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PTE is an excellent product, very easy to use but also extremely powerful. You won't regret buying it. Jill

If you hold down shift when you drag a clip then all the following clips to the right will also move keeping their relationship to each other. Jill

If you wish to align several one lines of text then set the centre to -100 & make sure that Text justification is set to Left. Set up your first line & then copy & paste to get subsequent lines. To scroll it across the screen, you use keyframes. 1st keyframe is the start point, 2nd keyframe is the end point. The longer the distance between the keyframes the longer it will take to scroll. Give it about 10 secs I have never changed the sharper/smoother setting & have no problems with movement. I have been using PTE for more than 15 years. It may appear slightly jerky when viewing in O&A but should be smooth in the final exe. Depends on the speed of your computer. Jill

if you click on Help/About it will tell you the version. you need the pro version to have the volume editing any several other features. Jill

Hold down shift and drag the centre to where you want it. Jill

yes your approach will work fine Jill

Menus are very easy to make. Make a show, that has 'Wait for Keypress to show next Slide' This will keep the Menu on screen while individual shows are running. As mentioned previously, add Text or images for each show you wish to run. For each add an 'Action on Mouse Click' to 'Run Application or Open File' Make sure that all your shows are in the same folder as the Menu. The Menu has to be an exe file, but individual shows can be Exe or MP4 or another Program. Jill

Master, linked video clips do not need to be parent/child. You would only use parent/child if you want the parent to move and the child to follow. Opacity is not inherited so you can't use it for that. Also you only need to use master, linked if you want the same video to run over multiple slides. It is the same video that is linked to itself over the multiple slides. Hope you have now got it working George, using keyframes to bring up the inset video at the point you want. If you are still stuck then send me the files and I can go through it with you. Jill

George, I would adjust the video start/end times by using the pointers under the video . The Offset time is the time into that slide that you want your video to start playing. If your slide has a duration of 30 secs & you want this video to start playing after 20 secs, then set the offset to 00:20.00 The start time is the postion within that video that you want to start If your video is 10 sec long but you only want it start playing at 5 secs, then set the start time ether by dragging the left hand pointer to 5 secs or type 00:05.00 in the start time. Again if you want this video to finish before the normal end the set the end time by dragging the right hand pointer to where you wnat it to stop playing or type in the end time. The Duration of the video will be automatically calculated. Just make sure that the duration is long enough to be able to play all of the video. that you want Jill

Hi George, I also had a similar problem recently, trying to add video with an offset. Thought it was me doing something silly. Like your settings, my video was also showing a duration of zero. Maybe there is a bug somewhere that Igor needs to look at. I ended up taking both videos out & starting again & it then worked. Can't remember the steps to reproduce it. Jill

when you add a video the video soundtrack is automatically added with it, there is no need to do anything else. It is only if you wish to edit the video sound that you need to seperate them. Right click the video in the timeline & select seperate audio from video. This will show it as a sound file on the timeline, it also automatically mutes the sound from the video. You can then adjust the volume/trim etc as needed. Jill

Good, glad it helped. Jill

Maybe a quicker way would be to set it up for one slide. Link your sound to that slide, then copy & paste the slide however many times you need it. As the sound is linked it will automatically copy the sound along with the slide. You can then easily change the image on the slide to the one you want for each. I think this would be quicker than having to adjust timings & offsets for each. Jill

Hi Jim, No, you can only link a sound clip to a single Slide. If you Link sounds to slides further down the project & then add a new slide the sounds will stay linked to their original slides. You need to Link each sound to the appropriate Slide manually. Then whenever you move tat Slide or adjust its timing the sound will stay in the same position relative to that Slide. Jill

Linking the sound to a slide is very useful if you have it synced to that slide but then find you need to adjust the timing of any previous slides. The sound will still stay in perfect sync with that slide when it is moved. I have done it with many audio clips. If you have clips that overlap, when you link the first sound will cut off when the second starts & you will lose the crossfade. I link it temporary while copying then when pasted into the new project, unlink the sound to restore the crossfade. It only takes a few seconds to go through & link all the clips. The problem with DG's method is that you now only have 1 sound clip so cannot make any adjustments should you need to. Jill

if you link the seperate audio files to slides then you can copy & paste all the slides & the audio will go with them. You can link audio on different tracks to the same slide. I have done this many times when I want to copy existing projects to a new one. Jill

I had another AV which I made which featured pictures of all the Judges we have used in a Competition over the years. My Folder structure was in Years & each image was called Judges.jpg So I had 2014/Judges.jpg 2015/Judges.jpg etc Of course PTE couldn't make a Template or BIZ of this AV In this case I cannot rename the files as I need the Folder structure for all the other files that need to be kept together by Year. I would prefer if possible for a Prefix rather than suffix to be appended to the Duplicates. The File Path is already present in the .pte file so it should be easy to just amend to include more of the Path to make it unique instead of just the Filename. Hopefully this will be possible in a future version. Jill

Normally I do put all files into one folder. In my latest project, it was a background image that was used on every slide. I was working on my laptop and had to copy the project to my desktop to give a talk over Zoom. I had no time to go through all 70 slides to find out which one was different. Still not sure how it happened as each slide was copied from the previous to make sure background and title text were I exactly the same place. If PTE could at least say which slides had duplicate folders it would help narrow down where to look. Jill

I agree this is a problem, you cannot create a Template or a backup zip. If PTE could maybe just add the Folder name to distinguish that would help. I have just had the same problem, but only with 70 slides. Jill

The best way is to record at a decent level in the first place!! I know this doesn't always happen, but once overloaded & the peaks are clipped then there is nothing you can do about it. It is the equivalent of blown out highlights in an image, once gone you can't recover. If your sound level is too low, then normalise can lift the clip evenly - all it does is add the same amount to the whole clip, keeping all the peaks & troughs. If only certain parts are low, then select each & lift those This can be done in something like Audacity fairly quickly. It is best to normalise to about -3db, -1db is the absolute limit Never take it to zero If PTE could include a VU meter in a future version that would be a big help Jill

could be the way you are copying it - make sure you only select to the last character & not the whole line I have not had this problem & currently doing a lot of copy & paste. Jill

I can still run old exe files on my Windows 10. It does come up with a warning & if you select More... Then you can choose 'Run Anyway' If you still have problems then right click & choose run as administrator Jill

The Template Folder is only as large as all the files in your project. If what you are asking is for all files in a Project to be copied automatically then this is what a Template does. I use them all the time to save my Projects. The advantage is that you can open any Template from within PTE very quickly. Jill

Copy the Slides to the new Project, then save that as a Template. All files associated with that Project will be placed in the Template Folder. PTE has always been able to do this. Jill

Hi Matt, great pictures. The text is moving much too fast to read it. Moving text is much harder to read than still text It would be better to just put up a line at a time, leave it on long enough to read. You know what it says, but your audience only has one chance to read it and they will be looking at the video as well. Then put up the next line. Add a drop shadow - make the size of the shadow large so it adds a soft blur to the background of the text which helps it stand out against the image. Jill