Barry Beckham

It looks to me that the show has been made at 3:2 aspect ratio with varying degrees of zoom size that will be restricted to the 3:2 format and play ok at 3:2. As soon as the aspect ratio in PTE is changed to 16:9, the images made for 3:2 are not going magically all fit the 16:9. That’s why some do and some don’t. None of your images would be any problem in a 16:9 show and that is what needs to be done. Each image needs to be revisited and adjusted in the Object and Animation screen to fit the new format of 16:9. in a world where practically every display is 16:9, it seems to me to be one time when it’s right to follow the crowd.

I am glad this has started some debate, because when I sat at my keyboard to make some notes for a future video, I came to an abrupt stop. It’s not easy to define what slide styles are in a way that encourages, and doesn’t sound so complex it turns people off. It reminded me of the old format or aspect ratio issue, where to try and educate anyone on the pros and cons. It soon became so tied up in so many different issues. You could have some sympathy with the person who first asked the question who was quickly losing the will to live. Personally I like Lin’s definition, which sums up slide styles pretty well, but then wide angle’s view about adding merits and advantages later. In an odd sort of way, it says a lot about slide styles that there is so much to them. Hard to explain, but the reasons are positive

Imagine your talking to a newer user of PTE or even a potential customer. If you had to sum up in a sentence (or two) what slide styles are. How would you describe them so the they could easily be understood? Anyone fancy giving it a go

I think the idea is great and very well done, but your enthusiasm for PTE may be causing you to hit the viewer with a little too much information. IMHO With the hand moving I'm drawn to that, so other things happening elsewhere on the screen are a little lost. Great idea, but I think it needs to be a little simpler.

Maybe it is illogical, but when I make a suggestion, I do it from a practical users point of view. Meaning its an issue that I have to deal with time and time again. It can always be argued that the problem is caused by my way of working, but I do make smaller images very often and whether it’s illogical or not, I would like those images when dropped into O&A to retain their 100% size. If it’s possible and practical to do within the software. Many use PTE for projected image competitions and here is another time where I have to check every image to make sure the author didn’t put in a smaller image than 1920*1080 and the software expands it up to a larger size then it should be. It would serve no purpose if larger images did the same, as I would still have to go in and adjust them too. Perhaps it could be a preference.

I have raised this before, but perhaps I can suggest it again. If an image is viewed in the O&A screen and that image is larger than the slide show being made. It seems logical to me that it would fill the screen at least up to where either the top or the sides of the image touch the slide show boundary edge. (Depends on AR) However, when I want to use a smaller image than the slide show I am making, I find it annoying that every image is expanded up to the size of the slide show and I have to adjust each one back to its original size. I would really like any image I use that is less than the slide show resolution to display at the right size.

Done that and reinstalled Bridge. Been onto Adobe Help and it’s known, they are working on it

Since installing Photoshop 2019 I get the attached error message everytime I launch Bridge. Have been onto Photoshop who say that are aware of the bug and their engineers are working on it. An update will be released to fix the bug ASAP. The warning message can be bypassed and Bridge works OK, so if you have this issue, sit tight for a while and it should be fixed in due course

That looks much better now.

It seems fine to me, I haven't noticed any slowness in recent days

Yes, I guess so. In Photoshop it's just copy settings as you probably know and paste settings once that is done. Copy current View Style sums it up pretty well.

Hello Igor I was working on a presentation that I posted recently on SSC called the Exposure Clock and while I was using PTE to put it together there were a few times where it would have been useful to copy and paste settings from one thumbnail to another from either the slide list or time line. I suppose I was influenced a bit by the fact that this is possible in Adobe's Bridge. If you create editing changes to an image in Camera Raw you can then copy and paste those settings to one or a hundred other images in Bridge. Its the settings that get copied and transferred not the image. It's rather like the slide style, but in practice I don't have a need or a desire to create a Slide Style all the time. It was while creating that presentation that the idea came to me. I confess I am not sure if its practical or desirable even. It would have to include everything including objects I guess, because sometimes it can be easier to copy all and then remove anything you didn't want. Always easier to remove than create.

Well, that’s a relief, I was worried there for a moment

When your trying to teach, the idea is to demonstrate things in small enough sections so they can be understood. The idea is not to demonstrate how clever the one is or Bore people to death However, when I find a use for them I’ll demo them, but I haven’t up to now. Why don’t you do that part, seeing as you have a need

We are in an odd position at the moment with regards tutorials because we know that we may see PTE-10 sometime in the new year. Although the basics of PTE is not likely to change much, people are reluctant to view videos created in one version when a later version is available. Its just how people are, so there isn't a great deal of point in doing much more in PTE-9, although I made a judgement that this was a bit different.

OK, no worries

I’ve never quite understood what advantages there are in paying to win zip when it’s built into Windows. Never has any reason personally to investigate. The standard zip in Windows has always met my needs, but I’ll be seeing the guy in a couple of weeks so I’ll make the suggestion

Jill In the case of the guy I met, he is quite an experienced user of PTE, but he didn’t have any issues with the show he was making or in making the BIZ. It was only unzipping in Windows where things went wrong. Its probably one of those computer issues where it’s a one off perhaps and may never be repeated

I notice that the size of the Thumbnails has been changed in SSC. It means that those of us who created 200px square icons to fit nicely into the space provided are now cropped and don't look right. Is there a setting that can be changed back or is this the new normal, in which case I'll adjust the size of the thumbnails I create. The new size looks to be close to 90px by 125px

Something that would have been useful for me today in a project I was working on. To be able to right click a slide and copy the settings and paste them to another slide or many slides. (much like a slide style) However, the settings were not something I wanted to store and I wanted a quicker way. Adobe's bridge has this option where you can copy the entire editing of one image to another or many Yes, I know there are other ways to do the same thing, but in practical work, quicker is better. Just a thought

I think the issue lies with the content of the slide show rather than PTE, but I suppose that cannot be certain. Jpgs don’t usually give much trouble, so my best guess is a sound file problem. Some corruption that PTE coped with but Windows Zip did not.

This is for information only. I did a demo at a camera club last night and a user of PTE told me how he always makes a BIZ of his shows under construction. He said that a show he was making played perfectly and a BIZ could be created, but with one project the Zipped folder could not be opened by windows, even when taken to a different computer. I suggested that perhaps there was something wrong with an image or sound file that PTE didn't have a problem with, but windows when unzipping did. He said that this happened many times despite a re-installing PTE, but eventually the issue cleared itself. (which tends to suggest the issue is with that one project. The error message just says This Compressed zipped Folder (name of folder) is invalid.

I did a demo at a camera club yesterday and an experienced user of PTE asked me to pass on the following. He would like:- The ability to right click a sound file from the Timeline and select copy. Then to be able to place the cursor elsewhere on the Timeline, right click and select paste and have the sound file and any envelope already applied copied with it.

I'd like to have Keyframe time and Slide Duration available in both windows of the O&A screen and both shown and used like Keyframe time. (ie always there) My other pet hate is having to type 4000 to get a 4 second keyframe time. I want to just put in 4 and if and when I need other values I can put 4.000 or 4.250