Barry Beckham

Thats not what I asked for, I have no need for a pause, I want to add seconds of silence into an already made sound track. Like this

Igor I use PTE probably more than most for information purposes as well as presentations and I confess I have never used that main screen text field. So I vote for option B

Igor I wonder if you have thought about allowing the addition of silence anwhere in a sound track. To explain: I often use PTE for tutorials(commentary) and we also use it for our camera club competitions with the critique of our images being recorded from the judges comments. Its too time consuming to add the voice commentary to individual images, so I always mix the voice recordings together in Camtasia and bring it into PTE as one file. Its very convenient and quick to do that, but inevitably there are times when a slight miscalculation means I could do with a couple of seconds of silence inserted into an already made soundtrack. For example, between a short pause in the speech, I need to add a further 2 second pause to allow the image to be viewed longer.

Joy Please forgive what I am about to say in response to your last post, but................Its time for you to consider changing your anti-virus program, because it seems as good as useless in my view. Its there to protect us, not take over and prevent legit files being played. There are lots of good free anti virus programs available such as Microsoft Essentials that seem to protect us with out causing the problems you describe.You or your friend should not have to look for ways around your virus program to get a slide show to play.If you tell the forum what your using, I am sure you will get plenty of feedback of what others in the same situation as you are using.

All the tab needs is the word animated gif, but the post was a SUGGESTION because it was placed in the IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS SECTION. It wasn't solely just about the animated gif options alone. Sorry, but I normally expect from a forum user to use his/her brain, and to practice some experimentation. Isn't it a pity that there was a need for post 4 at all What the hell is the matter with you people, can't you just accept a suggestion without starting the insults and inuendos. Leave your petty sniping to the other threads and please leave just one where we can make a suggestion to Igor and allow him to decide if it's something he wants to pursue.

Xaver To be honest I wasn't asking for help, but suggesting to Igor that this is an area that needs some thought as someone else suggested yesterday. I am quite happy to make a suggestion to Igor and allow him to decide on it's merits based on commercial and practical issues. I wonder sometimes how he ever sorts out good ideas from these threads.

Xaver Why would I want to do that?

Igor After reading the thread started by Peter on borders I realized that I didn't know how two of the tabs worked. I had long since given up on PTE borders, because I found them confusing and long winded. However, as a result of the thread I took another look to try and find a use for them and I still find them confusing. The canvas size when tried seems to work a bit like a crop tool. When you move the top and bottom sliders, you can see some sense in it, but when you move the left and the right sliders it all goes wrong. The animation tab is also baffling, not sure why its there or what I can do with it. As we have seen few examples demonstrated, many others don't either. I agree that this is an area that does need to be re-designed and my view borders need to be :- 1. Placed on the inside edge or the outside edge of an image/object 2. Be placed on one image or all of them in one operation 3. After No2 above, the ability to remove the border from a strategic few images/objects. (forum members, yes I am aware of work arounds, but that is not what is needed here) I also think the ability to add arrows was a good suggestion by Walker76. I also still want to see the ability to add texture/noise to objects/backgrounds. Computer colour is just too smooth and unatural.

Comoz In Camtasia, if your mixing various videos they must be all me the same resolution and format. Recently I selected an intro to a video I was creating in Camtasia and then added a number of other takes to that intro the same as I had done many times before. I was a bit baffled when the resulting video showed black borders top and bottom. When the penny finally dropped I realised that my short intro video (tacked on the front) was the wrong one and not the same resolution as the others. As you mentioned Camtasia, could that be the cause of your problem ?

Xaver F3 brings up the File List, F4 brings up the Slide List. You can drag and drop images in the slide list, but not the file list, that is for selecting images for the slide list, if you want to use that method

Yes, I am aware of that, but this is a suggestion for something more convenient and something a new user will spot easier. Its not a request for help or it wouldn't be in the suggestions section.

Igor Just a couple of issues 1. Over the past few weeks, I have had 2 emails and 2 phone calls from less experienced users of PTE asking where the lightbox in PTE has gone. Yes, I appreciate its easy to bring up with F4, but seeing as we are using large screens and there is so much space in the main window of PTE, could you give some thought to putting it back on the main page as an icon? 2. Personally I very often like to use the Ctrl+W option to open up more than one image from PTE. Is that a feesible option to create?

http://www.epson.com.au/products/projector/EH-TW9000W.asp Epson 1920*1080 resolution Our club finally bought the projectorabove, we shopped around and found one that didn't have the wirelessspec (not needed for club use) and that was a few hundred dollarscheaper. We had a guest speaker at the club, soI didn't risk playing with the settings of the projector, just incase I screwed up his night. I never saw the projector till clubnight. We plugged in the HDMI cable and theresults straight out of the box were superb. Our guest speakerMichael Snedick is one of the top wildlife photographers in Queensland and he commented that it was the best projector he had ever used. Thecolours were bright and accurate and its so easy to line up on thescreen. Its a big machine but super quiet too. Some time between now and next clubmeeting I will investigate the settings, but first impressions weregreat. A couple of PTE slide shows we played looked pretty good too

Igor. I think Daniel has a point here. I did raise this myself a long time ago and I think it got lost in some hysterics on the forum. Its not an uncommon way to work and I find myself having to go through what Daniel describes a lot of the time. It is tedious to have to do this and if it is possible to do, I would love to see a setting where I could import an image and not have it made 300% of the size I originally made it.

Orizaba Its a quirk of PTE, change the video, then close PTE and relaunch and all will be well

Lin I think the PTE Manual is a great thing, but those of you who made it have your work cut out, if its to reflect every current version. I have almost stopped making tutorials for Photoshop Elements because they change it so fast, as soon as I complete a reasonable range of videos, they are out of date. For many users, these changes would not make the videos useless, but some people do need to be taken to the button they have to press or they cant cope. Move the button and they are lost. I always say its like getting into a car and there is no handbrake in the usual place. We know it has to be there somewhere, just need to look. I think the manual should cover as few subjects as possible, because its better to have 10 pages fully up to date, than 100 where 90 are not. The trouble is, we like to help and we feel as though we should include detail that then makes the whole thing unmanageable. No easy answer?

However I believe when one buys software there should be a comprehensive manual included. Its not that simple and I would bet the manual would then become far more of a problem to produce than the software itself. What does the manual writer include, the basics of how to do things? Something a bit more creative ? Or, the top end of any software ? How can a manual help creativity or how you creatively use the software. I will bet that Igor sees his software used in many ways he never imagined as he developed it. How does that get included in any comprehensive manual. Thinking about it, it would take more than one person to cover a wide enough latitude. Then the biggest part of all, keeping it up to date. It would be an almost full time job for something that comprehensive and still you would have some people who could not fathom how to do things. Its like buying some woodworking tools. In my unpractised hands they would be as good as useless, but in another pair of hands beautiful furniture can be produced. What is it that I lack and the Carpenter has. Experience, skill, creativity, a flair for working with wood. You have to practice to get good at anything and a comprehensive manual on your set of woodworking tools would not help you one bit. I see some people so scared up upgrading their software that they allow a number of versions to pass them by. When they inevitably have to upgrade, they now have a small mountain to climb when it could have been a steady walk through smaller less significant changes. Manuals or tutorials cannot remain fully up to date all the time. There isn't enough time to produce them so that every button they refer to is in exactly the place they said it was. The user has to use their eyes and common sense to bridge these little gaps themselves. A manual can only ever be a rough guide to point the user in the right direction, the rest is up to you.

Tom I used PTE for the vast majority of what you saw because that was the purpose of the Promo. To show what PTE can do, although to make a show like that without an image editor would be impossible. I used a background slide, along with a piece of artwork in the shape of a long film strip and the rectangle options. The effects are just delicate 3D animations with some opacity to get them to look appealing. I needed to spice up the screens that were showing mainly text and that did the trick quite well.

Check your PM

Glad many of you seemed to like the promo. As a PicturesToExe promotion, members should feel free to show it where they feel it will benefit PTE. Camera clubs or other places. All the images are mine and Igor has the copyright to use the music so there are no copyright issues. Of course I would like a plug for my web site if you play it, but that's all www.beckhamdigital.com.au

Well I have done demos for years, first with twin Kodak Carousel projectors, disolve unit, 4 track tape deck, amplifier speakers and cables galore. Now the same with laptops and speakers, desktops and speakers, keyboards personbal mike and all the myriad of cables that are required. Never had a cable let me down, so you have to put these things into perpective don't you. I once had two punctures in my car, but I don't carry two spares just in case.

I think cables are a rip off to be honest, over priced and you would never tell the difference between one that cost $80 and one for &10. I know because I have both and now know how I was fleeced when I bought the $80 one. The cheeper one does the same job and how often does a cable fail???

The cost of this Projector in Australia is $3700 and that converts to £2371. No doubt due to the strength of the Aussie currency at the moment. Our Camera Club was fortunate to get a grant for the projector, which makes the purchase even less painful A couple of years and they will be half the price, but then we will want whatever replaces them won't we?

Yesterday I visited Aussi HiFi close to Brisbane where this http://www.epson.com.au/products/projector/EH-TW9000W.asp projector was set up in a darkened room. We watched a movie for a while and it was so good the wife wanted to dump our TV and buy one of these for our TV room. I was also able to plug in my laptop and the images looked perfect to me. Great contrast, great colours, miles above anything we have now. Our club will definately be buying this model.

Jeb IMHO, 4:3 format doesn't look that attractive in comparison to 16:9/16:10. Make your shows widescreen format and live with a black band top and bottom on the iPad. Its no great shakes really and who wants to make a 16:9 show for TV and/or monitors and another at 4:3. Its not always a simple conversion.