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Hi Rosy Before answering I should have made the assumption that you would have looked at the easier options! Good luck with your project Brian

Unfortunately my keyboard does not have a seperate numeric keypad but denisb suggestion works fine. Perhaps Igor could add one to the Vector symbols in PTE? Thanks to you both for your help.

Hi Rosy Would it not be possible to connect the camera via USB or USB/HDMI adaptor to a standard laptop/Ipad etc? Brian

I'm trying to add a copyright symbol (letter C in a circle) using the add text function in 'Properties' to a slide. I have tried the keyboard sequence ALT+0169 which doesn't work and tried other variations too. There isn't a copyright symbol in the Text Vector symbols within PTE. I am using a PC with Logitech MX Keys keyboard which is small and some keyboard features are doubled up. Can anyone help please?

Totally forgotten how to play a PTEAV file and can't see your problem but I did experiment with one of my slides which had a zoom in it and added 'Smooth move' to it. I think that I got a similar effect to what you have described. The zoom was fine when I removed 'Smooth move'. However, my slide did have a small Pan percentage and when I took the pan back to zero there was no jump in the zoom with or without the modifier. Do you have a Pan in your slide?

Thank you for your help and that worked. Simple when you know how!

As a long term PC user my Mac skills are appalling! My wife uses a Mac and has asked me how to use PTE on her MacBook. I've installed PTE 11.0.2 on to her MacBook but can't find a simple way to import images from the Photos app into PTE. I can drag and drop an image from Photos onto the Finder/Desktop page and from there into PTE but can anyone suggest a simpler way please?

I was having the same problem. I totally forgot that I had reinstalled Photoshop 2023 and thanks to Jill's tip on resetting Preferences, it now works. CTL+W works too. I am on Win 10.

Thanks for your suggestion, I'll try some experiments.

Not sure whether continuous zoom is the correct term but I recall reading on the forum about a style/transition where you start a zoom into one image and the zoom continues at the same pace into the next image, hope that makes sense!. I can't find the post anymore. I thought it was one of The Dom's transitions/styles but can't see it on his website. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Hi Rosy & Jill Many thanks for your help. It will be interesting to see how many AV's make the cut at the BIAFF. If anything, it will open a few eyes as to the capabilities of PTE. Regards Brian

Until now, I have always the EXE route to publish my sequences. However, I have entered the BIAFF competition and EXE are not acceptable and will therefore will have to convert the sequence to a Video format but I'm not sure what format I should use. There's no guidance in the competition rules but I suspect it will have to be a video format. In the 'Publish' menu (PTE AV Studio v10.5.6), what should I use, Create AVI file or Create a HD & 4K video? I need some help with the various settings as well, I produced the AV in 4:3 and most of the images are 1400x1050 and not sure what settings i should use. Your help will be gratefully appreciated! Thanks, Brian

Many thanks Dave, works a treat! Brian

There is probably a very simple answer but at this time I can't think how to do it. Is there a way of making an object appear to vibrate, for example when a clock alarm activates? That is, the sort of thing that one sometimes sees in cartoons, the alarm bell rings and the clock jumps around.

Many thanks to you all for your help; I used DVD+R RW disc and took Igor's advice to change to LPCM and was able to publish the sequence without problem. Regards Brian

Hi Wideangle & Gogs Thanks for the tip but unfortunately I don't have any DVD-R discs at the moment. Wii get some tomorrow and try again Regards Brian

I'm trying to publish a sequence to a DVD disc as my friend does not have a computer and wishes to play it on his Panasonic DVD Player. The process of burning the sequence to a Panasonic DVD-RAM RW 4.7GB disc seems to progress fine but when we put it in the DVD player it is unable to read the disc. I have attached a screen print of the WnSoft Video Builder and project options screen. Can anyone please suggest what I might be doing wrong? VideoBuilder.docx

Lin - Thank you for your advice; I have resized the files using Faststone and the EXE file is now down to 380MB from 2.84GB. Faststone is an an excellent piece of software which I haven't used before. I'm not sure at this moment in what format the cast would like the sequence and explored publishing the sequence 'HD Video for PC' (settings 1920x1080, High Quality, 30p) and that created a file of 1.38GB. Also tried the 'Video for Mobile Devices', (settings Ipad Retina, High Quality, 30p) and the resulting file was the same size; both are MP4 files. Not sure what the difference is between these files apart from that the using the publish to mobile gives you more screen sizes? Surprised at the size of the files though. Barry & Dave - thanks for demos and they look good. I have been playing around with getting a second line of text, still playing... Lin - your demo is also very good and you have a second line of text too. I've PM'd you. Thanks to all Brian

Thank you all for your suggestions; have been out of circulation with flu etc. Plenty of ideas that I can work through. I was asked to put together an AV illustrating the preparation in producing an AM DRAM production of 'Oh What A Lovely War'. Behind the scenes photos, rehearsal etc.etc. for club records and the cast. The production had screens that popped up during the performance with news headlines e.g. '1st July - Battle of the Somme - The British lose 60,000 men on Day 1'. I have created slides with text showing the news clips interspersed between the images of the dress rehearsal. I thought that a typewriter effect producing the text might look good but possibly too much work for what is required. Incidentally, I have around 300 images (the cast wanted as many as possible) and 7 music tracks. Total length of sequence is 24 mins and the Exe file is 2.84GB. I'm amazed that it seems to run very well on my computer but I might have to go back and reduce the JPEG quality. I'm not sure what media they want the EXE file on. Possibly a DVD, would this be a problem given the file size?

I'm looking for a way to simulate text being typed onto an image e.g. news report effect. I did a search on the forum to see whether anyone had come up with such a template and found there was some discussion several years ago but the links no longer work. Does anyone know if this was progressed into a workable solution? Regards Brian

Hi Laszlo If the effect that you are trying to achieve is visible on your computer monitor and functions in the way you want it, then it should be fine. A digital projector will basically display exactly what you see on your monitor. regards Brian

jt49 Thanks for your tip as well, I am in the early stages of producing the sequence so not able to test to see if performance is affected. I have tried your suggestion and I am able to select and move the objects individually which is great. But what the consequences when running a show if I use DG's suggestion? Brian

Dave That's solved the problem. many thanks! Brian

Hi Igor I am using PTE Deluxe 9.0.13 and have a PNG mask (Layer 0) as one of the objects on the slide and getting the same behaviour. It is a bit of a pain to keep using the Pan and Zoom settings to get an object (welly cutout) and the Text box moving across the screen to where I want it to go. Is there a fix in the pipeline? Brian

Not entirely sure that I fully understand your question but is the aspect ratio of your project the same as your images. Your screen print seems to have either a 16:9 image overlaid with a 4:3 or vice versa?