Barry Beckham

Experts help please I have used the object editor to create 4 buttons on my last slide of a sequence. Three of those buttons are set to trigger a web page opening and I have applied the address (in full) in the boxes provided. However, at the end of the show the buttons are dead. What am I doing wrong? bbdigital

Mart I would do this using sound editing software. I use Adobe Audition (formally Cooledit) but there are much cheaper alternatives around. Try Audacity at the link below and although I have no personal knowledge of this software others on this forum do. http://www.barrybeckham.co.uk/tutorials/tu...al_av/sound.htm I expect most sound editing works in a similer way and with Audition you can add each piece of music to separate tracks while retaining the sterio nature of course. Remove the silent gaps and them mix them down into one file that contains both pieces of music. That way you can decide if there is a gap at all between tracks. It is often very effective to overlap each piece of music so that as one is gently fading down and other is fading up. These fades over any length of time can be done using Adobe Audition. Get this process right with the right music and the whole thing is seamless. www.bbdigital.co.uk

Bert Yes I do resize first from a photoshop or tiff file. The file you work from is not an issue as they are all Photoshop files while open in photoshop. There can be some differences between PC projectors, but nothing you can compensate for. It is mostly colour and contrast and the better the projector the better the match between small and large screens. Generally most ,odern projectors will do a great job. They do have controls too and contrast and lightness and darkness are all available on my Sony bbdigital

Bert. If I am producing images for a PTE show I do not sharpen them until I have resized them. I have no scientific reason for thinking that sharpening twice may not be a good option. It's something I have always done. Having said that I now shoot images in raw and do sharpen them within the Photoshop Raw filter, but that is done before I converty to a Photoshop file and it does not appear to give me any negative aspects at all. When we remove pixels from a high resolution image, which is what we are doing when we size/prepare PTE images, it effects the overall sharpness. Try getting them to size first and then add unsharp mask, but I agree you should not overdo this. I don't know if that helps? bbdigital

Given the time it takes to temporary transfer a 25 meg file from CD to a Hard drive I wonder if this is such an issue. I would copy the file to a temp folder and play iot from there. bbdigital

Hi all. Check out this page for some great royalty free music that will be available on my web site shortly. No more hassles about the legalities of using good quality music and all at great price of £14.99+vat. Check out my site at this page http://www.barrybeckham.co.uk/music/music.htm and you can also check out samples of Medwyns music on his site at http://www.medwyngoodall.com but remember the music you can sample is NOT royalty free. There will be royalty free samples on my site soon. bbdigital

Medwyn is going to put together two CD's as a starter and I will be stocking and selling them from my web site, so watch this space. bbdigital

It looks like great music can be sold for about £14 royalty free, there must be some interest from this site? bbdigital

Ron I am also surprised at so little reaction as this is music from someone who does not usually record royalty free music. It is good stuff and just what we need. The idea is that he would make CD's from his back catalogues of music, but it is still good stuff. I am hoping the price will not be much more than a regular CD, but will amateurs pay for this or choose not to and just use their home CD's. I suppose this royalty free music is more important to those of us who want to put slide shows on CD's for sale and do it 100% legally. bbdigital

I have two new slide up on my web site here:- http://www.barrybeckham.co.uk/tutorials/tu..._av/explain.htm I also have quite an advanced movie tutorial CD that covers one of the slide shows here:- http://www.barrybeckham.co.uk/tutorials/tu...s/fireworks.htm Feedback appreciated bbdigital

Igor. I know this subject has been discussed before and if I am not mistaken you intend to include it when you can. I thought you may be interested to know of how many questions I get about this when I lecture to Photo clubs in the UK. Slides shows, via PTE are now a part of my lecture and the question " Can I save a PTE show to DVD and watch it on TV" is asked again and again. I feel that with that improvement, you are likely to see sales of PTE increase. I could also sell copies of PTE at these lecture venues if they were on CD including the product key. Are you thinking of doing something like that in the near future. Many people who are interested don't have an internet connection. Barry

I don't know if the name Medwyn Goodall means anything to people on this forum, but he is a musician who makes, in my view, some great music that is very good for AV. I have been trying to research some inspirational royalty free music for our type of use and again in my View Medwyn Goodall's music fits that desription. He is thinking of releasing a back catelogue of his work on a couple of royalty free CD's perhaps building into a larger CD collection later. The price has yet to be determined, but I get the impression that it will not be huge. Is that something that users of PTE and readers of this forum would be interested in. I am trying to determine if it is and would welcome the thoughts of this group. Those who have heard his misic may be more aware of why this is something welcome. bbdigital

I have just been asked if I produce any tutorials on sound editing using Cooledit (now Adobe Audition). I have a full version of Adobe Audition, thanks to their generosity, but I have never really given the making of video tutorials on this subject serious thought. I always assumed that it was fairly pointless to make a tutorial using software of $24 and then deal with sound editing with software costing $300. I did just scrape the surface of Cooledit a bit in one CD, but that was just a written one and done with the cheaper version of Cooledit. I must admit that it has given me something to think about and I assume that the principles of sound editing are the same via Audition or Audacity. I am thinking about a movie CD that covers all I can think of in relation to sound editing for Audio Visual. For Example Importing from a music CD Converting to MP3 and wave Saving music files Mixing down different tracks Increase music length Reduce music length Joining different music together. Cutting pasting music/and or sound Fade music out Fade music in Add sound effects to music Recording voice overs Add voice overs Adding voice and sound effects to the music file. Adding effects such as echo I would welcome this forums views on that please? bbdigital

Starfish I also received the French email and all I could read was the title of my slide show "Black Country". I had no idea what they were asking, but thanks to you knowledgable people I now understand. Not sure how to reply tho? bbdigital

Richard What is wrong with a 25 meg file with 70 images. If you want quality images in your slide show you are going to get these sizes. For an audio visual of that type I can see nothing wrong with a 25 meg file. If you size your images to 1024 on the long side and save them as a Jpeg at level 6 you will be fine. I am a bit at a loss as to why you feel a 25 megabyte file is too large. If you make your slide show smaller as some have suggested you will not get a screen filling picture. What is the point of using PTE and a Canon D60 and reducing images to 800*600 (sorry Oleg, but I am not sure I concur with that advice) One of the pluses of PTE for me is the fact that we can project a picture at 1024*768. I just could not bring myself to make it smaller. Over 50% of my web visitors have screen resolutions set at 1024*768 so I think that is the size to stay with. Unless your PC is steam driven and as a D60 owner I somehow doubt it, the show should run perfectly. I have a new balloon AV with far less than 70 images and that is 40 meg. It plays a treat on my desktop and I have run it a number of times at lectures on a laptop with no problem. Can you tell us what software you are using and why 25 meg is a problem? Barry Beckham

Pageplus Well, Digital AV forms a fair part of the demonstrations I do I camera clubs and they are very popular. I show a few sequences through the evening to just give members a rest from all that Photoshop technical stuff and it appears to work. I also show how to put together a quick show and always gets lots of questions through an evening. The days of two projectors for me is long gone. bbdigital

Carrigman Thank you for the compliment and your right, it is all down to PTE. You have struck a chord with what you said about changing the way you shoot images. This skill is developed when you do produce AV sequences, you learn to look for bits and pieces that on there own would not be that strong, but as a set they are. I have done this for years being someone who did use all the old style hardware. When I started shooting digital my shooting habits did not change and I always came back from a shoot with the same style of images I would have shot for AV using film. However, until I found PTE my images where then used to produce montages and now, they in turn can form part of a slide show. Quite a neat circle, but your right in what you say. You can come back from a day out with some great images for a slide show even when that ellusive masterpiece escapes you. I am glad that PTE has got your enthusiasm flowing, don't forget to post one or two sequences for the forum members to view. Barry

Delsupserve See my answer to Dianna. bbdigital

Dianna There is a Tutorial CD on my web site that is dedicated to producing PTE slide shows. It might answer all your questions. Try this link http://www.barrybeckham.co.uk/tutorials/tu...udio_visual.htm and check out a slide show sample or two here http://www.barrybeckham.co.uk/tutorials/tu..._av/explain.htm bbdigital

Igor I have just spoken to the Editor of the magazine that my PTE slide show and movie tutorial was published in for September. I was asking him about the possibility of a further slide show and movie tutorial in a future magazine issue. I suggested that I could explore the selecting of slides and the Pictures 2 exe time line in my video tutorials. As a result the Editor is interested in hearing from you with a view to putting your trial software on the CD that comes with the magazine. This would be a great opportunity for you and I can tell you that this magazine is the leader in the UK with regards the circulation. Please would you like to make contact with Jon Adams of Digital Photo at the address below. Jon.Adams@emap.com I hope you did receive my CD ok that contained both my slide show and tutorial that appeared in the September issue. Regards Barry beckham Web Site:- www.bbdigital.co.uk or www.barrybeckham.co.uk E-mail :- barry@bbdigital.co.uk barry@barrybeckham.co.uk barry.beckham@ntlworld.com

I agree with Ron , two great sequences. However, I want to know more, which is sparked off by the great images of Venice. Was that some kind of annual event where peoplke dress up or was you just in the right place at the right time. I have always wanted to go to Venice and if this event is an annual thing it is worth making sure that I am there at the same time. bbdigital

Vivid light magazine is very good, I liked the macro article using the Canon 65mm lens a lot. There is another photo magazine on line called www.ephotozine.com The Editor is the former Edito of Digital Photo when it was called Digital PhotoFX. It always baffles me how they can produce all this work and support it from advertising revenue. Then again the money these internet sites pay for their articles, (in my experience very little), so perhaps thats how. Never the less the quality of the articles are great. bbdigital

MikeyUK Glad you like Digital Photo and it does pack in quite a bit each month. I made a point of looking out for photo and digital magazines while in the States back in March and did the same in Australia a year or so back. I have to say that the magazines outside the UK are not a patch on those we have grown up with. The quality of the paper is thin, which takes its toll on the quality of some of the images and the layout is just not attractive. I think readers in the USA and Australia would enjoy the UK magazines. I know of some aquaintances from the states who do have an overseas susbription to Digital Photo because they feel it is better. There is plenty of advice in this forum on PTE Mikey and Tutorial CD's if you need them on my web site. www.bbdigital.co.uk bbdigital

Ken Considering that Digital Photo are the leading digital UK mag they do not have a web site, only a subscription page here. https://www.subscription.co.uk/home/subso.a...?m=118&src=fl01 bbdigital

Al All Digital Photo have on the web is a subcription page here https://www.subscription.co.uk/home/subso.a...?m=118&src=fl01 bbdigital