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Thinking I would use the lockdown to scan a box of my old slides that have not been seen for years, as they feature the first couple of years of our children (who now have children of their own), my thoughts then turned to how these scanned images could be presented. Initial thoughts were something like The Dom’s ‘Chestbox Slidestyle’ or ‘Photobox Slidestyle’ but my images will not fit either criteria as they will be a more square, aspect ratio. Any suggestions please for displaying a squarish aspect ratio? George

Thnkyou Lin, both for that original Video Tutorial, and the above advice. Keep Safe George

How to Put a Seamless Video Behind Your Slides – Lin’s excellent video in ‘Tutorials and Video Lessons’ section of this Forum. Watching it has made us start thinking as to how I could use it for one of my own a/v’s and have been wondering …… a1) - Is it the same technique if putting a video behind a random collection of slides? (and thus NOT behind a Slide Style as in this Tutorial.) b2) - Where the background video clip is longer than one’s slides in the foreground, does the video then come to an abrupt halt or continue to play? GGeorge

Finally finally got it licked. "Place your mouse cursor carefully on the tiny dot in the very center of the object (your book page or cover). Hold down the shift key and when you see the cursor change, keep holding down the shift key and drag the little dot so it perfectly overlaps the tiny dot on the far left of the bounding square. " Thankyou again. George

Sorry to return to this topic. Whilst I now have the left hand side of my Album/ and then the right when flipped starting and ending on the same axis, the page does not actually flip on that axis, like when you open a book. I attach another screenshot taken during the turn. Here the spine is along the 'B' axis but as you can hopefully see as the page flips over, it first moves to the right before ending on the 'B' axis. Sorry, suggestions again please. George

Thankyou Lin. Got there. Even increased the size of the page and got it to flip on the same axis. So simple when you know how. Many Thanks. Stay Safe. George

My ultimate hope was to try and create a landscape type photo album similar to the ‘3D Book Testing’ example posting a few weeks back within the Slideshows Section on this Forum. That was my intention but have got stuck at just the first base. Must admit, I did think that this part was going to be the easiest part!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have even reduced the size of the Album to try and help me determine what I am doing wrong. It is probably staring me in the face but so far, I cannot see it. I would therefore appreciate any help please. I am, side by side, watching one of Barry’s old Tutorials (3D Book start I see made for P2E9), but instead of a more portrait album, was going for a landscape size. Image, album 01, (below) in my mind shows the front of the Album, and the album image 02, I thought, should show the page open, having rotated on that ‘C’ axis … but it has not. At the moment I cannot see any obvious setting as to why it does not rotate on the Album spine, on the left. George

Lowell, In the last few days I too have completed a project that took several months to put together and around 20 minutes to render to MP4. At the very beginning and like as already been mentioned, I created a new file structure within a Folder as originally, well for me anyway, recommended by one of Barry's tutorials. That way a copy of the images to be used are in the folder together with any editing completed that can be revisited at anytime in the future should you wish to change your project. However, as this was NOT an afternoon project, there were numerous saves made along the way and when it came to the final conversion to MP4, it was in this folder that the program automatically saved. I then have everything still together for archiving. Regardless of using a Mac or Windows, surely when you save whatever, you tell the program where to save? If that is the right place for you, then that is all that matters. George

Ian An interesting post as I am undertaking a similar project. Our eldest grand-daughter will be 18 years old later this year, and am probably about three quarters along the way. Following on from DaveGee’s suggestion, I was actually looking at those recommended videos and would also recommend that you do not stop at the one suggested. I started going through them last night and subsequent ones also go into the same issue but from a slightly different aspect and thus suggestion. Then if not done already, check out Barry’s website as you can download some of those slide styles and make a donation towards the tutorial(s) and slide style. An alternative suggestion that I have used for some of my images is to put together a montage (using masks) using my Photo Editing program of loads of the photos from one year. Although not relative to your post, another maybe obvious suggestion but sometimes overlooked is to make sure you do regular saves of the project as you progress. And this time for the very first time, probably because I have used so many images of my grand-daughter and slides in the project I have started to action a nightly back-up of my P2E folder …. Just in case the worse happens and my computer dies. One further suggestion for once your project is finally completed and this comes from experience. Many years back I did put together, albeit using a different program, an audio visual of the same grand-daughter as it so happens and her first two years. With the benefit of hindsight, it was too long and had too many swirly effects linking the images. The problem though is that mindful at the time of a filling hard drive on my computer I just deleted the folder to make space and so am now unable to easily make any amendments. At that time I don’t recall that external hard drives were around. George Herts

Lin, Once again a big thankyou. So easy when you know how. George

Without actually trying to do it at this stage, at the back of my mind I have been wondering if and how to adjust somebody else’s Slide Styles – eg perhaps change timing or aspect ratio. I cannot see any reference in the Manual on how to amend Styles although I seem to recall a similar question on the Forum recently, but entering ‘How to adjust a Slide Style’ in the Search box gives me 17,783 results over 712 pages. Suggestions would be appreciated.

Thankyou DG for your posting. Like the PTE Archive last week which gave a link to Styles for which I had missed the original posting, here is another site that I had missed. I now wonder what else out there is that I have missed? I will certainly be visiting the Diapora Shop. George

I realise that it was over a month ago that this ‘3D Book Testing’ topic was originally posted on to the Forum. Just wanted to say to ‘stranger2156’ that I just loved that ‘3D Old Album’. I just felt that each photo had an amazing story to tell. For me, brilliant and has given us an idea on presentation for some old B&W family photos that I have hidden away in a folder on the computer somewhere. But then for something completely different was the ‘3D Book Motion’. Again for me, Great! George

Admittedly it is only on reflection that I am somewhat surprised that there has not been more comment about this posting. Or, is it like me, the original point has been missed? To be honest, I had instead been looking at this posting to see if anyone was going to respond to that last sentence. ‘Wouldn't it be fine if users could find and have a preview of all styles published in this forum in just one place?’ I had actually believed from interpreting the odd comment on other postings to the forum in the last month that such a service was coming. However, I keep looking at the Forum each day in the hope of such an announcement with hope ... ah well, perhaps tomorrow! I was therefore just going to add a comment when I ‘again re-read’ that original message and finally noticed the link in the original posting – The PTE Archive - Depository for Styles and Transitions. Wow. What a find! Admittedly a ‘now and again’ User of PTE I still have had the program for years, upgrading each time, but have never ever seen any mention of this link. So from me, a big thankyou to Tom for the PTE Archive and to jt49 for the pointer. I just cannot believe that I never knew of it’s existence before. Wonder how many others are also not aware? Brilliant. Thankyou again. George

Although it seems not to be an issue, following a search on the Forum for a Slide Style, I have somehow changed the default program that 'opens' Slide Styles to VLC and cannot find a way to return them to the default setting. Thought I had found the answer when changed the program to PTE AV Studio but that looks wrong. A screenshot of my Slide Styles folder is attached. George

Lin, Now I have used P2E, occasionally, for many years but just want to say a special thankyou for this very helpful demo and explanation. It has definitely helped me and I have just used it to motivate and have now put together a short ‘Happy Birthday’ video that I will be able to send to our grand-daughter on her 18th birthday next year – brilliant, no last minute panic. Now I can see if I can try to put together a longer looking back 'over her years' memory project. Thankyou again Lin. Keep up the good work and my Best Wishes for the New Year. George

Many many thanks for the comments. Some food for thought! George

Although I cannot see or recall recent comment on the Forum, having just upgraded I was wondering whether there has been any change to the administration and ability to organise one's Slide Styles? Folders? Sub Folders? etc etc. George

Gary As you say, there are drives and there are drives. Not sure though now if I fancy the drive yet see you passed some on pedal bikes along the way. Imagine a car breaking down on that road. Or icy. Another brilliant memory. Watching it did take me back to the 1950's here in the UK as on BBC tv, perhaps as an interlude between programmes, it was filmed from the drivers cab as the electric train went from London Victoria to Brighton (south coast) in just 4 minutes, normally a 60 minute journey. It is on youtube now. Your drive is scary enough as it is, but speed it up and .........! Oops! Thankyou for posting as am not on Facebook. Another brilliant watch. George

Gary, Mesmorising. We have been to Scotland a few times over the years so this was a magical journey bringing back loads of memories. I cannot imagine though the number of photos that must have been taken and the hours of video you needed to view and then edit. Video questions though please. Was that a dash cam fitted to your car? Impressive quality whatever. Also how was it you managed to get to Glenfinnan Viaduct at the right time and in the right position to get a video of the steam train. Superb. My personal issue when I shoot any video is camera shake, maybe from the wind or even as I walk behind, say following something/somebody. How did you keep it so still? You should send it to the Scottish Tourist Board. A truly memorable memory of Scotland. Thankyou. George

Jill, No, I was actually just attempting to play the exported MP4 and so when I got the message, I had just clicked on the MP4 file within the Project Folder and also within P2E. Probably, as it turns out, it is actually not an issue but P2E was just giving me another warning to double check to make sure all clips were converted. George

Just an update. The three Video Clips have (again) been converted and this time I also created a new folder within the Project just to make sure these newly converted clips were kept separate and used this time. Exported to MP4 and exactly the same message has appeared. Trying to think if this time I am doing anything different. Not sure! For this first playback I am clicking on the exported file from within the Project File so perhaps this message is just a warning for me to check that I have converted all movie clips used. If not it is then giving me another opportunity to action. George

Lin, Just re-checked. Looked at the 'File Info' of the three video clips used and all show as 'converted'. Presumably though that is what the message is telling me so maybe I should be then re-visiting each clip, double double check/ attempt re-converting to make sure that they have all been converted and then action another export and see if the message appears again. George

Just wondering as I have not seen this message before. I have just put together a short 2 minute Project and exported is a MP4 (Publish HD Video). It does include a couple of very short video sequences but as far as I am aware, these had been 'converted' within the Project before completion. Is this message then telling me that a) one or more of these video sequences were NOT converted, or, b) that an AVI file is a better choice than MP4 for smooth playback, but then I have never seen this message before, even with projects that included video. George

Lin, Just wanted to say thankyou once again, this time for this set of helpful tutorials. Brilliant once again. Although initial interest seems to have centred on adding one's own signature, thinking about it, it would not surprise me to see this ability 'pop up' in a Wedding Style where we see a copy of the Marriage Certificate and then the happy couple sign the register. Just opens a new line of possibilities. Many Thanks Lin, George