Igor

It should works fine in PTE v4.43 I just created small example: www.wnsoft.com/test/Project1_vid1.avi (900 KB)

If you plan to use Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects in the next PicturesToExe v5.00, I highly recommend you to buy a laptop with a good NVIDIA or ATI video card.

In v5.00 you can animate main picture of a slide only. In the next v5.10 we'll write new Visual editor fo rmore complex effects, including text effects.

In all versions of PTE, file name of an added image shown with bold font (under thumbnails)

Yes, panorama looks terrifically smooth even with slow speed. Far better than current Push effect in 4.xx Of course, all Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects can be combined together.

Brian, I fully understand and agree with you! I thought thousand times about all these questions. Because of this we wrote 2 different graphical engines in v5,00 - one which uses power of video cards and second - CPU based as earlier. If you plan to create slide-shows without Pan/Zoom you will able to turn on second engine - it reliable as earlier, because it doesn't use video acceleration - only CPU. After first beta, which will be ready soon, please say us about all moments. However concerning reliability of new graphical engine which uses DirectX. We've used minimum of functions and spent a half of year to write, I believe reliable code. Currently I can say that after past 4 months of testing of this new engine on various 9 PCs, it NEVER crashed or freezed up Windows. So even not ready earlier code with possible errors always worked fine everywhere. p.s. thanks, Maureen. I missed to describe this moment

Please vote what video card installed in your main PC where you work with PicturesToExe. For ideally smooth Pan/Zoom/Rotate motion effects in 1280x1024 PicturesToExe will require something like NVIDIA Geforce 3/4 or ATI Radeon 8500/9000/9200 with 64 MB of video memory. CPU doesn't matter at all. Only good video card for fine Pan/Zoom/Rotate. If you create usual slide-show without Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects, it should works fine even on Geforce 1 or 2 or ATI Radeon with 32 MB video memory and with any CPU, as I today tested. Additionally we plan to write special code for old video cards, so we think that PTE slide-shows without motion effect will work fine on any PC as earlier. Brian, in another topic you suggested to keep v4.43 on the site as alternate version. Yes, we will keep it on the web site. But we also will try to make v5.00 suitable for wide range of PCs. (Maybe only except of Pentium II/III 400-500 MHz and earlier.) We're trying to keep PTE as simple and reliable product. v5.00 will look exactly as earlier, same 1,5 MB, very small EXE slide-show engine (even smaller than earlier) and fast work. It's very important for us to hear your opinion concerning any changes in PicturesToExe and we open and ready for discussion (and add some changes, if it necessary). p.s. when we added Fade effect 4,5 year ago, it worked ideally only on top-end PCs (Pentium III 1000-1500 Hz). Now almost every slide-show uses this effect and it works fine.

I grateful to Ken and to you for letting me about all past problems with the forum!

1) Uploading should works now. 2) Email topic feature also workable now. 3) Posting counter is working now, as Invision technician wrote to me right now.

Please read http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....opic=3667&st=40

The first beta will be available for all soon.

Tom, if I show demo of slide-show right now (without giving beta), you will not able to wait at all after it

Thanks for letting me know. I just sent new request to Invision about this current problems.

We'll have a first internal alpha of PTE v5.00 within several days (with minimal features, but workable Pan/Zoom/Rotate with Fade effect). So first beta will be soon.

Yes, the forum was moved to another server today. It's still Invision, but absolutely new server. I hope it will work better now. And I apologize about this long down time.

We are continiously asking Invision for this problem. And if it will not be solved soon, we will change forum hoster.

The problem with false detection of slide-shows created in PicturesToExe v4.30 was solved yesterday. Please update your AVG antivirus. Here is response from AVG developers: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your email. This False-positive is probably corrected in the latest AVG Update. Please download all available AVG updates and try to check if the problem persists. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Invision wrote me: ------------------------------------- Apologies for the inconvenience, this should now be resolved. We are working to resolve the difficulties with this server ASAP. Thanks! Stewart Campbell Senior Technician & Conversions Specialist

Stupid problem, really. Three years ago we had exactly same problem with wrong detecting of EXE created ONLY with PTE v4.30 with Norton Antivirus and Kaspersky Antivirus (as now problem with AVG). I wrote directly to Cris Kaspersky and to internal email of developers of Norton Antivirus and they quickly solved this false alarm. Now it seems that AVG took same earlier bases with this error... Here are letters of Norton Antivirus to Cris Kaspersky concering similar problem which happened 3 years ago:

I just sent a letter to AVG. This problem occurs only with old slide-shows created in v4.30 And I think AVG will solve it very soon. If it possible, please send your response to AVG. Here is example of slide-show created in v4.30 which AVG MISTAKENLY marks as a "virus": htttp://www.wnsoft.com/test/PTE_v430_SlideShow.zip

Yes, I remember similar problem with mistaken detecting with Norton Antivirus and Kaspersky Antivirus - they fixed that problem very soon.

Ok, I'll contact to AVG to solve this problem ASAP.

Tim, I'll send you email with special test version which will help us to find exact reason of this problem.

What exact antivirus program you use? And date of last updating.

Quote and other forum codes are working now.