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OK Igor, Aleksey gets vacation when his work passes the beta tests But you make sure you go no matter where things are

Igor: You continue to tantalize us !!! Glad you are taking the stepping stone approach and doing it piecemeal. But you still haven't told us where you went on the vacation you were to take !!

I was glad Bill gave me a chance to be the first to post to the renewed Beechbrook. He does a great job and I considered it an honour. Yes Ken, we do have a few bird brains up here !! (For non-Canadians, Ottawa is the capital of Canada, so we have a lot of politicians around. Our politicians are just like others around the world. Many good, many questionable, but they all seem to live in their own world at times.) I enjoyed putting the show together, but I keep hearing echoes of it. We have two parrots living with us (or do we live with them ?) While I used the headphones most of the time working on the show, I did not use them enough it seems as the parrots can now mimick most of the 52 bird calls. We never know if there is a real bird in our backyard, or just one of the parrots..... It was surprising how difficult it was to find an existing shot of some of the common birds, such as a crow. No one (including me) takes pictures of them. Finally I had to go take pictures of them myself in winter.

Hey, no problem Its hard to knwo where to look for solutions You'll get a chance to return the favour to others who come along in the forum and have problems

keyboard The problem is caused by your mail server Take a look here and see if this helps PS: Support is in Russia, they, like everyone else, have different time zones

I don't use FLASH, but I seem to recall that BOXIG (a forum member who has utilities for everything but the kitchen sink ) has a utility for incorporating flash in PTE.

Flying Scotsman: I have experienced some "pixelation" with PTE in my early days with it, but I have not had any since I started being so concerned with the image file sizes. I use 1024x768 generally these days, but no longer make them as small a file size as reasonably I can. I used to think under 100kb was best. I used to save everything at quality 5 jpg regardless. Now I tend to judge the sizing on an somewhat on an image quality/characteristic basis and use 300kb as the guideline max (but break it willingly). For images that are not dense (colour in evening skies, smoke from fireworks are two examples) I make sure they stay over 300kb. I have had no problems projecting the AV shows on large screens since switching to these guidelines

Igor: We are all impatiently waiting for this new version. As always, we want it yesterday. But we recognize the amount of work you are putting into it and you should release it only when you are feeling comfortable enough to do so. Now, where did you go for your vacation we asked you to take ?

To add to Ken's reply.... If you are talking about a manual show (without bothering todo a synched show and then have an option to manually control (I do this quite often) simply turn off the Display of images for set times (PROJECT OPTIONS MAIN at bottom) and then use mouse controls (or arrow keys) (PROJECT OPTIONS>ADVANCED>MOUSE BUTTONS. This will work even with cursor hidden during show.

Further to Bethan's reply (sorry I missed that question first time through....) You can preview the show from any point using the timeline (and the small preview window in the timeline). It is a little tricky because the START button becomes a PAUSE button once started and you might not notice that. If you hit STOP, then START is a start button again. So hit START, preview starts at slide one. if you hit PAUSE (Start) then you can click at anypoint on the timeline, the blue triangle moves to that point and click on PAUSE again, to start up the preview. For full screen preview: click on the sl;ide you want to start the preview at along the bottom of the main page, then click on the "Slice of bread" a very small parallelogram at the bottom right of the preview pane on the main page. The full screen prevbiew will start there and run until you hit ESC

Sorry my mistake... Look for TIMED POINTS rather than VIEW POINTS The click on ARRANGE ALL POINTS if necessary "points" are the transition timing on the timeline

Walsa: Glad it all worked. I got you that far, if you go into the world of DVD and have questions, 'fraid I can't help....

Val.b Welcome to PTE If, after adding your muisc and clicking on SYNC SLIDE SHOW TO JMUSIC DURATION, open the timeline (Either TIMELINE at the bottom, or CUSTOM SYNCHRONIZATION and if the transitions don't show, then click on VIEW POINTS and then ARRANGE POINTS, that should get you started

Walusa: In theory (if I understand your problem fully) so long as the OBJECTS point to the .exe files (even if in subfolders on the PC) then if you put the .exe files (all you need) in the root of the CD, it should play on all PCs, eiother from the CD of by copying the CD to one folder on the new PC. I am jnot quite ready for my 55th highs school reunion, but I guess I am closer to it than I thought I was.

walus: Welcome to PTE, seems you have caught on to one of the advantages of PTE quickly ! Try putting all the files in the root of the CD. I use "Run application and exit" in many presentations and even if the various .exe files are in different (sub) folders on the PC, there has never been a problem running with everything in the root of the CD Hope that solves it for you

Wilf: Sounds as though one of your issues might be PTE unexpectedly adding transition points for new slides. If that is one of the issues, got to TIMELINE>VIEW and click off "auto adding of new transition points for new slides" Others have reported this on the forum that this "hidden" action have created problems for them.

update July 19th: I dropped by a store in town today and found out the name of the other system. It is Fender's passport line. The p150 is more similar to my Peavy in terms of sound quality/strength etc, the P250 is slightly better. But in both Passport models there are no wheels, and the speaker stands have to be carried separately. I don't think the Fender systems have microphones and cabling unless you buy the "D" line (Deluxe)

Lifeshots The usual cause of that it is the transitions are too close. Are you leaving about a half second between transition ending and the next one starting ? Another problem can be that the image files are very large, optimally they should be 200-300kb, but some people use larger ones on more powerful computers. The third issue is that if you are reading the show off a CD rather than a hard-drive, the CD and CPU might not talk fast enough. Do any of those help ?

Hi Fried: Some advice from somone who carts around all the necessary equipment to present AV shows 2-3 times per week in the winter.... - you are better off to get a commercial quality screen as it is less prone to damage while being loaded and unloaded. I have a non-commercial one that has a very thick padded case (home made) that helps protect it, but... - look for a white matte screen at least 60" if not 72". - I looked around for speakers and amplifiers and a suitcase to put them in for ease of lugging in and out of venues. Then I found the PEAVY system that has a sound system all in a wheeled case - speakers, speaker stands, amplifier(mixer), wiring, microphones etc etc. I have a PEAVY 2000 and have found it more than enough for me. There is another system, that I forget its name right now, (see reply below) that has the amp and speakers in one cabinet - no wheels, and the speaker stands are carried separately. The Peavy is not quite as good as the other system (hopefully someone will come along with its name) but to my ear it is not different enough to make up for the lack of convenience of no wheels and separate speaker stands. Both systems are not the lightest. I have an attache case with extra wiring, duct tape etc etc. My laptop and projector have extra heavy padded cases as well because of the abuse they take.

This issue has come up recently a few times. BOXIG, a forum member, has a utility that will recover your images. I think it is called RESTORE PTE, you can find it on his website which you can get to clicking on MEMBERS at top right and look him up see also here

k123mmm: You can use the SEARCH feature (top right) and come with many references Try this one here and see if it helps. Many of put the text in via PhotoShop or other image editor and then it stays

Hi Tim: I am not aware of PTE having issues with sample rates, but then I always use 44.1 (for no other reason than in mixing sound bites from the web, they mix much better if they are all the same ) I realize that you are much more "up" on sounds etc than I, but I am not sure you have to burn the MP3s to a CD to change the sample rate. dbPowerAMP will do it for you (free) website here: dbPowerAmp Hope your Mum-in-law enjoyed the show !!

Ray: If I understand what you want, you can do that now by using a one page (Launch page) show with the one page having OBJECTS that will launch the individual show and perhpas a seventh that would start a daisy chain of all six shows Your viewer would simply click on the show they want to watch, then it returns to the "launch page" and they choose again. PS to Guido: Maybe directions as to how to create a one page "launch" show should go on your great website, as this comes up somewhat frequently.

Kevin: Welcome to PTE !! Try PROJECT OPTIONS>COMMENTS>customize comments Will that give you what you want ??

I have used the "daisy chain" option a number of times and noticed the problem you mention, but I use a black slide at the end of all my presentations, so it might well be happening, but it never shows. Logically I am not sure why it is happening, but unless someone comes up with a better solution, would that be an option for you?