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You can automatically adjust the sound level ("normalize" the track) by using the free, open source, AUDACITY software from www.audacityteam.org/ It is a fantastic software for editing sound tracks, remove noise, rearrange parts of songs, change the duration of a song while keeping the same pitch, etc. Quite fun to use the many "sound effects" provided.

Just plot the screen rectangle on a piece of paper and "insert" the two videos to fit the total height. It should then be easier to understand my "maths"...

I meant to say that the video has been sized automatically by PTE so as to fit the total height of the view, which you will want to be 1080 pixels as a standard Full-HD screen when you "publish" the video at the end of the process. What I did was to draw a 16/9 rectangle (for the total view) and put the vertical dimension as being the "true pixels" of 848. Then I could easily compute the corresponding width for the overall rectangle, etc.

Also, I would place the montage created in your Photo Editing program, as a background layer to the actual videos. This montage could be slightly wider that the dimension that I have computed, to prevent any voids.

My computed gap dimensions yield an aspect ratio of 848/547 = 1.550. Your trial-and-error geometry comes to a ratio 1080/680 = 1.588. Not too far. Do not forget that your two clips are not 1080 tall, but only 848 and that they are kind of "stretched" to fill the total height of the view. And the gap you found to be 680 x 1080 is in fact fitting the total available height of 848 (your video clip), hence a reduced width of 680x 848/1080= 533.9 (close to my figure of 547).

Hi Xenofex2 Your mobile phone videos have an aspect ratio of 848 / 480 = 1.76667 = 15.90 / 9, i.e. not quite 16/9. Hence your computational problem. For your project with the 16/9 aspect ratio, the number of pixels does not really matter for the geometrical construction, only the proportions do. So just decide that your screen has an effective pixel size of 848 vertical. Therefore the screen width with the 16/9 aspect ratio has a dimension of 848 *16/9 = 1507 pixels (rounded values). The two videos have each a width of 480 pixels, hence the middle gap has a width of 1507 - (2 * 480) = 547 pixels. So that the central gap is 848 tall by 547 wide (rounded value to the nearest integer). Let me know if that works for you...

Hello Gaga If you have not yet followed the good advice from Rosy, as soon as you have all the necessary files (photos, videos, sound tracks) for your slideshow, you can go to the "File" menu and "Create backup in ZIP". It is a very efficient and easy way to create an archive. Highly recommended.

Hello! I have designed kind of a "puppet on a string" with arms and legs attached to the body around a pivot point, so that I could use the "Rotate" animation feature centred around the attachment point, not the object centre. Not that easy to achieve the exact pivot point. I have tried to use the "Grid" option in Objects & Animation, but I did not find that too easy. So yes, some kind of measurement tool would be useful, also one that would allow to get the grid coordinate of any chosen point.

Thank you Shirley for raising that question, which bothered me too; I'm happy that Igor will add the feature in the future. Note that I can choose the thumbnail in Adobe/Lightroom ("Set poster frame").

What are the chosen parameters? I suggest you try first a low definition of say 800x600 pixels, Low Quality; See whether that works? If so, gradually increase the quality settings.

The <Print Screen> key works fine with me. Maybe you want to extract a single image from any video recording? If you have the Adobe Lightroom software, you can easily use the "capture frame" feature within the Library module. https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/video-lightroom.html "To create a JPEG still image from the current frame, click the Frame button and choose Capture Frame."

Hi Rosy In actual facts, I have also been using the "Print Screen" key on my keyboard for quite a while, and it takes a copy of the full screen. Comining the <ALT> or <ALT GR> key with the <Print Screen> key, I get a shot of the selected (active) window on my screen. Since I have DropBox active on my computer, the files are automatically saved as PNG files on my Dropbox folder (subfolder: screen capture).

Good morning It seems you are looking for a "screen capture" tool. If you have a high definition screen (lots of pixels), you'll get a decent (still) picture. If your're running MS/Windows10, here what I have found (for instance): <<Windows 10 is the first Windows version to have a built-in screenshot feature. Users on older versions had to rely on the Snipping tool which wasn’t very convenient to use. This missing feature was compensated for via third-party apps. Windows 10, at present, has a very basic screenshot feature. If you tap Win+PrntScr, Windows 10 will capture your entire screen. If you compare it with macOS, the feature is still lacking. With the current feature, you cannot screenshot a specific area on your screen. Come the Creators Update in April, things will change slightly. Windows 10 will be able to screenshot a specific area on your screen with no extra apps involved. This new feature is available on the Windows 10 Insider builds. To capture a screenshot of a specific area on your screen, tap Win+Shift+S. This will add a white translucent mask to your screen. The cursor will change from the pointer arrow to a cross-hair.>> <<Despite this new feature, Windows 10 still lags behind macOS. macOS lets you capture a screenshot of a specific area, any window, or the entire screen. It captures HD screenshots with no extra apps needed and macOS has had this feature for over a decade.>>

Maybe you could set the duration of the final five slides to Zero (0.001 s in fact) so that nobody sees the last part; Unless you have elaborate animations for those last views and do not want to loose them. In that case, you could then add a TEXT box in the individual slides to note what the total slide duration was before you performed the 'squeeze'.

Alternatively, you could have series of individual slide shows (as EXE = executable files), one calling the next one upon its termination : Project Options / Advanced / Run application or Slideshow on exit. I used that method when PTE was not yet a 64 bit application and a few of my sideshows were too big (well over 2 GigaBytes, for a special project), and I had to cut my presentation in two halves. So that I had a Show#1.exe file call Show#2 on exit; The process ran seamlessly. See: https://docs.pteavstudio.com/en-us/10.0/project_settings_1/project#advanced_options <<The final section “Run application or slideshow on exit” provides a feature to enable a subsequent application to run on completion of a show. This feature can be used to chain a number of shows together into a single continuous process.>>

Hello Gary I have no problem at all with PTE when reading and importing the videos (*.MOV) recorded on my Olympus E-M1 cameras, when set to 4K (3840 x 2160 pixels) at 29.967 fps.

Hi! Yes, the same thing happens with me too, with version 10.0.13 Build 4. Identical behaviour with the beta version 10.0.14 Build 1. Best Rgds. j-marc G.

Dave Indeed, that's the safe option when one does not know which version of MS/Windows is going to be used. I went straight from Windows7 to Windows10, so that I never had the worry. The only inconvenience is that the generated Zip file provides TWO files that need to reside together in the same folder when in use. j-m G.

There might be a problem if Windows8 is used, in which case you should: "Publish / Safe executable file for internet" , instead of "Publish / Executable file for PC".

Also, for as many slides as you want, go to: Slide Options / Main / Run external application Note that all these features are available with the "Pro" (DeLuxe) option only (I think).

Hello AceCo (1) If you're running your slideshow directly from your computer (with the EXE file): Project Option / Action after the last slide = Repeat show (2) From an MP4 file: Create your slideshow, say "Show20.mp4" Create a stub show (high level) with a basic slideshow, which will call the "Show20" and repeat: Project Option / Advanced / Run application or Slideshow: "Show20.mp4".

I would like a third option after "Publish" ("HD and 4K video" in my case): "Show in Explorer" (i.e. open the output folder), as well as the current two options "Play" and "Close". My output file is normally on my hard disk, but I quite often copy it immediately to a USB key to view the video full size on my TV (or send the file to friends).

Thanks slide24x36 The web site is still correct and updated, sadly to confirm that the 40th edition (March 2020) had to be cancelled due to COVID19. Let's hope to be able to resume in 2021.

Thank you both, Barry & Bruno, for your encouragements towards recording my voice over the image, rather than displaying too much text. I will definitely try again!

Barry: the spoken word is a solution, especially if you can speak at not too fast a pace, which you do so well in your videos. But I do not like my recorded voice! Jill: indeed, I tend to be (too) quick when I read a text that I know; it takes longer to decipher somebody else's text and then make some sense of it.