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I am trying to understand how the keypoints work and I am making progress. However, I have a question on how I can spread the keypoints over the slide's timeline when I change the slides display time. Here is what I did: I started out with one slide and moved the slide (zoomed in) from the center to each corner of the screen and then back to the center (each movement last 1 second). The slide has an 'display time' of 6 seconds. I felt that everything zipped around too quickly, so I then changed the' display time' of this slide to 12 seconds. All of the keypoints stayed exactly as they were and there is now a 6 second time span after the last original keypoint. Is there any way to 'spread' the original keypoints over the new 12 seconds of display time so I don't have to do it manually??? Thanks... Gary PS Just want to add that I mean to say to 'spread' the keypoints proportionally over the new 'display time'. Hope this makes sense...

Lin... Thanks very much. I'll be giving it a try. Gary =======================

I saw the instruction on making transparent backgrounds for text but I can't find the instructions on making the background of images transparent...like the balloons and the airplanes. Can you point me to the right spot? I looked around but I could not find anything. Pretty neat stuff. Thanks... Gary

Igor... No memory leaks. Ran 3 tests at 30 secs. No error messages. Ran 3 tests at 60 secs. No error messages. Gary

Igor... No error messages. I did 4 tests at 1 minute each. No error messages. I did 4 tests at 30 seconds each. No error messages. Gary

Igor... Retested and got 1 error. GeForce FX5600; P4; 3 ghz; 2MB Ram Ran each test 1 minute and 15 seconds. No Music: 1st-yes, got error 2nd-no error 3rd-no error With Music: 1st-no error 2nd-no error 3rd-no error Gary

Igor.... ran both bats several times and I did not get any Memory Leak messages. Gary

Allocation Leakage Memory Report: Looks great with my NVIDIA card. But, as someone else mention earlier, I also got a "Allocation leakage memory report" error message as I tried to cancel the show while it was playing. Never got anything like this before. Thanks much for the new version with its improvements...!!! Gary

LumenLux... Yes, I see your technique and, in fact, have tried it. However, I want the each Showx.exe to run sequentually without having to return to the Menu.exe, unless a show is stopped by the viewer--only then do I want it to go back to the Menu.exe. Your method makes it return to the Menu.exe after each Showx.exe. Not a bad thing, just not what was in my head. I would use it if each Showx.exe were unrelated. But my Showx.exe's are a single travelog and going back to the Menu.exe would be a 'disruption' in the sequence. This has been an interesting exercise and thanks to all for their help. It seems that one has to choose my method or your method. We can't combine them. :-[[ Thanks..., Gary.

Hawk... Yes, everythings works as I want except for the music in the Menu.exe to quit upon choosing one of the buttons from a list of shows and then re-playing the music once I returned to the Menu.exe. My quest is, at this point, to see if it CAN be done. Having the music play once the show returns to the Menu.exe would be nice...in my mind... but not absolutely essential. I tend to be stubborn when I think it should be able to do it, I will try to see if it can be done. Thanks for your efforts. At this point, the Menu.exe will have no music.... :-[ Gary Al.... Thanks for your help. Your advise might work but at a certain point it seems to be getting more complicated then its wortht. I've already tossed a bunch of CDs because I keep finding a typo or I forgot to do something in this multi-slideshow. Keeping it simple will help me not go too crazy with this. But knowing me, I will probably try your suggestions...but later. Wouldn't it be nice if the new version will allow the automatic fading out of music at a chosen point. But, as I told Hawk, I have removed the music from my Menu.exe and will have my beer in silence.... :-]]] Gary

Thanks, Lumenex, Hawk, et al... You have given me more food for thought and I will give it a try. But right now my brain is fried just thinking about this...(maybe its the beers...?). I will see what happens after a rest. This is a great program and maybe there is a way. Learning new possibilities all the time... Gary

Hawk... I tried your suggestions but it did not quite work. The music from the Menu.exe WILL stop when I click on one of the Chapter buttons. But when I cancel any one of the slideshows, it would not return me back to the Menu.exe. I think the problem is that when I have "Run application and exit," which does not allow the Menu.exe to remain in the background as it worked before with "Run application or run file", which pointed to each succeeding chapter and they would run in sequence. This problem is created, I think, when I tried: "In each Chapter presentation use Project Options – Advanced – “ Run application after last slide “ link it back to your Menu". My apoligies for not being very clear, I am sure, with my explaination. I can hardly understand it myself. But I did try your ideas I could not get it to work as I was hoping. Certain changes seem to step on other changes and I can not get it to work as I wish. Thanks... Gary PS Maybe I'll have a couple beers and try it again.... :-]

Thanks for the idea, but I had tried that and it will not work the way I would like. The problem is that I have to put the music for Show A in the Project Action's Music tab to get the slides sync'd to the music. If I put the music in the "Customize Slide/Checkbox", I won't get the sync'd to slides feature. Hope I understood your suggestion... When I put music in the "Customize Slide/Checkbox", that music plays over the music in Show A. It would be nice if there was a feature to automatically fade out that music. Thanks...Gary

I've broken the slideshow of my vacation into 5 'chapters'(i.e., 5 .exe shows). I made a menu.exe that lists the 5 chapters. I figure that at some point we will want to get a beer after a chapter or two and let it go back to the menu.exe with the list of the 5 chapters. I'd like some music on the menu.exe to then play while I get the beers and then stop the music when I start the next chapter. I have poked around and tried every possibility, but I can not get the music on the menu.exe to stop when a chapter starts and starts when I go back to the menu.exe. I can understand your method, but I am trying to make mine a bit more flexible so I can get the beers after any of the chapters... :-] PS Maybe in Version 5??? Gary...

I have been successful in creating an introductory menu.exe that will link to 3 different .exe shows. However, I have tried to add some music to this intro menu.exe but I am having some problems. I want the music to play when the menu.exe starts. I can do that and it plays. The problem starts when it goes to one of the 3 shows. The music from the menu.exe will not stop. It continues to play over the music on the selected show. And, if I make the music that plays with the menu.exe to be very short, when I go stop one of the 3 shows, and go back to the menu.exe, I'd like the music on the menu.exe to start again. Is this possible? I have tried every combination I can think of but no luck. Any ideas...? Thanks... Gary

Thanks, LumenLux. Good points. And, Ron, I didn't realize that I could use the keyboard to Pause, etc. Learn something every day. Much appreciated. Gary

Thanks for the feedback. It is intersting to me how people view the Control Panel. I've heard that from others, too. However, when I view others' shows, I wish they had it in. I sometimes want to linger on a particular image or advance to one quickly and not have to endure the entire show. It also gives me the opportunity to 'pause' on any particular image for discussion. When you say it is not 'suitable...for projection' can you expand on that a bit? Is it just the look of the show or is it more along the technical lines?...resolution, etc. I want to get into projecting shows eventually and I would appreciate it if you can tell me what is 'not suitable'. Thanks again.... Gary

I am a bit amazed that my 'Rafting the Futaleufu' had now over 300 downloads. I am wondering if there are any critiques by anyone who has seen it. My feeling was that it was a bit too long for someone who was not there but I did not want to leave out any of the sequence of rapids for those of who were there. I sent the link to 12 of the people who were participants. But I'd like to know if anyone has any 'should of' or 'shouldn't have' comments. Thanks... Gary

I am using MovieFactory 2SE to create videos. When I check the 'Interlaced Video' box, as recommended, it wants to create an output file with the .ptev extension. However, my MovieFactory 2SE will NOT recognized the .ptev extension. When I uncheck the 'Interlaced Video', the output file extension is changed to .avi and I have created videos this way with my MF2SE. However, when I make a video with this .avi extension, it is not very good quality. The text is wavy and the images are not nearly as sharp as with the CD version. So my questions are: 1- Do I need to upgrade to the MF2 non-SE version to have it recognize the .ptev extension? 2- Does having the 'Interlaced Video' checked really make a difference? 3- Will the MF2 non-SE version improve the quality of the final video, using the .ptev extension? 4- Will my MF2SE version using '.avi' produce the same quality video as the MF2 (non SE) version using '.ptev'??? Thanks... Gary PS I see that MF is now up to version 5. Does version 5 do any better with PTE than version 2?

Yes... I have recently posted it on Beechbrook. It is the one on 'Rafting the Futaleufu' (which is Part2). I have Part1 and Part3 ready but they are so big I am not sure I should upload them. I had thought of doing the search for one of the 'missing' images but my I discovered my BOO BOO just before I was about to do that. Thanks for all suggestions... Gary

Yes... I am a firm believer in backing up. And I do do it. I do have all the originals in RAW format. I would just have had to run my Photoshop Actions, re-tweek, and resave, etc. etc. It is hard to do the Backup Dance when you are in the process of creating the slideshow. But now that I have finished the slideshows, I'll do a complete backup of all my drives. It always seems that you need your backup just before you planned to make the backup. Must be some kind of law. Really sorry for causing a stir.... Gary

Ok...stop the press. Call off the dogs. Everybody can go home now. I figured out my STUPID BOO BOO. I have over 800 images in this folder so my eyeballs get blurry. But I just figured out what I did. I had this group of images Sorted by 'Modified'....not my 'Name'. So this set of image were scooted down to the bottom the the file list. Even though I examined the entire file list, my eyes just did not pickup the file numbers. Sincere apology for kicking up the dust. I will crawl back under my desk for the day. Gary

Things do happen but there is no way I could have only deleted these images and not others images. I made a slideshow in 3 parts and linking them into one show. All of the images in Part2 are missing when trying to view them using MyComputer. I tried the Boxig program but, yes, it only makes screen prints...does not restore images from the exe file. But, I think the real mystery is how can everything look normal in the PTE File List, but the files do not show up using MyComputer or WindowsExplorer???? The sound files that were in another folder are still there. Only the images are not showing up in MyComputer. I just tried something. I right clicked on an image shown in the PTE File List. It opens in the Windows Viewer. I then do an Open With 'Photoshop'. The file opens and when I do a Save, all the other 'missing' files show up in the file list. I do a Save of this one file...but, still, when I go back to view the image using MyComputer, none of the 'missing' file are there nor is this specific file that I just 'saved' is there. I am 'missing' about 518 images. Gary

Thank, LumenLux. Well, the problem is that I dumped the images that were in the newly created Template folder (assuming that they were just copies). So they are not recoverable from there. But I did NOT delete them from their original folder used to make the PTE slideshow. What is not understandable is that, when in PTE, all looks well. The files that were chosen for the show are highlighed in the PTE File List. HOWEVER, when I go to look at these selected files using MyComputer, they are NOT there. Crazy. How can that be???? So...just to get them back in MyComputer, I'd like to extract the images out of the already made PTE slideshow file. I thought I read some time ago that this could be done but I have not yet found the program. Still looking. Any ideas what is going on here????? Thanks... Gary

I noticed somethng strange. I made a slideshow of several hundred images. Everything went well. However, I went into MyComputer to just look at the images, and they are not there. But, when I view the folder in PTE, they are highlighted as if they are still in MyComputer and are still in the PTE's File List. The only thing that might have cause a problem was to experiment with Template. I ran the Template on these files and then I dumped the files in the Template's folder. I read in some of the discussions about the Template function in the Forum and it was my understanding that only a 'copy' of the images are put in the Template folder. Is it possible I have dumped all of my images...but why do I still see them in the PTE program's list of images? If I have indeed lost the actual images, is there a way to extract them out of an already created PTE slideshow? How could they not show up in MyComputer but show up in PTE's File List??? Thanks... Gary