davegee

https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/features.html DG

Igor, Let's say that Barry uses an image of an old broken down car as an Indexed Image to create/author his Style and renames it "Old Banger". When the USER now adds an image of his wife to the Slide List and applies Barry's Style then the image of the User's wife would be renamed "Old Banger". Highly inappropriate and totally irrelevant! Non-indexed images included in the Style would not have the same problem because Barry would rename any such images appropriately. DG

Methodology: Start a new Project and add a small rectangle with Zero Opacity. Add the Audio Clip to the Timeline and adjust volume, duration etc to suit the intended Style. Publish as an 800x600 AVI file. In the Project from which you want to create the Style: Add a "Separator for Background Objects". Right Click on the Separator and Add the AVI File. Create the Style.

If you REALLY want to create a Style with an Audio Clip Included - it could be a Camera Shutter noise, a Telephone ringing or maybe church bells in the background etc etc etc - this is one way of doing it. I have just used a short clip of the first music track that came along. Be aware that including Audio in a Style this way COULD be quite costly in terms of file size. I am in the camp which sees only problems for Styles with Audio - they cannot (with this method) be interchanged or edited. I am pretty sure that someone will be along any moment with a different (better) way of doing it - he/she usually does - but I have used this method and it works OK for me. But if he/she has a different (better) way, I surely wish that he/she would have posted it first? Zoom and Audio.ptestyle DG

Old habits die hard...

First, you need to learn to split your video into "sections" along the Timeline. Add the video to the slide list and adjust its duration as required. Then, in Objects and Animation / Properties change "Single Video Clip" to "Master Video Track". Add the Video Clip again and this time set its properties to "Link to (the Master Video Track)" and set a duration as required. Do this as many times as you require. The result is that the Video will play seamlessly over the number of slides you have created. You can then add images and/or text to the individual slides in Objects and Animation. Durations of the slides can be adjusted at any time.

Depending on your graphics card, your MBA "might" support the hd resolution of the projector but the mba screen would be disabled. You can only check it by trying it out. If you connect the output of the mba to a hd monitor it would give a good indication of what is possible. Most pc laptops that I have had are capable of outputting at a higher resolution than their display resolution. You would need to be able to patch the output with a lead with a HDMI connector on the remote end. One of the Mac users here might offer more advice along these lines. DG P.S. Your images only need to be the same resolution as your output device i.e. The projector plus any allowances for zooming etc but you should pay little or no penalty if they are bigger other than putting unnecessary strain on the processor.

When I said "is it repeatable" I meant can you list a step or steps which will bring on the error every time? That would give Igor something to work on (along with the details of your system). DG

A "Backup In Zip" is a Template in a Zipped Folder. If the "Backup" is for your own system and is not going to be sent to someone via an Internet Upload then why Zip it? Create a Template via File/Templates and the resulting folder can be transferred to another PC without the need for Zipping and all of the potential for problems that goes with it. DG

Is it random or is it repeatable?

You post it in Troubleshooting and, if it is repeatable, you list the steps which you take to produce the error so that Igor can investigate.

I believe that Igor is already planning a different approach for Styles in Version 10. I have been asking for a more "additive" approach for a loooong time where certain features of a slide are left unaltered while others can be edited by the Style. It would be switchable, of course. Making a "new" style compatible with older styles might be a problem?

Easy peasy - and good quality. Thanks IGOR. Lots of help on Youtube. DG

When I decompress a BIZ (using right click - EXTRACT ALL) and open the .pte file the images are accessed from the NEW LOCATION i.e. the Extracted Folder. DG

Igor, While I have no "objection" to this being implemented (I don't HAVE to use it - others can) it seems to me to be unwise to allow ALL image names to be changed and included in the Style. Non-Indexed Images - yes. Indexed Images - no. DG

Start here: https://docs.picturestoexe.com/en-us/9.0/slide-styles/create DG

Added Alternative versions of "By Row", "By Column" and "Diagonally" Jigsaw Styles. DG

Jigsaw 16x9 by Column.ptestyle Jigsaw 16x9 by Column alt.ptestyle Jigsaw 16x9 by Row.ptestyle Jigsaw 16x9 by Row Alt.ptestyle Jigsaw 16x9 Diagonally.ptestyle Jigsaw 16x9 Diagonally Alt.ptestyle Jigsaw 16x9 Random.ptestyle Jigsaw "Random" Demo: Jigsaw Demo.zip

Peter, I get the same result as you. If you look at the properties of the MP4 it indicates that the frame rate is 3fps?? When I play the MP4 it just staggers along as though that indication is correct. Has it been through another conversion process at any time? If you are sure that it is the original straight out of camera then maybe you should suspect tat the camera had a little hiccup. More detail?? DG

Ray, I THINK that your problem might be the same as mine. If you have a HP with Integrated Graphics i.e. an Intel Card and an nVidea card the problem lies with HP. They modified the Driver for the nVidea card (or both) so any update for this problem would have to come from HP - not nVidea. DG

As I said above - delete the converted copy and try again. If it is still the same please post the DropBox Link? DG

Peter, Can you make the mp4 available for someone to take a look at it? When you converted the mp4 in pte what modifications, if any, did you make? I have been using the converter in pte regularly, as have others, with no problems, so I don't think that the converter is the problem. Did you trim it etc? DG

Something seems to have gone wrong during the conversion. Try deleting the converted file in Explorer. Right click on the original in PTE and then convert WITHOUT modification. Wait for the converter to finish. Does the thumbnail of the converted file now look like the thumbnail of the original? DG