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Yes it works well Jill

Igor, the problem of files remaing Bold & Blue occurs in Full screen view of filelist. Add slides, either by dragging from filelist, double clicking in Filelist, or from Full Screen view of Filelist. Those selected show Blue & Bold. Remove one or more slides from slidelist (or from full screen Slidelist) The name goes back to normal in the Filelist, but in Full screen Filelist it is still Blue & Bold. Coming out of Full screen & clicking on another Folder, then return to original Folder and full screen view & the filenames are now back to normal. The Blue colour needs to be brighter as doesn't stand out that much in either Light or Dark Mode. Jill

Hi Igor, thanks I will try again with the new version tomorrow. Another problem we discovered tonight when giving a demo of PTE to both Mac & Windows users. If you add slides in slideview (or fullscreen Filelist) the filename now goes Bold & changes to a blue colour. The blue is not that easy to see in light mode, maybe red would be better. If you then delete all the slides in the slidelist, the filenames still remain Bold & Blue. You need to click on another folder folder then come back to the original folder for them to reset. Tried on both the Windows and Mac version & it happens in both. Jill

When installing PTE 10.5 b28 it no longer asks which previous version to copy setting from. So I have had to set it up from scratch. This is the first 10.5 beta I have downloaded. All previous versions of PTE ask which version to copy settings from. Will this be corrected in the final version? Jill

Mark see PM Jill

Hi Mark, depending on how long the video meeting tomorrow lasts we can have a quick zoom session & I will try to sort out your problems. Otherwise maybe on Friday after the Leeds meeting. Jill

Mark, I agree that just using effects sparingly as you have is better than all the way through. I think that would have spoiled it. I assume that both the Windows & Mac do the same thing, would seem strange if they don't. There are bugs in the Windows version if you try to change timings after setting up the Master/Link. Not tried it for a while so assume they still exist. Maybe Igor can look at it once the mac version is finished. Jill

Mark, you should be able to create the longer video in PTE, just be careful to align the start & end points of each clip so that it flows. If it is falling snow (as in All Human Beings?) then you may just be able to add the single video to each slide. Again depends on how it flows from slide to slide. As Dave says the video must be long enough to cover the slides you require to use Master & Linked video. You could try slowing it down to make it longer? Jill

Hi Mark, the video should play continuosly over the 3 slides. Do the images on these slides show? Jill

Saving the show as a Template will do exactly what you want. It also has the advantage in that all of your shows will be in one place - a Templates folder. Plus all of your shows can be accessed directly from PTE without the need to go searching and unzipping. You can easily copy the Template folders to another PC and they will be available within PTE on that computer also. Not sure about it but I would assume they will also work with the Mac version in the same way. I create a Template for all of my shows.

Agreed Mark, I think this has been asked for before. It would be so much quicker if we could just click on the Slide to set the centre position. Jill

you can't normalise in PTE, use something like Audacity to do that. With PTE you will just have to adjust the volume of teh individual tracks. Jill

I agree, PTE is so flexible that you can do anything if you think about it. If I want to copy the parameters of a keyframe, I just copy that Object to another slide & then delete any other keyframes that I do not want. I can then change the Object (image) to another in the Properties tab I find it quick & easy. Jill

Maybe I am misunderstanding your requests, but if you Clone a keyframe it copies all the settings. To copy a layer - Object - to another slide is easy, right click copy then move to the slide you want & paste. If you then change the file in the properties tab all of the setting will be transferred to the new object. PTE is very easy once you get used to it Jill

Files used are marked in Bold. This only applies to those added directly to the Slide List. Those added via O&A do not show the Bold tag. Jill

Making all of your slides the same duration becomes extremely boring and predictable to watch. Unless of course you are presenting them as individual single images and not as a whole AV playing in time to the music. It is a standard windows function to Ctrl+A to select all slides, then you can deselect the ones you don't want by Ctrl click on them. Or click on the first then shift click on the last to just select a section. For audio on a video to completely mute it do that in O&A. To adjust the volume right click on the video in timeline and select seperate audio. Then use keyframes on the volume line to adjust. The status bar will show the filename so you can see if jpg or MP4 etc. You may need to turn that on in preferences. PTE really is easy to use and very powerful. The fact that the user has to do things rather it being all automatic is what gives it the flexibity. Jill

Mark, you can do it all in PTE Make the ones you want to last as a Master video on the first slide. Then add the same video to subsequent slides but make it a Linked video. See properties tab for the video in O&A. If the video is shorter than the total length of the slide show, then just make it a master video again when it's duration runs out. This is what I did to the clouds in the 'Suddenly' AV we showed last Friday. Jill

you only get the volume line in the Pro version of PTE. Make sure you are using that - Check Help/About to see your version Jill

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read it through yourself twice slowly That should then be long enough for someone seeing it for the first time to read it. Make sure you use a ledigible font, for some of the more Script type fonts it is better to leave it on slightly longer especially if over an image Jill

This is the slide following the video. In Timeline view the length (duration) of a Slide is determined by where the following slide starts If your video is say 30 secs long & you only want the first 10 secs, then position the following slide (or video) at 10secs - Simple Jill

I gave you 3 different ways to trim a video depending on what you want. The quickest & easiest is in the Timeline As I said above, you don't need to trim the end - just move the following slide to the point you want the video to end. Very quick & easy. Jill

Igor, many thanks for your offer of help. Please see email with Link to MP4 Jill

Having done some more tests it appears to be happening with MP4 files created with M.Objects software. We are currently receiving entries for a competition & these are the ones causing the problems. VLC have come back to say no one else has of yet reported a problem & wanted to know what the Codec was. We have replied that it does appear to be related to M.Objects. MP4's made with PTE both Windows & Mac versions play OK Jill

It appears that there is a problem with the latest VLC Player 3.0.11 MP4 files play perfectly in an earlier version 3.0.8, but the sound breaks up when playing in the latest version. The same MP4 file will play OK in Windows Media Player & in PTE. We have emailed VLC about this problem. Best not to update yet if you have an earlier version. Jill