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I am trying to advance my key frames knowledge by creating a show from images & video clips from the internet. The video clips total 4 minutes, played consecutively, I have 30+ still images that I want to add to the clips in time to the music & fading them in & out as the video progresses. I have added the first slide as Lin explained, but failed on the second & subsequent slides. Lin mentioned "offset" which is where I may be falling down :blink:/> but cannot get out of the loop. At one stage two of the images were linked together when draged one way & separate when dragged the other way. I am using 7.07. Yachtsman1.

I have, today, jumped into the 21st Century and bought myself a smartphone: a Samsung GT-S7500 B)/> . I would like to try "Publishing" one of my PTE sequences into a format that will playback on this device. I have looked at the options available in v7.5 under Publish > Video for Mobile devices. These are all for either iDevices or for Tablets. My Samsung is neither an iAnything nor a tablet. It's a simple smartphone (Ok, to me, right now, that should be complex smartphone :unsure:/> ). Can anyone guide me as to which option(s) would be suitable? And will I need to download an app to do the playback? If so, which one? The device is an Android-based unit. regards, Peter

Hello all! I found a little issue in video encoding with 7.5 beta14... I rendered the entire show in 1440x1080 HD video for PC or MAC. The video renders ok (it takes long time but that's ok). During the playback everything plays super smooth (30fps) but there is a couple seconds when the video glitches like it was realtime rendered. This happens when a bright object enters the screen... looks like the encoder cannot handle this white area like the other image parts. The white area belongs to an embedded video that, funny thing, if played realtime works smooth. I don't understand what can i do to solve this glitch issue... its annoying for the audience to see everything smooth but this couple of seconds. Any hints? Thank you! Umberto Uderzo

I recently downloaded PTE and have been playing around with the various features. I decided to make some videos and save them in AVI format. I thought I would make several vides of the slide shows and put them together in another piece of software. I did not add sound to any of them as I was going to do so in the other software so that it would be continuous on playbalck of all. I made four AVI videos that did transfer and play in other softwware. I first opened them with VLC and the first four worked. I opened them in a Cyberlink product, and they worked. Nothing has changed with my computer. I am using the same size jpg files that I used previously .In fact, they are off the same shoot and same card with the same camera setting. I created slide shows five and six and used the same method to make the AVI file. I made sure that everything was set to 16:9 as I did before when I set up the project and just before I went to publsih in case I added a slideand did nto make the change. It ahs the same slide timing. They have between 25 and 30 slides each. Since I do not know about codecs etc, I just put in Microsoft 1, as did before, and opened the configure button and left it with the default. I had done the same with the previous AVI files, and they worked. Now, I cannot get any file made that way to open with VLC and get a message that it cannot open the file. I tried to open it with Media center or player and that did not open either. I tried the Intel codec, and that did not work. I am obviously doing something wrong unknowingly or there is a problem with the software. I do not know what else to try. I have read many of the other posts in this part of the forum and admit that I do not understand a lot of what is suggested. Any help would be appreciated especially if given in a simple and step by step manner as I am very new to this. Thanks in advance.

Hello Again I have managed to create an .avi movie of my slideshow using the custom codec : XVid-MPeg-4 with MP3 192bit 4100Hz sound However the resulting .avi whilst being good quality/resolution & no shimmer - it lacks contrast - (no true blacks) and vibrancy of colour compared to the original slideshow. Can anyone suggest why this might be and how I could improve it? Thanks again Joy

Probably you heard that Apple abandoned the DVD drive in the new series of iMac 2012. Also new MacBook Pro Retina and MacBook Air don't have DVD drive. They didn't replace it with Blu-ray drive. Apple thinks that time of optical discs is over. When we can do same for PicturesToExe? In 3-5 years? PicturesToExe 7.5 has rich video output options - HD video files, AVI, YouTube, video for tablets and smartphones. Personally I create HD video and use USB drive to play it on TV.

Hi I only use the Video Builder Deluxe to create .iso files as I am unable to burn discs from windows installed on my Mac with Fusion. Since I have installed the beta 12 version of PTE 7.5 it is saying I need to upgrade my deluxe licence but also that I can continue to use the previous version but I cant find how to! If I just click continue it looks OK but then puts the 'created with trial version' across the bottom of the slideshow Do I have to pay for the video deluxe upgrade or how can I get back to the old version that worked fine for just creating the iso. Thanks Joy

would anyone care to comment on their experiences with PTE Video for iPad 3. Quality? Resolution (1920x1080)? Fill Screen (or part screen)? Transitions (Smooth)? I have made a short (4 minute) MP4 using the iPad defaults and the quality when played back on my PC with MPC-HC is great for the file size (it's great - full stop!). Anyone have any do's or don'ts? I anticipate getting one in the near future and have been doing a little research into it. It seems easy enough to get the Video into the iPad using the SD Card adaptor. TIA, DG

After burning literally a couple of thousand DVD's using PTE's video builder in past issues,yesterday using 7.07 I hit a snag. I wanted to let the author of the original material for my "Mary & Jeff's Russian Cruise" a copy of my version, I burned a DVD in my usual manner, the only change I made to the process was to add a title where the blue screen has the word TITLE. & the next page on the top box, added a title. I then sat back & allowed the burn to run until the request to click to eject the disc. I couldn't test the DVD on my machine as I was recording a programme,so I took it to my friends flat who has a similar Panasonic flatscreen TV & DVD recorder. The DVD started to play & I was shocked to see the picture was in a black box, didn't fill thescreen. This morning after completing part 2 of the Russian Cruise, I set about examining what had changed on version 7.07. I read the manual on the subject "TitledVersion 7.0" which doesn't tell me which version it was based on. I found various anomalies to what the manual said I should see, to what I actually saw during the set up process. After finding the flaw with the first DVD, I went into VB properties & made sure both aspect settings were 16-9, I think the first DVD was set at the default of 4-3 but can't prove it. I also changed a few other settings as per the manuals suggestions & started the VB process. The first & second screens went through OK, however, on the Burn screen I got an error message I wasn't quick enough to capture before a second errormessage appeared, see vber1, I clicked on the Create ISO option which worked but where the ISO went gawd knows, it didn't ask me where to put it. I then ejected the disc which looked as though no burn attempt had been made. Re-read the manual, re-set the burn speed two speeds lower, 6 I think & changed the default to Auto to Progressive as suggested. I then inserted the same disc as the first attempt, & set the process in motion. The disc burned successfully so I tried it in my DVD player, shucks it was the same, the picture was in a black box. I have included screenshots of all the processes I can think of plus a picture of the DVD on the TV screen. Has anyone else got the same problem or can spot where I have gone wrong, or is this a bug. Yachtsman1. Due to restrictions in posting attachments, the following post has more screen shots.

Using 7.07, I am compiling part 2 of my friends Russian cruise, there is a video clip on the DVD which I have cropped out of the DVD using PTE's video conversion facility. I wish to overlay the clip over a slide with reduced opacity. When I try to do this via O&A, selecting the clip from the file list it appears as a film strip, see screen shot. When I try to run the clip using the toaster button, I get an error message see screen shot. The clip plays fine without the backing slide, but because of its size appears in a black box, see screen shot of the clip details. Anyone got an idea how to cure it. Yachtsman1.

I make HD videos for PC & Mac add them to videobuilder as requested and convert them to MPEG4 files. The size & length varies resolution 1080 aspect 15:9 Usually these will not stream to my Sony TV using WDTVLive and raise the message "Unable to play the selected file." Please see the User Manual for a list of supported file formats which are not listed in the internet copy. Is there a better way to do this or are there different MPEG4 formats. I have read some use VideoPad Video Editor and that Igor suggests other methods all of which are beyond my basic knowledge. Hugh (Alias indifficulties)

My computer has two screens. In preview it is possible to select Display 1 or Display 2. In the final production is it possible to have some pics displayed on screen 1 and others on display 2. Is there a work round to get this working. CHRIS

Premiere Elements outputs a format with the extension .f4v After looking into this format I discovered that it is more or less a mp4 h.264 compatible format so I took one of my videos and rendered it with Adobe Premiere Elements as a f4v Then, noting that PTE does not "see" this file in the file list, I changed the extension to MP4, imported it into PTE and used the internal converter to output the compatible AVI which played perfectly by PTE 7.5 beta 6. The question is: Could PTE not be made .f4v aware so that it would not be necessary to rename the file with a compatible extension to allow the user to load it and convert it? It appears that it's just an Adobe name for an MP4 h.264 file... I also found this interesting tidbit about it which explains a minor difference: http://www.leebrimelow.com/?p=748 Thanks, Lin

I am on version 7.01 and created a 30 sec "commercial" with static JPGs and videos, with background music. I am just testing for now to see how to get the final show and how the quality ends up on the website. I see the 2 options to publish in Facebook or YouTube, but I want to place my show on my own website, not theirs, so I cant use those. I have tried publishing as a preset HD video at 1920x1080 HD Mp4, and that works great (smooth video, good quality) but how do I get this MP4 now to 500 px wide...small enough to add to my webpage ? I changed the pixels in the presets to "custom" and resized to proportional 500x280 and it works, but quality is horrible (video is jerky and not smooth) I tried to search the forum for this but coouldnt find this so if this has already been discussed, can someone point me to the posts please ? Thanks in advance Paul

Using trial version, can get a magnificent DVD from pics2exe made MP4 file used on a PC, how do i get a DVD for use on TV as well?

Is anyone out there able to help with a comparison between a Standard DVD Player and a BluRay DVD Player when playing Standard DVDs made in PTE? We are talking about Stand-alone DVD Players and not the BR Player installed in PC / Laptops. The test is this: Play the same DVD made from a PTE project (1920x1080 prefered) in both players and note whether there is any difference between the two with regard to cut off produced by TV Safe Zone on the standard player. Please note that it is normal to connect BR Players via HDMI and any other method would not be valid for this test. Your help is appreciated. DG

Hi, I am using Video Builder to make a "DVDVideo Disc – for players connected to a TV". I use this facilityquite regularly and have not, till now, had any issues. My problem is as follows. I have builta trial DVD with a menu of 10 ".pte" sequences. On completingviewing any of these sequences on TV or PC the following sequencestarts without reverting to the menu. At this trial stage I amworking with very short 2 slide sequences built for my trial. Anybody got any ideas as to what I amdoing wrong? I am using PTE 7 for this. John

Hello again I have copied an .exe slideshow to DVD for a friend to play on his PC but he cant open it because of his security settings which prevent him opening an .exe from a removable disc. My question therefore is: Is there an output I can publish to which will give equal quality to the exe for playback on a computer (ie not DVD) - (I dont think this is just another version of the DVD quality questions - I have resigned myself to the fact that converting to a DVD considerably reduces quality) Thanks Joy

As I recall we used to be able to upload directly to Vimeo, but that's been changed and as far as I can figure the only thing we can do is make a high quality mp4 file and upload that - but that file is too compressed by Vimeo to produced acceptable image quality. Seems the only option is to upload to Youtube because Facebook's compression is terrible too. Any suggestions for better public viewing on the internet? Isabel

Hi all, I have created a video with photos and movie clips. When I burn them to a dvd the movie clips are two slow. But the photos are fine I created a exe file it works fine. Can anyone help me to understand what I have done wrong? look forward to hear you , greeting from Maldives.

I am screen recording 854 X 480 and outputting in the same size. The video looks good, but the MP4 has this black section on top of the video. This does not happen if I choose Screencast for uploading, but I need this in MP4. Thanks

I've uploaded a number of my shows to YouTube, but have always been disappointed with the quality. In particular transitions, especially fades are nothing like the originals. Does anyone else find this & have they found a solution. The obvious question if it isn't me, can WNsoft do anything to improve things in the future? Yachtsman1 PS the versions I've posted on Flickr seem the same, however these are also MPEG4 created with PTE. PPS The MP4 is almost as good as the Exe using WMP?

The exe plays fine, the show runs fine. So I thought I would create an MP4 Video file in 7.06., the sound is missing in WMP. Any ideas??? Yachtsman1.

A few years ago I produced an "Idiots Guide " to using Audacity, as I explained the term idiot at that time was generic for that type of document. I've learned a lot since I started using video in my slide shows, hopefully in my next show I will be able to demonstarte that. Not being one to keep what I've learned to myself I've produced a follow in PDF format. I must stress this is how I do things, which as the saying goes "There's more than one way to skin a cat" Happy editing. Yachtsman1. PTE and Audacity Video Editing Guide..pdf

I am new to PTE & VideoBuilder. I am looking to make a DVD of my Photographic Society's Annual Exhibition. The different classes (colour, mono, nature etc) will form separate projects and the menu will allow users to view single classes if they wish. However, I would also like to offer the choice in the menu of choosing to view all classes, one after the other. In effect I want a "Play All" option in the menu. Can anyone please tell me if and how this can be done without having to duplicate all the pictures with the effect that would have on the capacity of the DVD. Many thanks.