Barry Beckham

I am a Windows 7 user and can see all resolutions to HD size via Chrome or Windows Explorer

I just wrote the above and checked my emails and the following came in, so who knows, we may get some changes to how video is treated with the new owners of Flickr If you haven’t heard, Yahoo plans to sell its operating business, including Flickr, to Verizon Communications Inc. We anticipate the completion of the transaction to occur in June 2017. Upon the completion of this proposed transaction, Yahoo products and services, including Flickr, will be provided by a new Verizon-owned company called Yahoo Holdings, Inc. In connection with this proposed transaction, Yahoo is updating its Terms of Service. You can review the changes by visiting our Terms of Service These updated terms will automatically be effective on June 8, 2017, unless you cancel your Yahoo account before then. That’s it! We look forward to continuing to deliver your favorite products and services.

Denisb Thanks for posting the link, it never occurred to me that there would a 3:00 restriction in this day and age Igor Sorry to admit that I haven't really thought too much about a Html 5. Most of my storage is on Mediafire so my web space is limited, but the plus is it doesn't cost a fortune either Gary Perhaps in the fullness of time Flickr will relax that 3:00 length. Either that or we have to make a special version of our slideshow for Flickr and there's no way I will be doing that. There are too many AV rules anyway

Roel Depends what you want to do in PTE, but colour correction would not be a problem. Why not consider making the change to one image and then saving that as a slide style. That can be applied to the rest

Maybe not so useful after all I watched a minute of each of the slide shows I posted and never thought to go through them till the end as I knew they were all complete and working shows. It appears videos are limited to 2.59 seconds, which rather spoils the whole idea

As many may already know, Flickr has become well known as a great host for our images and I have used it for quite some time now. I purchased a low cost account a while back, but never considered putting videos up as well as still images. I have now done so and it works great. The videos are HD videos created at 60p to ensure great performance. I have uploaded a few of my recent slide shows that I have placed in an album called Audio Visual. I has discovered one small issue. All our slide shows start with a blank and Flickr shows the first image in the video/AV as a thumbnail to potential viewers. Unlike YouTube it does not allow us to select an image for display. (if it does I haven't found it yet) Well, looking at a black oblong isn't very inspiring. So I recreated the videos, which was a quick process with the project file and added an image in the first second of the sequence, using the objects and animation screen and a couple of keyframes. As a viewer starts the video, that image will be removed and the audio visual will start normally. Another way to get PTE out there

There is something about the ocean that must be in our genes. We are attracted to it and it can get quite mesmerising at times. It's the one thing that even impatient people can just sit and look at for quite a while. I was just lucky to turn up at a photogenic beach when the tide was very high. That always adds something. Glad you enjoyed it too

A short presentation of my morning on a stormy beach. For PC - Mac and YouTube in HD

Bert You have to select the high resolution from the options or it plays at mid range I think. Click the little cog wheel and you should see the 1920x1080 option.

Last week I uploaded my slide show to YouTube A Journey into Photography at 60p. The file size was 700MB, it went up no trouble and plays fine.

I was working on the finishing touches to a slide show today and the main thing I was doing was using the Change Image File option to adjust some images to see if they worked better. I can't say for sure that this caused the errors, but they came up twice. The first time I did a screen grab and also a screen grab of the Task Manager, which I used to shut PTE down (attached) The second time I was about to do the same when PTE crashed and ended itself, or windows did it.

It's happened twice in different projects both larger ones, but not since I posted. No one else seems to have noticed it, so perhaps an issue my end. I cant really say what I did apart from making an adjustment to the show project file, then saving it as slidehsow 007 when it was previously slideshow 006. Then creating a safe show for Internet and although the project file was version 007, Pte wanted to create 006

Thank you all for the comments. Anthony, its not that easy to get the variation needed at the Blue Mountains. As you say, if you get off the tracks, your in the forest with no view at all. I am sure some of the all day walks might reveal something, but I am past that. There are walks and then there are the Bear Grylls type stuff I do have another slideshow, but it's very short and hopefully sweet. I did an experiment with filters and just can't make my mind which to go with. The standard shots or the filtered ones, maybe both. I keep watching it every day or so and I like them both. I do have some good history images of Ballarat, but not even thought of where to go with that. I will save something for the winter, you know, when we are snowed in with freezing temperatures Remember, it can get down to 13c here in winter. It's almost enough to change out of shorts

Of course I don't mind you giving an honest comment. I would rather you said that you were so moved by the sequence that you will play it once a week from now on but that's not entirely realistic is it. Honesty is the best policy every time and you have hit on the one thing that went through my mind while making it. The main area of interest is the three sisters, but you're right, how many images can you include of them and get away with it? I thought I had, or might, but then again my view is coloured by the fact that some were shot under different light conditions and I told myself that would be a sufficient variation. I do have other images of the place and I may be able to find one or two I am happy with, but I can't bring myself to put images I am not entirely happy with into a side show. I'd rather dump the show than do that. The issue here is, if the very thoughts you raised were in my head at the time, why didn't I deal with them at the time? Because we convince ourselves it is OK for reasons only a neuroscientist may be able to answer. Its that old thing that when we are in full creative flow there is no stopping us. Just looked at it again, there are some nice images there, even if I say so myself.

I was one of those who didn't care that much for the blur option when it was added, because I didn't like the effect. To some degree I have come to accept it, but I would like it constrained like Photoshop and not to affect borders. I expect this may give Igor and his team some headaches, because there is a natural crossover between PTE and image editing, but how far is that taken?

Not if you don't own one mouse on 4 computers it doesn't

This came up originally while making the PTE-9 Promo, but it surfaced again on another show I made. The ability to adjust critical sound volume in the Time Line when blending music, commentary and perhaps sound effects is still a fiddly and annoying aspect of PTE for me. I am a user of a Wacom Graphics Tablet and in all other respects it is far superior to any mouse for fine control, but not with PTE sound, but I suspect the mouse is just as fiddly. It is almost impossible to drag volume down to 6% and remove the pointer and have the value remain at 6%. The hand has to be so still to achieve it and I find I miss 4 times out of 5, often the volume will jump to 15%. I appreciate, the width of the music edit area can be increased, but I don't want to have to go into settings to achieve that. Three reasons: 1. It takes too long 2. It takes up too much real estate on screen and needs to be constantly reset. 3. In critical work I am making volume adjustment often and it gets painful to achieve I would like a value box so in critical adjustments I could change 6% to 4%. Try doing that without making the width of the wave file 400% and you will get frustrated. I would like to be able to click an audio key-point and have a value box open that I can ignore if I want to drag to change volume, or over-type the volume value if I don't....

I do have a secret, it's to ignore it all Music copyright changes hands so often from artist to record company back to artist that YouTube don't really have a hope of being up to date in all situations. You can find whole albums on YouTube, so we AV enthusiasts are not part of the problem.

Another Slide Show called The Blue Mountains, but reluctant to post on SSC or I might get accused of hogging it and have to change my name to Eric

PTE-9 Promo Pdf

Geoff There are some things worth pursuing and some not and this is firmly in the not camp. As Lin says, it's easy to capture the screen, whether wnsoft tries to protect it or not. Think about it, those who would be defeated by what was in PTE previously are not threat to you or anyone else. Those who are a threat can step around the issue easily. I use a simple little program called hypersnaps and I can capture the screen while your show is playing.

Sorry. I made an assumption you were referring to the Navigation bar, my mistake. I am not a W10 user yet, but wouldn't be best pleased to have that pop up while playing a slide show

Personally, I like it turned off for traditional AV sequences. You can do that in project options

Jevans The Great Ocean Road is one of those places you need to stay for a few days. Just passing through you do get to see the sights, but for good photography you need to find the locations and be there at the right time. If you dropped into a location like this and had wall to wall blue skies for a week, it might be good from one point of view, but perhaps not the photography. Seems a shame to be in Melbourne and not get to the Ocean Road, but from Melbourne to Portland around the ocean road is around 400k each way. It's not a day trip Thank you all for the comments, they are appreciated

A Journey into Photography