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I have now also had the same message when trying to preview from current slide. I tried several times previewing from different slides and got the error message each time. Jill

I am making a new show which has 'wait for key press' on each slide. I was running in Preview & it went through the first few slides without problem, then I pressed the right arrow key to move to the next slide & got an Access Violation error. I am using the latest version 9.0.12 I have run this several times previously & it was OK, but this time the error occurred & I had to Esc the preview as it wouldn't respond. Several other strange things have happened while building the show that I cannot quite explain, such as making changes to slides & then they disappear! Also changing the Slide name in Slide Options wouldn't always work. I cannot reproduce these problems when trying to work out what I did & what went wrong. Jill

Just checked & the left most option above the Timeline there is a check box 'Time Points' If you want to see the Flags then make sure this is checked. Jill

There is a button just above the Timeline that turns the flags on and off. Think it is on the left somewhere. Not at my computer at the moment so can't check. I always have the flags off as I find them distracting and prefer to always move slides in the slide view. That way I know my timings will be kept. Jill

Hi Gary. I agree, being able to move all tracks along together would be very useful. The other way which might work, is in Project Options Audio tab & then for each clip add the same offset time. But again it takes time when you have many clips. Jill

Gary, not at my computer so can't check, but I think this will work. Link each sound clip to a slide, doesn't matter which as long as they are all linked. Insert a blank slide at the start and make its duration is equal to the amount you want to shift the tracks by eg 5 secs. Then unlink all the sound clips and delete the blank slide. The sound clips should stay in the new position. Save your project as a new name first just in case! Jill

Depending on the nature of the video one way round this is to have a slide with the video only. In slide options, set this slide to loop. At the end of the video it will go back to the beginning and play over. In project options set the slides to wait for key press, then when you press the right arrow key the show will move onto the next slide which can be a combination of video and text etc. As I said it depends on the nature of the video and how visible the looping would be. Hope this helps. Jill

Rob, you can easily join 2 or more Projects by using copy & paste. Open the project you wish to copy, select all slides, CTRL+C to copy, then open the project you wish to paste into & CTRL+V to paste. If you wish to copy any sound files as well then you will need to Link the individual sound clips to seperate Slides Doesn't matter which slide they are Linked to as long as each sound clip is linked. Once pasted into the joint project you can then unlink them. Jill

Thanks Igor, this now works correctly. Jill

In V9 when you click on Help/WhatsNew it takes you to the Version 8 whats new page & not Version 9 Jill

Look under Settings/Preferences/Toolbars Make sure there is a tick next to 'Start Preview from current Slide' Otherwise just right-click in the mini preview window & it will start from that point fullscreen. Jill

Brian, do you have the latest version of vlc player? We use this to play many mp4 files, made with various software, in international competitions and find it always plays them smoothly. We also find that while a lot of hardware setups will struggle with an exe, the mp4 usually play smoothly. So I don't understand why you are having the opposite experience. Jill

Glad you have solved it. Jill

If not all of the icons are showing on the projector it sounds as though some settings have been changed. Make sure that the projector resolution is correct via control panel and that you are duplicating the display rather than extending. The reason I suggested trying a PTE project is when you Preview if there are two screens is laptop and projector it will ask which you want to display it on, screen 1 or 2. Try with both to see what happens. If the message does not appear then it suggests that the screen is duplicated and the problem lies elsewhere. Jill

John, can you see the laptop desktop etc via the projector? Have you tried opening a PTE project and previewing that? I cannot think of any reason that the show would not project. Does it appear on the laptop screen but not on the projector? Give us some more details so we can try to help you further. Jill

+1 to both suggestions Jill

Hi Igor, I am away from home at the moment, so can't send anything. Will check again later next week when back and see if I can reproduce the problem. Jill

In PTE9.0.9 I am changing some Text in O&A. Normally as I type the box will expand to fit the new Text, but it isn't always. I have several Slides with the same Text, on some Slides the box will expand to the new Text & on others it won't. Also the first time I tried to move on to the next Slide, using the arrows at the top right of the O&A screen, I got an Exception Violation. Sorry I didn't manage to capture this. Jill

Gary, as long as the video files are in the same folder as the exe it will play. If you moved just the exe to another computer, then the video would would not be available. The advantage is that the exe file size is much smaller. You then have the individual video files which could be uploaded separately, keeping the file sizes small. A smaller exe file will start faster and possibly play better on a slower computer. With the MP3 file. If you only had one track with a single or several MP3 files then there is no advantage in converting the output to a single MP3. But with several tracks, or mixed format files then converting reduces the file size of the exe. Jill

I think this is now set on by default. There is no option to change it in version 9. Jill

Hi Jenny, In Project options /Advanced Tab make sure that Syncronize soundtrack & Slides is ticked. To Link A sound clip to a particular Slide go into Timeline view, Click on a Slide then Right Click on the sound file & choose Link to slide n where n is the Slide number you clicked on. This will ensure that the sound stays in postion even if you move the slide. If the S;ides are adjusting to the length of the sound track then you may have somehow set - fit all slides to sound In the timeline view there are 3 horizontal bars. If you click this a drop down menu will appear - the first is fit all slides to sound track - make sure this is NOT ticked. Hope this helps Jill

Gary, I agree with you on this one. I too find it frustrating if I adjust the speed of a video & the length of the slide is not altered. Especially if I am trying different speeds to get the right effect. But I also agree with Tonton, that if a video is just one of the Objects on a Slide then the length of the Slide should not be adjusted. So a check box is a good option. I would also like to see this happen if I manually adjust the length of the video by dragging in the sliders at left & right - ie crop the video duration. Again a check box to allow adjustment of the Slide duration. Jill

Jim, you can drag'n'drop from windows explorer to PTE. Just open up an explorer window, open PTE9 & then drag from explorer & drop into the slide view in PTE. You can do multiple images at once by selecting them in explorer first. Jill

Hi David, Yes of course you can still open old sequences in V9. Hope to see you Friday at WGAV - I can go through things with you if you need. Jill

Gary, surely it is the actual image that matters not what type of file it is. If you have the same file name with different extensions then you must have created them yourself? So why not give them a different name when you create them. Having the same name with different types is bound to lead to confusion. The full screen view of slides works as a light box, you can see all of your images and rearrange them easily. You can see which are video files and which are single images or PNG files by the way they display. As I said before, once an image is in the slidelist it's type shouldn't matter Jill