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===================== If I understand your question, the 'light table views' are now in the View menu, where the File, Publish, etc icons are located ( see 'Fullscreen View of...'). The waveform comes up with the Timeline view, automatically...at least with me. Gary

================ Jon, Take Peter's advice. Make several MP4 files with PTE. Make them as complex as you can to tax the TV. Bring them on a memory stick to the store and test them out (do it on a laptop too, if you are looking for one of them too). For TV's, I know several models of Samsung will play the PTE's MP4 format slideshows. Some models will not. Make the slideshows in 1920x1080 for a full screen view. It should knock your socks off. Gary

========================= Lin, SOLVED!!! I thought my cache had been cleared when I ran a diagnostic program earlier today to see if that would solve the problem. But I guess it did not clear the cache. I went into Firefox and cleared it with its menu and then I got Version 7 to download. This is so strange because all previous beta versions were downloaded with no problems. Thanks for the reminder about clearing out the cache. It worked. Gary

======================= Colin, Thank God it is not only me. I have been going a bit nuts trying to figure out what might be causing the problem. For anyone else, I'd appreciated it someone can shed some light on this. I have attached a gif to show exactly what I get. I have tried more than a dozen times to use Firefox to download version 7, as I have always done, but just can't get 7.0 to download...only 6.58 gets downloaded. Thanks... Gary :blink:

================ Ken, I downloaded it at least 5 times using Firefox and it keeps giving me 6.5. This happened whether I used the link in Igor's email notice,or the Forum's link, or at the Wnsoft site. I then tried it using IE and I finally got 7.0. Strange. I've never had this type of problem with Firefox. Gary

======================== Igor, When I downloaded it from your link, I got version 6.58. Is it me or did you provide the wrong link? Gary

Gary, We removed this view from version 7.0. You could observe same view in previous versions (Horizontal view).

I have been using PTE for a number of years and could not be happier with it. It lets me combine my love of travel and photography with my computer to produce slide shows with incredible results. The icing on the cake is the PTE Forum that has a large group of users to help out with any questions. And now, with the availability of adding in video to the slide show, the possibilities are enormous. PTE's quality and capabilities are outstanding. Gary USA

Greetings, Back in June 22, 2009, I posted some suggestions that I thought would make an improvement with the music selections we put in PTE. Since then, none of my ideas were picked up. Maybe there is a technical problem that they can not be integrated into PTE. However, one of my suggestions was to increase the visibility of the thin blue line in the waveform that showed the beginning of music selections. Now, I don't see any blue line. Having this blue line which indicates where a music selection starts is a very useful thing to have. Now, if you have several individual music selections, you can not tell where each one starts in the waveform without a lot of tedious work. I would like this blue line to be reinstated. And for what its worth, I am adding all my other suggestions I made back in 2009. Here are some of the suggestions that I had posted, slightly edited: Posted 22 June 2009 - 10:54 AM Greetings, I would like to see the music files shown in better ways. The following suggestions would help when one uses many music files (especially when they are very similar and hard to distinguish) in a slide show.. 1-When music files are added in Project Options/Music tab, I would like to have the music files numbered, as it is now done in the Slide List for images. 2-Then, also, I would like the music file's number appear in the Time Line's waveform, next to the current thin blue line, which indicates where a music file starts. 3-Also, increase the width of the thin blue line so it is more easily found when scrolling through the waveform. Thanks... Gary

============================= Greetings, Just a couple more questions for clarification, since I am pretty much in the dark about using video. Will the different effect (though tiny) of using a different frame rate show up the same in the final product whether it is an exe or mp4 or DVD slideshow? After taking a video, can it be changed from a 24p to a 30p, or visa versa (before insertion into PTE)? Thanks, Gary

Greetings, I am wondering what the difference would be in a couple of the fps movie setting for a Nikon D7000 when it is dropped into PTE. The two top settings are: 1- 1920x1080; 24 fps 2- 1280x720 30 fps The only thing I have read is that 24 fps is more of a 'movie' look and 30 fps is more of a 'TV' look. Not sure what that means but I am more concerned about the usability and final look when in PTE. Can someone shed some light on making these choices between frame rates for video used in PTE? Thanks.

Greetings, This is not a bug in the PTE program itself, but the uninstall of the previous versions have been doing something strange. At least, I think so. Here is what is happening: Say I have Beta 16 installed. Then Beta 17 comes out. I download and install Beta 17 and check the box for a shortcut to be created on the Desktop. The Beta 17 shortcut appears and it works just fine. Then, I go into MyComputer (Win7) and do the uninstall of Beta 16. When this is done, the shortcut that was just made for Beta 17 gets deleted. This has happened for the past several Betas; and I don't think it was doing it for earlier updates. Is this something in the PTE install process that has been changed but can be fixed? Or is this Win7's uninstall just doing something dumb? It is just a pain to have to recreate the shortcut to the new version of PTE each time. I don't think I had to do this in the past. Gary

======================= John... Here is another way of dealing with the embedded audio in your video. This can be done outside PTE by using the Windows Live Movie Maker program that is free in Windows. I am attaching a gif that illustrates the steps. At first I did not think it would actually reduce the volume of the embedded audio in my video file. However, through many trials, I found that you have to (at least I had to do it with my video) move the audio slider way to the left and keep testing the saved file until I got it just right. You might have to do a lot of testing find the right reduced volume level. I used this method once to lower the embedded audio so you could just hear it but not interfere with the music selection I had added in PTE. Hope this helps. Gary PS And then use Freemaker Video Converter to convert the mov file to mp4. You'll get a smaller video file.

Greetings, Here is another tongue-in-cheek presentation of our trip to Providencia, an island off of Colombia. This one is about my good friend, Roberto. Comments, critiques welcomed: http://www.beechbroo...ile.asp?id=1975 Gary

====================== Greetings RayC, The way I did it was to go to this site: http://www.wnsoft.co...turestoexe/buy/ Click on the Upgrade link toward the bottom to get the Videobuilder upgrade for $34. When I did it, they first sent a link for the 6.5 version to download and later I got an email with the Key for the 2 year upgrade period. I think you only really need the Key. When the old version expires, it will ask for the location of the Key you downloaded and just point to it. I think I copied and pasted it in and that works too. I hope this works for you. Gary

================= Ken... Oh boy. I must be having a few senior moments. I actually read that post, but since the attachment menu was in French, I must have just glazed over the actual error message in it. It did not compute at the time. Well, it proves I am not the only one having the Nav Bar question... Thanks for pointing it out. I'm sending my eyeballs in for a check!!!! Gary

=========================== Peter, I paid $34 which seems to be the upgrade for the Videobuilder. "Upgrade Standard edition – $34 All upgrades and new versions of PicturesToExe at no cost. Free upgrades for VideoBuilder (included to Deluxe edition) during two years' period since the date of your purchasing. After the end of this period you can continue to use any previously released version of VideoBuilder for unlimited time or pay $34 for the upgrade of the newer version." There is no other choice for upgrading or renewing the VideoBuilder that I can see. Gary

================ Peter, You caught your boo-boo before I could catch mine. What is strange about the 2 Keys is that they are so different in structure. The first Key is a single line; the second Key has 2 lines. Gary

================== Greetings, Certainly not. I thought I had pressed the Add Reply only once. If it appeared twice and you deleted one of them, thanks. Sometimes the posting does not seem to be going through and fiddling with it might have sent it a second time. I don't think anyone purposely posts things twice. Any ideas about the 2 sets of Keys? Thanks... Gary P.S. It is funny that I got 2 emails, exactly the same, pointing to your one reply to my post....

============================== Ken, I do try to read all new posts daily. I re-read all the posts in this thread today, but still don't see anything that relates to the Nav Bar error message. Can you point me to where you see it? Curious, Thanks, Gary

Greetings, A few days ago, I wanted to make an MP4 file of one of my slideshows. I got the notice that my 2-yr license to Videobuilder had just expired. Ok. I followed the link and purchased the renewal for $34. I quickly got the response with a link to download a file. Since I already had the 6.5 version installed and the 7.14 beta installed, I just followed the instructions. The downloaded file seemed to be the 6.5 version, but I followed the instructions and re-installed the 6.5 version, thinking, perhaps the new system embedded the new Key in download. But, no, I stil got the notice that my Videobuilder license had expired. I sent a notice to the Support team and quickly got a Key sent to me that looked something like this: ------ KEY BEGIN ------------------------------------------------- [VB] 0uDrqh...............................................= ------ KEY END --------------------------------------------------- I ran PTE and pasted in this Key and the error message stopped so it looks like all is well. However, today, I got another email with this file attached, that looked something like this: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WnSoft\VideoBuilder] "Key"="0fvDK6..........................................=" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PTE] "Key"="0aRyBa.........................................=" So I am wondering why I got two Keys. One of the confusing things in this process of renewing Videobuilder is that they sent me the 6.5 version that I already have and there isn't a notice that a Key will follow. So I downloaded the 6.5 program, but apparently really didn't need to. I only needed a new Key. I don't know if I received the first Key because I sent a note to the PTE Support or it arrived automatically. But then what is the second email with another Key for????? Gary

====================== Greetings, Speaking of the Nav Bar, several days ago I posted a comment in the Bug Forum that I get an error message when I click on the Customize icon for the Nav Bar. I was trying to change the Nav Bar from the Sky to the Video style, in the version 7.14: http://www.picturest...a/page__st__340 My posting has not received any responses yet so I am wondering if it is just my PTE or if anyone else is experiencing this error message. I can get PTE to change the Nav Bar style but the error message always shows up. Gary

I am having a problem with the Nav Bar selection in 7.0 Beta 14. I opened a slideshow that was originally made in a previous version. I tried to change the existing Nav Bar from the Sky Style to the Video Style. When I try this, I get an error message. See attached gif. I also notice that it does not give all the menu choices, such as the Exit icon. Gary

============================ Thanks, Paul and Gayland, Isn't it great when things go wrong? It give us food for a good story. My brother-in-law didn't think it was so funny when it was happening, but we all get a good laugh now. Gary

Greetings, This show is more of an inside joke about our trip with friends to Providencia Island, off the coast of Colombia. My brother-in-law could not sit up in the kayak. He complained that it was his pants—too slippery or too tight. Something like that. Just hope it brings a smile on your face. It's at: http://www.beechbroo...ile.asp?id=1972 Gary P.S. Comments and critiques welcomed.