SeismicGuy

I guess I should become more familiar with creating Styles. What I pretty much always do when creating one of my travelogue shows is to choose the jpgs and mp4s and assemble on the slide list or timeline in some meaningful order. Then I apply various styles (many of them downloaded from other advanced members like you or Barry) to either single slides or group of slides but almost always modify the style to my liking. When modified should I be calling that a new "created" style?

Yes I played around with that and I see what it did. But I am still not entirely clear about the Main Object designation and/or the number assigned to each of the Main Objects. But I guess I have survived without understanding this with the various shows I have created thus far so no harm/no foul as they say.

Yes I read the description of there needing to be a "main image" but it still doesn't make sense to me about the description about a style including more than one main image and indexing of the images 1,2,3, 4.... Something is not sinking in with me as to the consequences of the numbering.

I have to admit it has never been quite clear to me as to how or why something is designated "Main Object" in the O&A properties tab and/or the number of the object.

On a tangential issue similar to this is that I found that when you have a slide with a style that includes some of your jpg images, those images in the image area do not have a BLUE indicator to show they are actually being used already--see below:

Depending on how long your slide show is and if it contains video clips as well as jpg's, 140mb doesn't seem all that large. My travelogue shows are from about 20 minutes to 30 minutes and the resulting mp4 files are from 2GB to 4+GB in size.

By show are you talking about the resulting mp4 file size?

The alternative I chose for simple beginning and ending trimming of the slide in question was to right-click the mp4 clip in the file list and choose Convert/Trim Video Clip and then do the trimmimg similar to this Beckham tutorial. This ends up creating a revised video clip that can be added as a slide and is done entirely within PTEAV. Actually it was this tutorial that led me to believe that the O&A method I was fiddling with would accomplish the same thing.

My usual need is when I am making one of my travelogues which normally have a mix of jpg's and video clips. With the videos I may have anywhere from 2 to 4 clips on my Galaxy related to some experience (e.g., taking a gondola up a mountain) where each clip might be 20 or 30 seconds and I end up taking pieces of each to create one single clip that I end up using in PTEAV. When doing so I have been using Movavi to accomplish the editing and piecing together to create the single clip. But there are times like this where I have a single clip and I may need to cut a bit from the beginning and a bit from the end. I thought it would be easier to do entirely within PTEAV but perhaps it is easier just doing in Movavi.

If the only "object" in the slide is the video clip and you trim from the beginning and end of the clip on O&A doesn't it seem like the duration should also adjust to match the duration of the revised clip? I guess I can just change the duration myself but it seems like this should be automatic.

That is exactly my point. Why bother with any "clip" adjustments if they don't actually translate to the slide? Again it seems like there is something missing here.

I am still stumped with the Trim and Adjust property feature with a video. I have a video clip that is about 38 seconds long. I add it as a slide and then add it as another slide right next to the first just to play around. On the second slide I go to the Properties and choose Trim and Adjust Speed and move the start and end points and it shows doing so changed the duration to about 23 seconds. HOWEVER when I go back to the main screen the duration shows the same on both slides and then when playing the second slide which I thought I reduced to 23 seconds it still shows the 38 second duration and it plays for 38 seconds although the last 14 seconds or so is just really a freeze frame. What am I misunderstanding or doing wrong since it seems that the Trim is not really having the desired effect?

Not sure if this is pertinent/related but I tried deleting the style in question using Tools/Delete Style and it doesn't delete.

Not sure if I am describing this correctly but I was playing around today seeing what different styles I might apply to one or more images. One of the styles I looked at was downloaded from Barry Beckham's site and is a book-folding effect and I think I had actually used this previously. Anyway when I look at the style within O&A there is an "image load error" that appears: When go to the "Picture" that is referenced in the O&A window I found the file in the referenced folder (horizontal a.jpg) but it is a ZERO length file. I also found the file in other folders and they were okay so I just copied to the folder in question. Any explanation about what is going on here?

May be a moot point for me now since I figures out a way within Google Earth Tour Maker to sort of accomplish what I was trying to do. Still I find the Trim & Adjust subwindow operations within the O&A window to be somewhat inscrutable, or at least the results are.