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At this stage, yes. No thoughts at present of slide shows using recorded audio, but ... Cheers, Colin

Thanks Eric, yes I guess I was a bit non-specific there. My wife sings in two choirs, and they always record their concerts, but the chap who has been doing the recordings has struck bad health for both himself and his wife, so the position is more or less vacant. There are some costs that the choirs will pay, and the choristers buy CDs of the concerts, so the prospect of a little cash looms as well. Recording venues are usually local churches, and the recording quality I don't think is all that high - they used to do it onto cassettes, so I guess the Zoom H4N recorder can do the job, and I have the gear and programmes to edit and burn CDs. Things like microphone placement etc are my immediate things to know, but I guess n the end it will come down to experimentation and my ears! Regards, Colin. PS I guess this should really be in the off-topic forum!

Hello Roger, I've just played your band show, and i am rather intrigued as to how you managed to record the sound - what recording device, how far away was it from the band, etc.? I am considering doing sound recordings myself, and I am interested in how others do it . Thanks, Colin

Eric, my friend, you reduced me to tears with your story. "too late" and "if only" are the saddest words to hear from anybody, especially elderly people like us. And your choice of music, 'Duelling banjos' just adds to the pathos, that track just moves me. Whether it's the simplicity of the melody, just basic arpeggios, the interplay of the banjo versus the guitar just grips me in an emotional embrace. Does that sound foolish? It doesn't feel foolish. Thank you for a most moving show. Kind regards, Colin

Yep, no play. Frustrating ... Colin

You would be surprised at how many programs will modify the computer parameters to suit themselves, but never bother to put the altered parameters back when closing the program. Some of the worst culprits are graphic and image-handling programs, and some games are bad at it as well.

Hi Barry, It seems to me that some program that runs before PTE is altering the graphics card settings, most probably undoing the Graphics Acceleration settings, which will wreck the smoothness of PTE for sure. Perhaps you can click on the desktop background and see what the graphics option can tell you, before and after running the suspect programs. Loss of hardware acceleration is what I would suspect here. Refards, Colin

Hi Dave, Yes, that is right, but nevertheless some cheaper sets are 720p only. I have in my dining room a 29 inch Chinese TV, excellent picture, but it's 720p only, and doubtless there are others of similar size that are the same. It's a point worth considering, especially as the OP didn't mention it in his opening post. Regards, Colin

I believe that most TVs 32 inches or smaller are in fact 720p and not 1080p. That fact alone will be responsible for a poorer picture on a TV compared with a 1920x1080 monitor. Also, a TV is probably not capable of having its display color-balanced, so you are stuck with probably inaccurate color as well. Get a proper monitor.

See my reply to Politer. It's only just been mooted, for goodness' sake!

Probably not. Igor said "we'll try to add the color management in future version(s) of PicturesToExe." Not the very next version. You guys who want it now now now don't appreciate the pressure you are putting on Igor. Just back off a little please.

Excellent photography and haunting music. The music I felt didn't quite fit a few of the slides, but possibly a rearrangement to match the more dramatic images with the sound might help there. I really enjoyed the show however, Mark. Beautiful land- and sea-scapes, and as I said, gripping sound, and all clean as a whistle. Thank you. Can you tell us what the music was, please?

I have had good success using a disc-burning program called Imgburn, free from http://www.imgburn.com/ and from the website is the following: ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit! It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task: Read - Read a disc to an image file Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc Write - Write an image file to a disc Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing It does not have any foibles like changing formats etc, it just produces exact copies of your master disc. Good luck, Colin

Hello Jeff, Thank you for your Horner tribute above, as usual a great show from you with your images of of abandoned countryside and habitations. To a New Zealander these are strange and compelling images, unlike anything in this young country, and your choice of music, in this case Horner, in other cases Zimmer etc. is hauntingly compelling. Your shows are worthy of solitary contemplation, more than just a show, though they can spellbind our club audience as well. Thank you, Colin (NZ)