Barry Beckham

Yes, I agree. To add images on the fly, one of the best ways to work in my view, you have to highlight the images added to the time line and cut transitions. The images just get pushed to the right and after a while they are in your way again, so you have to cut again and again. I would love to see those pictures that are selected into the slide list, but then cut in the time line, put into limbo so to speak. So we can hit the new transition button and they just appear. What I have to do is another work around that makes life tedious when you have more than one slide show to make. I would also love to be able to see the next image that hasn't been added as a new transition too. Quite often with a complicated show or a tutorial, you forget what slide is coming up, to see an inset somewhere would be great. This may help those who would like to use PTE in place of Powerpoint too. I could go on, but I suspect you know many yourself

If you could try to use your talent to help,guide and encourage others,I'm sure it would be appreciated. Yeah, your right, never thought of doing that before I'll try it next time and we will see what the result is. What is it about someone making tutorials for sale that upsets you so much.

Ken I don't really know if my system is OK, I assume it is, but you know how PC's can behave. I have had my share of problems with this 64 bit machine. Only had it 8 months, but its been formatted 4 times. I have moved on now from that Rainforest slide show, water under the bridge as they say, but as Igor points out, unless you can recreae a problem yourself, how can you even start to address it.

Ken Thats a little bit unfair, I tried to recreate what you saw on three different PC's and couldn't do it. If I can't recreate it, I can't fix it, but then you had much bigger fish to fry and I dropped it for very obvious reasons. Davy My word, you are a angry chap all of a sudden, or is it your humour. I think I misread your intentions before and you told me you had been joking. You sound pretty angry to me this time.

Xaver but it does not take into account that it will overburden the typical member of this forum to write significantly more than just "I like it" or "I don't like it" Yes, your right, perhaps those who are over burdened should put the time into making their slide shows, we wouldn't want to over burden anyone would we.

These settings probably don't appear as much of an issue to most PTE users, but in the past weeks I have made 28 slide shows that are tutorials on a disk on how to use an SLR, so I am beginning to find those areas that really get on your nerves after a while. This is one of them. Text effects will be expanded in the future I am sure, so perhaps it and all that goes with text needs its own tab.

I get frustrated that when I add text I get a shadow like it or not, then have to go to another tab to edit the shadow. I would like all text effects in one place

Yes I agree and wouldn't it be great if the Objects list in the O&A screen worked like Photoshops layers. You could change the stacking order by dragging and dropping the relavent layer, or lock them to prevent movement.

Colin Please relax a little, my post wasn't in reference to the content of your slide show, I posted while downloading your show, then forgot it all about it until I spotted it on the desktop a day or so later. I posted because I feel there is a problem on the forum with regard to feedback on our slide shows. Those who would be prepared offer feedback are frightened off by those who wish to jump all over anyone who do not share their views. If you need evidence of that you only have to read this post again. I am not sure this is very good for the poster, because in most cases they don't get a fair response, all they get are those who are willing to back slap. We all hope for a positive comments when we post a slide show. Or we wouldn't post them would we. It can be disapoointing when things are not as positive as we like, but thats the nature of photography. Now before you all start trolling through every post finding examples of less than perfect comments, I remind you this is a general observation. You will always find some exceptions. And while I am on my soap box, if a member doesn't understand a post, why not ask the writer of it to clarify, rather than filling in all the blanks themselves and then spitting feathers. I say again guys, relax. Surely we are all here to get better at what we enjoy arn't we?

Colin You havn't had many replies, do you ever wonder why?

Ian It sounds like you will need to find them yourself, at least for the first time. Later versions of PTE do now remember where the images are, so when you open the project file, the images you used (if kept in one folder) will be located for you. If you open up your project file, the slide show should run OK via your preview button. If that is OK, then use the file tree to navigate to where you stored the pictures for that slide show. Once you have them showing in PTE, resave your project file, probably a good idea to renaim the project file too, keep it identifyable from your old one, at least until your sure all is OK. Next time you open that project file the images will be located for you.

Easy answer, you did something wrong without realizing it. It happens to me sometimes.

Its not always best to use a single click. I often update 3 images in one go and then a re-launch is quicker, but that isn't really the point. I would like it fixed if possible.

I agree there are ways to get around that, but I find it odd that when you over write a image, with PTE open, it will show you the previous image. I am now used to it, but it could be very confusing for a new user. If it is an easy fix, then it should be fixed. Doing the amount of work I am doing for a new project, even a work around is becoming tedious

Dave Your sounding like my wife, when I don't understand her, its because I am stupid When she doesn't understand me its because I didn't explain it right

Its not just the slide list, mine don't refresh in the mini player either. I take an image from PTE, change some words on it in Photoshop, save it back into Photoshop, overwriting the original file name, but when I open PTE and run the new image, I still see the old one. I don't mind hiting a key to refresh, but I do this too often to be that interested in work arounds. Even a work around becomes tedious when you do it enough times.

I am using PTE extensivley for tutorials now and I want it to pick up the new file without imput from me, otherwise even that workaround gets tedious.

I find it very frustrating that any time I make an adjustment to an image in Photoshop and overwrite an existing image in PTE with that new image, PTE still shows me the old one. I have to close PTE and relaunch. Perhaps I am missing something, because usually f5 refreshes, but in PTE that starts a preview.

Respect to Jose, but you don't need any other software to do this Xaver and Anthony have the answer, Add the slides on the fly while listening to the music, you might have to adjust one or two, but most of the time, its pretty easy.

If you just click in that box that Xaver mentioned and leave the cursor flashing in the box, you can use the up and down arror keys to make small movements and the Page up/down for larger ones. In fact that method works well in all the PTE fields including animation. I find that way most convenient.

I think this makes a lot of sense if it can be accomplished. I would like either an AVI or WMP option just like the Mp4 option we now have.

We will soon see if Mp4 is OK for Macs, my customers will tell me.

For PC users WMV are far smaller with almost no loss in quality from an AVI. With AVI I struggle to get what I want on a DVD disk. Mp4. I don't know how robust that is as a cross platform video and with WMV, why fix what ain't broke? I don't even know if it is a solution for Mac users yet

Brian You said you convert your slide shows to WMV, are you talking PTE here? I assume your doing that via the AVI video file option, but what settings have you found best. Thats quite true but then you are not considering the "other guy" ~ in particular the vast majority of Pte-users who wouldn't know where to get the 'plug-in' and if they had it they wouldn't know how to install it nor where. Unlike yourself I had already considered that and its the reason why I suggested the (bespoke) WMV-to-Mac Converter but that in itself would need a compatible AVI-WMV utility created in Pte in the 1st instance. This line sums up forums and why they can be so annoying. I see this in many of the answers to peoples questions here. The person answering assumes the person asking the question has the same or similer knowledge to them and they answer it at the wrong level. It's what sorts out good tutorials from bad. Well Said If Igor can produce MP4 files then a simple button for a WMV does sound like a good solution. Crossfade Thank you for the info in iSquint, its not something I would ever think of checking up on.

Crossfade There is no way I am going to buy some tatty old second hand Mac that I would never have total confidence in. Secondly, I don't want to become like most people I see, so bogged down with technology the produce little photography worth viewing. I don't want a mac, even if I could get one cheaper than $2000. I already have enough computers around the house, I don't want a Mac thanks. Tom It's actually how most people are with computers. Your first word processor is always your favorite, no matter how ancient. It has nothing to do with that at all. I produce interactive tutorials for PC, that is how I got into this, I can't create those on a Mac, I can't run my CD/DVD menu software on a Mac. (Please don't tell me to run dual software) So I would always have to have a PC even if I switched over fully to Macs. It just ain't worth it, it has nothing to do with the Mac, I accept is probably a great tool for many people, but not me. Brian That sounds like a good solution. I don't don't want to be buried under technology, it saps your energy and creativity, especially if that part of Photographys isn't your thing. Thanks for the solution, its something I could include on my DVD's for Mac users. Someone also told me a few years ago about ISquint. http://www.beckhamdigital.co.uk/applemac.htm