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@Xaver & Denis: I think this file renaming option is the way to go for me. I will proceed with some more PTE exploration now and will not give up on PTE yet... Thanks very much! (I'm beginning to like this forum...)

@Lin: I was still typing my answer to Dave so I had not seen your comments yet. (You boys and girls sure are quick!) So I understand that sorting based on metadata date-time is not possible in PTE. That is really disappointing. For a developer this should not be a big problem to fix I think (...having been a developer myself for a long time Missing metadata for some or all of the images could just be ignored, resulting perhaps in a seemingly random ordering, no big deal... Users could be notified of this problem by PTE and perhaps be prompted to select a different sorting criterion. Regarding your second advice (let Lightroom do some form of file renaming based on metadata): I will look into this. However, this will mean that files will be renamed, thereby loosing the connection with the originals in LR. This can be a problem if in the future I want to update the slideshow after doing some more editing in LR or adding more images. It will be very hard to locate the right images then and also maintaining the renaming scheme will be very difficult and error-prone. So, best thing would be if a developer steps in and solves this once and for all. BTW, do you happen to know a developer...?

Thanks for your swift reply! Some more details then: In the slideshow, there are (approximately 750) images from 3 cameras (and a couple of smartphones), so using the filename for sorting is not an option. I never rename images (don't want to loose the connection with the originals in my Lightroom database). Can P2E not just sort by image date-time? This is the most natural way of sorting photos and videos I think. Most photo-handling apps (like Lightroom) do this by default. I would rather not go handpicking through 700+ files to get everything in order.

I have just downloaded a trial version of P2E to make sure that P2E can do what I need and right away I seem to stumble upon a major obstacle. I use Adobe Lightroom to process my photos (and videos) and exported the processed images to a folder readable by P2E. NB: During export, the metadata was left intact in the exported files. How can I now make P2E sort my slides in the right chronological order, that is: sorted by date (not the file creation date or file modify date, but the original media creation date as recorded by the camera in the metadata). That way I could just import my photos and videos for for my slideshow and have them already in the right chronological order. (...And, since P2E wants to convert all my video files before using them, the converted video files need to be in the right order to.)