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Well...very good...and very original idea of...putting the french color accents in the images!! The qualit of photography is very good...you have the photographic eye!!!! (the fishing man is great!) Only..the music..the idea is good..and the style is very concequent...only the timing on the electric piano is sometimes distracting..but..don't bother about this..I am just a silly Melomane! By the way I did not know pte also can fade out to the desktop (at the end). I must have missed something. Keep up your good work...and original concept ! Michel Verhoef

I totally agree with Al Robins last mail on this subject. That would be great !! (I also had a thought about marking positions of slides, so that they are fixed to that point regardless the changes you make hereafter. These fixed points should of course be checked and unchecked.) Igor keep up your good work kind regards Michel Verhoef

Thanks Lumenlux, I am glad you did appreciate; I took a long time to find the music...with the images..(and not the other way around as someone suggested) and than I used for the first time..Audacity...to stich 2 pieces together, do fade-in and out... et voila... a piece was born. regards Michel

Question, maybe someone knows this ? Is it true that when you want to start a show with no sound, say the first three slides, and than add sound to the rest starting from slide 4, you cannot arrange the individual slidepositions anymore (because the synchronisation panel had to be unchecked) ????? regards Michel Verhoef

Thank you all for the compliments, it is always encouraging for me to go on making more projects for you. About the file size..I did not do anything different from what I used to. The biggest size here is 244kB for the picture of the stairs in color. I suppose it is because I changed a lot of pictures to tri-and quadtone images. Here the color information is of course much lesser compared to RGB pictures. regards Michel Verhoef

Hi In my previous mail of this subject I was speaking of an annual national contest in sound/slide show in my country. I was asked to send in my "Into the night" show, which I did (I never did something like this before). A quick debriefing of this tells that I got an honourable recommendation but there was quite some criticism also. I quote some lines from the jury rapport: "....the music fits good with the images and the atmosphere of both are fitting good together. A minor point is the not always concequently size of the images, the reason for the use of the different imagesizes in a creative sense is not always clear for the jury. Abstract themes like these are interesting when there is a maximum symbiosys between sound and image, done by a perfect synchronicity between these two. Unfortunately this was mostly not the case in this show, the transitions and the music did not match perfectly and the variation in transitions was not often based on the music......" Well this gives some stuff to reflect (do I need a drink now ... or desperately a visual tool or diagram in PTE to make the music fit better with the images ??) greetings Michel Verhoef

No, I meant Michel Auge. I already had contact with him sometime. But I'm sure your presentation is also ok. Maybe it must be in your name? Michel Verhoef

Well Michel you promised a good show and I was waiting for it to arrive.... This is not a good show it is a MASTERPIECE !! The best I have seen up to now. A sacred show. One can see that you are an artist, not only in photography, but in other arts too. Very good effects. The mosaic not much used but here it is perfect. Good pieces of music. great!!!!!!!!! I will start all over again, I think Michel Verhoef

Very good show Andrew, compliments!!! Not only "high rise" but a tremendous rise in overall- and picturequality compared to your first show. Very functional use of aluminum windowframes in this architectural show. It fits super! regards Michel Verhoef

Great Landscape (I suppose Grand Canyon). Seeing it makes me decide to go over there another time. Good music and atmosphere. regards Michel Verhoef

Hi Venice-lovers, The Venice show did remind me of a show which I saw a few weeks ago at an audio-visual club. I think it is the most stunning digital show one can see, also from France, called "Les Fenetres" (=the windows) with the music and singing of Jaques Brel. It goes of course about windows, it is in very high tempo, and there is a immediate link from the songtekst to the shown image. (and a lot of third imaging). (I don't know if it is done in pte by the way). Is this show familiar to you venice-lovers, and if not I will try to find out where I can find it. regards Michel Verhoef

Hi Barbara, When I show an audience my PTE project I always use my beamer (Epson). Is there not a beamer available at this area ??? (because you are speaking of a large screen and a projectionist!) If not you should use a XGA beamer (1024x 768) with about 2000 Ansi Lumen for good results (depending of the darkness of the room and projecting distance). But there are many internetsites where you can fill in your specifications and which show you the results to choose from. For the sound I use a woofer and 2 small speakers (Altec Lansing) which is easy to carry and is very good. Than I connect these to my Laptop and that is all. About running the program in total or pausing in between. It depends on the type of show. With or without buttons? Maybe a good show should be self-explanatory? Maybe other members can help you further with that ? succes Michel Verhoef

Very good show, and a hell of a work to program !! It must be a WALHALLA for Photographers to be in Venice at the carnavalperiod ! Do you happen to know when this period is ? greetings Michel Verhoef

Hi Jean Pierre, Very nice site, congratulations! Only a pitty that it is only in french, which takes me too much time to understand everything. But I randomley downloaded a show made in Medi@show (El Condor pasa). It looks like a pte show because it is also only one exe file and also zipped. Should it be called "Medi@show to exe" or is it done in another way? The 360 degree flipping book effect is great !! (Maybe also a nice effect for PTE in the future?) However this effect I only would use when there is 360 degree reason in a show to use it (or at the intro). I think in this show maybe it is used too much. Than I don't understand why the pictures are not sharp, even at this small demonstration size ? Well there must be a reason for it. regards Michel Verhoef

With my latest show uploaded to Beechbrook, I see sometimes hiccups when playing back on my laptop. I found out that it occurs at the point where the size of the image at the hiccup point is quite big (1000kB). When I close all other programs in my laptop and run the show again it runs fine. So... maybe this is a memory problem here?? Michel Verhoef

Even on one's birthday sitting behind the computer ?! Contaxman: Congratulations to your birthday !!! Michel

Thanks all for your kind words. Maybe it's nice to know that I have been invited by an audio-visual workgroup (who saw my presentation on Beechbrook) to send this project to the annual national contest in audio-visual slides, and I was just in time before closing date; I hope my show will pass the prelimenary rounds. About Al's show, the pictures I like very much because it is always very, very difficult to make good shots of mountain areas, in a sense that the pictures surpass the level of popular postcards. I think you succeeded in this. kind regards Michel Verhoef

Hi Glenys, Yesterday I burnt a SVCD of the latest show of mine in connection with Ulead Moviemaker 3.0. I did not make any alterations in transitions. When I played it on my tv with my DVD-player I was not disappointed of the quality it showed. The only thing I noticed was that the pictures now fitted the screen instead of the 95% which it had been set originally within pte. In the images who were extra landscape sized there was some flikkering at the bottom of the picture.(100HZ- TV) I did this for the first time because I was somewhat sceptical about the quality of an image on TV, but it's quite acceptable. Maybe with some tweaking it even could become better. greetings Michel Verhoef

Congratulations with your first show ! It is superb, every picture is photography !!! Very good "photoshop" work. Good atmosphere. regards Michel Verhoef

Hi, My list would be: 1. Fade out of music at end of display. 2. Sorting table of slides 2. Extra transition effects of images. (i.e. turning pages effect) regards Michel Verhoef

Alan, Nice and atmospherical show, especially contributing through the music. The mermaid and anchor should be somewhat smaller I think, because they may be distracting with this size. The titles at the bottom give information which is sometimes not necessary. (Just repeating the name of the boat with the extension: trawler or vessel or something like that.) I would suggest to sum things up at the beginning of the show in a first or second slide. I think that the white band at the top and bottom of my screen should be the same color as your blue background or anyhow somewhat less distractive. I like especially the first few slides (black and white and the slide with the white boathull at the right). Consider to change more slides into black and white, because the theme seems to be very suitable for this. Some slides are very cluttered with details, and give too much information...so you can prevent this.. just by going closer to your subjects. (like you did with the gull sitting on the wooden poles). Well.... I hope you will consider these remarks just as positive critisicm and keep on making even better slide shows!! regards Michel Verhoef.

Thanks Lumenlux for your kind words. Well about the music... It is definitly not Russian or from Europe, it's very American and from a (within the Jazz world) 'famous' Jazz saxophone player, born in Illinois in 1958. This kind of artists make the kind of music which was never popular and will never become popular I think. Because of these pte-shows I am listening to cd's over and over again (in my car) to sort out the tracks in my mind I like, which means than that the music has become my starting point for a show. Well about the picture with the bird.. it actually stood there but only about 4 mm to the left of this point, so I had to clone it from there to I think slightly better point in the picture. About the chosen transitions.. someone on this forum (I forgot the name) advised someone else to use this transitions... well it also worked for me in this show. greetings Michel Verhoef

Nice, first show from Andrew ! When someone puts his first show on beechbrook its always nice and helpful to get some criticism, with the purpose of improving and learning things for the next show. After consulting Andrew, he agreed to put my positive criticism on this show on the forum. It would be nice to see some more reactions on this. So my remarks on this: - Very nice and clever constructed and good fitting backgrounds and borders (sandy coloured background fits well with the theme) - Good atmospherical mood through the music of Ennya - Several pictures are not sharp and show pixels, maybe because of saving too many times in jpeg. - Maybe in some parts of the show slightly too fast transitions. - Some pictures are not 'punchy' enough, maybe add more levels and/or curves (or saturation) Overall impression is fairly good! Michel Verhoef

Thank you all, I feel very honoured! The park is in the Hague, 10 miles from my home. thanks again. Michel Verhoef

Hi Lumenlux I think that if there is a navigation bar, than people will use it, so they will skip to another part of the show and consequently miss some slides. This breaks up a show (including the music).. so I think only use a navigation bar if there are really different subjects to skip to. Another remark to the 'eye-brain' concentration. You might compare this effect to the 'old fashioned' slide presentation with one projector. In between the slides you got the black-outs in the skippng to the next slide. This also makes people very, very tired. That was for me the first reason (some years ago) for buying a second projector and have the possibility of fading the slides. But now of course we have these tremendous digital possibilities, making the projectors standing workless in the attic. greetings Michel Verhoef