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Thanks Goddi. I just reopened the project file to make sure I knew the sequence I was using when my problem showed up. Now the sorting works as it did when I was using PTE before my absence. I appreciate your input. All is well now.

Thanks Goddi but my problem is not how to access the full screen page. I can do that. What I want to know is if I can move slides around on that page by dragging and dropping. Again, I appreciate the assistance

I have been away from PTE for some time and just installed version 7.5.10. I am really happy to see all the improvements made during my absence. I used to be able to drag and drop thumbnail images on the "full screen file list" but that does not seem to work in the new version. I am able to drag and drop in the "slide" view in the main window but the sequence does not transfer back to the "full screen" view. I can prepare the slides in the proper sequence using an external program and then rename them to preserve the sequence if need be but it would be so much easier to do the sorting manually in "full screen view" as before. Am I correct that manual sorting in "full screen" is no longer an option? Thanks for your assistance.

Playback is smooth as glass on my system. Intel Core 2 Duo procesor, 4 gb RAM, GeForce 8800GT video with 256mb

It is generally a good practice to copy the program file to the computer's hard disk for presentation rather the playing it off the CD. Playing from a thumb drive is a good option too. Good luck.

I've been following this thread with interest and would love the opportunity to construct a standard test show that conforms to some accepted set of "rules" or use a show(s) that someone else contributes. I recently purchased a little Netbook PC (Asus EeePC 1000H) for use on the road. This sub-notebook is designed to be highly portable and is NOT intended to be any kind of production machine. Its main uses are to access the internet and to do email or take notes. The specs of interest to this group are: 1016 mb RAM Intel Atom CPU N270 processor running at 1.6 gHz Mobile Intel 945 Express video chipset family (Intel GMA 950, 128 mb) Working screen resolution = 1024 x 600 for full screen without scrolling. Screen refresh rate = 60 I recently put together a short (4:11) show using PTE v5.6. The show involves 65 images sized at 1024 x 768, one MP3 music track. The images show with durations ranging from 15 seconds to 0.5 second. The show incorporates one long panning/zooming sequence (15 second duration) and some "quick" transitions, dissolves and some object pan/zoom on top of parent images. The show is about 27mb in size. I use an Infocus LP600 projector with a native resolution of 1024 x 768. Connection to the EeePC is via a VGA port/cable. With the little EeePC running on battery power I loaded the .EXE file onto the hard disk, turned on the projector and ran the show. Everything worked perfectly with the small exception of a very brief stutter about 4 seconds into the 15 second panning image. All the other transitions were smooth. Pan/zoom of objects was smooth. Image quality is as good as I've ever seen from a projected show. I also ran the show from a memory stick and got the same results. I just thought it was interesting that the show ran quite well on a PC that costs less than some of the new high power video cards. More grist for the mill I imagine.

G'day, Lin. I generated two versions of your show in HD format...both using the default parameters in the VideoBuilder of PTE v5.6 beta 16. The only difference between the two versions is the screen aspect ratio. The first used the PTE default screen aspect ratio of 4:3 and the second used a 16:9 format. I thought that it might make a difference in how the show looked on playback. Both HD versions look very good to me using VLC. There may be the slightest amount of jitter in one or two of the sequences in which the disks are panning from right to left. This is noticeable only in the 4:3 version and, frankly, I'm not sure I'm seeing much at all and I've watched it 3 times now. The only stutter I see in the 16:9 version... and again, it is VERY slight (if it exists at all).... is in the zooming of the cougar to full screen just before the snowfall ending slide. All in all I don't see any substantial difference between the HD versions and the SD version I reported earlier. Any of the perceived jitter/stutters may be the result of my aged eyes and not your show or PTE. I certainly wouldn't hesitate to present the show to others based on the quality I see. Happy Holidays. Bruce

Hi Lin. I used the default settings in the "create HD video" routine. It turns out that I really produced an SD (1024x768) MP4... not the HD that I said before. "Pan and scan" was enabled. BTW... it took a bit under 7 minutes to render the MP4 file. My playback was in VLC media player 0.9.6 Grishenko I hope this helps. Let me know if I can provide any more/different information. Best... Bruce

I downloaded Lin's "Rotation Madness" file and previewed it in PTE v5.6 beta 16. Wonderful work Lin... but my wife had to leave the room or get motion sick. I loved it. I created an HD version and played it back in VLC without any apparant change in the quality of the rotations or movements. No shimmer. No jerking. Seemed pretty darn smooth to me. Maybe I'm just not tuned to as tight a pitch as others but I really don't think that the HD video output suffers at all. Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

My point exactly. Thanks Dave. All I was trying to say was to scan the 35mm slide so that the transparency film is totally included in the scan but none of the mount. Scanning at highest resolution seems wise so that the information in the slide is retained. The resultant scan is a file with dimensions that are proportioned to the original 35mm slide. After that you can crop to any proportion or size you want depending on the use you intend to make.

It seems to me that if one is going to go to the trouble of copying 35mm slides into a digital format that you'd want to include the entire slide content at the highest resolution possible and crop for subsequent use(s) based on the format and capabilities of any hardware used for presentation. My practice is fully scan or copy 35mm slides, store them and then edit for use in PTE or for other presentation. Maybe I'm missing your point or question.

I have had the same problem. I'm using Chrome as a browser, not IE. I'll see about popup blocking as a source for the problem. Thanks Brian.

smooth as silk on my XP machine with NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT and 512 of video memory. Thanks for the demo

I just want to report continued success with the generation of videos using v5.6_beta2. I just created an HD version of the wedding show that I previously used to create a video for the iPod Touch. The new HD version plays beautifully using VLC and Quicktime. It stalls out when I try to play it with Gom Player and there is no music. While this isn't a problem with PTE specifically, I thought it might be of interest to Igor or others. The show is 13.5 minutes long and uses many embedded objects, rotations, pans and zooms. It has a single mp3 soundtrack file.

I just opened v5.6 beta and was exploring the new buttons and options. I was elated to see the option to create a movie for YouTube and the iPhone... among others. I ported my latest wedding video over to my iPod Touch and was amazed by the quality and sound. Transitions are silky smooth. Quality is great. A 14 minute show took about 10 minutes to generate and move to the iPod Touch. Way to go Igor and the PTE crew! I had no idea this was in the works and I'm really happy to see the new capabilities. Best reagards, Bruce