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Peter, I'm hoping that Igor is working on this V7.0.1 bug while AVG are working on theirs. Just as AVG would sit up and take notice when more and more people declare problems I think the same goes for Igor. You don't have to Publish to see this bug and V7.0.1 can be installed without overwriting V7. Igor also wants feedback on his proposed new options which I am (at present) in favour) of. He hasn't been around much lately. DG

Lack of response could mean that Jill and I are the only ones seeing this? Or is it that Jill and I are the only ones to have installed V7.0.1? DG

Peter, Link not working. You mean this one: DG

I prepared a 1Mb EXE specifically to send to AVG but it failed to send. DG

Mick, Can you make a single image EXE and send that? DG

There appears to be a bug in PTE V7.0.1 whereby on opening the programme it looks OK and the "Keep Full Duration of Slide" tickbox is UNTICKED. If you (without doing anything else) click on VIEW in the MENU the tickbox immediately becomes TICKED. Closing PTE and restarting usually cures the problem and the next time it opens clicking on VIEW does nothing other than open the View Menu. It then (in my case) operates the way that Igor describes. One other person (Jill Kb has seen this behaviour (I'm seeing it on a Vista Laptop - Jill's on an XP M/C). If you can add anything to this please add your experiences here? Positive and negative replies welcomed. Also, IGOR posted V7.0.1 in two posts - thinking that they were different Betas I installed both, with the second one overwriting the first. The current Beta is here: http://www.picturest...dpost__p__89111 Please read the thread to the end - Jill appears to be getting additional problems that I am not seeing. Thanks, DG

Jill, One at atime. I tried your first example. When I opened PTE I got the problem with the Box becoming ticked when I clicked on View so I restarted PTE. OK second time. I duplicated your figures and got 2/7, 2/7, 2/7. Switched to timeline and got 2/7, 2/7, 2/7. Overall time=21 secs. I can't explain it. One thing though - Igor has (I think) put out TWO V7.0.1 Betas - have you got the most recent? DG

Jill, Thanks for the confirmation of weird behaviour. I'll ask Igor what he thinks. You didn't comment on the 3.5 / 4 /3.5 explanation that I gave you? As to the reason for the new timings, all I can say is that I remember someone having a problem with inserting a video and it was stopping incorrectly. Igor saw the new timing system as the only answer to that problem. Like you I don't claim to understand the reason for it, but I think that I understand how the new system works. NOW, Can you give me a single example of the unpredictable result you are getting when moving slides so that we can talk about that? DG Predictability: Example – moving slide 8 to become the new slide 2. With KEEP FULL SLIDE DURATION ticked. If you move the slide then the following circumstances are PREDICTABLE. The incoming transition of original slide 8 (new slide 2) will become the outgoing transition of slide 1. (Slide 1 will maintain its original incoming transition time and overall duration which will now include the incoming transition time of the new slide 2/ old slide 8) The new slide 2 (old slide 8) will maintain its original incoming transition and duration but its outgoing transition will be the incoming transition of the original slide 2 (new slide 3). The new slide 8 (old slide 7) will now maintain its original incoming transition time and duration but its outgoing transition will be the incoming transition of the original slide 9. (If the original slide 8 was the original last slide then the original slide 7 will now become the last slide (slide 8) and therefore have no outgoing transition time). Please remember that this is not written in support of the new V7 timings but rather as an explanation of how it works. DG

Daniel, You said: "new problems : - open a new project - option unticked - drag and drop 3 slides - 2/7 2/7 2/7 - Via project options I specify new values 4/9 it comes - 4/9 4/9 4/9 then I've ticked the option, it comes : - 4/5 4/5 4/9 That is OK except that the slide duration indicated in the Customize Slide window is not in line with the slide duration specified in Project Options which is not logical and will be misleading" I took this to mean that you changed the status of the "Keep Full Slide Duration" during your trial project. DG

Jill, Try something for me? Close computer and rstart. Open PTE (7.0.1) - add a few slides - make some changes (Keep Full Slide Duration unticked) - click on VIEW and watch what happens to the "Keep Full Slide Duration" tick box. SOMETIMES when I click on VIEW the "Keep Full Slide Duration" goes from unticked to ticked. Close PTE and re-open and then it runs as expected. That was the WIERD circumstance that I had this morning and I have managed to recreate it. It is as though it needs to be opened - closed - restarted before it will run properly? Your 3.5 / 4 / 3.5 is unrealistic - the duration MUST be longer than the transition in the V7.0.1 format otherwise you don't get any duration. The slide time MUST include two transition times and your transition times added together are greater than the slide duration. 3.5 / 8 / 3.5 will give you 1 second between transitions. DG

Peter, I tried that lat evening and agree. That's possibly the nature of a false positive? DG

Daniel, I believe that the intended use for the KEEP FULL SLIDE DURATION option is that you start a new project with one or the other option and DO NOT ALTER IT! Why would you alter it? By altering it you are CREATING a logic problem. DG

I had a wierd situation earlier this morning where things were different to the way they were last evening. However, I have closed PTE and re-opened and now can't replicate the "problem". When I start a new project with "KEEP FULL SLIDE DURATION" unticked and settings of 8 sec duration and 1.5 sec transition I get the "standard" V6,5 configuration where 6 slides = 48 seconds and only one transition is included per 8 sec slide. When I start a new project with "KEEP FULL SLIDE DURATION" ticked and settings of 8 sec duration and 1.5 sec transition I get the V7 configuration where 6 slides = 40.5 seconds and both transitions are included per 8 sec slide. If I now go to Customize slide and ask for 8 sec duration and no transition, that's what I get - 6 slides = 48 sec. Sorry for the confusion above. Previous advice still holds ( I think!!) - DO NOT change the status of the "Keep Full Slide Duration" mid stream - it should be either OFF or ON depending on your project. DG

Peter, Igor suggests that we report it to speed things up. Never done that. HOW? DG

Jill, It was late last evening and I have now tried it again. Something is NOT right. It will take me a while to sort out just what is not right but when I checked again this morning the aspect that concerned me (the timing anomaly) has been corrected. In a 1.5 / 5 / 1.5 situation, when I ask for 8 sec duration and no transition, that's what I get. DG

I made a C drive backup image before updating to AVG 2012 so I could go back to that but if it only takes a day or two as Igor suggests, I can wait. My desktop machine is not affected. DG

Jill, I'm not quite sure what you are seeing but when I open the new Beta the two "Timed Points" options are unticked and it behaves as per V6.5. With both options ticked it behaves as per V7.0.0. BUT when I change a group of slides in Customise Slide it now behaves EXACTLY as I would expect - If I ask for three slides of 8 seconds with no transition, that's what I get. DG

Igor, I don't really understand how one file can show this Trojan Horse and others (in the same folder) don't? How can I check this particular file? DG

Hi Guys, Advice please? I downloaded a file sent to me by a friend via MEDIAFIRE (OH how I hate that site!!!!!!!!). AVG immediately threw up an alert - see below. Since it only happens with the one EXE file do I assume that it is a genuine alert? - I don't get this sort of problem so I'm seeking advice before doing anything. Thanks, DG

or you could build the single (long) slide to suit the text and fade the various images in and out via keyframes. probably the easiest option of all! dg

Tom, You have just given me one H**L of a good reason to update my HDD RECORDER! Since getting SKY HD+ I haven't had a lot of call to use my HDD recorder but I'm still transferring VHS to DVD (long term project) and will get a lot of use from it. A Freeview equipped model would be another string to my kettle. DG

There is a POSSIBLE lo-tech approach that might work. My laptop has an s-video output. My HDD DVD Recorder has an s-video input. Theoretically I could connect the two and record the output from my laptop and convert it to DVD. I haven't tried it - I don't know what the resulting quality would be. For all of my other inputs to the HDD Recorder there is no loss when recording at maximum quality so I would expect that a good result is possible. DG

Using memory sticks would improve the quality but perhaps there is more to it than you realise. You could add both the PTE EXE file and an MPEG4 file to a stick for maximum versatility. The PTE EXE (at 1920x1080) is playable on a Computer and would have to be played either on the computer's monitor or be connected to the TV (VIA HDMI) to acheive max quality. Playing into the TV via VGA connection would bring you back down in quality (analogue vs digital albeit at a higher resolution). To play the MPEG4 into the TV via a memory stick the TV must be equipped with a Media Player. That is almost indistinguishable from the EXE via HDMI (at the same resolution). On the TEXT question - if you want to explore using Microsoft products (and POSSIBLY Open Office) your best option is to use POWERPOINT (or equivalent) which will export as either JPEG or PNG. I would suggest that you need the PNG version for use in PTE. The transparency will allow you to lay the text over your images. Having created the PNGs in POWERPOINT you could refine them in Photoshop using the layer BLENDING OPTIONS. I haven't tried this in a LONG time but it has worked for me in the past. DG

Igor, I think that the new slide duration conception introduced in v7.0 needs to be ONLY possible where video is inserted. If there is NO video it needs to DEFAULT to the old time mode of slide duration (as in version 6.5). This would avoid the anomalies seen when mutiple slide timings are changed in Customise Slide (with the current V7 slide duration concept). DG P.S. Your changes and/or bug fixes in V7.0.1 have not cured the problem. Initial settings 1.5 seconds Transition / 8 seconds duration. Time line shows correctly. I ask for the first three slides to be changed to 8 seconds with NO Transition (in Customise Slide) and I get 6.5 seconds duration. This is the same as before.