Lin Evans

Cool Jan! Thanks! Lin

Hi Igor, I agree with all the above suggestions as potential improvements and especially with MUR that expanding the view of the keyframes on the timeline would be very helpful in many cases. Presently, when keyframes are very close to one another, I find it difficult or actually impossible to move a keyframe a short distance by dragging because it "jumps" to coincide with an adjacent keyframe which creates an illogical situation - thus an error. The only way I've been able to move a keyframe which is very close to the adjacent keyframe a tiny distance closer is to manually enter the values. I think by expanding the view it might make dragging the keyframe (for convenience) much easier. Best regards, Lin

Hi Mick, Please get youself a few rewritable DVD's to use in the future when testing. They can be written on, erased and used over and again and you won't waste your money on coasters... It would be nice to find a solution to this problem. Sometimes these things can leave one scratching their head! Best regards, Lin

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Hi Jeff, Great soljourn through El Morro and Inscription Rock. I love that little teardrop camper - it's perfect to keep the rain off if the weather turns and light enough to get it into places which would destroy conventional trailers. I've seen some which are designed for off-roading with super heavyweight suspensions and big, stong tires and wheels. Sorry about the "pigs" who left the mess in the campground. They were only feet from that dumpster - what nonsense to leave that mess behind.... Sammy appeared to be thoroughly enjoying herself. Did she sleep in the bed too? I took an 8,000 mile plus trip across the US in 2010 after my wife Sherry died. I pulled a 21 foot trailer and many times wished I had a little one like your teardrop. I had a couple pups with me - about 150 pounds between the two of them of lab mix mutt and big pit dog and it was crowded in the bed but still lots of fun. I lost a wheel at the New York/Pennsylvania border and ended up having to have both axles, all four wheels, brakes and such replaced. Cost me more than I had with me. I had to borrow money from a friend in California to bail me out and wait three weeks while they ordered upgraded axles and such but finally got it all back together. There's lots to be said for simplicity, that's for sure. I'm moving to Cimarron later this year - probably six months or so. Colorado is getting too crowded for me. Enjoyed your show as usual. Thanks! Lin

Sorry Julia, but you can't convert EXE files to video with Total Media Converter or any other video converter. Exe files are not videos. Exe files are instruction sets which require a CPU and GPU to play. Video files are quite different and contain rendered images which are stored on the media and played back via various players and codecs. The only way an Exe file can be converted to video is via a screen capture tool and there are no screen capture tools which can do justice to an Exe file which contains sophisticated animations. Best regards, Lin

Hi Mick, This won't help with the current problem, but buy a small quantity of rewritable DVD's so you don't waste good one's experimenting. Best regards, Lin

Hi Jeff, this brought back years of nostalgia. When I was a young pup I spent my every available hour in those mountains. I climbed Whitney multiple times and back in the late 50's and early 60's you didn't need a "permit" or have to sign-in and out or get on a waiting list. I worked summers as a wrangler for Brown's Cow Camp out of Monache Meadows and hoofed it scores of times between Kennedy Meadows and Monache Meadows back before there was a Jeep trail. In the early 60's I owned a little Aeronca Chief with a 60 hp "A" Continental engine and I flew many times into the forest air strip, fished the south fork of the Kern River for Golden Trout and had months of fond memories of the entire area. I suspect Sammy thoroughly enjoyed her soljourn and perhaps it won't be her last. I recently took my old dog Honey (14) to Bryce, Zion and Monument Valley. She loved it - sniffed out a cougar in Bryce Canyon Campground and was disappointed I wouldn't let her tree it - LOL. Thanks for an enjoyable memory! PS - I see you have Street Atlas USA with the old yellow GPS receiver. Excellent choice! Best regards, Lin

PTE likes sRGB but neither Adobe RGB nor other RGB settings will give the type appearance in PTE which you were seeing. CMYK will produce exactly that effect in PTE. RGB color spaces will affect intensity of colors primarily, and they will look different in PTE than in your browsers. CMYK will produce this: Best regards, Lin

There are two or more ways to handle this depending on how many images you need to convert. If you have a modern computer which will run Photoshop CS6, you could download and install a trial version of Photoshop from Adobe which is good for 30 days. Use it to convert these from CMYK to RGB. You could zip all the images and upload them to a file sharing service or to your own website if you have one. Provide a link to the zipped file and I can convert them for you and provide you with a link to download the converted files. You could purchase an inexpensive tool to convert - just Google CMYK to RGB Converter. You can use a free online CMYK to RGB converter. Here's a $19.95 Total Image Converter - I haven't tried it myself but it probably is fine: http://www.coolutils...onvert-CMYK-RGB If you're going to quote me, quote everthing - don't cherry pick... Best regards, Lin

Hi Erik, What will he convert it to? If it's already a jpg, what good will it do to use IrfanView to convert. How will he convert it with IrvanView? If you simply convert one of your own jpgs to CMYK and load it into PTE you will realize that it's not an "assumption." The images look exactly as a CMYK colorspace image does in PTE. Perhaps you could then try to use IrfanView to correct the colorspace and report back on your success? Did anyone recommend "spending?" I didn't. I said there are free web conversions and that if the OP zipped and uploaded them with a link I would convert them for him. Best regards, Lin

Hi Erik, We are dealing with colorspace - not a file format conversion. AFAIK neither IrfanView nor Fastone nor Gimp have a CMYK to RGB converter... Best regards, Lin

There are two or more ways to handle this depending on how many images you need to convert. If you have a modern computer which will run Photoshop CS6, you could download and install a trial version of Photoshop from Adobe which is good for 30 days. Use it to convert these from CMYK to RGB. You could zip all the images and upload them to a file sharing service or to your own website if you have one. Provide a link to the zipped file and I can convert them for you and provide you with a link to download the converted files. You could purchase an inexpensive tool to convert - just Google CMYK to RGB Converter. You can use a free online CMYK to RGB converter. Here's a $19.95 Total Image Converter - I haven't tried it myself but it probably is fine: http://www.coolutils.com/Convert-CMYK-RGB Best regards, Lin

Hi Colin, A DVD is subject to the NTSC or PAL aspect ratio. Most modern televisions are not designed for these aspect ratios. There are multiple considerations here. First is what type of television are you using? Some television displays have aspect ratios amenable to DVD while others are designed for wide screen, etc. Are you using the same television now as when the image filled the screen? There is no reason to use 1920x1080 unless you plan to create an MP4 h.264 and play it on your television via the HDMI port or on a USB flash drive, etc. With an MP4 h.264 you can have a 16:9 aspect ratio and HD resolution, but on a DVD in the UK you are using 576i for resolution and aspect ratio. This will not fill the screen on a 16:9 aspect ratio display unless you lose part of the image. The link below may help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-definition_television Best regards, Lin

Hi Igor, I don't think the same logic applies to audio as to a still image. The assumed purpose of "fit all slides to sound track" is to make the audio track end in synchronization with the end of the last slide. When an audio track is replaced, the assumption of that feature has not arbitrarily changed. What possible value is there in preserving the audio run time of a non-existent audio track? I think this feature is used to quickly adjust the display time of slides to coincide with the run time of an audio track. Users who are matching specific audio timings to specific image portions would, in my opinion, never use this feature. Best regards, Lin

Yes, if you include the Navigation bar and select either Air or Sky type and check the "Print" box, then clicking on "Print" from the running show will print any associated text as well as the image. Best regards, Lin

The file size limit of about 2 gigabytes only refers to executable files, not to video. Video is pre-processed meaning that all the elements making up the streamed image flow are already created and stored thus not subject to the application file size limitations. BluRay discs play fine on 32 bit systems and they could easily have up to 50 gigabytes of data stored. It doesn't matter what size your images are when burning a DVD because they are automatically downsampled to the proper NTSC or PAL image size requirements. Something else is going on so if you can give us all the details of your project including, as Tom mentioned, the bitrate and your computer system resources, perhaps we can help sort it out for you. Best regards, Lin

Hi Dave, 32 bits actually means 4 gigabytes which is the maximum file size for a 32 bit application, but when the language specific application file uses signed intergers such as with an executable file, the maximum size is 2 gigabytes. Best regards, Lin

Hi Dave, Let's simplify this. Let me put it another way. Suppose I have ten slides and one audio clip which IS the audio track. I use the "Fit all slides to sound track" feature and the slide time are adjusted each to the track duration divided by the number of slides value. I have done this because I want the end of the slideshow and the end of the audio to coincide. Now I change my mind and want to use a different audio clip. I use the "replace audio file" feature and a different audio is substituted. My expectations have not changed. I expect the slides display to end in synchronization with the end of the sound. Now if I go back and tell PTE to again "Fit all slides to sound track" this doesn't happen. Instead the value of a non-existent audio clip is still being used to calculate the timing for each slide duration. This makes no sense. Whether I have ten audio clips or one audio clip inhabiting the track, my wishes are for the audio to end as the last slide fades off the display. If instead of using the Replace Audio File feature I simply "delete" the audio clip and add a new clip, position it to the same or other position, doesn't matter which; then I use the "Fit all slides to sound track" everything works as expected. I think we are just arguing semantics here. The "purpose" of the "Fit all slides to sound track" hasn't changed because I substituted one audio for another. Had I used the now substituted audio clip in the first place instead of the original sound clip and had clicked on "Fit all slides to sound track" it would be logically no different than what I have done by substituting the new audio clip for the old one. I know "how" to make it work; the issue is that it doesn't work as expected. Best regards, Lin

Hi Dave, I think the original intent of the feature as was requested by users was to quickly divide the total audio time by the number of slides and apply this value to each slide. I really can't see any logical scenario where one would care about precise timings when using this feature. At the present time, if one changes the number of slides in the show then reapplies the "fit all slides to sound track" the correct value is applied to each slide and eveything works as expected. However, if one changes (substitutes) one of the hypothetical audio files in a sequence of audio files and clicks on this feature - the value of the old replaced audio file is used in the calculation. Surely this is a bug? Why would anyone ever want to do that? My assumption is that this feature is simply a convenience for those who do not try to synchronize their audio to the beat of some melody, etc. A sophisticated user who is building a customized slideshow probably would never use this feature anyway. It's for a quick fit to make the audio stream and slide stream end together. I just can't see any scenario where I would ever want to preserve a non-existent audio file's time once it has been replaced. Best regards, Lin

Hi Barry, I suspect that the implementation of PTE code for the Mac is somewhat dependent on varibles outside of the control of Wnsoft. It wouldn't be useful to have a half-baked MacIntosh version and the development team must split their resources between getting necessary and requested features for the existing program and coding for the MacIntosh - it's not a simple thing when there are limited resources. Many large companies with magnitudes of greater resources than Wnsoft have elected to not create MacIntosh versions of their software. Any company must compute the return on investment for a second product line versus the ROI for enhancements and improvements on an existing product line and then allocate resources accordingly. I think Wnsoft initially underestimated the time it would take to code the Mac version when the entire coding structure had to be changed to something amenable to both operating systems and environments. Rather than give completion dates which may or may not be reliable, perhaps it's better to just let the public know that work is continuing and will be done when it is done. Best regards, Lin

No, that isn't a valid assumption. Also, we have many MacIntosh users who currently run PTE on Intel MacIntosh machines under Bootcamp and other software which allows running Windows on the Mac. It was determined that it was going to take much longer than originally anticipated to produce a MacIntosh version of PTE but the progress continues and the intention of producing a Mac version has never waivered. Best regards, Lin

Place a single audio and a number of slides then from the timeline click on the audio icon and fit all slides to sound track. Everything works perfectly and the audio ends with the end of the last slide. So far so good. Now go to Project Options Audio Tab and right click on the audio selection and choose "Replace Audio." Select your new audio then go back to the Timeline and again click on the audio icon and choose "fit all slides to sound track." Doesn't work. One must delete the audio track and add it in order to get things working correctly. Perhaps there is a fix for this insignificant bug?? Lin

Hi Jacek, I have no experience with this at all, but the way I would translate it is that among those who are eligible to participate (as Barry says) there are categories such as "collaborating authors," "those new to audio visual," perhaps experienced AV competitors, etc. There are two categories for this particular event called "Group" and "Open" and in the "Open" category any eligible group or combination of authors can enter their work. In the "Group" category, only work by 2 or more collaborating authors is eligible. Best regards, Lin