Barry Beckham

Igor Yes, I can understand the issues and can't offer any simple ideas that you would not have already thought of. Xaver makes a good point and if it's something that is not possible to achieve, then we must accept things as they are. I am reacting to questions that have been put to me on emails and demos and my memory of how it used to work back with PTE4. _________________________ I raised an issue recently about your moving the Timeline and Slide List buttons to the extreme bottom right of the screen and you suggested I would get used to it and introduced the F6 key to toggle between the two, but I feel the need to raise this again. 1. Maybe its me just getting old and my eyes dimming, but I keep hitting F5 by mistake and then have to abort a full screen preview of the show, its annoying. 2. When you start a new project and add sound, the wave form opens up automatically on the timeline, which I think that is the correct thing to do, but you have placed the button for the waveform right where I was asking for the slide list and time line buttons. I see little point in placing something hardly used in such a convenient place while other more useful buttons (that I use all the time) are placed at the far right of the screen. We also have the duration of the slide shown, but when we select the time line we can see that anyway. 3. I find PTE just slightly less convenient to use than previous is all I want to say. Perhaps it is a combination of the fact I use a large screen and a Wacom graphics tablet. I just find the logic of bringing the wave form button to such a convenient place while relegating more usable buttons elsewhere, difficult to understand.

Yes. I put all my slide shows together manually using the time line and to do that you have to highlight all the images and cut the transition, which shunts them way down the time line. However, as you work through the show, you catch up to them again and have to cut them again and again and what I described is the result. Its just an annoyance thats all and very confusing for new user.

I was adding some different music to an already completed slide show in Beta 11. On two occasions it threw up what you can see in the screen grab. I had deleted the original music, added a second track and was adding an offset when this happened. It occurred twice with two different track of music. The only way out was via task manager. Never had anything like that before from PTE ?

Peter Well, what can I say. 1. Its obviously not working very well if an experienced user hasn't found it. 2. Why on earth should we need to select an option like that, it should be default. 3. All these comments are not an issue for us geeks, think of the new user who can't even get the slide show to end right. 4. While I am foing to that selection, I may as well do what I have been doing.

I have been having a clear out of old slide shows and demos from my web site and became inspired to remake one of the old shows that I felt had to go. It was small, the image quality could have been better and there was no Mac version. Its called The Days are Blessings and may be a bit of self indulgence as its a short sequence based on a song I have liked for decades. Hence the remake, mostly different images, but same music. The second one is called Art of Photography This uses similer techniques to those used before, but music, and style are different. Both shows for PC and Mac can be found HERE

Bert You can show your slide show made at 1920*1200 on a digital projector running 1024*768 with no troubles at all. I do it all the time at demos and NEVER have any issues with it. If your laptop is reasonably modern, as you connect to the projector you may find your laptop screen changes automatically to match the projector. Failing that, as DG says change the laptop screen resolution manually.

Jim I came away from AVG some years ago after those irritating issues of false positives. I switched to Avast, which is free and recommended by someone. (cant recall who) I am not an authority on this, but it works for me and has protected all our PC's perfectly OK and no troubles. Take a look http://www.avast.com/en-au/free-antivirus-download

Trailortrash Of course you are experienced enough to comment on PTE. My granny has never driven a car, but she knows when one is being driven badly. Your suggestions may have a lot more validity than those from the enthusiasts. I suggested a while back that there was a need for a simple flow chart (wizard) for those who just want to create a simple slide show. Or for thosewho are just getting started with PTE and don't want to commit a year of their life learning new software. When you think what you actually need to make a slide show run, from all the project options tabs? Its very little compared to all the options packed in there. As consumers we all demand zillions of options, but then they get in the way of us learning the bits we need to know.

This is exactly what I have been patiently waiting for. I am not interested in any video less than HD, but unless I have missed it, I havn't seen anything posted that is close to what I an looking for, apart from Igors short demo, that was better. No offence intended to what has already been posted, but I am not at all interested in poor quality video playing as a backdrop to stills, or small videos clips playing over stills pictures. As soon as you do that, the eye is draw to the movement and you may as well not have the stills at all.

Bert When we create a slide show for our PC, many of us tick the box in Project options to fix the size of the slide. This stops the slide show being made larger (and therefore poorer quality) on larger resolution monitors. When we make a DVD we must untick that box or the slide show does not fill the screen, even if it was made at 1920*1080. I have no experience of running slide shows on the TV, but I would try unticking that box, just in case it also affects a slide show played from a laptop as well as a DVD

Anthony Yes, that is an annoying problem. The way I work I often end a show and find the last slide now has 300 seconds of time on the screen and I have to adjust that in the options. Perhaps that will be something that gets put right because it could really confuse a newer user of PTE

I don't think I understood a word of that I think your right Igor, I need to see and use the changes before I can fully understand what you are talking about. I will look out for beta 11

Thank you David, I would have made it longer, but got fed up searching google for the images.

Igor To be honest I am not using video clips. I am waiting for the video convertor to appear in PTE before doing so. Otherwise I chase all over the place with various video convertors, all of which have far too many options and later you will add a convertor and my time could be wasted. The clips from the Canon 5D don't work as you know. If I am to mix stills and video, I want good quality video and not tiny fuzzy clips. I hope the convertor you add will allow me to do that.

These images were taken in the past couple of weeks. No real story line just an excuse to present some images that I like. To be found at the top of this list http://www.beckhamdi...digslidesw4.htm or on Beechbrook

Eric You downloaded a 125MB file !!!!!! I am proud of you, see it didn't hurt much did it

Like it or not Barry, I'm afraid that we all have the facility you speak of No we don't ! It doesn't take a great deal of a brain power to work out that a quick sentance written on the fly in an email or a forum is not the same as a detailed letter. I have become involved in another forum recently and it contains none of the nonsense you see here, despite many people commenting on many other peoples pictures. So, it doesn't have to be like this at all , but then one thing I have learned in my life is that some people are not happy unless they have something to whinge about.

I am going to do a colledge course this year, which is designed to ensure that no matter what anyone says on the forum, I will be able to find some offense in what was said. I feel sort of left out of things, I find I am not being offended as often as I would like. Its not fair that others can find offense at almost anything, but I can't. I want to have a stamp and a fume and toss my dummy out the pram too.

Try hard Just get the screen up that shows all the images as thumbnails along the bottom of your screen. Click the first of those on the far left and look up at the extreme right corner of the window, where it says "Add Sound" now use the arrow keys to skip to the right keeping your eye on that "Add Sound" area. When you get to a slide that contains music you will see it clearly. Click on it and select remove sound file. You don't need any other software and it will take you a minute or two

Igor This is more like it. The best example we have seen yet on the use of Video. I am most interested in the video convertor your going to add to a later beta version. My first experiences with video from a Canon 5D were dissapointing. After looking around at various video convertors, they are so numerous and the Any Video convertor has 40 + Ways to convert a video. To be honest, I can't be bothered to get into that sort of complexity and neither will the average user. I also will not be investing in a HD video recorder, so the Canon 5D will have to do. I look forward to where we go with video created with DSLR's

Thanks Igor, but a little confusing. I use a graphic tablet solely for all my work, don't have a mouse connected at all, so you can sometime inadvertantly click and drag items, but I don't usually have any problems.

Igor/Forum Members I am not sure if this is a PTE issue, but I have noticed on about 4 occasions with beta 8, that when I launch the program it has lost the file tree. I have never noticed this with any other version of PTE. I do use key stroke short cuts a lot, but as I said, never had this happen with other versions and don't think I have hit Ctrl+G by accident 4 times. Has anyone else noticed this and did what I did a few times and put it down to my own error

Mickp Perhaps members have been frightened off by those who have become upset by the comments. Its just not worth the hassle. All people seem to say comments welcome, but I don't think we all buy that do we?

Igor I was working today on a new project and I needed to go in and out of the Project Options > Audio Clip Properties a few times and realised I would really like to be able to make an audio change and dismiss both of these wondows with a touch of the enter key. I find myself using the enter key a lot on programs as it is the same as OK