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THis is my first posting since I purchased PTE. I have learned a lot over the past months reading all of the posts about PTE and it's many features. I'm hoping someone can help with my latest frustration. I have used flash in PTE shows with no problems. I can create a PTE show to play on the computer and then copy the show to a CD for use in other computers. I now want to put the show on a VCD. However when I try to encode to create a VCD the flash animation does not appear. I assume that another encoding or process is needed. Can anyone suggest a means of accomplishing this? Hopefully without spending money on an additional program. I am using the latest beta #7 of PTE and Swish-lite to create the .swf file. Thanks. Joe

Okay... this may have been covered already in previous posts, but this problem is driving me around the bend. I have created a presentation with the newest version of PTE and I want to make it into an .avi file to burn onto a CD ROM. I have followed all of the instructions - click Video, then SCVD disc, making sure it is in NTSC format. I've previewed the file before creating it and it looks great. The pics show and music plays... However, I click Create AVI, and BEFORE clicking finish, I burn the resulting file onto a CD. The file that remains on the CD plays the program I created - BUT WITH NO PICTURES!!! I have music within the slideshow, which plays no problem, but none of my images appear... ANY HELP WOULD BE VERY, VERY APPRECIATED!!!

Okay... this may have been covered already in previous posts, but this problem is driving me around the bend. I have created a presentation with the newest version of PTE and I want to make it into an .avi file to burn onto a CD ROM. I have followed all of the instructions - click Video, then SCVD disc, making sure it is in NTSC format. I've previewed the file before creating it and it looks great. The pics show and music plays... However, I click Create AVI, and BEFORE clicking finish, I burn the resulting file onto a CD. The file that remains on the CD plays the program I created - BUT WITH NO PICTURES!!! I have music within the slideshow, which plays no problem, but none of my images appear... ANY HELP WOULD BE VERY, VERY APPRECIATED!!!

Please help. I recently bought pic2exe, and have created my slideshow. I only wish to create a slideshow for the computer, with music. I have Roxio CD Creator 5. I tried to use the Data DVD project, but was informed taht there is no supported DVD-recorder detected on the system. I've been reading the posts already listed and saw that I had to use a DVD recording system in order to have music in the slideshow. I am confused. I was able to record slideshows with music with Roxio, but bought pic2exe so that my clients will have a harder time copying the images. All I want is a simple slideshow with music. Can you please help?

Hi Did I read somewhere that the avi file created by PTE can be saved as a tangible file and used later to encode to either DVD or SVCD? I want to put several sequences onto one CD/DVD as chapters and cannot see how to do this unless I can save each avi file made and then bring them into my encoding software (Nero Vision Express or TMPGEnc) to make a composite SVCD/DVD. Any help would be appreciated.

Can any one recomend the best image size for viewing on PAL TV

You are right Igor...I made several tests this morning and it's a very good "panorama" with SVCD, DVD... I tested also NeroVision Express for encode and burn a SVCD and a DVD: very good also !

Heres the Steps I took and Failed to get Ulead to Recognise The File created in PTE.... 1. I added photos in PTE, then clicked the VIDEO button. 2. I then Chose 'Dvd Video Disc', clicked the CREATE AVI button.(For Ulead Dvd Factory2 was ticked) 3. I Saved to a 'Folder' I created. 4. The 'Create of AVI File Encoding' takes its Action... 5. I then OPENED Ulead Moviefactory2. 6. Selected 'Dvd' and then 'Existing Folder' to allow me to Browse for my Folder. 7. I Opened the Folder but....NOTHING THERE?????? Whats Happening Guys! When I opened the Folder in 'Windows' the File was there! But Ulead Cant recognise it. Now What? Mike.

I have been using P2E for over a year to produce slide shows of wedding photos for my wedding clients. I add music tracts and title slides. I was drawn to P2E because I can protect myself from having the images on the disk copied by my clients. I am now buying a DVD burner and wish to create my slide shows in DVD so that the clients will not be limited to their PC for viewing, but I still want the copy protection I have with the exe files on CD. Will P2E allow me to do this? Will the new Beta version allow me to do this? What is the process and how do I burn the DVD?

Greetings. I am thinking of buying a DVD burner. My SVCD's look pretty good on a TV. Sometimes the menus don't work but I think this is due to my DVD player. Of course DVD-R's are more expensive than CD-R's which is one draw back. My question is this: What has been your experience with burning P2E slideshows to DVD as compared to SCVD? Is the quality better? Is compatibility with DVD players better? Do the menus work consistently? etc. Thanks in advance. Bubba

I've added a button to an object, along with some text. Rather than guess how long it takes someone to read the page, I made a button that simply says "Next>". However, once the time elapses for the slide (about 4 seconds), it moves to the next, without ever considering that there is a button there. The show is not synced. Thanks in advance for any help. Tony

HELP?! For the past few days, my DVD-burner doesn't complete the burning cycle with the Ulead program. I can burn DVDs on it fine, no problem, but the Ulead program comes up with a message and I have no idea what it means or how I can fix it. Help?! It says: Ulead DVD Movie Factory Failed to record data to the disk. Error: DVDR-INC-SPTI-00-02-03-0C-00 HELP?!

Friends: I have a drawer full of video tapes I took of the kids over the years. You-got-it, I want to put them into the computer so I can put them on a DVD-R. I have a VCR I can hook up to the computer but in looking around, I can't figure out where to plug it in. I tried plugging it in to the keyboard port with no luck. Anyway, I was just kidding about the keyboard port! No, really what do I need to hook up my VCR to the computer? A capture card? What is the best way to feed the video into the computer. What device should I buy. Please don't suggest one of those Leadtech cards - I had one and took it out because of error messages, etc. I apologize if this has been addressed elsewhere. I did find discussion about various softwares that do the editing. Thank you all for your kind assistance. Will

When creating a dvd from avi file using roxio dvd builder my music track is dropping in & out (stuttering). The images look fine. I have tried using less slides and smaller files and it still happens, I am using mp3 music files. Any help in pointing me in the right direction to solve this would be appreciated. Jeff

I am using Roxio version 6 and I am getting excellent svcd's with this program Roxio. However I go to save the work and it is saved to my documents in a Roxio folder titled "PM Studio" Later I go back to bring up any saved work. The presentations .avi are daved in a folder called "pm studio" I double click or open and I get a message ALWAYS saying " the video clip "D:\p2e presentation \Mexico City2_vid 161 .avi in the project cannot be located and will not be part of the loaded project so, I click "ok" it does start loading anway and then I get ALWAYS the prompt that "this program has performed an illegal operation and so on and so on........... I click ok and that is that. That is why I have been saying with Roxio I can only do just one presentation per "cd" I cannot save the avi through p2e program after I do all that I have to do to make the video avi? Harry

Don't know for sure but perhaps some directions were just left out. Perhaps they just didn't need any explanation. But here goes: 1. Is it neccessary to preview? Is this just a step like 1,2 3? 2. Are you supposed to or have to put the length of the presentation in seconds? 3. It seems that creating a Custom AVI is a separate entity from all the rest. What is this? 4. When you go to save at what time do you do this? I usually save with Roxio but when i go back to view my avi I can never do it. It would seem to be better to save and go back and not have to recreate all over agin. I must not get this right. Now I have seen and read Igor's directions but some stuff just was not mentioned, I think. I can now do svcd with Roxio 6 a gift from my brother for Christmas and it works fine even though it should be for a PIII etc it works fine with my PII. I can create a svcd or vcd with Roxio and it looks very good on TV.

As I'm totally new to this Software and Forum, I have viewed many Links etc but, dissapointed really as to finding just Tips here and there. What I would like to see is a "How To" Post, step by step etc, on how to Create a "Dvd Slideshow" using Jpeg's.( I use Nero6 for Burning). It would also be a good Idea to do a "How To-step by step" to Create a Dvd Video Show using PTE. The reason why I write this is because we are in the DVD World now, I have a Pioneer105 Dvd Writer, also 4 Dvd Players throughout my Home but cant play PTE Slideshows. Is there a 'How To' create a CD using PTE, to Playback on a Dvd Player(not computer) already on this FORUM? Help Needed! Mike.

Finally able to try the new AVI feature...and it ain't working for me! Trying to use PTE AVI file to create DVD in Studio8 DVD, version 8.10.40, PTE versions 4.20 beta 2 and 2a. Create the AVI using the DVD Video disc option, NTSC, interlaced. Pull AVI into studio, place on timeline, go to make movie tab and set to create DVD and click Create Disc. Studio reports that it can't encode the file because it has a non-standard video frame rate. Also tried setting frame rate to 29 and same message. What's up - anyone else using Studio successfully? Dana

Please help. I am trying to make a button in PTE to activate further programmes. I have gone into object editor and followed all the instructions and find that the button wont make the other sequence active. This should be possible, but I am pulling my hair out with frustration (I am using the latest version of PTE)

Thanks for your advice Ken. It woked. My slide shows stored on SVCD have flicker on the horizontal lines on the TV which is a high frequency model (supposed to be flicker free. Frames can be frozen flicker free). Is it something I need to adjust in the settings for burning a SVCD?

I bought my first DVD Writer yesterday: the LG GSA-4081B, which is supposedly to be compatible with ALL DVD formats. There are a few prgrams included in the package. I had to try the new DVD authoring program as Nero 5.5 does not support (or see) my new LG writer. The neoDVD program by MediodStream works good to burn a DVD-RW (Memorex 1X 4.7 GB), directly with the PTE generated .AVI file, and my Pioneer DV-333 has no problem playing the DVD-RW, even with menu. Quality is not bad either...at least better than my SVCD generated with TMPGEnc+ & Nero5.5 combination. Before I bought this LG writer, I haven't even heard about MedioStream. Here is the link to the neoDVD: http://www.mediostream.com/neodvd/index.html Well, my next step is to find out if my Pioneer DV-333 can play the Pine DVD-R (4X 4.7GB) disk which is relatively inexpensive (CAD$ 1.5/disk).

I have made SVCD's of single slide shows using Move Factory 2 successfully. However, When I try to create a number of shows on SVCD I can get the Icons for the shows on the TV screen at start up but cannot find out how to acticate each show. Has anyone got any ideas please

Hi I have made a few successful SVCDs using PTE/TMPGEnc that play well on my PAL 4:3 TV. These have been more by accident than design. I cannot seem to find any information regarding the basic format for the jpeg images to enable me to produce an optimum SVCD and DVD that fills the TV screen at 4:3 and one that would fill the 16:9 TV format. I have been using 768x576 pxls for 4:3 and 768x432 pxls for 16:9 both at middle quality compression giving file sizes around 80 - 160 KB and music background in Mp3 format. When I look at the technical specifications of the various bits of software available I am lost because the format and compression figures given are meaningless to me. I would appreciate someone explaining to me how to get from PTE to AVI to MPEG2 for both SVCD and DVD in terms of optimum image dimensions(pixels)/jpeg compression and PTE AVI/Video and TMPGEnc settings to achieve SVCDs/DVDs that will fill the TV Screen in both 4:4 and 16:9 formats.

I downloaded the trial version of ulead movie factory after trying in vain to get either "click to DVD" (Sony software) or pinnicle studio 8 to open the avi files. Installed the trial version of movie factory and imported the video file. Ran the preview and it worked like a charm. Tried to write to a CD 3 times (each time using a newly created video file) and got the Message "failed to convert video file, error 80041c21". Each time the message occurred at a different spot during the process. Anyone else having similar problems? Can't get any tech support for trial versions from Ulead.

I have successfully imported the AVI video file from pte Beta version 4.20 into both Ulead DVD Workshop and Pinnacle Studio 8 and created DVDs but both result in unacceptable flicker at the top and bottom of the TV screen. Can you suggest a solution to this please.