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Thanks for the reply Tom, Yes, a small amount of movement, with some pictures not moving at all would be great. I think someday Pic2Exe will have this built in. I am glad Tom that you have made this slide show helper, and look forward to your next revision Dennis

Hi: A while back Tom made an add-on program, that allowed automatic pan/zoom for the pictures. I know that for the best results, it is good to set each picture manually. But, not everyone wants to do that. All I am looking for is a little movement in each picture. An auto pan zoom setting. Is this possible? Dennis

I see. I use a very good graphic card on a desktop computer, hooked up to my 42 inch plasma. Very clear results using the HDTV as a monitor/viewer. Dennis

I see, but is your TV an HDTV? That really makes a big difference. I think an EXE played on HDTV is pretty hard to beat. Dennis

I am just wondering if you have thought of the idea of using a computer to play your PTE EXE files on your HDTV? I do that now and it works great. Dennis

Hi: Love your software! You mentioned below that you have plans in the future for this imperfect video. I wonder if you are talking of a template? That would seem to me to be very close to the auto pan/zoom that some people want. Hopefully you will think about this as an option down the road.

I would not want PTE to be delayed because of adding the auto pan/zoom option. But hopefully in the future, that option can be addressed. I would think that there are many people who could use this. Others who like to work on each picture manually, can do that also. Dennis

I can understand the reason for not using auto for most people. I have an unusual time frame to make the shows. I have about 6 minutes. I cannot make a show with pan/zoom that fast, if I have to tune each of 150 pictures. I can see having an auto mode for people like us.

Hi: The Beta is working great. Thanks for a great program. Here is my question. When I make up a slideshow with many pictures, is there a way to make pan/zoom work automatically? I mean, instead of giving it a start point and end point, is there an auto mode? I can't find it if there is. I was thinking of random movement. Dennis

]Thanks Ian!

I have heard that a Powerpoint showcan be added to PTE. How is this done? Thanks!

Hi Alan: You are looking for a new laptop right? All I can say is get what your budget will allow. The new wide screen laptops are nice. PTE doesn't need huge computing power, so you are able to have a lot of choices. Maybe someone could help and let him know if he needs a special laptop for DVI out. My laptop has a analog video out, but not a DVI. Do some have a digital video output? Good Luck! Dennis

Stonemason, are you making DVD from the PTE AVI file with VirtualDubMod ? I have not heard of this program. Is this working OK for you? Dennis

Many people like the Ken Burns effect and many want it in the future if possible. I hope that the slide show with the effect can also be made as fast as the exe slideshow we do now. That would sure be great. Dennis

Thanks Ken & LumenLux for your replies. It seems that getting ready to burn DVD takes a lot of time. The actual burn is very fast, but the computer really is put to work to prepare to write a DVD witha slideshow. I am hoping that someday this will speed up. But, thanks again for your replies.

Hi: I have been wishing to put the PTE slideshow to DVD, but in my workflow, I only have minutes to get one ready. I have been using PTE for a PC version, and a different software to make a SVCD for a DVD player. The SVCD takes about 8 minutes for 150 pictures. Can any of you tell me that you can make a DVD in 8 minutes or less anf what software you use? Dennis

The pan/zoom feature with high quality would be all that I can think of. That would be soooo nice! Dennis

Thanks, I will take a look at that (Flashvideoexe). But, does anyone wish they could just insert a mpeg anywhere in the sliseshow? Like 5 secs here and there? Dennis

Hi: Anyone ever wish that a short Mpeg movie could be played among the Jpegs? What do you think? Dennis

Thank you !! That is what I do, I play music at random and not synchronized. I am glad you found it. Good work!! Dennis

The music stops in between songs after about 20 minutes. I am using the same MP3's for a few years now. I wonder about what you mentioned. Maybe I have a MP3 that does not work well with the built in sound player of PTE. I will check that out... Thanks

I posted this a while back. The newer beta versions do not work right for me on my XP system. I have 5 MP3 pcs of music set up in PTE. Set to keep playing and random. When playing back the music stops and the slide show keeps going. I takes about 20 minutes for the music to stop. If I use preview, the music keeps going. But if I burn a CD, and play this CD on another computer, it stops after a while. If I load up a older version of PTE with the same settings, its fine. Figure that out.

Thanks for trying to see if you could find the same problem. I will load beta 3 and try again.

I have repeat music after playing checked. I have been using this software for quite a while. Can someone else try this, just start your show and let it go. See if the music stops. Thanks

I would say that it stops after about 20 minutes, and that is about how much music I have in there. The sound is not synchronized. And I have it set to repeat. The show keeps going, but the music will stop after about 20 minutes. I went back to an older version, and all is fine again.