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Gary, I will try to answer in your terms. One step at a time? Firstly I am assuming Project Options of 10 seconds Slide Duration and 2 seconds Transition Time. You are adding a Video so KFSD should be TICKED to begin. With KFSD Ticked: If you add your video to the empty Slide View it will show as: [2;19.62] – Where the transition time is 2 seconds and the Slide Duration = the Video Duration (19.62). Now if you start again (again with KFSD ticked) and add two blank slides (in the Slide View) with the following settings: [2;10] [2;10] – Where the time between transitions for the first slide is 6 seconds and the second slide is 2 seconds transition followed by 8 seconds duration – see Timeline view. Now drop your Video into the space between the two blank slides and you will see the following: [2;10] [2;19.62] [2;10] The FSD of each slide is made up of THREE elements: [First Overlap/Transition; Time between Overlaps/Transitions; Second Overlap/Transition] In the case of your video that's [2;15.62; 2] You can now un-tick your KFSD and re-tick your KFSD as much as you want and it will always return to where you set it up first (Slide View): Ticked - [2;10] [2;19.62] [2;10] Un-Ticked - [2;8] [2;17.62] [2;10] Ticked - [2;10] [2;19.62] [2;10] Also, KFSD ticked will allow you to change the order of the slides and preserve the settings. Do we agree so far? This might be a good time to repeat what I have said previously - If you don't want your Video to overlap during transitions then you don't need KFSD - work with it Un-Ticked. KFSD is only necessary when you want your video (Main Object) to overlap with the previous and next slides (be they Video or still image) and also want that overlap to be maintained correctly when moving the position of the Video within the show. DG P.S. I have explained Modifying Transition Times in KFSD here: http://www.picturest...-times-in-v701/

gary it is late here and im on my kindle test 2 is correct go from there. fully understand ticked before switching in the same test PLEASE. i assure you that you will understand it better trying to help! dg

check out new tutorial. and stop switching between ticked and unticked it will not help you. test 2 is correct __ 19.62 includes two overlapping transitions if you dont want overlap use unticked start a test either ticked or unticked and stick with it. dg from ny kindle

If it is any help, I'm using AVG Free. Is it the same database? 2092/4591. DG

Ken, My AVG updated automatically to 4590 at 08:30 this morning. I forced a download after seeing your post at 12:15 and it's now 4591. How many times a day do they update? (!!!!!!). SG

Have you got the latest download? 2092/4590 DG

http://www.imgburn.com/ This might be OK? DG

No losses. If you cannot find anything else Creator/Toast will do it. But I'm not sure which you require - if it was created under a Windows environment do you need Creator? Will Toast burn any ISO file regardless of the platform it was created under? I don't know. There are programmes out there which will "play" the ISO to prove that it is properly created. Virtual DVD? As I suggested before, double click on the ISO - if you already have software to burn the ISO it will show itself. DG

Adding Video Clips to a Project with "Keep Full Slide Duration" 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 Default Slide Duration Time is overridden and the length of the video clip automatically becomes the (Full) Slide Duration. If multiple Videos are added to the Slide View then the Full Slide Duration for each video is the video time and the transitions automatically overlap (in this example, by 2 seconds). 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 minus the time "lost" due to the five overlapping transitions i.e. (6x10) – (5x2) = 50 seconds. Moving a video in the Slide View Let's now say that every video clip is of a different length and every transition time has been changed to a different value. Let's say that we want to move the second video clip to become the fifth video clip. When the second video clip is moved two things happen: The original third video clip now becomes the new second video clip and its transition time is applied as the overlap time between the original first video clip and the new second video clip The original second video clip now becomes the fifth video clip and its transition time becomes the overlap time between the original fourth video clip and the new fifth video clip The original overall show time is maintained. 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

Modifying Transition Times in PicturesToExe with "Keep Full Slide Duration" Ticked There are three ways of modifying Transition Times: In the Slide View using the Transition Time Box in the Slide Icon In the Slide View using the Customize Slide button In the Timeline View To see the true effect of modifying transition times in the Slide View it is necessary to go to the Timeline View, read the overall time and then return to the Slide View. Under certain circumstances the overall show time in the Mini-Player is not being updated and it is possible to see different values in the Timeline and the Mini-Player at the same time. The overall show time in the Mini-Player also shows timings without decimal places e.g. 15.999 seconds becomes 15 seconds. Using the Transition Time Box in the Slide Icon: Click in the Transition Time Box (in the Slide Icon) and modify the Transition Time. Increasing the Transition Time of a slide by this method will decrease the overall time of a show. Decreasing the Transition Time of a slide by this method will increase the overall time of a show. Reversing what has been done – returning the transition effect time back to its original value by the same method – will return the overall show time to its original value. Using Customise Slide: In the Slide View, click on a slide and click on Customize Slide. In the Effect Tab click on "Use own transition effect" and change the time in the Effect Duration box. Click OK and then click on timeline to see the effect on the overall show time. Increasing the transition time will decrease the overall time of the show. Decreasing the transition time will increase the overall time of a show. Reversing what has been done – returning the transition effect time back to its original value by the same method – will return the overall show time to its original value. Using the Timeline View: In the Timeline View the most obvious way to change a Transition Time is to click on the right side of the Gray Transition Time bar and drag to change its value. The effect of this is to change to Slide Duration of the previous slide (the Slide Duration being the time from the beginning of a slide to the end of the next slide's transition time). Increasing the transition time this way increases the Slide Duration of the previous slide. Decreasing the transition time this way decreases the Slide Duration of the previous slide. Changing the Transition Time this way in the Timeline has no effect on the overall time of the show. This method produces predictable but undesirable effects when applied to overlapping Videos. If the transition time is increased then the previous slide's video will stop before the overlap is complete and the incoming video has fully faded in. If the Customise Slide Button is used in the Timeline View the effect appears to be the same as when using the dragging method in the Timeline. DG

Have you got "Synchronise Music and Slides" in Project Options> Main TICKED? Do the Music Duration and End of Last Slide Markers line up at the end of the Timeline? Is your music file an MP3? How are you placing the slide on the "certain beat"? Are you using a transition or "Quick - No Transition"? DG

Harold, Re: Your "possible" bug. Consider this: When you drag a video into the Slide or Timeline view (I'm assuming "Keep Full Slide Duration" is ticked?) the slide duration is automatically set to the length of the video and an overlap with the previous and next slide is automatically set up. If you make any changes to the video with the "trimming" utility the changes made will make the Slide Duration no longer equal to the Video Duration. You now have to manually transfer the "new" Video Duration time to the Slide Duration to restore the correct relationship between your video and its previous and next slides. Altering the OFFSET further complicates the issue. I would suggest that a possible use for the "offset" would be when you have two videos in the same slide when the full slide duration time would equal the sum of the two individual slides. The second video would be offset to the first and an overlap between videos (by means of keyframes) would occur within a slide as opposed to the beginning and end. I asked Igor to consider a button to set the Video Duration equal to the Slide Duration (after adjustment) but I fear that it got lost in the furore over "Keep Full Slide Duration". DG

Colin, You'll have to explain more? Are you saying that the lower the refresh rate the more likely the monitor is to be able to cope with the conversion? I can't see where the 16 - 8 bit conversion comes into it? DG Wiki to the rescue: Display technologies Response time is the amount of time a pixel in an LCD monitor takes to go from one value to another and back again. It is measured in milliseconds (ms). Lower numbers mean faster transitions and therefore fewer visible image artifacts. Older monitors with long response times would create a smear or blur pattern around moving objects, making them unacceptable for moving video. Long response times can be annoying to a viewer depending on the type of data being displayed and how rapidly the image is changing or moving. Many current(which?) LCD monitor models have improved to the point that this is only seen with extreme contrasts. For an LCD display, typical response times are 8 to 16 ms for black-white-black, or 2 to 6ms for grey-to-grey. The response time was traditionally recorded at the full black > white transition, which became the ISO standard for this specification on LCDs. Grey transitions are far more common in practice but in terms of pixel latency, they remained significantly behind the ISO transition. In recent years there have been a wide range of Response Time Compensation (RTC) / overdrive technologies[2] introduced which have allowed panel manufacturers to significantly reduce grey transitions. Response times are now commonly quoted in "GTG" (alternately but less commonly "G2G," both meaning "grey-to-grey"[3]) or "GLRT" (meaning "Gray Level Response Time"[4]). There are various names used for RTC technologies, and these vary from one manufacturer to another. Terms such as ClearMotiv (Viewsonic), AMA (BenQ), MagicSpeed (Samsung) and ODC (LG/Philips) are widely used to identify RTC enabled displays. With a CRT the response times are much faster, and CRTs do not have the same problems with smearing or ghosting. The same is true for plasma displays. However, older CRTs and plasma displays can have problems with flicker at any refresh rate, and even newer ones can at refresh rates less than about 80Hz. LCD screens with a slow response time are often unsuitable to play fast paced computer games. A worst-case response time of <16ms is sufficient for video gaming, and the difference between response times once below 10ms begin to become hard to perceive due to limitations of the human eye. [5] [6] The pixel response time is often confused with the LCD input lag which adds another form of latency to pictures displayed by LCD screens. An LCD screen with high response time and significant input lag will not give satisfactory results when playing fast paced computer games or performing fast high accuracy operations on the screen (e.g. CAD). Manufacturers only state the response time of their displays and do not inform customers of the input lag value. To address input lag, some modern televisions will offer some sort of "gaming mode" where the TV passes the signal through with minimal processing to minimize any potential image lag.

Mike, It's the height of your Slide View that's causing the problem. Adjust it and you'll solve the problem. DG

Thanks Lin, Your catching Ken's penchant for linking! Anyway, the reason I asked was that I have tried to see what Barry and Peter are seeing and have failed. My monitor appears to be nothing special - an Iiyama B2403WS with a 2ms Response Time. I didn't particularly choose it for any other reason than that I have used a few Iiyamas and they have always been totally reliable and are colour correct straight out of the box. I would certainly get another one but I need to know, if and when I decide to get a new one, what I should be looking for (in another Iiyama). DG

Igor, IPS? DG

Mine is OK. Check VIEW > Timeline Options > Colour Of Waveform. Make sure that it is not WHITE? DG

Very professional - as expected. I liked the inclusion of the fire - presumably video?....or animation? DG

When you go to Publish> DVD Video Disc is your PTE file on the bottom horizontal bar? i.e. "1. Myshow.pte" Give us a step by step account? DG

Graham, A little more info required. Could I suggest that you e-mail Ronniebootwest and ask him to send one of his "How-To's" on burning a DVD / using PTE VideoBuilder? Or go here: http://www.learntomakeslideshows.net/ If that doesn't do the trick please get back to us? DG

In Slide view or the Timeline View highlight all of the slides which are effected. Click on Customise Slide and set slide duration (in Main Tab) to 6 seconds and in the EFFECT Tab click on "Use Own Transition Effect" and change the Effect Duration to 2 seconds. This should cure your problem. If you have "Keep Full Slide Duration" ticked and you are NOT inserting Video - UNTICK it - you don't need it. You can now adjust your slide durations and transition times as you require them making sure that you don't cause an overlap situation. DG

Open PTE Click on Help>About In V6.5 the CONTROL Tab was labelled ADVANCED. Can you post a screen shot of the TIMELINE showing the slides that you can highlight but not see in Preview. Your transition times are probably longer than the overall slide duration. DG

Ken, What we need now is someone on a MAC with pseudo Windows to try the same thing? DG

Further thoughts, I frequently exchange data with a friend who has a MAC. When trying to copy from his DVD to my PC Hard Drive I get a lot of "Cannot Read Source" or "The Filename, Directory Name, or Volume Label Syntax is incorrect" similar messages. This usually means that the file names on the DVD have characters in them which PCs don't like and once they are on the DVD they cannot be changed. My XP machine actually reads the original characters (" is one which causes a problem) but won't allow me to do anything with it. My Vista machine however, substitutes an "underscore" for the (") and allows full copying moving etc. My Vista machine will allow copying of a file with a semi-colon ( in the name but will not allow me to write that file to another disc. If I make an identically named folder on my HD I can sometimes drag the CONTENTS of the folder (which may have no obvious errors in the file name) from the DVD to the new folder on my HD. This indicates to me that there is a hidden problem with the folder's properties which involves "forbidden characters". Perhaps this is what you are experiencing in one form or another? DG

Seabird - tell us which version you have installed? The latest version is V7.0.1 DG