Henri.R

Hallo Cor, Dank voor deze prima service voor een prima forum... h.gr. Henri

Hi Brian, Sometimes situations occur that, using a application for years, it's necessary to continue your workflow with this version of the application in spite of the fact that new versions show up (mostly improving the same application). In cases like this, and I had to face it more than once, I have a second partition with the same XP sp2 on the same computer and use this with the old version of that application for the things my work is demanding. Then I install the new application version on my first partition and enjoy all the benefits now and in the future that clever developers had create for me and you! So my advice is to give a try to work in this way. I use Partition Magic for this purposes. Henri..

John, you write: "There should be far more to the audio in a AV than music. It can be commentary, sound effects, sound recordings, music, etc, usually a combination of these, not always, (but mostly), including music." And don't forget, one of the most important components of the soundtrack is the mood or mental state created by the music itself.. And Colin, I also start with the pictures and text, but then very soon I introduce the music and other sounds, followed again by editing the pictures to get the right continuity. So I fully agree with John, and Brian let us propose "mini-mixer timeline" to Igor? Henri.

Hi Brian, thank you for your 1000th contribution to this forum! I work more or less in the same way , and that's for movies, tv and for slideshows in the documentary area. Different to your approach is the soundtrack which for me is (professionally) from the beginning more important; just the reason to ask Igor repeatedly to add more than one track in the timeline... Henri.

Hi Brian, as you say: "This Font-Set is useless for 'cross-platform purposes' unless the Host PC contains the special Extended Ascii Key-Code. It could be used for 'static-photo-imagery' but not as Text Objects." And that's it! Thank you all for thinking along with me... Henri.

Brian, I downloaded the DP4-Font Viewer, but the viewer doesn't see the Hypatia font at all... The fonts are correctly installed and are present in the Windows/fonts folder. The name of the font is HypatiaSansPro-Black(Open type) and is described as an RA font. I think that for the time being I don't use this font in my P2E shows... Henri.

Brian, thanks a lot for your clear and useful(as always) advice. I recently bought the latest version of Photoshop and as a bonus received the very nice Hypatia font; I suppose I have to think twice to use this in a exe-file as just a few people will have this font installed on their computers... Henri.

Igor, thanks for your quick reaction and we stay looking forward to the birth of PtE for the Mac, or will it be the iPtE? Henri.

I fully agree with Auser so I second his plea for some information in a while regarding developments for Mac users... And yes, we know about "Parallels" and "Boot camp", but of course prefer a native version of P2E for Leopard. Henri.

Peter, thank you very much. You wrote: "Although I very rarely run my exe files on other computers, I have got into the habit of rasterizing the text in every show - just so I never get caught out by this problem." I also think that's the way to go: precaution is the keyword here... Henri.

Hello Peter, I indeed didn't rasterize text, but till now I never did on this or other shows and never met the problem. But if this is the solution I'll give it a try. What's more, if this is the cause of the problem, I suppose we always have to do this "Rasterize text to PNG image" if we intend to play an exe-file on a 'strange' computer? Thanks for your very quick answer. Henri.

Last month I finished a show, starting with a fixed text (with a 1024/768 background, text made in O&A), and then superimposed a scrolling text, beginning at the bottom and then up. I made an exe-file and everything is ok on my computer and laptop and also on a friend's computer. But,(oh, you expected 'but'), one of the members of our photoclub, has a computer (Vista, graphic card separate) on which the scrolling title is bigger and on the left and right side is cut off! The fixed text remains ok. Other shows on his computer didn't show the problem... Till now we didn't discover what caused this phenomenon. Maybe one of you had the same experience? regards Henri.

And then, at the time that P2E for the Mac will be published, I suppose thousands of PC's will be for sale!?! Henri

I like to second Geoff in this matter: select slides to right or left is a very useful function and very normal in other (I admit, more expensive) slideshow applications... Henri.

Hello Igor, thank you and your collegues for all the new improvements you mentioned for version 5.2. Can't wait to test it ;-) You said: "Waveform now displays mixed left/right channels. But you can turn on independent view of left/right channels waveforms". Does this mean still one stereo timeline or do we have then the so desired (and needed for advanced sound synchronisation) double timeline for music, sounds and/or narrating? regards, Henri.

Hi Ryt, in my opinion Igor's Videobuilder has developed to such a degree of perfection that there really is no reason not to work with PtE de Luxe 5.1; the price is very reasonable, not to say cheap, and all works very easy and intuitive. I worked with a lot of burning applications(from 1992), but for my PtE shows this is the one for me! regards, Henri.

Hi Brian, thanks a lot. Good work... Henri.

Indeed, Xaver, that's the way. (Hoffen wir nur dass Igor es erledigt in 5.2...) Regards Henri.

Good idea, a recovery function, but beware: in some apps, after auto save, you also destroy the history so it's impossible to undo the steps before the auto save..... Henri.

Please go on with your useful translation work; I'm sure a lot of people is very happy with your efforts, including me, because that way we'll have more and more satisfied P2E-users...... Henri.

Hello Cor and Xaver, I was speaking of translations in general! In the 30 years I'm using personal computers (and synthesizers, for that matter) I too often had problems with machinery and software of which afterwards we had to blame a sloppy translation of the manual, translated from Japanese in English in Dutch and so on. I saw you did a marvellous job in providing us with the translation of PtE in Dutch(and Flemish?), but during the years it became a habit for me to use the original language, mostly English or German; what's more, nowadays a download often is cheaper too... And of course I agree with Xaver that for users not speaking foreign languages we need translations and I have a deep respect for those spending their time to provide these translations. Henri.

Hello Xaver, I appreciate your suggestions regarding the German (or Dutch, in my case) user interface very much, but in my opinion it's always better to use an application in the original language, just to avoid translation-errors like the errors you mentioned. And yes, most of the time you in Germany and I here in the Netherlands have to learn and then to polish our English continuiously.... (and oh yes, I'm 60+ .....). Regards, Henri.

Hi Brian, very nice slideshow and indeed, above all very informative concerning the equipment. But, you said: "Leica ceased production in 1952 and was purchased by Matsushita Corp.the owners of Panasonic." Do you really mean the German Leica was bought back in 1952 by a Japanese company? Nowadays it's normal that an Asian company incorporates a German company, but in the fifties?! regards, Henri.

Hi Geoff, I use for this purpose the Samson C-Control for more than 2 years now and never had any problem with this little amplifier. Price here in Europe is about 125 euro. I use the device during my slideshows placed between my laptop and Fostex speakers and that's sufficient for a hall with about 100-150 visitors. The C-Control is designed and engineered in the USA by Samson Technologies. gr. Henri.

Many thanks, Igor, for your clear explanation; it's a remarkable world we live in these days..... Henri.