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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

Lin: Very helpful !!! Maybe you should post it on the regular forum too ??

Amy: PTE creates a .exe file that is the slideshow. If you are trying to create a DVD version, then you should read here

I have been using the template as my back-up files and I don't sem to be having the same results as Michel. When I have a .pt file of my show and I change the presentation, I go: FILE>TEMPLATE>CREATE TEMPLATE>say yes to the name>say yes to overwrite I get the new .pte file and any new images written into the .pt file. BUT what I also get, that I don't need, is that any images dropped from the slide show are still in the .pt file. I would just as soon have a clean version of the .pt file, which I can do by changing the .pt name, but I prefer to keep the .pt name lined up with the presentation name

We all know the internet is free, right ?? <grin> WRONG !! Someone has to pay, either the creator of the site for the server space, and/or the user wanting to download or even access material on some sites. One forum member produces freeware and shareware for us all to use. While I am sure they are people who have used his shareware without contributing, I am sure there have been more than two who have contributed towards his costs. Another forum member produces tutorials and offers Royalty Free music, but users have to pay before they can access the offerings. Beechbrook hosts many of our shows and asks for donations. In fact you may have noticed in the past year, the visibility of his donation requests has increased and there has been cut back on file retention times, due to lack of funds. Guru has contributed tremendously to PTE over the years, as moderator of this forum, as advisor to Igor, as advisor to many of us. He has put up an excellent website that contains tips and hints for PTE users plus royalty free music. (The only site I know of with no charge Royalty-free music ! ) All this Guido has done at no charge to us. Guido does have a small note re possible donations on his music page, but it seems only two people have made donations. It is important that we support those who spend a lot of time and effort supporting us. Guido needs a small contribution of each us who use his website and he will be able to continue, so let's all pitch in and help this great website and great guy ! A little bit will go along way. Thanks

Guru: We certainly don't want to lose your website and all the work that you put into it. I have sent you a private e-mail with a suggestion.

Chesterfox: Boxig's utility is the only solution that has come whenever this topic has been raised in the past

JP: merci pour vos responses, j'ai vous envoye un e-mail pour expliquer mon point du musique. (Thanks for your responses, I have sent you an e-mail (in broken french to explain my music comment)

JPD: You are getting very creative in your shows (not that they weren't before). VERY nice (and extensive) prep work to get images ready for the shows. I ran the 7 show "package" without installing, so I am not sure why the need to install/un-install. Can you provide us with the "recipe" for your frames. (PhotoShop instructions for making them - I have instructions for making "tighter" frames and have been unsuccessful in making for spacious frames) We have watched two of ther shows so far. (Speaking for myself, I hope the music choice is different for the other shows and varies with the shows.) I am not sure who you put the seven shows in the one .exe file. Can you explain please. I frequently run several shows from a single screen, but those shows are run from separate .exe files, referred to through OBJECTS. I like the idea of embedding the exe files in one file rather than having several .exe files in a presentation. (Sometimes things don't work too well, when the multi .exe files version is transferred to another computer.) Thx

Tim: If you create a TEMPLATE folder of the finished show, that puts the .pte file, the jpgs, and the sound tracks into one folder. Then you can move that folder where ever you want and all works well. I use it as my back-ups. (I manually add the .exe file to that folder) Template is at FILE>TEMPLATE>CREATE TEMPLATE but if you go >MANAGE TEMPLATE first, you can change the default location which is the PTE Program file.

YOU SEND IT also allows for more than one e-mail, but the downside is that the receiver gets pop-ups etc while the file is downloading. I had too many complaints from receipents so I went back to DROPLOAD 100gb is adequate for most needs, but yes there have been times I have sent larger files....

Igor: Sounds as though you are a magician, more than anything else... Congrats ...... But did you get your vacation ??

Barry: A friend of mine does his PTE shows with images right out of his DSLR camera. the images are 2-3mb each. They work just fine in PTE (on his, and several other computers that are relatively new). Based on the experience I have with ProShow Gold (some members of our AV group use it) the pan and zoom is a little shaky at times and the image falls apart if zoomed in too much. They are using 1024x768 - we suggested they use use larger images, but have chosen not to for now....