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Hi Bruman Have you tried it the way that Alrobin suggested ? Another way is add (in sound editing software) the .wav file to the end of the MP3 file that you have playing as the background and synch the picture of the camera to come up when the clicking sound starts. But I sense you have a problem with that. That is why Alrobin's way is likely best for you

Answer to this much-asked question is: No Sorry

For help on using the TIMELINE you might want to download Alrobin's PTE Tutorial 101. It is on page 3 of Beechbrook. here I am not sure what you want in terms of the .wav file. Are there to be no images on the screen, but you want the music to play ? Why a .wav file and not a MP3 ? I am not sure if you could play it using the "Run Action after last slide" on ADVANCED tab of Project Options, try it but I doubt it. Or you could merge the .wav file into the music for the show and have a black image on the screen after the last normal image. The other route is to add the .wav file under "Customize slide>MUSIC", that will cut the background music, but you still need time on the timeline to keep the show (ie the .wav file) going. I am sure others will have more thoughts

Joy: It is not possible within PTE, but if you do a search for "flash" using the search engine at the bottom right, you find references to using Flash to achieve what I think you want

Peggy: Welcome to PTE. Your issue has come up before and has several possible causes. If you are running the show from a CD, the communication between the CD and the CPU might not be fast enough. (I suspect you are running it from the C drive so this is likely not the issue.) It could be your image sizes are taking up too many CPU resources. Images should be maximum 200kb plus or minus. As a general rule use 800x600 if fading faster than 2 seconds, or 1024x764 if fading slower. Use quality 5 jpgs. It could be some transitions are too close to each other. The CPU needs a little space to breath between image transitions. I try to use half a second if I am squeezing images together, but I can sometimes get away with even less time. Hope that helps. Others will come along with further suggestions

DJ Welcome to PTE !! You will also get lots of help at the main PTE forum here This forum tends to deal with presentation on the Beechbrook site (which temporarily is down )

Bill: Thanks for your e-mail note to let us know what is going on. As per my posting on the main PTE forum, bandwidth issues aside, as we have said in the past, you should not hesitate to charge a fixed fee for posting shows on your site. There is no way you should be out of pocket for providing this great service for us all. Hopefully for your sake (and ours too ) you will resolve this soon.

As many likely already now, through a note from Bill, Beechbrook is temporairly off the air (see also posting in Presentations forum here ) Bill is hoping it is temporary and will be back up once he resolves bandwidth issues with his server owner. We have talked before about how Bill runs this site at his own personal expense. I hope the memebers who post their shows with Bill have been contributing towards the costs, and if this "hic cup" means that Bill will have to start to charge a fixed fee for posting then I am 100% behind that fee.

Michael: Welcome to the PTE forum !! Rooskidiver, another member of the forum, showed me how to add frames to my images, using PhotoShop. They are too lengthy to describe here and contain sample images, but send me an e-mail and I will send you the "recipe".

Igor: Happy New Year to you and your great team !!! As Al said, take a break every once and while--we need to catch our breath with all your improvments !!

Ron: Using the OBJECT EDITOR in the way you have is a great way to run shows. I have used it frequently, sometimes using small images from the shows as button/icons. We use it all the time when showing AV shows at our Camera Club. It is a great tool when providing several shows on a CD to friends/customers etc, use the autostart files which bring up the "launch page" for as many shows as want. If you are not using synched shows, you can do the same thing on any page within a show. I just did that with a complex show that is run manually, but has some 200 OBJECT Editors on over 100 pages. The links are to 106 AV shows, many of which are synched shows on their own. As you know we can now launch an application at the end of a synched show, so you can place a page such as yours at the end of a synched show if you need/want to. And best of all Igor is hoping to have OBJECTS soon that will stay in position regardless of screen resolution.

Sealion2 Best example of what you are looking for is "Olga Boritsch, photographer" on the Beechbrook site, page four. Click here

Fred: Sorry to hear you are suffering !!! Hey everyone !! Over 700 views, but only 49 posts ?? Let's get some more people "reporting in"

ngwb: Welcome to PTE, I am sure you will find it a great software. As with any software there are a few things that one needs to get sorted out and then all falls into place. I have not seen the message you received, but it sounds to me as though you have not put your music under the tab on the PROJECT OPTIONS which makes it the background music. (But you must have as you say you have been using the TIMELINE to synch. Maybe you have you have assigned music to the first image via the sound line at the bottom of the MAIN screen and/or on the MUSIC tab of CUSTOMIZE IMAGE. This might be interefering with the synchronization set up on the TIMELINE. However I am confused as to how, if you are using the timeline to synch, and previewing it using the timeline that it would not work when using the PREVIEW button on the MAIN page. SOrry if my answer is not cyrstal clear, but without a little more info that is all I can say. I know thereare other forum users who will likely have a better clearer reply then this. But if you could let us know where your music is "loaded" that might help us to help you. You might also want to downlaod and look at Alrobin's PTE tutorial as it might help you work through PTE initally. You can download it from here I belive it is on page two.

If I can expand on Ron's good advice - MP3 files, if you are concnerned with the size of it for e-mailing or downloading, I try to use 96-128kbps - Image size: --I don't worry about changing the dpi to 72, I just go with whatever it is (That is a whole other dialogue ) But I use 800x600 if using fades under 2-2.5 seconds and larger (1024x768) if using fades over 3 seconds. (I use the same size of image throughout). -- I "jpg" the images at quality 5, of whatever will keep the final image at 100-200kb

Hi Isabel: Yes there is away to do what you want. (I assume you mean you want to adjust the time of the images to the music, not the music itself) I am not sure how you are doing the timing right now, but it seems you are not using the TIMELINE. Here is what I do. (You can see the images transitioning in the right side of the TIMELINE) 1. I start to work on the PTE show, by loading in all the images (usually starting with a black one) and then using PROJECT OPTIONS > MAIN tab > I click on Synchronize slide show to music duration. 2. After setting the other PROJECT OPTIONS tabs the way you want, I click OK and then Save AS. (I always use SAVE AS/CREATE AS to make sure the right name and (sub)folder is being used) 3. Then I go back to PROJECT OPTIONS > MAIN tab > CUSTOM SYNCHRONIZATION > TIMED POINTS > ADD ARRANGED POINTS That spreads you images out evenly over the music duration. (Purists will enter each transition as they listen to the music, but I have a tin ear and tend to do it quickly via this method and then fine-tune the timings) 4. Then I adjust the timing of each slide both for time on screen, transition time and effect (via CUSTOMIZE SLIDE) Positioning an image in #4 is achieved by dragging the image using the small numbers below the TIMELINE to wherever you want it. A hint: When you start the show using the TIMELINE you hit PLAY, if you want to stop it to fine tune a slide timing, hit PAUSE and then you can click PLAY again and it start from where you stopped it. If you hit STOP, it restarts again at the first image. The positioning of where you are in the show is shown on the TIMELINE by the little blue triangle. You can click below the TIMELINE as the show is playing and that will re-position you to where you clicked. If you want to check the show with a larger image than the TIMELINE smaller image. You can use the PREVIEW button on the MAIN PAGE, which will start the show from slide one. Or using the little "slice of bread" in the bottom right of the image preview screen on the MAIN PAGE. Simply highlight, in the SLIDE LIST below the IMAGE PREVIEW, where you want the show to start and then click on that blue and white "Slice of bread" and the show will start full screen at that image for you to check the transitioning etc. I hope that helps

Bernard: Al's pte Adjustor will work well to sort the images for you without having to drag them around within the PTE screen. You can use it to re-arrange the sequence at any time. I tend to use an outside software (ThumbsPlus) to pre-sort the images as Ken suggests and re-number (automatically) them before loading them into PTE. (Of course I always make changes within PTE no matter how carefully I plan ahead. )

Steve: I just did a real quick check (there are lots of references to keep you occupied for a while ) look at: previous discussion Here is a software that I think was recommended along the way by someone. buttons

Steve: Welcome to PTE. I think you will find it a great software and lots of help at the forum (usually better than what I am about to say ) There was a discussion on this and several softwares suggested several months ago. You might want to try doing a search (bottom right corner) for buttons But I suspect someone who contributed at that time will come along and provide more definitive thoughts than me

Photo26: I am not into the DVD aspects, but there is a new PTE forum for those discussions at: PTE DVD forum You can find lots of info there and ask for any missing info

Great idea Bob! I am sitting here in Ottawa, the Capital of Canada (wishing our unseasonal rain would stop and we get to keep our snow ) Best wishes to all ! Jim Robertson

Bart: Good resource material. Must have taken you a while to put that together !!

Igor: Thanks for the fix re the mouse scroll wheel. It has been an eye-opener how many people absentmindly play with the wheel when they are watching shows on the computer !!

Igor: I would opt for version 2 or 3 I am not sure what the vertical parallel white bars on the left side of #2 are for. That seems to be the only difference between 2&3

Joyeux Noël Michel !! Merci pour votre aide, "thoughts" et contributions.