stevemul

Barry and Brian, Many thanks for your suggestions which I will look into. One thing I probably didn't make clear in my first msg was that the problem I see with PTE is not there at all in ProShow. I think it must be something in the way PTE renders/displays the transitions between images that causes the problem. This morning (Tasmanian Time) I have tested things a bit further. I tested both PTE and ProShow versions on a desktop PC. No problems with either PTE or Proshow. So my conclusion is that the problem only occurs on the Thinkpad Laptop and then only with PTE, not ProShow. Further testing shows the Thinkpad with PTE is at its worst when driving the external video port at 1024x768 which very unfortunately is the exact configuration I use to display these slide-shows using a data projector at my photo club. Too bad. BTW, the desktop PC has dual Eizo monitors, one 1280x1024, the other 1600x1200. I tried both Proshow and PTE slide-shows on both monitors. If ever anyone wanted proof of the superior image display quality of PTE this proved it without a shadow of doubt. Fantastic PTE ! In contrast Proshow looks so soft to be almost out of focus. I suspect the answer to this problem is probably to use a different laptop for PTE presentations but that's an expensive solution when in virtually every other respect the Thinkpad is an excellent machine.

I began producing Slide Shows with Proshow but became very frustrated with Jerky Presentation particularly with panning and zooming images and scrolling text. Then I discovered PTE 5 and was delighted with much smoother panning and zooming plus better image quality. However my PTE shows are let-down by one major flaw, a shimmering effect when transitioning between slides. I assume this is what I see described in these forums as the Moire Effect. It doesn't occur on all images, mostly on those with large areas of similar colour, a gray sky is a typical problem area. I have one slide-show that includes several images taken on a misty morning. These images have large light gray areas of mist and sky. There is no pan or zoom just a standard 3 second fade in/out. The shimmering of the light areas in the images during the fade transition is horrible. I have read these forums and followed the advice to size the image to the screen, in this case 1400 x 1050 pixels on an IBM Thinkpad T60. It is still awful. I have also turned off Anti-Virus, the Internet, Wireless, etc., but I can not get rid of this horrible shimmer. Any ideas or suggestions would be most appreciated.

Thanks for your suggestions, Lin. After reading your post I went back to Beta 10 and found the solution. It has made a huge difference so I will explain it here just in case others make the same mistake as me. When you set smooth, accelerate, etc., the initial setting is for all keypoints for the selected object and intermediate keypoints become ineffective. To use more than three or more keypoints click on the button(s) under Pan/Zoom/Rotate as applicable. Then, and here's the bit I have just discovered, don't select smooth, accelerate, etc., but click on "Setting Up". You will then see an item for each of your keypoints. Alongside each keypoint item click on the blue words "Separate here". Then you can individually set the linear/smooth/accelerate/etc., for each pair of keypoints. Brilliant, just brilliant. The improvement in this part of my sideshow over Beta 9 is fantastic! Different, but slightly related .... I made a test show of scrolling text from bottom to top, like cinema credits. I made test projects in PTE, Proshow Gold 3.0 and Proshow Producer 3.0. Both the Proshow products are very jerky on my PC ..... PTE is as smooth as silk ! Thanks again, Lin, and thanks also to PTE's developers. Best regards, Steve.

I have a slide show made in Beta 9 where a slide has 4 key points; it starts zoomed in to part of the bottom of the image, zooms out to the whole of bottom of the image, pans up to the whole of the top of the image and finally zooms in to just part of the top of the image. This worked well in Beta 9 except for the sudden, jerky transitions at each keypoint so I was looking forward to Beta 10 and smooth, accelerate, etc.. I installed Beta 10 and set the first keypoint to Smooth. The 3 other keypoints set automatically to smooth BUT ..... although the slide show now smoothly goes from the 1st keypoint to the last it totally ignores the zoom and position settings of the intermediate keypoints. I want to decelerate and then accelerate at all keypoints so that all transitions look smooth. Could someone explain how I can do this please. Many thanks, Best regards, Steve.