David White

Thanks guys this answers why I have had so many problems! It looks like the DVD burner I bought was a waste of money! I also tried the route using my laptop but discovered it didn’t have an HDMI output! To summarise my new understanding: 1) If I want an HD slide show from DVD I need to buy a Bluray (or HD) Burner which presumably comes with its own software and also a Bluray/HD DVD player. 2) I then produce my slide show at 1920x1080 resolution and create an MP4 video file. However I can’t see how this is done – it doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the Help file or appear on the video builder screen – but maybe I just missed it. 3) I then burn my Bluray/HD disc – presumably with the software that comes with the DVD writer. 4) With any luck I then play it on the Bluray/HD player and all will be well. I shall probably take this route if it is not too expensive but I have also been considering an alternative. A company called Climax digital produces a piece of kit called a VGA+audio/YpbPr+audio to HDMI converter which they claim will convert my simple laptop output and give me a genuine HD presentation on my TV. Does anyone have any experience of this as it appears to be a neat and not very expensive option. Climax digital can be found at http://www.climaxdigital.co.uk/epages/BT3449.sf Regards Dave

I have been trying for weeks to make a DVD of a .pte slide show presentation. My first attempt, using video builder, produced tiny images of very poor quality. I thought the problem might be because I had set up the menu template wrongly – so I decided to burn an ISO Image from the “File” menu without using it. I then discovered that you can’t burn more than one track on a write only DVD. I therefore bought a re-writable DVD so I didn’t keep wasting DVDs but when I tried to burn it I got the message: “Runtime error – This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application support team fro more information”. At this point the progamme locks and I have to exit using CTRL-ALT-DEL!!! Surely it can’t be this difficult to make a DVD. I have made all the images 1920x1080px and I think I have got all the rest of the show compatible. I have read (and re-read) the Help file but all it says is “It is important to note, that ISO image is a special file, which is used to run the project, which you burn on the disc, without this disc.” Not very helpful! I have tried to understand how one creates a disc using the Create menu and the template as described on pages 71 et seq. I am sorry to say that most of it is beyond me. For a start I do not understand why I need a template or what its purpose is. Why can’t I just make a DVD - can someone give me a step-by-step procedure that will simply make a DVD from my .pte file that will give me an HD image on my TV please?

I want to display a slideshow on a 16:9 HD TV so that it completely fills the screen. Up to now I have set all my slide dimensions to 1024x768px (max). I normally display my shows using my laptop computer connected via the 15-pin interconnect cable to an Epson 1024x768px projector. I can also use this cable to connect to the TV and slide shows run quite happily but, of course, with a 4:3 aspect ratio (which I am also able to set the TV to). Is it possible to produce a slide show (without any video clips) which will exactly fill the HD TV screen? I would like to continue to use the laptop for this but appreciate that even although I can set the screen resolution to 1600x900 the display will not match the screen shape! Do I need to transfer my slide show to DVD and if so what image size should I choose? DaveOR

Hello everyone, As someone totally new to forums I am having great difficulty in sending in my responses to all your helpful comments. I keep trying but when I look they don't seem to appear. Therefore I apologise if my response seems somewhat tardy, but I am trying yet again and hope I will be successful this time!! Thank you for all your assistance - the upshot is I shall go back to my preferred method of making up a menu slide and running the show from the buttons thereon. I did try putting in Startup Windows with very large file sizes and, by adjusting the aspect ratio, managed to more or less cover the screen. But it is not very satisfactory. Once again thank you for all your helpful comments. If this gets through I shall start a new topic on how one can take out selections from an existing .pte file without desynchronising the music files Dave

I decided to use a Startup Window for a project for my camera club. However I cannot make the window cover the whole of the visible screen area and this leaves the desktop showing round the edge - making the presentation look untidy. Is there any way of making this window cover the whole screen?