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Igor: Thanks for your help. Not sure why I seemed to be the only with the problem, but thanks for pointing out the problem to Invision

Maybe should not say anything, but fingers crossed, but as of 4pm everything seems to be back to normal. Something happened somewhere between 1pm and 4pm.... Thanks

Igor: We really appreciate your dedication and hard work, but you do need/deserve a GOOD break, so do as I say and not as I do and take a break from the forum as well Have a great vacation

Hi Ken I checked The Dom's forum, plus two other forums I am a member of and no problem. Not sure they use the same forum software though As I say, everything else seems to be normal I have rebooted twice just in case... I am on Firefox 2.0.0.14

Thanks Peter: Thanks for the tip re the auto-save (The default seems to be set to "off" so I was OK) I understand now what you are saying. I had expected from what you were saying that the last slide to move back to 5:48 time point, but the end of the music marker moved to the (proper) 5:50. So yes, doing that extra little step and all appears OK. I will have to experiment more as time permits Thanks again

Thanks Peter Not sure I want to that with existing shows. For one thing that would throw off the synchronization at the end of the show. It seems the synching is fine up until that last two seconds. When (if ) I switch to 5.5, I'll have to add two seconds to my sound track I guess ??? Maybe Igor will find a solution for it

Is anyone else having problems reading the forum ? 75% (or more) of the time when I click on a posting, I am told I am forbidden to go there. Hitting the refresh key triwce usually brings the posting on screen, although some of the buttons are missing (REPLY, REPORT, TOP etc etc) I haven't had any problems with others sites on the Internet Here is the message I get: "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /forums/index.php on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/1.3.39 Server at picturestoexe.com Port 80"

Hi Lin Don't think that is the case here see attached screen print

I just downloaded 5.5 and started exploring it a little (A very little) I opened an existing show (done in 4.48) but noticed the music was 2 seconds shorter on the TIMELINE in 5.5, but 5.5 shows the duration correctly on PROJECT OPTIONS>MUSIC So I opened the same show in 5.1 and the music length was still OK Music track is an mp3 file. Anyone else hit this ? Thx (I normally use 4.48 as it meets my needs but Hawk suggested I try 5.5 with the hardware accelerator turned off PROJECT OPTIONS>SCREEN to be bale to use all the great new features)

Mark: Not sure if this site has been mentioned. But there is an interesting article and then go back to the home page and there are lots of reviews as well

Lin: You must have been cross eyed doing this one !

Dave: I have an Edirol R-09 which I have used successfully with wildlife. I also bought a RODE NTG-02 shotgun mic with a dead cat the block out some of the wind noise.

I had Kaspersky check the file and as expected it was a false positive

Our Club has used ThumbsPlus for this type of competition/judging ThumbsPlus

Bart: I didn't expect you to be making anything available that was not safe, but I felt I had to check.

My virus program (Kaspersky)is warning me about the high cost of gasoline download Says it is a back door TROJAN anyone else getting this warning, or is it a false reading ? Thx

Geoff: You might want to look at the May 5, 2008 post here to get another person's view on AVG v8 You'll find he has a 27 page tutorial for it. (I do not use AVG, but I am thinking of moving to it)

Jena: (I will likely be the subject of many nasty thoughts when I say this ) If you don't need the pan and zoom facilities, then why not keep using the old version, or at least upgrade to 4.49. Pan and Zoom are great tools (when used artistically ) but if you don't need them, stick with your current version.

Jim: Following up on Lin's good advice.... A few years ago I re-created my family tree (1650 to date) using PTE. I broke it into many segments and created a PTE .exe file for each segment. Then using the OBJECT EDITOR (in ver 4.x that was the current version at the time) I set up the Family tree using inter-linked menu pages. I recorded current family voices telling stories about their lives (those that were not too shy to do so), had copies of family letters, grave sites, newspaper articles, pictures of family heirlooms etc etc I think it ended up being about 100 pte files, but it worked very well. It would take many many hours to go through it all, and while I felt it was important to do, and was glad I did, I have to be honest and say not a whole lot of use is being made of it now. BUT DON"T LET THAT STOP YOU !!!

Filip: Not sure if this is what you want, but in Ver 4 we could "daisy chain" shows so that they ran one right after the other. PROJECTIONS > ADVANCED > run application after.... Ver 5 seems to still have this option. (I still tend to be back in the dark ages and still use ver 4 most of the time :rolleyes: ) BUT this means that each show has to have this option turned on and the correction application to run after specified. We did this technique in our Photo Club when three of us would put together what was really one show with three parts. In your case I suspect they are independent shows and this might not make sense for your situation. When our club runs an AV night with independent shows we use the "menu" screen approach. Yes you need an operator to start each show, but it is clean start with no going back to the desktop, or file folder each time. Xavier's solution is a neat one that I wish I had thought of in times gone by.

I think I just found the answer thanks to Peter Appleton in a recent thread here I had not updated my ver 5 to ver 5.1. Peter pointed out the "Wait for a key press or mouse click to show next slide" on the Main Tab of Project options. Seems to work like a charm Will have to play more to be sure. Guess I should get back to staying more current with the forum !!! :(

I did a quick search of the forum for this topic and found a thread from a year ago on this topic. I would like to re-visit this topic to see if things have changed at all in Ver 5 since that time. I frequently use a manual show when doing presentations, particularly tutorials. In ver 4, it is simply a matter of de-activating DISPLAY SLIDE FOR x SECONDS and then setting the Mouse buttons for next and previous slide. I have been asked several times in the past month how to run manual shows. I explained it to the first person who then informed me it didn't work. Then I found out they were using ver 5. I tried it and agreed. They followed my suggestion and downloaded ver 4 and used it. Subsequently I have played a little and can make ver 5 work manually, by setting the DISPLAY SLIDE for 5000 seconds and then setting the mouse buttons. This seems to do the trick (unless of course you want the slide up for longer than 5000 seconds in which case I guess you would have to introduce a PAUSE control and or increase the 5000 seconds. (I know 50,000 seconds won't work as I tried it ) There is no problem continuing to use ver 4 for me, but I know some people are reluctant to keep more than one version of a software active on their computer. Is ver 4 still the route to go, or has there been some minor tuning that I have missed in ver 5 to provide the same functionality as ver 4 ? Thanks

Brian: WinCare-Personal2 did not find much rubbish. We weren't expecting it to find much (that is we were hoping it wouldn't ). The computer is rarely hooked up to the internet, and the usuage of the computer is "controlled". The WinCare is running on the computer to alert us to any issues Thx again

Just a final (we hope) follow up on this topic. We ran two ver 15 minute shows, and an 8 minute Ver 5 show on the New User account this morning and all shows went to their conclusion, as did two test shows from Lin Evans. So we are assuming we were hit by a gremlin the other night. But to be safe we ran Advanced WindowsCare Personal Edition as suggested by CONFLOW (see above) and did some repairs etc. Thanks for assistance, always helpful as usual ! Jim Robertson

Thx Brian You've given us a few things to look at Jim