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John Agreed. Thanks for your input. Also, your referenced post was most interesting. Any additional functionality (particularly audio mixing) added to PTE would be most welcome. Although I have no complaints at the moment. I used to use Irfanview for the same purpose, and while it works, it is way more cumbersome (and much larger final product) than PTE. As it is, I take necessary photos; use Irfanview or Corel Photo-Paint to alter/correct them; use CorelDRAW! to construct any needed graphics; use PowerPoint to construct the slide with company logo & written info then re-download slide as .jpg; use Audacity to cut/alter the voice-over with sound effects & music; then combine it all with PTE. A single application that would include all (or even numerous) of these functionalities would be the cat's-meow (as we say in the States). Jerry

Alan Thanks for the input. That is essentially what I do now (or at least have done so far - I'm very new with PTE). Still, considerable time is required to fine-tune the flow by repeatedly previewing the slide show to ensure a smooth presentation. I'm training some hard-bitten types on the subject of the regulatory aspects of hazardous waste management, and if the flow is jerky, or with noticeable out-of-sync pauses, they tend to erupt in, shall we say, unkind criticism and I quickly loose the crowd, at least for a while. And due to the serious nature of the subject matter, I can't afford to loose their attention even for a while. Jerry

Indeed! That sounds like a very functional compromise. I shall give it a try with my next series of slide shows. Thanks very much John & Peter, for your ideas & assistance! Jerry

Peter Thanks again. You are quite right. I, in fact, did combine 30 smaller .mp3 files into a single huge voice-over file using Audacity. And that does, indeed, work as you recommend. However, I am making instructional slide shows which require multiple variations on a theme for different recipient groups, so I need to add slides for this one; remove for that one; change the voice-over slightly for another; etc. so I find it much more convenient to tack a small voice-over to each slide, as needed, rather than re-work the entire voice file for a small change. Jerry

Many Thanks, Peter Your advice & experience are greatly appreciated. Coincidentally, my slide show was set up as you suggest to begin with. As I will be using PTE to make instructional slide shows, each slide will have a voice-over. If I don't set following slides farther enough along on the time line, they still take over & cut off the previous slide & voice-over. So I find I have to preview the presentation, check the timing of each slide relative to the previous one, then go back in & either decrease the timepoint (to avoid too much dead space) or increase it (to avoid cutting off the previous slide's voice-over). It would seem to me that if I could see the voice print (as I can when I have only a single huge voice .mp3 for the entire slide show), it would be far easier to pick out where the previous voice-over ends, then set the following slide with attached voice over at that point. Again, thanks for taking the time to consider my conundrum. Jerry

Igor I'm a new PTE user, but I love it and I've already used it successfully to create a training slide slow. Thanks for the great product! Because I prefer to insert a stand-alone .mp3 narration with each instructional slide, I find the inability to see the waveform for each individual voice file in the timeline bar to be a difficulty. If I could see the voice print attached to each slide, that would make it much easier for me to properly position each slide in the timeline without having to repeatedly preview the presentation to ensure the first slide+.mp3 is not cut off by the following slide. Please forgive my lack of experience if there is a way to accomplish this already & I just haven't found it yet.