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================= Thanks, Lin. We actually got a little snow today! Almost a white Christmas... Gary

====================== Thanks, Ralph. They are fun to make. Have a good year. Gary

======================== Thanks, Barry. I'll send you a PM. Gary

This is a Christmas card from me to everyone. The video portion is a JibJab video that I put into PTE with text and a couple tree images. Happy New Year!!!! http://www.beechbrook.com/pte/ Gary

======================== Dave, I was looking for something like these: Part 1- http://www.youtube.c...h?v=doMHTiGVc1A Part 2- http://www.youtube.c...h?v=7A6dJkZsYoI I don't want to get into 3D or cubes or eagles flying by windows. /> I can show samples of these after a video of the basics. I don't think I could put one together with such precision, so I was hoping to find something like the Part 1 and 2 above, but for 7.5. I just want to get our photo club interested in creating 'photo essays' and get beyond the competitions, etc., that we normally do. Gary

Greetings, I have been 'volunteered' to give a presentation on how PTE works to my photo club next year. I have been searching for a YouTube-like video that will go through the basics of what PTE can do. I have seen a Part 1 and Part 2 YouTube video for Version 6.5 that is pretty nice. But I am wondering if there is, or will be, one for 7.5. I know there are many tutorials on individual how-to's but I'd like one that is an overall demo to give the audience a good overview of PTE 7.5. Is there one out there yet???? Thanks... Gary

=================== Dave, No...my wife has it at office so I haven't had a chance to get my hands on it. It's like a dog with a bone...I have to wait for the right monment....:D/>. But I will give it a try as soon as I can. Thanks... Gary

===================== Dave, I have Windows so the Mac's programs won't help me. /> In a PM to me from Igor, he correctly pointed out that video directly from GoPro needs to be run through the PTE Converter to play, due to a problem with a 'videos that have a variable frame rate.' But that works for 'normal' video from GoPro. But if a video clip was shot at 120 fps in GoPro, it freezes and is jerky when inserted into a PTE show. And if it is run through the PTE Converter, it then plays at 'normal' speed, not in slow-motion. So I don't know yet what to do with GoPro video shot at 120 fps and get it into PTE so that it actually plays in slow-mo. />/> Gary

============================= Dave, I will see if I can send Igor a clip. But I am really confused with these GoPro files. The original 120 fps file is 47.4 mb and is 29 seconds long. I trimmed the file down to a 50 fps,10 second clip, but the file reduced to only 45.8 mbs. Your 13 second clip was only 12 mbs. If these short clips come out so large, I don't think I would ever be able to use them in PTE. I think I will send Igor a PM to see if he can figure it out. It would be nice to be able to add some GoPro slow-mo to some PTE shows. It is clear that I am doing something wrong and I don't have a handle on these type of files. I'll keep trying to figure it out, though. Thanks for your help. Gary LATER: I sent Igor a PM with a link to a file on MediaFire.

============================ Dave, I think the problem I am having with the 120 fps clips that I create with my GoPro is that when I process it with the GoPro's CineForm, and reduce the fps to slow-mo, the codec is 'CFHD'. PTE is not accepting that format. I wonder if that is the problem and if Igor can, somehow, make it so that PTE accepts video with the CFHD codec. I've tried all kind of ways to get PTE to accept a video clip from GoPro shot at 120 fps but no luck. I'd be interested to see what my MediaInfo program says about your slow-mo clip. Let me know how I can download it. My wife's Nikon AW100, I've read, can shoot up to 240 fps, but I have not been able to get my hands on it, yet, to test it out. My Nikon D7000 will not shoot 120 fps. Thanks, Gary

=================== Kor1, I don't have Premiere. I am just trying to find alternative ways to get 120 fps video clips into PTE. Maybe Dave will come up with something. Gary

========================== Dave, There must be something with what the CineForm produces. I have found that the Pot Player media player and the Windows Media Player will play the 120 fps clip in slow-mo, but the VLC media player will not play it. It says it will 'not support CFHD video format' (a Sony Vegas format). Interesting. I will see if my wife's little Nikon will shoot in 120 fps. What is the Nikon model you have? Gary

=================== Dave, I just did another experiment. I converted the 120 fps video clip using the GoPro CineForm program to 29 fps. It plays in slow-mo in my media players. However, when I put it into a PTE show, I get the blue"Video not found" error. Also the file size jumps from 48 mbs to 515 mbs! I also tried to run 120 fps video clip that was converted to 29 fps through the PTE Convert but it won't even show up or be accepted by the PTE Convert process. Gary

====================== Dave, Hmmmm.... I just pulled out my GoPro Hero2 and shot about 30 seconds in 120fps. I dropped it into a PTE show but it does not play too well. It jumps from a frame to a frame and freezes for a few seconds at each jump. No slow motion, for sure. I ran it through the PTE Convert and it goes back to playing at the normal speed. What am I missing? I attached info about the two video files. Do you see why it is not playing in slow-mo? Gary

============================== Greetings, I have been wondering, too, how to do slow motion. I thought you have to shoot the video at 120 fps and then use a program to 'slow' it down. I have the GoPro CineForm Studio (which is free) that, I think, can do this. But I have not shot anything yet at 120 fps to try it out. If you have video at 120 fps, see if you can do the slow motion with the GoPro CineForm program. Gary

======================= Igor, It could be. But, I have the same set-up (Win7) and antivirus (MSE) as during all previous installations of PTE versions. This error message has only occured with the install of 7.5.2. I will keep you posted if I find anything. Later: Just as a test, I just re-installed 7.5.2 over the 7.5.2 that gave the error message and I did NOT get any error message. Good. I then completely uninstall 7.5.2 and re-installed it. NO error message. So it must have been something on my PC that caused the hic-up. Good. Sorry for the scare. Gary

================================== Igor, Yes, I opened the old PTE project in 7.5.2 and the wave form showed up as expected. Thanks. However, today when I installed the 7.5.2, I got the attached error message. I hit 'retry' and it went away and it seems to be working OK. I had already updated my PTE a few days ago with the 7.5.2 when it became available and got a similar message but I thought it was just something that happened with my PC. However, today I re-installed it just to be sure I got the lastest version and got the same message. Gary

================== I am pretty sure that I saw the same email from this person, too. I can read emails on my server before I download them and it was definitely spam. So I just dumped it at my server. Tom must have dealt with it pretty quickly. Gary

=============================== Igor, Yes, I see I clicked on the wrong file. Sorry. I sent you a PM with the link to the correct PTE project. Let me know if you need anything else. Gary

========================= Greetings Igor, I just sent you a PM with a link to MediaFire with the .pte project files. Thanks for looking into it... Gary

==================================== That was a good idea. But before I dumped the current files and inserted the re-saved audio files from Audacity, I tried something else. I dumped the current audio files and then just re-inserted the same MP3 files. The current audio files showed up in the wave form (7.5.1). So, it would not prove anything if the re-saved audio files showed up. It must be something in the old version of PTE that does not carry over to the new version too well (?). I guess it is not a big problem and I'll not worry about it since it can be overcome easily. Thanks... Gary

================== I can't give any real techincal explanation as to why it would play well on desktop, but not on the laptop. The Nvidia cards may be not be exactly the same. Originally, I did not like to convert my video files using the PTE Convert because the file would usually become larger, and I was concerned with the shows getting too large. Some time ago, I noticed one particular video segment that was jerky. After I ran it through the PTE Convert, it ran smoothly. The PTE Convert does something that makes it more efficient for video cards to handle, from what I got from a discussion in the Forum. So, now I tend to use the PTE Convert. Also, after I do my video editing in the FreeMake Video Converter program, I choose the MPEG4 codec, instead of the H.264 codec, when I use it to convert my edited original-out-of-the-camera video to AVI. Then I run this AVI through the PTE Convert process, which makes it a more efficient AVI file. Gary

Greetings, I noticed a bit of a strange thing that happens when I open an old pte file in the 7.5.1 version. The wave form does not display the mp3s. I have 2 MP3 music files associated with this old pte show. I just happened to open this old show in 7.5.1. When I play the show, the music plays but their wave forms do not show up in the Timeline. So, I clicked on Project Options/Audio/OK (without doing anything else). Then the 2 MP3s were displayed in the Timeline. Is this a normal thing or is this a 'bug'. I would expect the MP3s to automatically show up in the Timeline when I open any pte file in 7.5.1. Not sure if it makes a difference, but here is the data from the old pte's version info: CreationTool=PicturesToExe Deluxe 7.06 PteVersion=7.06 globalversion=1 minorversion=17 Thanks... Gary

=========================== Just a shot in the dark...did you convert your videos using the PTE Convert function? I had a video that was jerky until I ran it through the PTE Convert. Gary