Barry Beckham

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

Later. A 30p MP4 plays perfectly on a more modern TV direct from the USB stick. Full screen, no loss

It very well could be that, I have had that player a while to. I have tried the video on a more modern TV, but it says it's not supported. Probably because I made it 60p. When I get back to my PC I will make a standard video and try that

Igor Just tried a 60p Mp4 on my own TV, but because my TV is 9 years old I have to play the USB through a small media box. It played OK, but I did notice that the image on the TV screen over spilled the edges. Losing a bit of the content

In my December Newsletter I featured a slide show created by Maureen Platts (LakeLand Lass) As a follow up to that I asked Maureen if she would allow me to interview her about her approach to photography and audio Visual. I had intended it as something for my newsletter, but it seems to have outgrown that. So, I will feature it here as a free standing PDF http://www.beckhamdigital.com.au/pdf/An_Audio_Visual_Journey.pdf

If you have already started your project you will need to make the change for the individual images you have already placed on the timeline via Slide Options > Main and untick the scale keyframes there too

I am always on the forum and read anything interesting daily, but I don't always feel the need to comment. Some wouldn't like my comments anyway No I have not thought of creating that technique as a style, but there is no reason why it should not be. Originally when I used the scattered pictures technique i think I showed something like 200 + images in 3 minutes. if you made a style of this type a decision would need to be made on how many images would be used in the style and you also have an issue with format. If you stayed with portrait format images you could make a slide style based on 20, 50 or more images, Generally we would create a style with, let's say 6 images and then apply that style 6 times for 36 images, but that does not fully recreate my original scattered pictures technique, because after every 6 images you would start again. Part of the appeal of the original idea was the continuos effect of dropping images onto a scattered stack. originally I created the content for this technique in Photoshop layers and used Actions to save out each image. Each slide added another scattered image and it ran non stop as if all 200 + images were dropped onto a table http://www.beckhamdigital.com.au/store/pc/Images-from-2010-71p345.htm

Denwell I am a bit late to this thread as I am away from home, but could you be referring to the scattered pictures technique. It's where the images, landscape or portrait, appear as though the author is scattering them on a table top, one on top of the other.

If you're a Photoshop CC user, take a look at the motion section for video. It may have what you want.

Igor Many thanks.

I have been away from home some weeks, in fact still away and I have lost track of where we are with the Exe files for Macs. I have had some issues reported from my own club members who seem to be having trouble playing PTE Exe files on their Mac's, but they are still using PTE 8. Could I ask those who use Macs to confirm that the Exe made for Macs on a PC running PTE 9 does play on all Mac systems? I am aware of the security issues with Macs that do trip some users up, but are there any others issues?

I am well away from home or I would have some older custom transitions to test. I thought it would either be a user error from the person reporting it to me or a bug. However, when the person sent me my own CT, via email this morning, it did the same for me. Igor, is this something for you to look into?

http://www.mediafire.com/file/j9evuhd7meu3vsp/Revolver.pteeff The above is a link to a CT I made a few weeks ago. It worked perfectly OK back then, but now it will not allow me to import the transition. Any ideas gratefully received

Thank you for your kind words, but with regard to virus protection I have little tolerance. If your virus protection software causes more problems that it's supposed to be protecting you from, dump it and find another.

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Only 4:3, my Canon snappy camera can do that

Add the delicate zoom to your image and create a slide style from that image. Now you can apply that to all 70 images instantly

It works fine, but try it with a slide duration of 0.1 now it has some pace

You do realise that a 16:9 AR slide show will play fine on that projector. There seems to be some myth that images must be the size of the projectors resolution, they don't. Try a test and you will see

Far from me to talk for Davegee, but what he has done here is logical. If you break the image into the pieces/slices and save that basic style without animation. Now you have it safely stored on your computer like a layered Photoshop file. Then you can apply the style to an image and add any animation you want. A staggered rotation or even like blinds for example

There is one point I could add. Unlike many who visit forums such as this, I am quite happy to admit when I don't know something or I am confused by it. i am also willing to change my mind in the face of good argument and evidence. I am willing to be convinced and have no Ego problems that would prevent me from saying I had something wrong. If you disagree, convince me of the merits. I am open to critical thinking and reason

I think I would rather the image fills the width of our screens, so for me, if push comes to shove, I guess I would go for 1920*1280

This is not an easy or simple question to answer. To some degree it almost goes back to the recent debate about how hard pressed professional photographers couldn't possibly spare the time to make a slide show at the resolution and aspect ratio that most of us are using, What's the point of structuring slide styles and CT's to 10801620 when practically all of us use something different. It makes no sense to me at all. Anyone making slide shows who cannot be bothered to get these basics right, should stop making slide shows. Because if they cannot find the drive, enthusiasm and energy to really do a good job, then there is a better than average change their slide show will reflect the same approach. OK, but nothing special. Yes, I know we don't always succeed with our quest for something special, but at least lets aim for it and not give up before we start because it may take take a little longer Having said that, 16:9 in portrait format is not good, so if a slide style or a CT was structured for portrait format images, I would still base the style/CT on 16:9, but would perhaps use 3:2 portrait format images. However, that brings us back to what you suggested a long while back and I didn't have a view at the time, but do now. Slide Styles at least need some way to leave instruction notes for the user. Possible CT's too The other thing I would say is that if you want to make your slide shows at a different AR to the majority, then create your own styles, structured for your use. If your making them with the intent of offering them to the wider community, then structure them at the size most are using. Isn't this all common sense

Slide styles has reached the point where a comments section is required. Names alone don't seem quite enough now and I haven't even started on my 5:4 versions :-)

The Strips is a neat idea