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I am using PTE Delux 9.0.14 on a win 10 PC. The last time I used PTE it was running perfectly well. I have not used PTE for over a year. I need to make a new project and ran PTE today and got the error message -- Access violation at address 0075A6B4 in module 'PicturesToExe.exe'. Read of address 00000000. at startup. I continued on and am having trouble with the file list displaying correctly and cannot access anything in it. I have rebooted the PC restarted PTE but still get the error and folder/file problems. Please help. SORRY everyone! I just found the answer on the forum, my first search didn't. I have updated to 9.0.0.22 and the problem is solved. I do have one question though, as I said earlier it has been sometime since I used PTE so it may be my memory but I don't see any .pte project files in the file list. They are there in the folder in windows explorer. Is this normal? I have checked the file association in windows and the .pte files are tied to PTE as they should be, and when I click on them they open in PTE. If so I think it would be very useful to have them display in the file list in PTE. If not can you tell me why this would happen and how to fix it please? thanks in advance, Joanne.

Hi, I found this old post when I was searching for the origin of the 321 AV competition but cannot find anywhere on the NET where the term 321 for AVs came from. :(/> Is there anyone who knows? A friend thinks it is from the time a roll of Super 8 film would run (3minutes 21seconds). Can anyone help? thanks Joanne

Big thanks Lin & Dave. You guys are just the "Bees Knees" as we say here. I was playing with the mask but just couldn't get it to work, you have shown me the light. thanks heeps, Joanne

Thanks Lin just what I needed. Hope I am not pushing the friendship but a follow-up question if I may-- Is it possible to have the scrolling text fade in at the bottom and fade out at the top of the background slide. I think this would look better than just coming in from the edge of the slide. I am thinking of using a frame around the images in the show and don't want the text scrolling over the frame. Thanks again for your wonderful help. Joanne

I have text scrolling vertically over a slide, a big step forward for me. As there is a lot of text I would like to have the slide behind it change several times while the text continues to scroll, but am having trouble doing this. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Joanne.

I could not agree with you more John!! Joanne

Having posted this in the software area and received no replies I thought maybe I had it in the wrong area so I am reposting it here. I know it really is not strictly a PTE question but when we are able to mix video into a PTE show it will be. I have a question that is in two parts and I am sure is not too difficult for all you experts out there. A---Over many years I have collected a large number of short videos of my family and friends. They are in a number of different formats that I wish to merge into one video file - many MP4s some AVIs and WMVs also FLV and SWF and a few others. Can you tell me of a software tool to do this preferably shareware or free please? B---Once I have this file I would love to put it onto a DVD that I can view on my TV I have PAL TV system here. How do I do this? This would also allow me to easily give a copy to my family and friends. I realize there will be some quality loss but this is not important as the content is priceless to us. Thanks in advance for your help. Joanne.

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I have a question that is in two parts and I am sure is not too difficult for all you experts out there. A---Over many years I have collected a large number of short videos of my family and friends. They are in a number of different formats that I wish to merge into one video file - many MP4s some AVIs and WMVs also FLV and SWF and a few others. Can you tell me of a software tool to do this that is shareware or free please? And if it is not too complicated how? B---Once I have this file I would love to put it onto a DVD that I can view on my TV I have PAL TV system here. How do I do this? This would also allow me to easily give a copy to my family and friends. I realize there will be some quality loss but this is not important as the content is priceless to us. Thanks in advance for your help. Joanne.

I totally agree. PTE is an Audio & Image -AV- program which should allow the user to assemble images and audio files with equal tools. In previous versions the image tools have been developed and are excellent but the audio was lacking. Igor has begun the process of addressing this imbalance in v6.5 thus continuing to develop and improve PTE. Yes why are we revisiting a debate that was had long ago or are we living in the past. The world has moved on and we should to. Well done Igor and keep up the good work.

I should have added this to my last post. In regard to the rather silly quote "if it ain't broke don't fix it" if the human race followed that philosophy we would all still be in the stone age. It would appear some hasn't heard of the word improve. Just because it ain't broke we shouldn't try to make it better???

A little background. What caused my old stone-age PC to come to a holt in the end was too many programs running in the background all sorts of things I did not want or use. Things like tool-bars - net connections to download updates or add-ons I did not want or know about - all sorts of tools running in the background that I had no knowledge about - software sitting on my HD that I never used loading it up and got there without my knowledge and so on. This came about partly because I started as a complete computer novice and also has some bad advice. Once bitten twice shy particular of bad advice. So the main instruction to my PC builder was I wanted a clean machine with only the OS and my virus checker and nothing else loaded. I now have a brother in the IT industry and with his help have become a little computer literate also now know some of the pitfalls to avoid. Over the last few months I have slowly loaded only the precise tools and applications that I require and have been very happy with the result. A disk burning program was the last of the programs in this process. The reasons I did not want to continue with Nero was it caused me problems along the lines stated above and is against my new PC house-keeping philosophy. Just one example of this is the audio editor in Nero I use Audacity so why should I have that on my PC when I will never use it. I know it is impossible to have only exactly what you want but it is possible to get much much closer than Nero will allow. Nero would also cost me money to upgrade to V9 money better spent in other areas and so on. Windows 7 Pro 64bit has been 100% fault free for me runs like a rocket and all my peripherals and software have loaded without any issues. In fact some work even better now. PTE setup OK and I did a quick check to see if I could load and preview a project this was OK also checked a few other functions quickly. Now I have finally got my system fully configured I will start using PTE in more depth and see if there are any problems there with Win7 64bit so far so good. Joanne

Good point Ken I had already considered Bluray and Ashampoo Burning Studio 6.77 and several others I have looked at all handle it. I had Bluray put in my new PC system. I am currently evaluating Ashampoo Burning Studio 6.77 and it looks pretty good the only function it lacks is a one step disk copy so if anyone knows of anything else they think is better I would love to know about it. thanks Joanne

I did not say I was happy with Nero nor did I say it wasn't broke. I simply said it was old and I did not want to load it on my new PC. You assume too much and read into my post what is not there and did not answer my question. Very unhelpful. My question was-- Can anyone tell me of a good shareware or freeware CD/DVD burning package that I can download and use?

Thanks MickyP the Ashampoo Burning Studio 6.77 looks like what I want and as I now run Win7 64bit the information that it runs fine on that OS is important too. Thanks Joanne

How does that apply to my question? Please explain. Fine for you with full deep pockets and a friendly bank manager. From my experience all you end up with is expensive, bloated software that loads up my PC and goes way beyond what I want, thanks but no thanks to that one.

On my old redundant PC I had the full Nero package version 6.3. I was going to load it onto my brand new PC but it is a very old version and I do not wish to purchase the latest Nero. Can anyone tell me of a good shareware or freeware CD/DVD burning package that I can download and use? I just want to burn the occasional data disk, backup to disk some files, burn audio CDs from my old LP collection and produce the occasional PTE DVD to run on a TV. thanks Joanne

The person building my new PC had quoted me on a GeForce GTX285 1Gb video card but is having trouble getting one and it may be 4-6 weeks before he can. In place of it he can supply an ATI 5850 immediately for a little less in price. The question is should I wait or go with the ATI card? Has anyone here had any experience with this card and PTE? Thanks again for your help. Joanne.

Thanks everyone for your wonderful help. I am now setup with the following -Router-Firewall - I did not know I even had this till i looked at the box on my phone line. It reads "Billon ADSL Router" and I thought it was just a modem. -Software Firewall - Windows Firewall -Anti-Virus Program - Free AVG -Cleanup Program - CClean Thanks to your help I can now sleep at night. Joanne

Lin what is a Hardware Firewall? The firewall I have is the XP one in control panel-security centre. Is that the same? My current PC is an old laptop and next week I get my first desktop an i7-860 with a GTX285 video windows 7-64bit and 8GB DDR3-2000. This is the reason I asked the question as I wish to know how I should protect it from the start. Photoshop CS4 loaded very excited cant wait. thanks Joanne

A question for the more techo people here. For the last 8 months I have been running the free version of AVG to protect my PC I also have the XP firewall enabled. As far as I know it has done its job well. Recently I have been told by several friends that I should have other programs running as well as the free version of AVG is not a complete protection package. Is this true? What else should I have running? What would you recommend? thanks Joanne

I was trying to do this in the slide list. Never used the O&A screen or functions but I guess it is time I started. A whole new learning curve. I am sure i will have lots of questions when I start there but here I go. Thanks Peter I am about to give your suggestion a try. Joanne

A question for the knowledge-base all you wonderful people are. I have 3 images. I wish to have image 1 on screen for 5sec - fade to image 2 in 2sec. Image 2 is to only reach 75% brilliance in the 2sec fading in when image 3 is to start a fad in and then a normal fade out of image 2 to image 3 from that point. Hope I have explained what I am trying to do. Joanne.

Thank you Igor for adding the sound functions to PTE for us. It will be a big improvement for me as I have spent many hours on my current project going back and forth between PTE and Audacity trying to get very small but important timing changes to the sound file positions with no real success. So much so I was thinking of going to another AV program to do this. I will keep that project on hold until v6.5 now and stick with PTE. I am very glad you did not listen to a noisy minority and are going to add this to PTE for all of us. THANK YOU. Joanne

PageUp / PageDown helps Tom thanks for pointing that out. It would be nice to be able to zoom in and out though.