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Alternative. Add text to slide one / picture one. Make sure that the font / size etc is correct. Copy and paste slide nine times. Go to slide two - in O&A Properties, change picture one to picture two. Go two slide 3 and repeat etc. DG

Dave, What are the Details/ Memory of the laptop's graphics card? Integrated or shared? DG

I have given it a little more thought and posted a Template for doing it completely within PTE here: DG

In response to a recent request here's a method for putting a border on a mask within PTE. Unzip and open in PTE V7. Click on preview to run - Esc to stop. The width of both the Primary and Secondary Frames can be adjusted to suit in O&A > Size / Position in Pixels of Parent. DG Mask with Border.zip

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Correct Lin, But what you are suggesting would also alter the thickness of any "stroke" line or border on the Window giving a different thickness at the sides compared to the bottom/top? DG

Jerome, Your images are 3:2 and YOUR monitor is 5:4. Forget the 250 figure - it is irrelevant. My suggestion: Batch resize you images to 1800x1200 at an appropriate quality level. This will provide best quality on monitors up to 1920x1200 and reduce the file size of your show to a manageable level. You CAN use the originals but be prepared for a large file size and the POSSIBILITY of some hesitancy in transitions if your computer (or the viewer's computer) is "not up to it". In PROJECT OPTIONS set ASPECT RATIO 15:10 (3:2) and Size of slide to 1620x1200. Fixed Size...and Hardware Acceleration are best left ticked. Navigate to the folder containing your resized images and drag all of them into the Slide Panel and you have the basis of a show. Click on Preview (bottom left) to see the show from slide one. Click on the icon to the right of Preview to start from a selected slide. On your 5:4 monitor you will have black bars top and bottom. On a 16:9 or 16:10 monitor the lines will be to the sides. You can't avoid that. You create the EXE by going to PUBLISH and choose the EXE option. Come back if you want to refine the show? DG Edited: I'm not sure about your 4752X3168 images being 1.5Mb - that seems a low file size for that pixel dimension and might already have been compressed a bit (quality 8-9).

Jerome, Lin has given some great advice but what you are asking about is a big subject with no single answer. Lin mentioned NTSC so I guess that he might have some inside info about where you are? If you are in the UK substitute PAL for NTSC. If you are going down the DVD route you are almost certainly going to lose quality COMPARED TO THE EQUIVALENT PTE EXE SHOW. However you might not think that it is that big a deal. You have mentioned File size and Aspect Ratio but the other very important parameter is the resolution of your images and your screen resolution of YOUR monitor. To quote an example: Let's say that your images are 1024x768 or 1440x1080 (4:3). These will be reduced to 720x576 (PAL) to make the DVD and then interpolated back up to 1080 high to fit to your TV screen. Unless you have an intelligent Player /TV you might find that the 4:3 format will be STRETCHED to fit the TV width maintaing the TV height. Setting 4:3 aspect ratio on the TV will then be necessary. The two BEST options are the MP4 option on a memory key or card (1440x1080 in a 1920x1080 show for WS TV) providing that the TV is suitably equipped with a Media Player, or the PTE EXE file (1600x1200 4:3 to cater for most computer monitors). Give Lin some figures so that he can address your specific requirements. DG

Igor, Do you have an answer on this? DG

Ian, There has been a recent long discussion on this subject. If you want the same timing "structure" as V6.5 go to VIEW>Advanced Options and UNTICK Show and Keep Full Slide Duration. What you are seeing is correct but it includes both incoming and outgoing transition times in the Slide Panel Time. DG

Create a PNG "matte" in Photoshop and put a "stroke" line around the cutout. You could use this matte on ALL slides regardless of whether you apply any PZR. Make first slide with matte on top and copy as many times as necessay then just add your image as an object under the matte. OR, Drag all of your slides into the slide panel and then add the matte to the first and copy and paste (the matte) to all slides (or as required) by stepping through the slides in O&A. DG

if you are using the "avi video file" option the avi is only temporary. you need to use one of the other features. dg

It looks like the only answer is that Adobe product - what's it called?.................................. DG

Tom, Does iPod 2 support Executable File for Mac? If it does I could see a use for it (being 100% PC/Windows) but otherwise crossing platforms is a debatable issue. DG

I would definitely support both #1 and #2. DG

I THINK that I'm following this but if not I apologise. Rather than "delete 3 slides and introduce three new slides" would it not be easier to go to O&A / Properties and change the picture. I'm assuming that the slides involved are not complicated multi-object productions. DG

putting a blank slide between your "image skides" is a good way to fade to black between images. i have used it extensively over the last couple of years and always when hyperlinking between index page and images for single image competition use. dg

maybe i'm missing something. isn't that what VB does? add as many projects as required. dg

Put a short blank black slide in front of the one you are pointing at and it will fade in from black. DG

Add Button - fourth Icon from left in O&A. With button highlighted go to COMMON Tab in O&A and set the Action on Mouuse Click. In Customize Slide set Wait for Key Press (Right Arrow) - or configure mouse buttons. DG

Until someone who has greater knowledge of adding video chips in...... ....could you tell us what your options are set to for View>Advanced Options>Show Full Slide Duration and Keep Full Slide Duration? They should both be ticked. DG P.S. Have you tried a different video?

Fair comment Ken, So let's ask if he is using RAW or JPEG and what his future intentions are? DG

A consideration, not mentioned so far, would be that the application chosen needs to have a fully featured RAW Converter - preferably one which allows for recognition of in-camera settings - and also allow for those in-camera settings to be changed retrospectively. DG

Anthony, You must have either or both of the following options set: Windows default programme to open JPEGs (from Explorer etc) = PS PTE programme to Edit Images = PS If the option in PTE is set to use the Default I assume that it means the Windows Default? I suppose that you now need to look carefully at the ones that are not opening and see if there is a difference between those and the ones that will open. Please let us know? What happens in a completely new project? DG

Ah, Igor posted recently that he had mistakenly been using the same link for 6.5 and 7. I'll drop him a PM and ask if he can help. DG