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ken, i think that he might have thought that you were shouting at him? dg

Jean-Cyprien, Xaver, What you ask is not unreasonable. DG

I think that it is relevant to the discussion here. I think that having seperate forums for each language might be a problem for Igor. If someone who is German speaking were prepared to take on the responsibility of acting as the go-between (moderator) for any conversations with Igor (in Russian or English) then a German section might be possible. The same then applies to French, Spanish, etc. DG

Xaver, Are you telling us that M.Objects , Aquasoft or Magix have multilingual Forums? DG

Your project will be resized down to 720x405 to make the DVD and when played on the HD TV the 720x405 show will be interpolated up to 1920x1080 (on the TV). You will (I think) lose around 10% of the images due to TV safe zone. If your TV has a USB Socket and a Media Player you would get a MUCH better result by making a 1920x1080 MPEG4 and playing that via a USB Memory Key. DG

John, Can you explain in a little more detail? Does he mean the Navigation Bar? There is an Auto Hide Option in the Customize Nav Bar window - should default to 3 seconds. DG

Thanks Igor, I confirm that the minimum transition time that it is possible to set by DRAGGING in the timeline is now 0.1 seconds. Shorter times must be set via CUSTOMIZE SLIDE. DG

Thank you, Robert. DG

you should also consider that a 3:2 show on an hd tv COULD be distorted in some cases. short fat people. dg

Mary, Presumably, you have a 1080 or 1200 High Monitor? Make your show either 1620x1080 or 1800x1200 (3:2) and you'll have the best of both worlds. You mentioned 1024x768 - if your monitor is that size make your show 1024x682 (3:2'ish). Whichever you choose you can go for maximum quality in the EXE before letting PTE reduce everything to the lowest common denominator by making a DVD of it. Consider this: If you know that it is going to someone with a (newish) HDTV try making a 1620x1080 H264 MPEG4 and offering that on a memory key. Maximum quality. DG

Whatever project size you use, if you make a standard DVD it is going to be interpolated down to 720x576 (PAL) to make the DVD. You need to set TV Safe zone (% of slide to show main images) to about 90% in Project Options > More and click Set For Existing Slides. You also need to UNTICK "Fixed Size of Slide" in Project Options > Screen. DG

Adding Video Clips to a Project with “Keep Full Slide Duration” Un-Ticked Video Clips can be added to the project in two ways: Right click on a single Video Clip or a group of video clips and “Add Selected Files to Project” Drag and drop video clips into the Slide View In Project Options you will have set your Default Slide Duration to, for instance, 10 seconds and your transition time to, for instance, 2 seconds. When a video clip is added to the Slide View the Slide Duration Time is overridden, its transition time is set to 2 seconds and the length of the video clip automatically becomes the Slide Duration. If multiple Video Clips are added to the Slide View then the Slide Duration for each video clip is the video time. In the case of two consecutive Video Clips the first will finish and its last frame will remain on screen during the next slides transition time. Let’s say that 6 videos are added by dragging and dropping and that the video clips are each of 10 seconds duration. The overall show time will be the total duration of the six videos (60 seconds). In some cases it might be required to delay the start of a video clip until after its transition has elapsed. This can be done by entering O&A>Properties and adjusting the OFFSET of the Video Clip to be equal to the transition time. To prevent the video clip overlapping with the next slide’s transition the offset time should be added to the Video Slide Duration. Example: Three Video Clips or a combination of Video Clips and Images: [2:10] [2:10] [2:10] – [Transition Time: Slide Duration] To make the video clip in slide 2 start after its transition time set offset for slide 2 to 2 seconds and add 2 seconds to its duration: [2:10] [2:12] [2:10] DG For more information please go to the Online Help and search on "Video" or "Slide Duration" or "Full Slide Duration" etc: http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en/main

I have always promoted PTE for presenting Digital Images in Competition. For personal use I find it ideal for presenting my work and one day I hope to be as good as some of the people here at the true Audio Visual, story telling aspect. DG

I got it as well Colin. DG

How far are you prepared to travel? DG

I'm guessing that you are right but need to draw on the collective knowledge here in case there is something we have missed. Is there another element which would have an effect? What about VGA vs DVI vs HDMI..... etc DG

Does a larger monitor put more "strain" on a graphics card than a smaller monitor (same resolution)? Does a larger resolution put more "strain" on a graphics card than a smaller resolution (same monitor size)? DG

In addition you can add "delay" effects (multi-head tape echo) - the possibilities aren't exactly endless but I don't think that we have truly explored the depths of this useful utility yet! DG

Just picking up on what Lin mentioned. I have added (as a trial) in excess of 100 tracks in the Project Options>Music section and could have added more. When you consider that you can go to Project Options, make or tweak an adjustment in any one of those 100 plus tracks, record a spoken commentary and/or comment, play it to check what you have done and have it update in your project immediately without leaving PTE you have a pretty powerfull tool with which to work. Renaming each of the tracks is possible to make each one easily identifiable. DG

With respect Ken, Igor has already addressed this requirement and it is available to you. In O&A> Properties set OFFSET equal to transition time and add that to the video slide duration. Changes made in the O&A Properties and/or the "Trimming Utility" are not yet automatically reflected in the Slide Duration Time. I have asked Igor to consider this. However, good luck with your request. DG

I am very sure the slideshow was started with KFSD unticked. I was just curious to see what would happen if it were ticked. I did this because of your two postings on this subject. Somewhere along this process, it stuck on 17.62. If you had started it with KFSD Ticked you would be able to go back and forth without problems as long as you did nothing else. Yes, I read about that (changing transition times) but I did not change a transition time to be greater than the slide duration. That was just another example of how things can go wrong if you excede the limitations. I didn't think that you had done that. You have to be extremely careful when you open and close and open to be sure where the KFSD is when you open. Choose your weapon and stick with it. Good luck, DG

You might be right, but after going through a tick/untick session, the duration for 'unticked' went to 17.26 and should have been 19.26. Nothing I tried could bring it back to the 19.26, except deleting it and drag/drop it back into the Slide View. You'll have to give me a detailed step by step on that - did you start by droppinhg the video in with KFSD Ticked? That did not even cross my mind. It worked. Thanks.... But there must be something not working correctly in PTE because I would think it would be able to recalculate it back to the proper setting once you set it back to unticked. Not if you did something which the programme considered illogical. Details again? I could give you another sample of something which "won't recover" but it goes beyond the logic of the programme. See the bit about inadvertently setting a transition time greater than slide duration in the Modifying.... Tutorial. When you say 'overlap', I am not sure what you are referring to. Do you mean fade-in/out? When I use fade-in/out and drop in a video, it works just fine when KFSD is unticked. Thanks. Gary When you drop a video in between two slides with KFSD ticked the previous slide will fade out when the video starts to play and create a 2 sec (in your case) overlap transition. If the previous slide were also a video then you would see two moving videos fading one into the other - both moving. At the end of the video you would see exactly the same thing - two moving videos fading one into the other. If you were to move this video to another position in between two different videos with different transition times the correct overlap transition would be created with neither video stopping before the fades are completed. DG

Peter, Are you ABSOLUTELY sure that the facility provided by KFSD can be done in another way? The criteria is this: With KFSD you can drop a video into the slide view and it automatically creates a slide of the correct length with an overlap transition on both ends governed by the transition setting in Project Options and the transition time of the following slide. You can then move that Video to anywhere in the show (via the Slide View) and it will maintain its relationship with the two slides it is placed between without having to manually adjust the transition times. In other words it will carry its own transition time with it and adopt the transition time of the following slide (automatically). Remember that we are talking about Video with OVERLAP transitions. DG

Gary, I want to see the actual length of the video in the Slide View (19.62). Forgive me, but I don't know what is going wrong. Whenever I drag and drop a video into the Slide View it does exactly what you are asking for whether I use KFSD Ticked or Un-Ticked. Peter made the comment to not touch the KFSD once it has been selected for the project. If this is true, then the KFSD is really in the wrong place .... Peter and I have both seperately made this point to Igor and to date Igor chooses to either ignore the request or does not understand what we are proposing. Right now, the video for my slideshow now shows a duration of 17.62 (when it originally showed 19.62). I have the KFSD unticked and I can not get it to go back to the 'normal' setting that I want it to be...19.62 by ticking or unticking anyting. I can delete the video and drag/drop it into the slideshow again and it will show 19.62, but this does not make any sense that that is what I have to do to get it back to what I consider the correct duration that I want to see, especially if the slide with the video is a complicated slide. Put your cursor in the box saying 17.62 and change it to 19.62? Two possibilities: Start your show with KFSD Ticked and add your video. Turn KFSD off and work with it unticked. Only turn it back on if you need to modify or move the video. Or, with KFSD turned Off, add your video as an object to a blank slide in O&A and manually adjust your Slide Duration to suit - 19.62 including the 2 second transition (or no transition). My personal preference would be to have the video overlap with other slides and images and therefore I would use KFSD Ticked. DG P.S. One other thing I should mention - If you decide to use the Video Trimming Utility in O&A Properties you will need to read the Video Duration figure and enter that manually as the Slide Duration for your video slide. It will not update Automatically (this has also been asked for).

FURTHER EXPLANATION OF DIFFERENCES WHEN ADDING VIDEO KFSD on Vs KFSD off If your 19.62 second video is added between two existing slides with KFSD Un-Ticked then the 19.62 second Slide Duration is measured from the beginning of the VideoTransition to the BEGINNING of the next slide's transition time. (No Overlap). Two elements - Transition Time and Video = [2;17.62] = 19.62 If your 19.62 second video is added between two existing slides with KFSD Ticked then the 19.62 second Slide Duration is measured from the beginning of the Video Transition to the END of the next slide's transition time. (Overlap). Three elements - Transition Time - Video - Transition Time = [2;15.62;2] = 19.62 Changing from Un-Ticked to Ticked will not create the Overlap Transition which is automatically applied when adding the video with KFSD Ticked. DG