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Kenny: Did you leave the mouse cursor showing ?? PROJECT OPTIONS>ADVANCED If not, then I don't think the Navigation Box will show.

Guido: We help Bill with his expenses at Beechbrook, can we not help with your costs in connection with the on-line storage of the copyright free music ?

Denwell Amazing what little shortcuts lurk behind the scenes BTW, I just discovered that clicking the space bar again returns it to the light table

Coffeyb There a couple of ther ways depending on what you want: 1. PROJECT OPTONS>ADVANCED>run application after last slide 2. Use OBJECT EDITOR (right of CUSTOMIZE SLIDE on main screen) on whatever image you want and place a button with whatever ACTION you want

marmart: Welcome to PTE ! I am quite familair with PROSHOW, but I use PTE as it is much more flexible to do the things I want with my shows. There are pros and cons to all software. PTE does not have the zoom feature yet. Igor (our genius program creator) has it in the books for the next beta version I understand.

Guido: Great stuff !!!!!!! It will help all PTE users, new and experienced. Thank you VERY much.

Igor: I admit I have not had time to try the new beta yet, but I have been following the forum and it sure seems the timeline and deleting transitions/slides is causing confusion and problems, other aspects seem to be going OK. Alrobin's suggestions sound great to me in theory (keeping in mind I have not had time to play yet). Al didn't pay me to say this by the way

How I start depends on the show. If I am doing a travelogue, lecture/educational, I pick out the images I want to use and put them in the order I want (usually not the order they were taken in, but in order by colour and subject). The shows goes together, then I find the music. Picking out the images is a hard process as you have to be fairly ruthless in your editing if you want a good presentation. The editing can taking weeks before assembling them for the show. If I am doing a show to a specific piece of music, I sort out the number of images required, what the image should be of (to match the music (words in a song) etc etc and then put it together. Of course there are combinations and permutations between those two simplistic ones.

Generally I agree that slide shows should be 5-8 minutes long maximum. But it depends on your target audience. I have some that are 25 minutes long that will bore the pants off many audiences, but leave other audiences wanting more. I have seen 5 minute, or shorter, shows that will bore the pants of anyone except its producer See thread in PTE Presentations forum re "Stimulation vs ??? " here

Igor: Guess I think the somewhat the same as Al Robinson. I really don't want "fill the screen" as a default for the same reason as Al. Also if this is away around stationary OBJECTS, as much as I have been pushing for stationary OBJECTS for several years , I am not sure this is a good solution as image quality will suffer on larger res screens. But then I am second guessing you on this comment

Randy: Glad the problem was solved by the exchange of e-mails we had.

Happy Birthday Peter I loved the shows of yours that I have seen. Hope to see more sometime

Vicking: If I understand what you ant correctly, you can do numbers 2,3,and 4 right now. You just have to put extra copies of the individual slides in the show where you want them. i.e. slide one, slide two, slide one, slide three etc for #2 wish, you can do that by preparing the images you want to display in PhotoShop

Hi Hollowman: I realize that this is not going to help you any in real terms, but I have three PTE shows of over 200 slides and 25 minutes in length, they all work like a charm. A few thoughts you might want to consider as the following are sometimes factors: - I usually compress sound track to an an MP3 using 96kbps. - image files are jpgs, no more than 200kb (the odd one might hit 275kb, but most are 100-150kb) - I keep at least 0.5 seconds between transtions. I tend to use FADES, with transitions of 1500ms ± I am sure you will solve it very soon.

Marianne: I have some jpg screen shots that might (not) help. I have used them in a short tutorial. But I need your e-mail so I can attach them in a note to you. The PTE forum e-mail form does not allow attachments. Pls send an e-mail to me at jrr@magma.ca and I will send them to you.

Ron: I'll try to clarify the process: Each time you work on your PTE presentation, I assume you you save the current .pte file. You either click: FILE > SAVE or File > SAVE AS That saves the .pte file in whatever folder you are working from (SAVE AS is safer as you can actually see where it is going to be saved) Using the TEMPLATE is an extra step. After saving the .pte file you can save the .pt file by: FILE > TEMPLATE > CREATE TEMPLATE FROM THIS SHOW This creates a .pt file in your PTE Program Files folder. You can leave it there or move it wherever you want. You can back it up to whatever media you use for back-up. The .pt file holds all the images you are using, the sound file and the .pte file. It does not hold the .exe file, but you can easily re-create the .exe file by simply using the .pte file from the TEMPLATE .pt file and creating it in the usual way. Hope that makes sense

Hi Kellychinphotos ! Welcome to PTE. I am not a website designer so much better advice will follow.... You would have to place the PTE .exe file on your website in whatever fashion allows for people to download it. It would not be a streaming option, but a physical download. You should load the .exe file as a zip file as some firewalls etc will not allow .exes to be downloaded. You would have to watch your file sizes as well if you wanted clients on dial-up to download the proofs Like I say better advice will follow By the way, this might be better posted perhaps at the general forum General Forum

Hi Russell: Welcome to PTE. The transitions you have seen that leave one image in place and bring in another one is simply two (or more) separate images prepared in PhotoShop (or whatever photo editing software one uses). The common picture is on both images and PTE just transtions the slides, but the eye only sees one of the images change.

Sens: You might be better off posting this in the DVD forum. See: DVD forum But I can tell you that I experienced the same thing and was told that the .avi file created is a temp file that disappears when you hit "finished". It is used as source in the making of the DVD file I know it was there as I clicked on, and watched, the .avi file before clicking on the FINISHED button after which it was no longer there.

another option is to create a TEMPLATE for the show. You can move the template around to whatever folder, back-up device you want, etc. The pictures and sound are always there for you. FILE > TEMPLATE > CREATE TEMPLATE FROM THIS SHOW

They are using a slower computer so I suspect that is the issue. Are you pictures about 200-300kb MAXIMUM size ?, is there about a half second between transitions ? Did you use the timeline to synch ? Those are some of the critical issues They might also be trying to run them from a CD rather than loading them onto the hard drive. By the way, you are better to ask thse types of questions on the general forum rather than the presentations forum. general forum

Midknight: There is software that will do that for you. Its called Adobe Première, costs US$700

Is this music copyright free ? I know Nickles said "it is free to download", but I don't see any copyright free info. So I assume "free to download" meant simply that - free to download, but not copyright free. I would like to know as what music I use sometrimes depends on what I am using a show for Thanks

ratfugel: Did you create the PTE as a DVD vidoe type show (I don't do it, so I am not "up" on the terminology) or just copy the .exe file to a DVD You might want to go to this forum for further help on the DVD aspect here Regarding the synchronizing with the music, did you use the TIMELINE function to do the synching ? PROJECT OPTIONS>MAIN>custom synchronization (button) That should hold the synching on any computer

Ken: I lived in Toronto for 20 years 1978-98 (almost got used to it too ) They think they are the capital of world, not just Canada. (That is for any of them that have gone farther north than Steeles Ave !!! )