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It is probably the file associations in Windows. Do you have the .pte file extension properly associated with the PTE program?

The Red in the Project Options is, I strongly suspect, alerting you to the error that you have made by linking two or more sound files to the same slide in the same audio track.

Igor, The default settings now produce visually identical results. Thanks for the quick fix. regards, Peter

I confirm this behaviour on my system. I used the "as shipped" settings for the dropped shadow. The shadow on the video object appears to be further back from the image than it is on a still image. Peter

Snapcam, I suggest you re-test after your laptop next does a Windows update - or any other update. It is possible that an update that you have now backed off was the cause of your problems.

On this forum you use the little icon that looks like three links in a chain. It's immediately to the right of the bullet list and numbered list icons and underneath the right-hand side of the Size box on the row above.

Wideangle, Why not crop off the excess transparency? Placement will still be relatively straightforward and the total load on the GPU might become tolerable. Alternatively, spread the addition of the pieces across several slides.

Gary, In an earlier post you wrote: "The frame rate changed from 23.976 to 29.970.." That means that the software has changed the frames per second (fps) from 24 to 30. The only way it can do this is to add frames that were never there before. This runs the risk that the overall video may lose a little quality. The analogy with stills would be taking a small image and enlarging it in Photoshop. We all know that there is a limit to how much enlargement you can achieve before the image quality starts to suffer. One other thought strikes me from the dialogue you've had with Dave: given that he can take MOV files from his Nikon straight into PTE with no problems and you are having problems doing that, are you, perhaps, up against a computer resource issue?

Gary, I've no experience with Mercalli-SAL3, only with Mercalli-Easy. In that software the only choice the user can make is the output format. I use Mercalli-Easy in the manner that Lin has described: stabilize the entire clip then convert and trim the resultant file in PTE. I would suggest that, if a software product has been properly designed, the user should not need to make changes to the "factory settings" until such time as they find a need to make changes. That need for change would be triggered by dissatisfaction with the quality of the output. Are you unhappy with the quality of stabilization that you are currently getting? If not, why worry?

Snapcam, I have just received my latest copy of the IAC's magazine. In it there is an article by Howard Gregory describing exactly the same problem with an ASUS N55S. It seems to be a design feature of this machine, and possibly all ASUS laptops. Apparently there is no solution. regards, Peter

If this is a single slide menu with a series of links on it, it might be a good idea to do File > Create backup in Zip and post the zip file so that others can try and recreate the problem on their systems.

Thanks, Dave. OK, now that I have 8.0.12 installed, I still don't see any difference between an EXE that I create and an MP4 that I create. Bert, it seems that the difference that you see is something about the PC system and/or MP4 playback system that you are using. regards, Peter

OK, now I'm confused. Bert's opening post states that he is using 8.0.12. When I download the latest version from the v8 topic here on the forum I get 8.0.11. When I download the latest version from the wnsoft.com site I get 8.0.11. So what is this 8.0.12 that Bert is using? regards, Peter

Hi Bert, I don't think I see any difference between the MP4 and the EXE that I published using 8.0.11. I'll upgrade to latest version and try again. regards, Peter

Hi John, This runs OK on my system, too. No signs of any problems.

John, It's no great help to you, but you're the second user to raise this problem in the last two-three days. Can you create the problem if you strip your sequence down to just three images, one either side of this problem slide? If so, Zip up a backup and upload it so that others, including the wizards of Wnsoft, can see what you are trying to do. I have just set up a simple test sequence of one slide, a JPEG, with a child image, a PNG, that was animated to move over the JPEG. No problems. Changed the sequence so that the child stayed still on its parent and the parent panned across the screen. Again, no problems. regards, Peter

Did you build your sequence using 1280x720 images?

Like Barry, I use a graphics tablet. I don't have a mouse and the stylus doesn't have a wheel on it!

If an attempt was being made to modify the Registry - almost certainly!

John, A BluRay player will play BluRay discs and DVDs. To burn a BluRay disc requires a BluRay burner and a supply of blank BluRay discs. From what you have previously written, you already have a DVD burner and a supply of blank DVD discs. As far as I know, any DVD that you burn should play in both a DVD player and a BluRay player.

Prior to trying to set this value, had you manually adjusted the zoom value of any slides? If you had, I do not think the "Apply to all slides" would over-ride those customised values. But I may be wrong.

John, What format of file are playing back on your TV? When I first got my flat-screen, digital TV I ran a test using an MP4 video file created with PTE. The test file was simply a coloured rectangle of 1920x1080 pixels with a 5 pixel inside stroke of a contrasting colour applied via Photoshop. When I played this back, off a USB memory stick through the in-built USB port and in-built media player, there was no loss of this coloured border. With this method, TV safe zone is an irrelevance on my TV, and may also be so on yours. The visual quality of the MP4 viewed on the TV compares very favourably with that of the EXE viewed on the PC monitor, provided there is not too much animation in the sequence.

Daniel, Which of the two overlapped audio clips sits on top and which sits at the bottom? I suspect you can add envelop points only to the clip that sits on top. To add a point to the clip which sits at the bottom you may need to place the point away from the overlap and then drag it into position. I have not done any tests on this. I am merely theorizing! regards, Peter

Isn't a partial, but significant, solution here to allow an audio file to be replaced by another whilst preserving all the settings that have already been applied. In the analogous image situation, I can replace any image and all my animation keyframes are kept and applied to the new image. Why not the same with audio? Change the audio file but apply all the previous trims, fades, envelopes, etc.

Barry, 44 minutes of WAV file would be 440MB, which is "peanuts" out of a 4GB file. If we subtract that from the 4GB and divide the remainder by 480, we get an average image file size of 7.5MB. Even if I save images at Photoshop JPEG Quality = 12, I struggle to get anything much bigger than 3MB from the D300s and 2MB from the D70. An average size of 7.5MB is monstrously large! I wonder if the image files are all PNGs? I have found that a typical PNG is much bigger than the equivalent JPEG. Peter