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Not yet, but it will do soon. Jill

Fast for me Jill

If you set up a template for new projects with all of the options you want, then you don't need to go into every time you start a new project. Just type in the name and everything else will be set. I very rarely need to go to project options. Jill

A Template is easier and it is also visible from within PTE Also saves space & time as you do not have to unzip. I try to save all of my AV's as a template. I can the copy from my main PC to my laptop & know that all the files are available. Jill

Hi Ian, first question, do the images really have to be in date order? It is usually better to group images according to content and colour as long as they still tell the story. If the images are high Resolution then it may be possible to enlarge the vertical ones and do a slow pan up or down the image, to keep everything the same aspect ratio. But too many pans can be distracting. If you wish to show the whole of the vertical images then as you suggest, placing them side by side can work. Use a suitable full frame image, either slightly blurred or desaturated as a background. This could be the same image throughout the AV to keep continuity, or you could use the preceding image. Don't put the vertical ones full height, just reduce them slightly and maybe add a very thin border and shadow to make them stand out above the background. You could either bring two images up together, Or bring up one then the other. You could also change the background to that of the following image, so that it will easily transition into that. The main aim is to keep the images flowing and avoid distractions. If you live anywhere within travelling distance of Manchester (UK), then we run 1to1 workshops before our regular meetings at Wilmslow Guild AV Group. You are more than welcome to come along. See http://www.wilmslowguildav.org.uk for details. Or see http://www.avnews.org.uk for other AV events. Jill

Thanks for fixing this so quickly

You don't need to go back to PTE9, just publish as an MP4 in PTE10. Sometimes MP4 are bigger than the exe & sometimes a lot smaller. It depends on the content. Download the free VLC Player onto your XP laptop & the MP4 should run without problems. If running your shows from a Menu then use 'Run Application or Open File' & as long as VLC is the default player for MP4 files it will open & play. Jill

If you do this in Timeline, then yes it will overlap the first slide. If they have the same duration then it will appear that it has overwritten the first slide In slide view you can position the cursor on the white part just before the first slide (or just after the last) & PTE will insert the blank in the correct place. Jill

A beginner doesn't, I have just had this exact case. Someone sent in an AV and when I played it I could see that the transitions were jumping rather than flowing smoothly. They sent me a picture of the timeline and I could immediately see the problem with all the red overlaps. As they were brand new to PTE they hadn't realised what the red was. When you know it is easy, but when you don't know it isn't. Jill

because inserting in Timeline depends where you put the pointer & can make slides overlap if the gap between slides is not big enough to insert a new one. Yes I know that you can then adjust the positions but a newcomer to PTE may not realise that there is an overlap - as in this case? I always insert, move or delete in Slide view and use Timeline for adjusting slide duration & transition times. Jill

Good question, I keep trying to get other groups to hold a judging but so far no one else has said yes. If we could get more, then North Wales could be considered as a separate country. Also if Northern Ireland could hold one, that also could be another country. Jill

Thanks, away for a couple of days, will try that next week. Jill

North Wales is the UK judging, Klaus knows that we are just waiting for confirmation of the date. Jill

Hi Ian, No not you specifically, the post was directed at anyone who enters competitions. We get some very large file sizes for shows that only last a few minutes & not many slides. I know about the dpi/ppi But saving at 72dpi vastly reduces the file size compared to 300dpi I do Save for web in Photoshop at around 60 to 80% and have no problems when the images are projected on a large screen. This keeps each image around a few hundred K rather than several mb - makes a big difference to the final file size. I usually build my AV with the full size images until I am happy with it, then resize each image to crop as I need it. Jill

A plea! If you are making a show with larger images and intend entering competitions, please remember that these large shows will take much longer to upload and download. Also the poor competition secretary will have many to process and if everyone sends big files, they need a lot more storage space. Individual image files do not have to be big for projection. Even on a big screen you still only need 72dpi. Most competitions run on 1920x1080 or 1600x1200 projectors. Some smaller clubs are still using 1024x768 So please resize your images if entering competitions or festivals. Thanks, Jill

I have just connected an external USB3 Hard Drive, I click on the Drive Letter from the Menu bar to select the Drive. This shows the folders & images in the File List, but the Drive does not show in the File Tree. (left most Panel) Am sure I have done this before & not had any problems, what am I missing?? Using PTE10.6 Jill

This is a great competition and if you can get along to a judging then do. It is surprising just how inventive folks can be, trying to keep it short and be easily understood in many different languages. The UK judging will be in North Wales early June. Details will be posted on www.avnews.org.uk once the date is confirmed. Jill

You can easily switch between the standard and pro versions to see the difference. In settings, preferences, just select the version. If all you want to do is basic slide shows, with some pans or zooms, and any image effects - colour, blur etc you do in your normal image editor, then the standard version is fine. If you want to do more elaborate shows and control the sound volume with key points on the timeline, then go for the pro. But you can always upgrade to the pro later for just the difference in price. Hope this helps. Jill

No, only 1 instance. I do open more than 1 if I am copying from 1 project to another, but normally only 1

Igor, it is with PTE AV Studio 10.0.6 I was making a Menu for a competition this weekend. I opened last year's Menu project - Menu19 (made with PTE9) & saved with a new name Menu20 I then made changes, saved Menu20 & closed PTE10 When I reopened PTE10 it opened Menu19.pte instead of Menu20.pte I also noticed this with another project I was working on, this was an old project originally made with PTE5 I think. But each time I saved with a new name in PTE10 it opened up the previous version instead of the latest one. I usually save with a new name every time I make several changes - Project1; Project1a; Project1b etc Jill

Igor, thanks, this is what I do already and have done for many years. It is when I click the run application and the window opens to show the available files. These are all exe files, I have to click the down arrow to choose all files for it to show the video files as well. All the files I am running from the menu are in the same folder. I was wondering if you could make that window that opens on run application also include video as well as exe files. Just trying to save a few mouse clicks. Jill

Igor, thanks an interesting idea. However I think this would involve more work, these are not my AV's but those that other people have entered into the competitions. You have said that it is best to make MP4 if a show contains heavy animation or video, especially with the Windows10/Nvidia problems, so that is what people have done. Some have been made with other programs - M.Objects, Wings, Proshow etc. or a Mac program When the entries come in I run them all through to make sure they play correctly. If I was then to take the video file & make an exe in PTE I would have to run them again to make sure they still played correctly. I simply don't have the time to do this with all the entries. Jill

As more people are making MP4's these days instead of Exe files, could it be possible for the 'Action on Mouse Click - Open Application' to display video files as well as exe files. I have just been making a Menu to run competition entries and well over half are video files. This means that for each entry I have to click on the drop down arrow to display 'all files' to be able to find the video file to link to. If it is possible, it would save a lot of time if the video files were shown along with the exe files. This competition only had 33 entries, so not too bad to do it. But there is one coming up that currently has 70 with still some more to come in. And another which is likely to have over 100 entries. Just trying to save a bit of time in preparing for the competitions. Jill

Hi Malcolm, Thought you already had a later version than 7.5. That is so old now & upgrades were stopped for that a long time ago. The free upgrades were for the life of the product, not your life. Maybe something went wrong with the installation, I have never had any problems switching to the light interface. Try uninstalling, re download PTE & install again. Jill

Thanks, I will stick to downloading myself from the Forum. I check it every day so can easily see when a new version is out. Jill