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Thanks Mickp. Appreciate your thoughts. I wouldn't mind selling it to the cruise industry, but there is the slight matter of copyrighted music. I have sold 4 shows in the past that used royalty free music. Unfortunately finding appropriate royalty free music is next to impossible, especially for 10 shows. Now if I were a composer like Andrew Lloyd Weber or John Williams... The other 10 shows are finished, there is some minor duplication with the introductory show, but not much. In all but one case I managed to find music that was tied into the country and appropriate to the presentation (images, pacing etc etc) The whole process however took over 6 months of full time work, and because of that, after 15 years of doing AV shows, I have now turned to other ways of presenting my images. I still would prefer AV, but the work involved vs the "payback" is just not there especially when there are other demands on one's time.

I have not posted a presentation on Beechbrook for a long time, but a few days ago Bill kindly hosted my Baltic Introductory show. Introductory in that it is a summary of 10 AVs produced from a 10 country, 16 city cruise in the Baltic (plus two stops in the UK). Comments are always welcome. (preferably constructive ones :) )

As I was in favour of this, I appreciate your bringing the email addresses back. Thank you !! Jim

Another reason for displaying the addresses on Cottage is that some people who Bill hosts may not be members of the forum, and there are some members of the forum whose ID's are not their name and good luck finding them using the forum search. I ran into both cases recently.

Sounds good to me Bring on the pole........

Maureen: My 2¢ on the music. I know how very hard it is to find music that works with a presentation, and music makes a large impact on the show. As I mentioned above I liked the music of the version on Bill Hines' "Cottage". When I watched the original I found it quite slow and the synching with the images did not seem to work nearly as well. Yes I might have gone looking for Vivaldi, or similar, and might well still be looking.....

Just getting into the discussion now.... I too appreciate Bill's site very much. (I do hope users are supporting Bill with more than just words) It gives us access to great work and ideas for more shows, and just appreciate the many wonders of the world. I too, like Ken, do contact some of the creators (but I admit not as a high a presentation as Ken) and I would like to see an ongoing option. If removing the address generates more shows to the Cottage, then in some ways I might be in support of it, but overall I think there is a need for us to have contact info.

Maureen: Just enjoyed your Venice Show. Very nice as all your shows have been. The music worked well, you arranged for the weather to behave itself and to provide nice lighting for you. I especially like the few early evening shots. The canals seemed to be well below their high water marks which was good to see given some of the stories we are hearing about flooding in Venice. Thx for the show

Well I did... :rolleyes: I went with MicroSoft Security Essentials. No issues so far, of course the computer is VERY young and I am still setting it up. Now I have to get around to setting PTE on it and digging out the old versions.... Thanks to all

Thx Barry

Thanks for the quick replies from everyone !! Sounds like Ken and I have somewhat similar issues with AVG on XP system.I am going to Win7, so maybe it will be OK there. My techie uses Kaspersky, and in some ways I am leaning there only to be on the same wavelength with him...... But I am still intrigued by MSE... I know I have to s**t or get off the pot...

I hope I am not repeating anything here, but I did a search for "Microsoft Security Essentials" (MSE) and came up blank. I am in the throes of getting a new computer and have several authoritative sources recommending going with MSE as the anti-virus software. I am interested in hearing any comments from people you are using it. I currently use AVG, but have to steer it away (via Resident Shield) from my PTE .exe files as I seem to get false positives. So I am thinking of switching. I have used Kaspersky in the past. I also used to use Norton but won't go near it anymore due to other issues with it. Thanks

Hi JR, Sorry to hear that - it does sound like a resource issue. Video can be more demanding for sure.... Best regards, Lin It worked fine on my more up-to-date laptop. Very good !! Thx Lin: Sounds like it went really well. Unfortunately all I get is the music track and a graduated blue screen Guess maybe the desktop finally needs to be replaced ? I'll have to try it on my laptop tomorrow that is quite new and better spec'ed

Hi JR, Sorry to hear that - it does sound like a resource issue. Video can be more demanding for sure.... Best regards, Lin Lynn: Sounds like it went really well. Unfortunately all I get is the music track and a graduated blue screen Guess maybe the desktop finally needs to be replaced ? I'll have to try it on my laptop tomorrow that is quite new and better spec'ed

Thanks Barry

Xaver: Duh... Of course !!! I have always had that area hidden as I have enlarged my image viewing area (or whatever it is called) I forgot that those fields were "hidden" under there. I knew Igor wouldn't have taken away a useful function. Thank you for your quick reply.

I have been off the forum for quite a while due to connection issues, but after a search today I could not find any reference to this in the forums. I hope I am not asking an already answered question... I am using ver 6.0 (I know it is not the latest version - see note below) and am in the midst of 15 minute show with some seemingly tricky synchronization. When I need to adjust the placement of an image on the timeline, I find it difficult to do with a high degree of accuracy by the click and drag method. (Maybe the real issue is I am getting too old, or my mouse is sticky.. ) In the "old days" of version 4.8 there was screen (see pic) that allowed us to enter the time start co-ordinates and "update". No need to use the click and drag method. While I have managed without since 4.8 (maybe ver 5.xx?) I sure would like it now. Have I missed finding the function in 6.0 ? Thanks xxxxxxxxxxxxx For those who question my sanity :) anytime I ask about older versions... One reason I am slow to upgrade to the latest version is that I have well over 60 AV shows that I are presented frequently. They are presented by using a "Launch page" (using O&A in a standalone show) and you get the smoothest start if the show being launched is the same version as the launch page version. I find it too tedious to re-compile all the shows each time an update comes out. So I switch to an upgrade grudgingly at times.

Got it Barry Thx Ken Cox also sent me a copy. As to why I want 4.48... Yes I completely the new version is MUCH better, to explain why 4.48/4.49 would just get to complicated so I'll leave it at thanks for the usual fast reply. At least I didn't ask for version 2 !!!!! :D

To make a long story short, I need the install files for PTE ver 4.8. I thought I had kept a copy (way back then) but I seem to not have. Does anyone have a copy, or can they direct me to where I can get a copy? Thanks

Bill: Thanks for sending me the files. With them and Igor's assessment I think I have resolved the issue for you. See e-mail I sent you

Ken and Nobeefstu Bill called me at home with his problem before he posted. This is his 2nd or 3rd PTE show he has done. The file was originally a MP4, which he converted to an MP3. He had worked the file in audacity several times and it always worked in the main window of PTE, but not in the PREVIEW or when CREATED AS an exe. (I thought maybe the originating as an MP4 might be an issue, but it did play in PREVIEW. He added it via PROJECT OPTIONS, and then tried ADD SOUND at the top. I suggested a few things: - re-boot the computer after turning it off and flicking the switch on the back of it to OFF for 30 seconds. - try another file (I should have suggested one that worked in another show) - convert it to a WAV and see what happens. I have not heard back from him whether any of those worked. I know have had issues with sound files which we accidentally created as 22,000mhz(Or whatever the term is) but they always played back in all modes, but just did not synch correctly) Any other thoughts you might have will be welcome

Eire: Welcome to PTE The short answer to your question is "NO". But the developers have it in their plans for an upcoming release. No dates yet

Peter: I agree with you (again ) Like Ken I throw everything into a new folder when working with a PTE, but the odd time I absentmindedly slip to another folder for an "extra". I would prefer to have the pte file point to the folder I designate. Also sometimes that folder will change as the show evolves. It can get very big (e.g. when using PhotoShop's layers to create multi-image screens, or upteem sound bites that evolve from mp3 from wav etc etc), or can have a good number of images, or different versions of images, I end up not using and so on. So I do a zip backup, and start a new "cleaner" folder. By being able to designate that new folder, life will be much simpler.

Peter: Yes please !!! It has always bothered me that I have to go hunting for the folder when I open an existing project. It confuses the heck out of newbies when I am helping someone learn PTE. Glad you suggested it, only question is why no one (including myself) had not suggested it before

Dave: Can't say I am as up on this as others, but I would have expected what you did - no need to worry about 6.0 vs 6.01 vs 6.02 etc for menus. I guess I am lucky as I haven't upgraded beyond ver 6.0 and have re-compiled all my shows to 6.0 to get smoother starts than using RUN APPLICATION Thanks for the warning though as I am not sure I want to re-compile all my shows (50-55) that are actively used if I happen to do a menu on a newer version of ver 6.