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[bogaertb]

Hello forum,

I'm trying out PTE5 now that all these nice features have been introduced. However when trying to preview the show I only get a black screen. I thought I read something on the forum about that but I don't seem to find it. I reduced the show to only 2 animated objects but still the same. When generating an AVI file, all ik OK.

I first thought it was due to the dual-screen system I'm using now but when switchingto only 1 screen the result was just the same.

Has anyone encountered such a "problem"?

Regards, Bart

[alrobin]

Bart,

I encounter the same problem at times on my dual-monitor desktop system. It appears to be intermittent, and clears up when I re-boot. I haven't been able to pinpoint the reason for it, and it only occurs once in a while.

I find that when it does occur, if I close PTE and open the task manager, PTE shows up in the list as still open. But even if I close PTE in the task manager, and try to run it again, it hangs up again at the opening slide. Even if I use "EndItAll" to close all other non-essential processes, it still occurs until after I re-boot.

This also occurs sometimes when I open a PTE "exe" file to run someone else's show. So far I have assumed that there is some minor glitch in the way my system is set up, as recently it is not happening as often as before.

[bogaertb]

Al,

Thanks for the feedback but in the mean time I found it. The problem was caused by 2 action point at the same moment in the animation part. I only noticed when I opened O&A again and selected the main slide where I spotted a red 00:00.000.

Removing one was enough to start the preview.

Regards, Bart