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Ed/Colin: It was plugged into a fuse protected extension cord. I didn't notice anything unusual in terms of extra brightness etc in the lights in the adjacent room. Jim

Thx Igor We'll hope it was a one time instance

Recently we ran a ver 5 PTE show prepared by an experienced PTE producer. About halfway through the show it quit and returned to the desktop, as though someone had hit ESC. (We know no one hit ESC as I was at the keyboard ) We ran the show again an hour or two later and it performed flawlessly. We are trying to determine what the cause was. It might have been a gremlin, or..... We were running it on a WinXP machine that has run 100's of PTE shows (ver 5 and 4) without error. The only difference was that we had just set up a new User Account on the computer. Is there something in the user account set up that we might have missed that would cause this problem ? We had the screen saver set to none, but that would not have caused the ESCAPE anyway. We are putting it down to a one time gremlin, unless anyone has any thoughts. Thanks Jim

Igor: Once again great service from you (and Kapersky !) Thanks Jim

Igor: I have the same issue with KASPERSKY anti virus. Being told about the same virus in one of my shows. http://www.kaspersky.com/ Any chance you could do the same with them please. Thanks Jim Robertson

Old John: I use a custom pre-set amplify envelope to lower the volume of the music behind the narration. I am not sure if you can set that up in Audacity or not. Audacity is quite a strong package so I suspect you might be able to. I use Adobe Audition. Yes I have separate sound bites for each item. Sometimes they pretain to just one slide, sometimes they run over a few images JFA: I agree that starting at "preview from Current slide" is a bit of an issue as you say, but if I need to I scroll back to the last slide that has a file atached in the sound line

Hi Jeff This goes back a year or two. I do a good number of shows with narration and I frequently add the sound bites of narration via the SOUND "line" on the main page of PTE, rather than via PROJECT OPTIONS > MUSIC > ADD a sound track. This saves me time in setting up a show as to use the Project Options route, I do the narration first, and "synch" it via the SOUND "line". Then once I happy with it, I then create the music track via PROJECT OPTIONS. This saves me having to constantly go back and forth and adjust each sound bite to get the timing right everytime I make changes while synchronizing the images to the music track. In short shows of 5-8 minutes, it is not too bad, but I am working on a 25 minute one with over 120 sound bites. So using the SOUND "line" is a quicker option. (although once I have everything synched, I then mix in the 120 sound bites and lower the music volume behind each bite.....) Hope this is clearer Jim

Thanks Igor !!!

I have been away from the forum for a very long time due to other priorities getting in the way (but still a continuing avid producer of PTE AVs) I hope this has not be raised elsewhere and I am repeating a query, but I could not find a reference to it. Some time ago, I had suggested that it would be very helpful to be able to hear the sound line audio when previewing via the timeline. Igor indicated that it would be incorporated very soon. Guess I thought (hoping ? ) it was going to be in Ver 5, but I just tried it using beta 12 in a show I am working with and it does not seem to be working. Is it me, or is the change still in the "hoping/planning to implement list" ?

I hope I am adding something new here as I have not be following the forum as closely as I used to as I have been busy doing shows and planning trips. In the past we have talked about how to transfer our .exe files for others to see our shows. Dropload was the old stand by, but over the past several months some of us have been having problems with their not sending e-mail messages to recipients. YOU SEND IT has become a favourite that many of my counterparts use quite effectively. There many others out there, but two that have come to light more recently are: MEDIA FIRE this service allows indefinite retention of of files and no restriction on downloads. Be aware though that some people, myself included have had issues uploading files over 10mb, but others have not problems at (including myself using another computer on the same network) Pando allows for a 14 day file retention. It also requires software to upload and download the files As I say there are many others out there.

Thanks Brian This issue has been happening intermittenetly for a while, but moreso today. But I will certainly give SPYBOT a try

Thx Igor It didn't make any sense for PTE to be communicating to any network. I will send you by private e-mail a screen shot of the log entries

Sorry to bring things back to version 4, but I have had this issue a little now and then. But it just happened twice within 10 minutes while previewing a new show I am working. My FIREWALL is telling me that a file (seemingly connected with PTE that is running) has changed and is trying to connect to an outside host. I stop it from doing that and here is part of the message I get: "Application has changed since the last time you opened it, process id: 3024 Filename: C:\Documents and Settings\JRR\Local Settings\Temp\p2e_prev.exe The change was denied by user" I suspect file p2e_prev.exe is an internal PTE file as I never created such a file. My PTE shows are all resident on Drive D, with the software being on C drive in Program Files. Can anyone tell me what they think is going on please and thanks. I have checked for viruses and spyware etc Thanks

Jean-Pierre: Great little demo you did with the cube !! Lin showed us how to make the cube with a great tutorial, so pushing the envelope I asked if a 6 sided cube could be done. Seems you did it It would be nice if you could let us know how when you have a chance Merci

Lin: Thx for the video tutorial, they were great !! I shouldn't ask, but what the heck.... Can a 6 sided cube be done ??

Lin: I for one really appreciate your tutorials, and all the other free advice that we give/receive. That is what the forum is all about. You are a very talented generous forum member

I suspect you are referring to a slide show .exe file. The answer is sorry, but no. If you still have the .pte file and pictures, then the answer is yes.

Ron: Thx for tutorial. It confirmed some of my playing aorund and opened my eyes and understanding to other functionality

I seem to recall a suggested size of 2000pixels on the long side, but don't quote me. BUT if you don't have a competely up-to-date video card doing that can create problems with ver 5.(based on my VERY limited trials) In my workflow for creating an AV, I take the images I think I want to use straight from the "as is from the camera" (@2-4mb) and copy them into a new folder and then start working on the show. (I end up with the final slides at 1280x960 (@400kb) In version 4.x I had nice smooth transitions even with the 2-4 mb files, but with ver 5 they splutter their way through transitions until they are reduced to the final size. If I want a p/z/r I have kept the file as large as I can so there is not too much jerkiness, but at the sametime making sure the picture does not fall apart too much on the zoom. (Of course having a cranky video card is helping to prevent me from over-using the effects in ver 5 in my tests )

Jeff: have you tried using the SOUND LINE for the sound bites of the narration? I do it that way. I understand the way you are doing it and can see some pros and cons (pro: in ver 4 you can't hear the sound bites when watching the TIMELINE PREVIEW, but Igor will be changing that. con: moving the start point of any image during the presentation preparation/design does not require moving the sound bite in audition) I suspect it is partially what one is used to. I'll try it your way next time Thx (Of course Adobe première with bulit-in multi track sound editor is the easiest, but there are some cons associated with that besides just the cost. I'll stick with PTE thanks)

Gee Igor, I finally catch up (well almost) to you with ver 5.3 and you throw 5.4 at us I hope you had a summer vacation in there some place Thanks for ALL your work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Igor: Just to let you know, I did save another ver 5 show as a template this morning with no problem. The images were copied into a new folder just as they were with the other example that I ran into problems with yesterday. I tried it again with yesterday's example and still could not create the template. I tried adding one of the files that caused the problem yesterday into the new example and the TEMPLATE still created.

woof woof Thx Al

Thanks Igor.

I just started playing with (er... studying ) ver 5 and slowly sorting things out. (been too busy creating other shows) One question for now: I have a habit of copying the images I want to use into a single folder for use in preparing the PTE show. As I work up the show I crop, edit etc the images and they get another name. But at the start there will always be another copy of each image elsewhere on my drive. In the case in point, I copied in my images for the trial show into the new folder, I did not re-name any files. I wanted to send a .pt folder to a helpful friend with my "show" to ask some questions. But I was not allowed to create the template file as it said there was another copy of one of the images eslewhere. (Actually every image had another copy elswhere) Do I assume that when ver 5 is implemented I will have to change my workflow so that when I set up the folder with the images for a PTE show, I should re-name all of them in the folder ? (That can be done via a PS Action of course) I am sure I will have to change other workflow habits as well, but let's deal with them one at a time