davegee

"It is not a bug. Same behaviour exists when you are setting width/height for a windowed slideshow. We assign width/height for internal client area of a startup window, excluding border and caption of this window. If we will set width/height for whole window (with border and caption) it will cause serious problem - appearing of black strips arround slide - because thickness of caption and border of a window are different on each PC depending on version of Windows and used graphical theme (Classical, XP, Aero). If you need to have fullscreen startup window please consider using of first slide as some kind of a startup window?" OK to that - but the Startup Window fits to the HEIGHT of my 1920x1200 screen with a gap at each side. See screen shot. Regarding the "flash" - if I start a Preview from a Project it flashes to the Project screen. DaveG

GGARD, You could try installing 5.7.2 and trying that (save project as DIFFERENT NAME IN 5.7.2!). If it is still the same, post a query to Igor in the 5.7 thread - explain the problem and that it also happens to you in 5.6. DaveG

Jandis, My suggestion is to not make DVDs. If you MUST make DVDs then the loss of quality is inevitable. The OPTIMUM resolution is the NATIVE RESOLUTION of your computer monitor. Then connect your computer/laptop to your TV (preferably via HDMI or DVI as Ken indicated). DaveG

Igor, Bug in startup window? Entering 1920x1200 produces a startup window which is roughly 1860x1200. I have to enter 1960x1200 to get window to fill 1920 width of screen. DaveG P.S. It is also annoying that the desktop flashes between startup window and preview start. Can anything be done about this? P.P.S 5.6 show now opens correctly with screen options recognised.

The reason for this is that you are reducing the 1024x768 images to 720x576 (or 720x480) to make the DVD and then upscaling them to the resolution of your TV. Worse case scenario: From 1024x768 down to 720x576 and back up to 1080 high. It's inevitable! If you connect your PC/laptop to your TV and play the Preview or EXE then the downscaling does not occur. DaveG

Hi Barry, I can only repeat what I have already said about portability (perhaps elsewhere) - two ladies carted one (Optoma) all over the Principality with no complaiints about weight or other issues. I can personally vouch for the quality of the images. HDMI is used for connection. I know that a member of our CC has bought his own 1920x1080 setup with a Sony 1920x1080 laptop and has demonstrated Photoshop at an RPS event using it. I can put you in touch with him on a personal basis - he is not a member of this forum. We are expecting delivery of our CC's projector (EPSON) in time for the September resumption and I would be able to give you more info at that time. I suspect that your needs are more pressing? DaveG

If you are using the TV representation of your DVD as a guide then it is possible that your TV is set to something like VIVID or similar which does not suit the purpose. Experiment with the different settings and you might find a more suitable one? Regarding HD Video application do you have PTE Deluxe? What size MPEG4 are you trying to produce and what are your system resources? DaveG

Hi Barry, I know of at least two PTE experts who are using 1920x1080 projectors. One is IGOR. The other has either not read your post or has chosen not to reply. I can only speak from the experience of using using one (not my own) and I can't remember what your specific question was? DaveG

Igor, Is there any good reason why the start up window cannot be the same size as the project window i.e. in my case 1920x1200? (At present it is limited to 1200x100). This would probably be an advantage to AVers who want to hide the desktop while talking about the show to an audience. DaveG

Congratulations Igor and team! When I opened an EXISTING (16:10) project in 5.7B1 the PROJECT OPTIONS regarding SCREEN were not recognised. The project was opened with the default screen options (4:3). DaveG Edit: If the project is saved from 5.7 and PTE 5.7 is closed and re-opened the last saved 5.7 version opens correctly with all options recognised.

Hi Lin, Agreed - it was one of a number of suggestions made at the time when no one else was responding. I didn't seriously think it would do anything but anything is worth trying. I repeated it because I think he misunderstood. DaveG

"I'm saving it at the minimum size needed to cover the pan for the projection resolution. I am also saving it as a very high quality JPEG. It is 1.4MB in size". That was my point - try same res and lower quality? DaveG

I think that the important thing is that we can, by one method or the other, now watch PTE shows at 1920x1080 resolution without the upsizing that takes place via DVD. DaveG

Fried, Try constructing an EXE which has ONLY the panned slide in it. That will bring the file size down to something that you could e-mail (or use MediaFire). If it still glitches then others could try it and give you an opinion. What quality is the panorama JPEG? Will it work better if you reduce the quality? Do you have anti-virus/firewall running? Have you tried turning them off temporarily? There is a utility called "Enditall" which sometimes helps. When did you last defrag your C drive? Details of system and graphics card would help. DaveG

Hi Geoff, I have heard good things about the WD unit. My observations were that (to take a particular example) one of my 1920x1080 EXE files is 200Mb and its corresponding MPEG4 file is 1.2Gb. To quote Igor: The EXE file is the Highest Quality option available from PTE. So my logic at the time was that it required 6 times more storage space to play something which is of lesser quality. For those who have a laptop which is capable of being connected to a HD TV by HDMI the EXE wins every time. But, of course I am only comparing the EXE with its MPEG4 file. The WD unit, as you rightly point out, does other things besides playing MPEG4. If only it would play EXE files! DaveG

Colin, Firstly with regard to your figures. Yes, HDTV is commonly thought to be 1920x1080 but the truth is, as I said above, LCD TVs are being sold with the "HD Ready" and "HDTV" stickers which are, in fact, only 1366x768. As a general rule of thumb TVs around 26"-30" (and smaller) could be at the lower resolution. The aspect ratio is 16:9 but the actual resolution is not always 1920x1080. It is worth checking the TV manual to see what the actual resolution is. A minor point: the D300 resolution is 4288x2848 (3:2) and I think that the OP wanted to maintain that AR and "crop in camera". As you rightly point out, shooting a little bit more than you think you might need is probably the way forward for AV purposes if your intention is to show in a 16:9 AR. DaveG

Your pixel size at the end of the zoom needs to be the same as your screen resolution i.e. if your screen res is 1024x768 and your logo is going to fill the screen it needs to be either 1024 wide or 768 high (100%). The fact that you are having to use 200% is leading to the pixilation. If you are zooming further then you need a bigger image. You would probably be better off with a JPEG unless you are using a transparent GIF. DaveG

Geoff, If you don't want to post process you have two alternatives: Either crop the top and/or bottom of the 3:2 frame (in PTE) or use the 3:2 frame as is (with black areas at the sides). With all of the pixels that most of us have at our disposal these days I find it easier to allow just a little extra unwanted material in the image and crop/resize to 1920x1080 (or 1920x1280) in NX2 or PS. Getting it right in camera is great but that means that you are stuck with a 3:2 image to work with. The 16:9 format is not that much wider than 3:2 and I find that it is easy to lose a little sky and/or foreground in a landscape image. Cropping/resizing to 1920x1280 and adjusting (moving) up or down in PTE is a compromise. There is no single answer. Then there is the question of how to get from computer to TV. Using a suitably equipped PC/laptop connected via HDMI (or DVI and audio leads) is probably the ultimate in quality and DVD is probably the worst option. BluRay is somewhere in the middle there (near the top). Then there is the question of TV resolution. Not all "HD Ready" TVs are 1920x1080. Up to around 26"-30" they are more likely to be 1366x768 or similar. Checking the TV manual is advisable. DaveG

Try my suggestion above - use a screen shot of your desktop. DaveG

If the original opening transition was one which opened from desktop that's the reason. If you still have the EXE that will still do it. If you open up in the version of PTE which youy used to create it - that will also do it for you. (Typing together again). DaveG

You're thinking of the feature in earlier versions which allowed you to start the first transition from the desktop. It was dropped - Ken will tell you when - and is no longer available. DaveG

If your FIRST slide were to be a screen shot of your desktop then it would be easy to bring a black "curtain" down over it. It would work on your desktop but would not work if the show were sent to someone else. DaveG

Dave, You can create shows in PTE at the 1920x1080 resolution of your HD TV. For absolute best performance the PC/Laptop needs to be connected to the TV via HDMI (or DVI and audio leads). On my SONY TV the VGA input will not allow FULL 1920x1080 resolution - I don't know if this applies to ALL Sony HD TVs. Also the VGA picture on an HD TV is nowhere near the quality available via HDMI. When connected to the TV via HDMI you will need to set the resolution of your laptop to 1920x1080 and your laptop screen will close down. This is because the laptop will not be able to handle both the 1920x1080 resolution and your laptop's resolution at the same time. This is my normal mode of operation and next to displaying your show on a colour corrected 1920x1080 (or 1920x1200) monitor connected to your PC is the best quality you will get. You might have to play around with the colour settings/modes on the TV to get the picture that suits you. DaveG

With your template open copy the ten slides by highlighting them and using Ctrl C. Don't close this show. Go to file / Open and open the show you wish to paste into. Highlight the slide that you wish to paste next to and use Ctrl V. The secret is in NOT closing the donor show - if you do you will lose the clipboard contents. The pasted slides will take on the Project Options settings of the recipient show. DaveG

Maybe it is a fair assumption that when 5.7 Beta 1 is released then 5.6.x will be the final issue? DaveG