6.
Lin
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.
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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.
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Hi Igor,
Great new icon!!
regards,
Henri.
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There is no question that a small projector and laptop combination is lighter than a big screen and easier for some to transport, especially where large SUV's, pickup trucks and vans are not common as in the U.K. and Europe. For my purpose it's a non issue. I can transport a big screen tv as easily as transporting a cup of tea. Most of those with whom I work have no problems at all transporting big screen tv's.
Best regards,
Lin
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.
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I think this topic has gone beyond what I envisaged when first posted. I have a 1.5 metre screen my projecter shows 4-3 images which I believe displays more picture area than the same circumstances if the slides are sized at 16-9. What is known as a "no brainer" in modern parlance?
Yachtsman1
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.
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But Virtualbox is a free solution. Not WMmare
JCG
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.
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This would be possible if Igor implemented a Properties Version tab of the exe file.
Just think ... you would know what version it was made in and the creator copyright
Igor,
I fully support this idea of nobeefstu!
Please, consider it (again).
regards,
Henri.
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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.
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Hello !
I am a Mac user and I run Picture2exe in a virtual machine using Virtualbox and Windows XP SP3.
Thanks for answers... JCG
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.
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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.
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Is there no way to rename slides without also changing the name of an image file used in their creation?
Hi Ernest,
After 20 years of working with digital pictures I've learned to never change the naming of pictures.
My workaround is to go to Windows Explorer, or Bridge for Adobe adepts like me.
Then I make a copy of the slide there, give this new copy the new name and import this one in PtE; never make such changes in applications like PtE or the like.
One day or another you'll notice the missing of your slide!
regards,
Henri.
Current progress for the next version
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Also we're working on porting of PicturesToExe to Mac. That's all I can say now.