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he said it's on hold, so abandoned temporarily. I had high hopes for a Mac version when PTE started outputing Mac shows a couple of years ago, but now its going to be a couple more years. What if in the meantime, they decide its not worth it to finish it? the current version works great in vmware. Why even bother with a mac version. Spend the time making the PC version better. My software developer housemate thinks that is incredibly funny.

Mac uses .app for the file name but switching to another slide show on a Mac is very iffy. Sometimes it works, sometimes it crashes. Good luck.

Macs can play the movie formats PTE makes so what workaround do you mean? PTE already makes movies for those, and it's Blackberry not Blueberry.

MP4 is very cross platform because its a standard and will play on nearly anything, like MP3 audio, including phones and tablets. WMV requires extra software for anything other than Windows (Mac and Linux), making it not really cross platform. It is, and for other systems too.

what advantage does creating a wmv get you over mp4 or avi?

Flash is used by a lot of people, but to say its on every computer is wrong. Some users intentionally block it or remove it entirely: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/ and many sites are dropping Flash. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/HTML5-YouTube-Vimeo-Adobe-Flash,news-5623.html The vast majority of PTE users don't have Macs so they dont need the plugin. People who do have Macs probably have it installed already, but if they dont, Google wmv mac: http://www.google.com/#q=wmv+mac and the very first hit is the Microsoft plugin. Installing it is easy, just run the installer. like i said, theres no need to convert anything. Macs can play avi and wmv movies.

Nice effect, except March 2011 starts on a Tuesday, not Thursday.

Very true. People like what they're used to. They don't want to change. They get stuck in their ways, sometimes forever, even when something much better comes along. Too bad for them, because change is good. Yep. Flash isn't universal on all computers and offers no benefit over a normal movie file, but if you want Flash, why not suggest that PTE output it directly? Macs can play WMV movies without needing to be converted. All it takes is installing a free plugin from Microsoft. They can play AVI too, usually without anything extra (depends on the avi). I guess they forgot to tell you its dead and has been for a while. You might want to update your page too.

Where did you come up with $2000?? the cheapest new mac is 899 au$ and you dont need a new mac for testing. a used one is more than fine, so it would probably be half that, maybe even less. You can use it as a spare Windows machine too.

I've downloaded a couple of your shows and I can see you put a lot of work into them. Thats not the issue. The problem isn't a steam driven mac playing big movies (it was gas driven in the last post, what happened?), its executables crashing or not playing properly on current Intel Macs. Didn't you have a problem a while back where the sound was garbled on a Mac (I think it was you)? Thats what Im talking about. That particular case is, but it would be the same if he had an old PC too. How well do your shows run on a Pentium III? I have a Pentium IV computer collecting dust because its too old for Vista & Win7. Im sure if i tried playing a PTE show, it would be pretty bad. explain the logic to me where you offer a Mac executable, but you dont know if it plays properly or crashes. Do you test the shows on different versions of Windows? Ive downloaded a couple of mac shows that have crashed. They were free downloads so I didnt really care but if I paid for them, Id be pissed and wanting a refund. http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12862 Its 1-2 years away. I'm not surprised, its obvious they aren't spending much time on it. Run the current version in vmware.

WMV or QuickTime movies should play fine. The problem is PTE executables crash sometimes. If you dont have a Mac, how do you know the executable works? dont get a G4. its more than 5 years old and not Intel and wont run any PTE shows. A used Intel Mac is not that much. it can, but a 5 year old computer might stutter a little, mac or PC, even 1024x640, and especially if its more than 5 years old (the 1st G4 was over 10 years ago). If theres space on the DVD, put it in different sizes, so gas driven PCs can play it too.

buy a low end used one. Are you really selling stuff you have not tested?? its a 1920*1200 mp4 movie? The last G4 was sold in 2006 or so, when Intel Macs came out, and that size movie is not going to play well on a 5 year old computer (maybe even older). How well does that mp4 play on a 5 year old PC? its not recent and my guess is not too many people still have Macs that old which is why nobody else has the problem.

mp4 videos will play on any Mac, except older Macs might be too slow to keep up if its big, like an older PC. The executable shows need Intel Macs, but somtimes they crash.

You should buy VMWare and run PTE in Windows. Its obvious the Mac version is not a priority and it doesn't look like like it will be released any time soon plus he said it wouldn't have all the features the current version has anyway.

I run it in VMWare with XP. Bootcamp might be a little faster but you would need to reboot. It will run just as well as it would on a regular PC.

an iPod touch is an iPhone without the phone and it can play PTE movies. Also worth mentioning is that you need to make PTE movies for Android tablets and phones too.

yep, the iPad is not a Mac, doesn't have an Intel processor and doesn't run MacOSX. its a big iPod touch.

The effects work fine, but its still just a movie. You don't have PTE controls. Like other movies, the user can play, pause, fast forward or rewind. Movies don't zoom, other than choice of letterboxing or not.

You don't need a Mac, the iPad works with Windows too. All you need to do for PTE is create a movie and then sync that to the iPad as you would any other movie.

I picked vmware before I started using pte.

I use VMware and it improved, so Parallels is probably better too. Unless your slide shows are extremely demanding, its not a problem at all. yes no, but i've heard mixed results.

no charge, other than the cost for shipping of the discs. they don't. All you need to do is put the files on a shared drive. what duplication? If you already have Lightroom for Windows, you can legally run a second copy on a Mac. Unlike Photoshop, you can mix systems. If you don't have Lightroom, you only need to buy one copy.

I use Adobe Lightroom. It runs on both Mac and PC.

I didn't extract anything. I was replying to you because what you said was no guarantee of recovering anything and possibly a waste of time depending on how badly the drive failed. In some cases, even specialized drive recovery companies can't recover data. You don't just plug it into something and magically get the data back. I also mentioned backups, because if the person isn't making regular backups, then let this be a lesson to do so in the future. Its very easy to recover data if you have a full backup sitting on a shelf next to you. Drives WILL fail. It's not a question of if, but when. Exactly what I did.

That depends how badly the drive failed. Sometimes its not possible to get anything off a drive, and its also not that hard to run a recovery tool either, which is all most shops would do. All of that data should be on a backup drive and can be restored for no cost (other than a new drive).