Barry Beckham

I tried to rename an image in the expanded view of the File list the other day and received an error message on two different PC's. The error message does not appear if the rename option is done in the normal file list. Only the expanded screen (F3)

Two slide shows posted Discarded and Bushland Botanical Artistry

This year Noosa Photo Club is hosting this event and full details and entry forms can be found on their Web Site It's not an open competition and is reserved for a number of Photographic Clubs in the Brisbane metropolitan area and a little beyond. All clubs have been circulated details and a promotional slide show made too. Rules have been kept to a minimum and the closing date for entries is 18th July. The 2014 Interclub promo for PC The 2014 Interclub promo for Mac

Its fine now thank you

Eric For some time I have noticed that the information you have posted which appears under your avatar is too long and overspills that area. It clashes with the text of your threads. That area doesn't seem best suited for a long web addresses. Any chance you can tidy that up so it looks neat.

Our April newsletter is posted with a fair amount of information regarding PTE8 and Slide Show Club. The video included with the newsletter is also valid for users of PicturesToExe http://www.beckhamdigital.com.au/newsletter/2014/Apr_2014_Newsletter.pdf

Bert Usually the stipulation is that any slide show entered to a competition must be free standing. In other words it should not be necessary to install any software in order to run the slide show. Many are now remotely judged so it's not reasonable to ask someone to judge a competition and then they have to install player software. Ken. I don't really understand your post, can you clarify a little. AV competitions only play a tiny part of overall AV.

Bert That doesn't sound right to me. In every AV competition I have seen in the past few years it's Mp4's and Exe that are wanted.

You know that old story that all those shiny fishing lures in the tackle shop are there to catch the fisherman not the fish. You can say that about much of the photo equipment today and Calibration tools are a prime example as are Graduated filters.

Peter Someone said recently that the images they were showing were exactly as the colours were when the images were shot. They were at pains to re-assure all who were bothered that no enhancement was made in Photoshop and it got me thinking. I now realise that over the past two weeks when I have shot over 300 images in the local botanical gardens in three visits that I can recall (accurately) all 17 million shades of colour in each of the images. This means of course that I can work the images through Camera Raw sometime later and get all the colours perfect to how they were at the time. Honestly! Well, we wouldn't want to add any artistic merit into the images, that would be cheating. I have given up calibration and I go by what looks right to me. I have tried and tried with PC's, Laptops, PC projectors and I can get things just as close manually.

I have a Color-Munki, but I can't say I am that impressed with it. I have three Dell Flat screens here and it can't get them all to look the same. If it can't do that, then how good can it be. I always do the thorough calibration measuring ambient light in the room first too. As it is I use one machine to record video tutorials, but they often lose subtle colour and contrast between monitors all calibrated with the color-munki. I bought mine from an acquaintance at a fraction of the cost of the new product and had I paid full price I would be seriously miffed. It does a job, bit nothing to impress me given the cost.

I think I can see what the issue is. If you miss one of those fields it will not remind you that you have missed something, but take you right back to the start, which is very annoying. It seems you have to put something in every field apart from Change Log, whatever that is, or it just won't work

I am having exactly the same issues, three times I have tried to upload a sequence and every time it takes me back to the original screen and does nothing. I have tried Windows Explorer, Google Chrome and both methods to upload. Trying again now, but this can't be right. I could have had a dozen uploaded to my own site in the time its taken me to get knowhere

Better to leave the audience wanting than bored to death tho?

Called Shoreline Very simple, quite short http://www.beckhamdigital.com.au/store/pc/Page-5-Latest-c100.htm

I helped a guy sort a problem with his slide show in PTE8 a few weeks ago and was surprised with what the ultimate cause was and what I experienced may help others perhaps. The show was quite lengthy at 15 minutes long and it had a music track added at that length. Symptoms : Slide show played perfectly within PTE via the mini player, but the executable file played with no music. Actions: 1. Imported the sound file to Audacity and exported it back out and into PTE - No change to the fault 2. Imported the sound file to Audacity and exported it back out and into PTE and made some changes to the quality settings - No change to the fault 3. Tried a new piece of music of roughly the same length as the original - No change to the fault. 4. Tried another much shorter track in the slide show - The Show played OK and the music could be heard. 5. I doubled up the track of music that worked to make it extend to around 15 minutes - The Slide show played OK, but not sound again. 6. I opened the folder of images in Photoshop and used the image processor to make a copy, save each one again as a jpg, with a compression of 8. The Slide Show then played perfectly, even using the original track created by the author. It appears that some unknown fault with a Jpeg image, prevented the music from playing. It then appeared obvious that the problem image must have been quite a way into the slide show because a shorter track that didn't quite reach the offending image played OK. As soon as a second music track was added to reach the end of the show. NO music would play. I think most people faced with a music fault like this would spend their time looking at the music as my friend did until he ran out of ideas. So a dodgy Jpeg image can cause music not to play outside of PTE. (as far as I am aware from the original author, the offending image, visually played ok in the slide show)

Thanks Peter Why didn't I think to look down there

I must admit that I miss the mark all items as read option too.

Igor It's noticeably faster than the previous server, so well worth the effort.

There is the answer from Artem This is not a bug. You just need to delay the start of two smaller video clips. By default they start at the beginning of a slide. Select the video in O&A editor, and set 'Offset' parameter to 7 seconds. Clear concise and fully understood. Thank you Artem End........................ Mountain out of a molehill comes to mind sometimes on this forum.

What different approach?

Artem Well that was a surprise. I was treating the videos like a still image which is what I use most of the time and the offset never occurred to me as a solution. However, now you have put me right and I stop and think things through, I can see the logic. Video really is a whole new ball game isn't it.

I wonder if I have found a bug. I was placing two inset videos over the top of a full screen video and the object of the exercise was planning the video lengths to ensure the final file size was no bigger than necessary. I am working with full slide duration. The full screen background video was planned to be 18 seconds in length and that was optimized by PTE. So the full slide duration was also set at 18s The inset images were trimmed via PTE to be 12 seconds in length, reduced in resolution to 960*540 and optimized. The first keyframe for the inset videos was set at 7s into my total 18s of time. They were both set to take 3s to fade on screen, which takes them to keyframe time 10s. Subtracting 7s (their starting point) from 18s suggests that as long as the inset videos were 11 seconds or longer they would play right to the end of the full slide duration. They are 12 seconds in length, but they will not play in full and stop well short of the end of the 18s time. To get the two inset images to continue until the end of the 18s keyframe time I had to make them 18s in length. Using a keyframe to mark the position when the videos stop, seems to indicate they are stopping at the 12 second point along the keyframe. Well before they should and well before the fade out to the next image. I have uploaded a short zipped file of the problem. https://www.mediafir...sbabb7biz40lvhc

http://www.mediafire...Nurburgring.zip Mac and iPad versions now here http://www.beckhamdigital.com.au/store/pc/The-Nurburgring-100p588.htm

Igor Sorry, but I not sure of what size the exe was. I as looking at it on another persons computer and even they were not the author. I was just asked to try and help find the issue, but It had a lot of images in it. However, I would be surprised if it was as big as 600MB