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I am sure you have already checked these but - In Project Option/Advanced Tab is Synchronise Sountrack & Slides Ticked?? In Timeline view it will play from wherever the Red Play Bar is positioned. To play the sound from a particular slide the position the Play bar at that point. Jill

Totally agree with you JRR I find the constant zooming that some people use horrible to watch, it makes me feel extremely nauseous & dizzy. You want the viewer to see the content of the images, not how clever you are using effects. When you feel a Zoom is neccessary it is often better to start close & then zoom out slowly to show the whole image. But only use it occasionally. Jill

I use Global times when trying to fit to the the music, although now that we can see the waveform in O&A it is much easier. I have always used Global & rarely use Slide Times - each to their own Jill

You can easily switch between global and slide times using the Tools menu at the bottom of the O&A window. Both are useful depending on what you are doing at the time. Jill

Merry Christmas Igor & all at WnSoft. Thank you for all the work you do to make PTE such a wonderful program. Picture created in PTE from 4 separate images & text. Best Wishes Jill

Laszlo, If you want the whole show to repeat then in Project Options/Control Tab Select Action after last slide - Repeat Show. In the latest versions of PTE you can repeat images, sounds, or video & it only adds the MB once in the exe no matter how many times you use them. Jill

Slide option of Loop should work , I have just tried this. The slide will loop until you press the right arrow key on the keyboard to move it on to the next slide. Repeating the same image(s) in a project does not add volume to the exe Jill

Hi Brian, Glad to hear that you are entering BIAFF. I have also put a couple of entries in & I know that other AV workers are also entering. Use the Publish to HD Video, but set the size to match your image size of 1400x1050 - Select Custom from the drop down Set it to 60p and leave everything else at the default. For those who don't know BIAFF is the British International Amateur Film Festival Get your entry in by today to qualify for Free entry for IAC members. See www.theiac.org.uk Jill

The Bold is much easier to see in the light view of PTE rather than the dark view. Jill

Ideally you shouldn't use an image again in the same AV, people will notice it. PTE already shows you which images are used by marking them in Bold But only those used as main images, anything added in O&A is not marked This is something that has been asked for in the past. Personally I don't have any trouble knowing which images i have used Jill

Agree this could be useful as it does give different effects to just reducing the Opacity. Jill

if you hold down shift the clips will all move together, but this only works for 1 track at a time. To be able to lock a group of clips together on different tracks would be very useful. Maybe CTRL Click to select those we want & then lock them so they would all move as a block. Jill

have you set your Menu slide to wait for keypress? This will keep the Menu slide on screen until you either Esc or move on using the arrow keys on the keyboard If not then the Menu will finish before your AV ends Jill

The results of the 26th Great Northern are now available to view from our website www.gnfestival.org.uk The online event was watched by around 175 people with most watching on all 3 days. Our audience came from Russia, Norway, The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Slovakia, The USA, Canda, Ireland and all 4 nations of the UK. Thank you to Igor for joining us and telling us some of his plans for PTE 11, we look forward to testing next year. Jill

I often copy parts of one project to another, but I always open 2 instances of PTE. One with the original project that I want to copy slides from & a 2nd copy of PTE that I want to paste into. This 2nd copy may or may not already have slides & music present. As long as the sound files are linked to slides being copied I have never had any problems. Jill

Audio ducking can only respond to what has happened & reduces the audio following to whatever level you select. However this works when editing a track. As mentioned above set your sound levels to the correct volume in the first place. Music should be at least 20db below the voice level to be clearly heard. Jill

click on Tools - bottom right of the O&A window. It is one of the options Jill

what size are your image? What is your monitor resolution? Jill

Send the WeTransfer to yourself, then post the link here or send to Igor in a PM Jill

At the top in the menu bar there is a little picture icon, I think with a drop down arrow. Not at my pc so can't check at the moment. If you click the icon, it will show a slider and you can increase the size of the thumbnails Jill

Just a reminder that you only have a few days left to book for the 26th Great Northern Festival. Bookings close on Wednesday 1st December. Almost all of the entries are made with PTE so join us to see just what can be achieved. All are short, the maximun is 12 minutes, most are around 4 to 6 minutes long. Between them they contain a mix of stills, video & animation and cover a wide range of topics. This is a major UK Festival & we have people joining us form several countries including USA, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France & Slovakia as well as the UK & Ireland. Even if you don't normally enter competitions you can learn a lot by watching what other's produce. See above post for website & details. All times are GMT We hope you can join us Jill

Shouldn't be, I often use both. It could be a corrupt file, but if it plays in Preview then it should play in the MP4 Try making small projects with just 1 image & the music files 1 at a time. See which plays & which doesn't Jill PS Also make sure you haven't muted a track

remove them 1 by 1 until you find the cause. Also check the properties to see if 1 is different from the others Jill

But why convert?? Just do each one as required when building the AV. No point in resizing to 3:2 & then finding that you have cut something vital off that is needed to allow the images to flow. I aways work with full size images to build up an AV. It is then easy to Zoom, adjust position etc in PTE to make the story & images flow. Then once I am happy with the order & composition I will resize them all down to match the Project size in Photoshop, saving as a new name. You need to keep the final exe as small as possible to run smoothly Jill

You only add the images that you are using to PTE and resize them to suit. No need to do anything outside of PTE Jill