Barry Beckham

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

This has happened to me on a few occasions: While making a slide show and saving consecutive project file names ie slideshow 001, slideshow 002 etc. On making a slight change to the project I save a new project file, lets say to slideshow 003. When I make a safe exe for PC, PTE tries to create slideshow 002 and not slideshow 003 from the project file just saved.

Your welcome, at least one person has looked at it thank you

If I am reading your query right, I have to say that maybe you're not going about this the right way. One of the first and most important disciplines when making slide shows is to copy all the images and sound files into a dedicated project folder. They need to be in one place and dragging them from different locations on your computer will almost certainly end in tears.. Once you have the files copied to a dedicated folder, open PicturesToExe, browse the file tree for that folder and the images will appear. Select them all with Ctrl+A and drag them down into the slide list at the bottom.

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Thanks for the responses. I had settled on 15 minutes myself, but wanted some independant views, because unless you listen to other views, how would you know yours is right? There's a word for that !! Oh yes, I know Free Speech. If a wedding template was made at 15 minutes, then an impressive slide show could be created in less than 30 minutes (a guess) and if a few more minutes were needed, then Slide Styles could easily add those minutes.

Can I drag you back to the question, which was from a viewers point of view. Forget your own likes and dislikes, or what you would do or how the quality affects how long you would view. Assume the presentation is from a pro wedding photographer and assume the images are of the quality you would expect . Just think of a still image presentation of a wedding of your niece. What would be the optimum time that you would be prepared to sit and watch.

Question From a viewers point of view, say your Niece, Granddaughter or acquaintance has a wedding AV available, what is a reasonable length in minutes for you to sit through? I would appreciate your views on this please. It will likely vary depending on the viewers relationship with the Bride and Groom, but what I want is a consensus mean figure

I don't think I would get too fussed how these improvements came, but numbers 2 and 3 do have workarounds, number 1 doesn't. If you're a wedding photographer as an example, you're soon going to have slide styles up to your armpits unless we can apply some order

I have been working on wedding themes recently where the core of the show is made with slide styles. 1. We are now in need of the ability to make sub-categories in slide styles. Already my slide styles are a bit tricky to keep in order. I want to keep basic Slide Style Templates under the heading of Weddings, but away from finished styles. I want to separate vertical and landscape slide styles within the same main wedding category. I want to easily separate those styles that work fully on screen as opposed to those that bring the image(s) from off screen and I could list many more examples 2. I also have trouble with my naming regime. When I am about to create a style I cannot see others that are already in that category I select. I need to see those names for guidance on naming the new style. At present, I have to remember the name so I can follow on with some logic in the names and I cannot at this time, it's inconvenient and slow. 3. The need to add a slide style to slide 3,7,10,27,and 42 and have that slide style applied leaving the images in their correct position on the time line. At present that doesn't happen

Well, thank you all for the kind comments, but its what I have been doing for many years now. I just wonder why the original questioner does not seem to have returned to check up on their question.

Well, It helped me too because the question triggered an idea. The hardest part in a club situation is getting members to label their images correctly That might not be as easy as it should be.

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Presumably, if we are in fact talking about applying a template, then it's reasonable to assume that we are not talking of a simple project title, but maybe naming...many hundreds of images automatically. In that case, the three slide method, which in fact started life with slide tape and is a good option, could be quite painful In fact I don't know why I used two images above. The slide styles works OK with just the text template inserted Template fade on and off

If the object of the exercise is to use a text template, then perhaps there is a way to do it, but it's a work around using two versions of the image in a slide style. Sandwich the text template between two identical images and instead of fading text up and down as we would normally do. Fade the top image down to show the text template and fade it back up to hide the text. Image Title with template

Well, if I make a suggestion I am not too interested in other people's views, because you can never please all of the people all of the time At the end of the day, it's Igor who has to prioritise and decide which suggestions go forward and which don't and I am happy to live with that. Imagine igor trying to include all our pet suggestions The development would grind to a stop I would suggest. No, your suggestion will not affect me at all and I wasn't suggesting it would.

Responses...... I think it's because some think you're barking up the wrong tree. Asking for a change that doesn't seem to be very logical perhaps. When you talk of changing slide time globally to get a project to match the music, I can't help thinking that isn't the way to go. It's the quick way, but I will take some convincing to say it's better or has any merit. Who would want to change global slide time after a slide show is made or half made? I will suggest not many because all synchronisation will be lost. Try working almost solely in the time line and add one image/video at a time and program that to the soundtrack. When that is perfect move onto the next. After all, it's the music that determines mostly where content appears on that time line.

I have never changed the default slide duration in project options, either at the start of a project or at any time while creating it. I work almost exclusively in the Time-Line window personally and make all my adjustments there. Good luck with your request

Why not just exclude videos from being effected by the Default Slide Durations? Because in the Project Options the settings are designed as global setting. This would especially be useful if you wanted to tweak the overall length of the project to fit your established music length by just adjusting the duration of the images. Yes, but in doing so, surely you're upsetting all your carefully synchronised images and video. If I understand you correctly, this wouldn't be a good idea at all. I appreciate we all have different ways of doing things, but if I had my content a little too much for the music, I would find other and I would argue better ways to deal with this. Reducing the slide time overall would be the last thing I would do.

Ys, it was. Very nice presentation

Igor user manual ?????? I am an English male, we don't read manuals we get frustrated, then annoyed and the wife reads the manual and tells us what to do