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Oui Michel, en hiver les gens patinent aux travail (pardon mon français) Yes in the winter, you can skate to work on a 7km long rink that in the summer is the boating canal. On the weekends it is VERY crowded with people out for a skate during the day. All those pictures were shot in jpg (I rarely use RAW unless I am unsure of the lighting conditions). The lens used most of time is a 28-135 Canon lens. For the wider angle shots I use a 17-28 Canon lens. I also use the 100-400 Canon lens too, but I don't think there were many shots in the show taken with it.

Bill loaded my latest show "My Town" on Beechbrook yesterday. This is one of a series of shows that I have to be shown at senior citizen homes, schools etc etc. It is large file - 74mb - as it is 1280x960 with typical file sizes of 400kb. I have already had a few "technical" photo questions about it, so I thought I should post my replies. All the images were shot on a Canon 10D, most of them were on a tripod (especially the nights shots <grin>) The squirrel was done hand holding so I had a little trouble getting the slides lined up – they are close but not quite bang on. There was very little PhotoShop work except levels and curves and then sharpening using Nik SharpenerPro. Some of the night shots were put through Neat Image to remove the noise and pixellation in the whispy clouds reflecting the city lights. They were also saved at quite a high quality jpg to keep them “together”. Then I cropped each image in the show individually to make sure they transition as effectively as I can. I quite often put transitioning images into the same file in PhotoShop (via layers) and move one layer around to line up the way I want (reduce the opacity on the top layer so you can see both layers) and then crop saving each layer as a separate jpg.

Jack: I assume you don't have it on Random play. One thing to check is that the end of the transition of one slide to the start of the next is about half a second. If not, you mgith get some hic-cupping that might skip a slide (and different ones if it is set to random play)

Eric: Again I might be missing something but your explanation helps Without trying it myself, here is what I would likely try You would have three .exe files (I know you don't want three but work with me on it ) 1. Slide show "L" This would be set to leave last (only) image on the screen at the end of the show. I believe you already have this show. It is a one image show on which there are two buttons to Launch: 2. Slide show A, images 2-30 3. Slide show B, images 31-48 Why not set both shows A & B to leave the last image up on the screen when finished and make the last image of show A, image #2, and the last image of Show B , image #31. You would then AUTORUN slide show L, the client would choose which button to click on A or B. Depending which one they choose, A or B runs. At the end of the show they would then hit ESC and would be taken back to Show L, from which they could choose the other show if they wanted. You might want to put an EXIT button show L so they don't need to hit ESC Again, there might well be easier/other ways to do what you want.

Eric: Do you want to do it only on the first pass or on every pass ? I assume on every pass. One way I thought of quickly (an Object editor won't work as it has to be clicked on and therefoe is not automatic) is to simply duplicate that part of the show when you hit slide 30. But I suspect I am missing something here

Doug: Look in the forum here for brief description of the LAUNCH approach. (See my posting of April 25) You can e-mail me if decide to pursue it and need more info

Doug: Further to comments already offered, so long as the .exe files are in the root of the CD, I would expect it to be found. Many of us use a "launch" show (a single image show with the other shows being linked via an OBJECT - button or picture) The "Launch show" sould be the auto started .exe file and then your viewer simply clicks on whichever OBJECT to start the desired show. I have never had a problem using this technique. (YET that is...... )

Rick: I use daisy chaining a fair bit and while previewing I get the momentary view of the desktop at times, or even just a flicker of the mouse on a black screen, but when they are shown from the .exe file at the REAL presentation, I have never had a problem. I suually try to leave a .25 second black screen at the end of the first show and the start of the second show (and ditto if more are being daisy chained.)

Thanks for your reply Igor Always there with knowledgable answers for us

I checked. She does not have the français version. All the entries in the dropdown box are in English. Her PC has the same version installed on it, and it reads correctly. Just an oddity I guess !!

I assume that MicroSoft's new colour control, available here will not help us make PTE a colour managed software. Is there a way that Igor can make it happen ? Some people usually work in Adobe RGB and for best viewing results change the files used in their shows to sRGB.

Carol: Lin is quite correct. You can't do it from the exe file. But that is why you should keep a copy of the images and latest .pte file well backed up. When I finish a show I create a TEMPLATE (as has been explained before in other threads) which creates a folder with the .pte, the image files used and the sound file PS: Found a reference for you Carol click here

Ronnie: My time was 17:18, halfway (or so) between Ken and Hawk. I am on cable, (but not the Ultra service)

Jan By "beamer" do you mean digital projector ?? And do you mean that the projector is 1024x768 ? If that is the case, my laptop is 1280x800 native (but will go to 2048x1536) and my projector is 1024x768 When using the projector I re-size the laptop to 1024x768 and it projects fine (looks skewed on the laptop screen, but fine on the projected screen)

Je ne pense pas, mais je verifierai. (With apologies to my French counterparts )

Hopefully I have not missed a previous forum discussion on this.... Last night while teaching PTE at our Camera Club, one student's computer showed "MODE" rather than "TIMED POINTS" as a button on the TIMELINE screen. The choices within MODE were the same as TIMED POINTS. If there are two versions of 4.43 (which I doubt), I hope there are no other differences.

Louise: Did you synchronize the music with the images using the TIMELINE, if not how did you insert the music vis-a-vis the images ?

Jeff: I do these type of multi-presentation many times. So long as the .exe files are in the root of the CD along with the master show exe file everything works fine for me.

have you looked at music machines Don't expect symphonic quality

Great News Igor looking forward to it (But did you get your vacation you promised us you would take ???!!!!

We have had threads on DROPLOAD, YOUSENDIT and STREAMLOAD in the past. I came a cross a new one (to me that is) today. http://megaupload.com/ ANyone used it ? Thoughts etc ? Thx

Gary: The most likely cause is that both computers could not read the data off the plug in drive quickly enough to keep up with the show. USB2 is a faster "connection", but there are many other variables inside the computer that can make differences

Bill: Welcome to PTE Sorry the answer is that you will have to prepare the music to length in a sound editing software such as AUDACITY (free) and then bring it into PTE See guido's site here for info re sound editors

Garnot: Take a look at Birds of Petrie Island on Beechbrook on page two here Is that what you had in mind? There are controls built into the show. Pause/Break will pause it for you, plus you can back it and go forward with the arrow keys. That enables a discussion of the brds if you want. You could also do it via objects and have person guess bird's name, then click on the object for the bird's call.

tapeka I don't think you can do what you are trying to do, but you can "daisy-chain" your shows together. Set them to run one right after the other. In your first show, set PROJECT OPTIONS>ADVANCED>RUN APPLICATION AFTER LAST SLIDE to point to your second show, in your second show have it point to your third show etc Your first and last slides in the daisy-chained shows should generally be black and be of less than a half second duration. Unless your viewers look hard, they might not even even know they are watching multiple shows