GregTomkins

Hmm, after reading this forum for half an hour, I think it might be wise to give up. There is a lot of insinuation here that burning DVD's is an extremely touchy business at the best of times, and I only have a few hours left to finish this up. I am totally burned out on slide shows now and probably won't be back here for a while. Just want to say: with the apparent exception of Video Builder, PTE is a truly wonderful product!, I tried several and none of them came close to the polish and functionality of PTE. Highly, highly recommended! As long as you don't want a DVD, that is

Hi Dave, thanks for the reply. Yes, I did edit the original post, I found the 'Next' button. Sorry about that, it said '0 Views' so I thought I was safe Anyway this is a nearly new HDD with 487 GB (not MB) free, so I don't think that's the hourglass problem. I have tried it 3x, rebooting between, etc. Any other thoughts? Cheers and thanks

I have been working on a slide show using PTE for the last couple of months, it's unbelievably great... But today I am trying to burn it to a DVD eg. that I can play in a DVD player. So I do 'Create DVD Video', get up 'Video Builder', it's got my project selected, I click 'Next', and I get an hourglass that never goes away. This is on a very short test, 10 slides with 1 image each, and one 3 minute MP3. This test plays normally in PTE. Also am I correct that I should switch the format to NTSC? I'm in Canada. Any advice appreciated, many thanks.

Ah, I am much better off now. What a wonderful piece of software! I tried out four others, and this one is by far the sweetest. The way the timeline works, and you can 'play' individual slides, etc. is really useful. One thing I don't quite get and can't figure out from the guide or experimenting. I have a slide containing three images, which are represented as three objects in the little tree in the bottom right corner. Each object is a child of the one before it, so, there are three levels. I want the first image to be there right away, and the other two to fade in. I achieved this perfectly, it works exactly how I want. But to do so I had to create separate keyframes for the two objects that fade in. I think I really only need one keyframe associated to two objects. I thought the keyframe associated with the second-level object would affect both of them, but it doesn't. It seems like if you had 20 images to fade in, you would need 20 keyframes. I'm sure there is a smoother way. Any advice appreciated.

I thought maybe that was the right area, I was poking around with it yesterday morning and couldn't figure out how to make it work. I'll keep trying. Thanks for the rapid reply!

Hi, newbie question: I need one 'slide' to contain images from, say, 2 or 3 different image files. In PPT you can easily do this and reposition, resize etc. each image, you can also bring the images in one by one etc. They don't need to overlay or anything like that. I just want eg. a black background with 2 different pictures sourced from separate .JPG files, for example. I assume P2E can do this as well, but I can't find out how anywhere. Any advice appreciated. Cheers!