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Hi, Lin, I just received today a post about new version "5.60 RELEASE CANDIDATE". After what you told me, I decided to download and install this 5.60 CANDIDATE VERSION (what does this mean? No more Beta? Not yet REAL version?) Congratulations! Some important improvements, indeed. I was just finishing a small project with 5.52, but I concluded it with 5.60. Great! No problems at all. It is my very first project with PTE. I am glad. It is an "Invitation" for my family and friends to watch my first Blog... to "open" next 20th. Here it is for you to have a look... http://orizaba2.powweb.com/CONVITE(comSOM).exe Regards, Jose

Hi Lin, Thanks, may be I downlowd Beta 20 of 5.6, but I have a point to clear before doing so. You say that both versions can co-exist without interference. Does this mean that they are 100% separate installations? No "mixture" at all? On the other hand, I am now working on a project, obviously in 5.52. Could this project run on Beta 20 of 5.6 without any problem? If so, how to "transfer" it? This "transfer" would apply as well to future projects made in 5.52, in case I would wish to rebuild them on 5.6. Thanks again for your interest and help! Regards, Jose

Thanks Lin, once again! I am using PTE v5.52 (the one I bought), so I think I can not take any result from your sample. I opened your project in my 5.52, and I only can see a fixed beautiful chipfriend! I added your mask, I added some text... but nothing happened. Am I missing something? Or should I have version 5.6 Beta? I don't like to use Beta versions, so I would prefer to keep my 5.52 till true 5.6 is delivered. Anyhow, I am glad to see that this effect will be possible in a near future. Thanks to Xavier, as well. Regards, Jose

Peter, thanks for your help! I never imagined such a possibility but it's clever and usefull. I am always learning... By the way, concerning vertical text scroling: Is it possible NOT to see up-vertical-scroling text starting exactly in the low slide border and disapearing exactly in the up slide border? Instead of such exact border's limits, I would prefer to see such limits inside slide itself, through a fixed wipe-dissolve, I mean, like scroling text fading in and out the slide, away from the exact slide's borders? Did I make myself understood? I think this is not possible because I couldn't find in PTE any kind of wiping mask, or so. But I never know, may be there is some trick to get this... Thanks and regards, Jose

I thank you very much for your help. I am sorry for my former questions because it is my fault not to have "studied" PTE carefully, concerning "used slide bold" mark, for example. That's why friends are helpfull! I found fantastic not to have text dependent from main slide. It was a tremendous problem to try to use same size, fixed position, etc.. Good!!! However... sorry for my ignorance, but what is that of "rasterized"? I already had found this but never worried about what it means. Now I see that it is important to understand "rasterizing" because this leads to fixed size fonts, as I understood. But I have no idea how to rasterize a font...! Could you please give me some starting procedure? Thanks again and regards, Jose

Hi, Lin, Thanks for your advices. In fact, suspecting that it was impossible, I had already used AUDACITY to create a complete stereo soundtrack with several noises and music, synchronized with slides' timings. But mainly I decided to use my movie editor PINNACLE LIQUID 6.10 PRO, by far the easiest way to deal with slideshow soundtrack (till 99 stereo audio tracks to use, and all possible sound mixing, fading and effects!) By the way, Lin, I am a beginer with PTE and any kind of slideshow, but I work for a long time with DV movies. And this makes me think how PTE could be improved, if possible, by some small utilities or details which I miss (only because I am used to DV editing), such as: 1. Each used slide in timeline should be "marked" in the list as used. 2. In text, font size should be numeric defined, not through zoom (draging corners) effect. It is dificult to adopt exactly same size from slide to slide. 3. Is it necessary that "objects" are "connected" to main slide? I mean, for example, a text on a slide "suffers" the same zoom or pan as the slide itself. If we want to zoom the slide but keep text still, we must correct the text introducing an oposite zoom, is it not? Sorry for such "impertinences", may be it is not possible according to program's structure, but I should like to hear your opinion. Thanks again and best regards, Jose

Here I am again with same problem, one step forward! How to start first music not in second 0,000 but only on second 14,500 (example)? In other words, how to position music(s) where we wish (not necessarly at start of the show (if we wish to have silence during first 2 or 3 slides)? Thanks for your help.

Dear Lin Evans, Do you remember your article dated April 27, 2007, posted in Luminous Landscape Forum / The Coffee Corner? I never saw a so decisive opinion on a product! I was working with Soundslides trying to build my first slideshows. Soundslides is good, I must say, and the owner never let me down with my questions and doubts, I must thank him. However, I was looking for something more sophisticated when I entered in Luminous Landscape Forum and found your article. At once I looked at your site and saw some of your slideshows, I tried PTE, and some days after I bought it and I am now building my first slideshows. What a pleasure is working with PTE and look at final results! Thanks Lin! And thanks as well for your quick reply to this actual problem of mine. I never expected to receive an answer directly from you, a true expert! I am lucky! I understood your advices, I already tried some quick approaches, I think I will be able to manage the situation, but I will need some time. Do you mind if I will come back to you in case I have some difficulty? Thanks again and best regards, Jose

Dear PTE experts! I should thank a little help! I can not believe that it is not possible to create a long vertical scrolling text which runs over multiple slides, but I still didn't find the way! I know how to create a normal vertical scrolling text running during 1 slide, using -pan to +pan, etc.. My problem is that I have a very long text which I should need to scroll during some 3 minutes (time of music), and so, I must use some 40 slides during this process. How to make text scroll from 00,000 second till the end of the music, so, overlaying some 40 slides in between? Thanks for your help. Jose

I just wish to thank you, LumenLux, for your informations. I saw your blog (Blogger, like mine still under construction) but I didn't get conclusions for the moment. Anyhow, I understood that there is a possibility of embeding (by Vimeo). I think I must study Vimeo first and understand all the process. I just discovered PTE today, and I am very enthousiastic with its quality, that's the main reason of my interest. I wish such quality could be 100% preserved when embeding and converting, as well, to FLV or MP4 (which CODECS does Vimeo use?). I must study all Vimeo process and ask some more questions on the subject. In the meantime, could you tell me how to make a simple "cross fade transition" in PTE? I see a lot of transitions but not the "cross fade". And how to "delete" the pre-applyed transitions, and put new ones? Sorry, I know I must learn by myself, I just wanted to test as soon as possible some details. And these transitions are making me crazy! I will come back to you tomorrow, ok? Thanks again.

This PTE is an amazing software! How is it possible to put (embed) a PTE slideshow in a blog? As other slideshows's software (like SoundSlidesPlus, for example) an embeding code must be generated, which is done by a small utility of its own. Besides, it "prepares" a "publish-to-web" folder to be uploaded to host server. How to deal with this in PTE? Another important point: in a blog, how to "put" the PTE slideshow into the usual 500x282 pixel window (16:9 video usual blog's window), with option to fullscreen? As before, in other softwares it's the "embeding code" to include all these parameters. The same with PTE? Thanks to someone who can clear this for me.