Barry Beckham

This video may be some help. PTE AV Studio can do all you describe and slide styles will help. One thing to remember. PSG had all these wonderful features, yet they couldn’t remain a viable business.

The Third image is the term used in film days to describe the image we saw when one photo faded into another. For a brief moment, midway between the two, we saw a third image. This is visually appealing and easier to create these days with Photoshop.

I did look for a reason on my account and couldn’t find anything. Perhaps it wasn’t taken down at all and it was just a mistake on my part. Can’t rule that out. I did try Vimeo once and they wanted me to pay to put up my videos, so I told them to go forth and multiply.

I have a sneaky suspicion that YouTube have censored the video above and removed it. I noticed it not showing up on my website when it certainly was a couple of days ago. I always check everything is working in another browser before I consider a video posted on YouTube and my site, so I’m pretty confident I had this done right. I’ve heard other YouTubers who said they cannot mention the word Coronavirus in their videos, or YouTube censors them. I assumed that was BS, although I know YouTube censors the political right. All I said in the video was, we are all stuck with something to do during the Coronavirus and looking back at old images was an idea worth doing. If, I’m right, that was enough for my video to be removed ??? so, let’s see if this new link disappears and confirms my suspicions

Yes, a memory stick is fine

DVD’s are old obsolete technology now. Can I suggest you publish your show to a 60p Mp4 HD video (1920*1080) instead of a DVD. The advantage is that the video will play on any PC, or Mac and on most modern flat screen TV’s. The biggest bonus is that unlike a DVD an Mp4 retains all your image quality and does not reduce resolution as a DVD would.

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That’s an idea I hadn’t considered. I suppose it depends if Camtasia would record anything above 1920*1080 as well as I get now. I guess I wouldn’t know unless I did a test.

jmG I’ve been looking again at the BenQ SW321C monitor, which is 32in and 3840*2160 pixels. I’m sure it would be superb for image editing and viewing presentations, but I have just been wondering how it all works if I want to do a screen capture using Camtasia at 1920*1080. I can’t capture 3840*2160 and assume you just reduce the resolution in setttings and capture the 1920*1080 screen as normal. I expect few people here would have experience of this, so I’m just thinking aloud for a moment and welcome any thoughts you all have. Of course I could hang onto one of my 1920*1080 monitors just for that screen capture process, but I’m not a great fan of having two monitors on my desk.

I’ll probably do what I’ve always done. Used the screen out of the box, works for me

Sorry, I have no idea what a USB Cruiser is. However, it seems you’re making a fairly simple process quite difficult. When making a slide show, create a folder and copy EVERYTHING you use into that folder, then work from there and only there. Your project file and Mp4 should also be in that folder and if you do that, you will have the ability to adjust your show and recreate it any time. Plus you’ll always know where everything is

PTE AV Studio is available in two versions. Standard and Professional. One of the big differences between the two is how we approach sound editing. Here we look at our most common needs using the standard edition.

Why not open up your show again, assuming you can, then create another MP4 and in the address string look to see where it’s being created. PTE will create the Mp4 in the same folder as your project file. Unless you tell it something different. I guess your not working from one folder. Alternatively, create another Mp4 and change the address to place the video on your desktop

Thank you, the BenQ was the one that attracted my attention, but it will be in a small room and I settled on a 27in. However, it may be a while till I am able to move my PC to the room it will live in, so I’ll give the 32in more thought. I’ve had an Xrite ColorMunki for some time and my confidence in it is zero. All it does is screw up the colours of any screen I try it on. It was a used product when I bought it and I’m assuming its Just past it’s sell by date and needs binning. I like the idea of built in calibration

Why would anyone with the pro version want this option turned off.

Are you creating two seperate lines of text? Hit the “T” top left and type a line of text you want. Then hit the “T” again and type the second line of text and they are now Independant of each other.

Lowell Can you be a little more specific on what your issue is. For example, if your first slide appears and no others, it seems to indicate that you may have the control option ticked that’s turned your show into a manual user controlled one. I.e you have to hit the mouse button to go from slide to slide. Have a look into your control tab to fix that.

Thanks. The Eizo’s are a bit pricy and I like the idea of a monitor with built in calibration. The BenQ SW271 does that, but it’s fairly expensive over here in Australia, about $1900

Is there anyone on the forum who uses a 4k monitor, maybe a BenQ or an Eizo? I’m interested in some personal experiences with these monitors if possible

Nicely done

As you probably know, PS will allow you to display only your 3 rated images, which makes is easy to copy and paste them to a new folder. If you work on copies it’s much more convenient as you get creative through the process and may want to edit or even remove images from your original selection. You never have any fear of making a mistake and losing an image. Its pretty much accepted by most experienced AV enthusiasts that working on copies and keeping everything for our show in one folder is a good way to work. No point in trying to re-invent the wheel

I wondered why my iPad never recognised my sign in this morning. All good now

A bright red colour beaming out from the grey should be enough to alert even a beginner that perhaps the software is telling us something important. I suppose my clumsy point was that there are no rules and it’s the end result that counts.

Why?