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If at all possible I would like to be able to export what is seen in the mini preview window. ie at a specific time point. I initially work with full sized images straight out of the camera. I do a lot of work in PTE as it is so much quicker, using Masks to remove distractions, resizing & repositioning images to align, colour adjustments etc. I may have several attempts to get exactly the view I require. To make my finished AV I then have to replicate this work in Photoshop to be able to reduce the file size of the final image. It would save a lot of time if I could save the view in PTE as say a 1920 x 1080 image at 72 dpi to reduce the file size. I could then simply replace the full sized, adjusted images with one single small sized image in the final production. Jill

Right click and clone is what I use all the time. This works the same as + I think. I then just position the keyframe exactly where I want it. Which may take a few attempts to get it right with the music and flow of the slide I very rarely if ever need to untick any of the settings. Jill

Not something I would normally want as I tend to work slide by slide and adjust each duration on the timeline as I add the slide or video. But I can see it could be useful to some people. Jill

I also would like to choose the exact point to capture the image. Therefore I would want to use it from either the Timeline or O&A. A Small button on the main interface or a hot key combination if possible would be best. Jill

Have you unzipped it first? Make sure you keep the exe and the ptshow files together in the same folder. Jill

I am not even sure if that video option is available in the Zoom version I am using. We were doing some tests yesterday & I don't remember seeing it. I will check tomorrow when we run the Wilmslow meeting. They keep updating Zoom all the time & I am sure that my 5.7.8 is not the latest Jill

Hi Gary, If you make a final MP4 then the file is not that big & it doesn't matter how many or how large the original video files are. I often find that I will need to use several short clips from one video file. I just put them into PTE & trim as needed for each one. This way you are only using a video file once rather than having many seperate clips. But it all depends on how you work. Jill

just wondering why you would need to use the convert option now as PTE10.5 can play any video files Jill

Hi Igor, thanks for the info. As you know we regularly share screen to show our AV's & they all work well. In any competition or event we can get a mixture of exe, MP4, MOV, WMV, M4V and sometimes AVI files These are all run from a PTE Menu .exe which of course can launch any file. We use VLC Player to run video files It is not practical to keep changing between 'optimise' & 'not optimised' to run exe or video. We find it best to always use 'Optimise' when showing an AV whatever file type. If you are sharing the screen to demonstrate something, such as PTE, then turn the 'optimise' off as any text will look blurred. We also find that 60p runs smoother than other fps rates. Slower transitions appear smoother than faster ones. The most important factor when showing any AV's over Zoom is your internet upload speed. Jill

Thanks Igor, that's great news. Jill

this is a very low resolution these days. Your images won't look as good as they could do, but if the audience are used to those standards then they will no doubt not notice! Good luck with the show Jill

you really need to know the resolution of the projector & make your images that size. Also try to make sure that the projector & computer resolution match You also need a computer with good graphics PTE does a great job of upsizing, but I find if it has to downsize large images they can look a bit oversharpened. We often project onto a very large 26 foot wide screen. I think the projector that is used is full HD 1920x1080 But I have shown exe files made at 1024x768 and they still look great when filling the screen. Both exe & MP4 play equally well, but make sure that the program used to play MP4's is set up correctly to display them fullscreen without any of the interface showing. Depending on the operating system & any anti virus installed you may be better off with MP4. exe files can sometimes be rejected by antivirus. You really are better with your own laptop that you know will play your shows well if at all possible. Relying on unknown equipment can only cause problems. Also check the sound system to mkae sure your shows can be heard at their best as well as seen. If they only have the laptop speakers or tiny little speakers it is never going to sound like you intend. Ideally get there in plenty of time to test everything out before the audience start arriving. There is nothing worse than still trying to set up with the audience already waiting. Jill

yes use the Change image button & select the new file. You can also change it from O&A properties tab. All your original settings remain for the new image Jill

Daryl, you don't need to loop a slide to make it stay on screen. That is what wait for key press does. The buttons on your slide can go to any other slide. You would then have a button on the other slides to come back to your main slide. These do not have to be visible. Use a frame on a portion of the screen, say bottom left that you know where it is and add the action on mouse click to it. If any of these other slides also need to stay on screen longer than their set time, then set these to wait for key press. You can build quite complex menus in this way should you need to. The other easier option is to have each of your shows as separate exe or MP4 files and call them from a main menu exe. Jill

I too have created menus with links to other slides, but always use the wait for key press. The only time I have used loop is when I have music attached to a slide and I don't know how long that slide will be needed on screen. It could be longer than the music. I have used this to be able to have something playing before the show starts and the audience is coming in. For all other times I just use wait for key press and it works fine. If you had a name of timeline, maybe PTE doesn't like that. I now can't remember what the name I had was that caused the problem, but it was something that PTE itself was using. Jill

I have tried this with your file & agree that when you click on the button it goes to the start of the show. I change the name of the slide from IMG_6319 to startshow & it works fine So the problem could be the underscore in the name. Make sure you change the Name in Slide Options I see you are using PTE V10.0 I am using 10.5 but that shouldn't make any difference Question? Why are you looping the slides? If you wish the slide to stay on screen until you are ready to move on, then set the slide options to wait for key press. The slide will stay on screen until you press the right arrow key then it will move to the next slide. No need for a button & Go To Jill

what is the name of the slide you are trying to go to?? I seem to remember a bug a long time ago where it was the 'name' that PTE didn't like But I thought this was fixed Jill

Sorry JT it was not meant to be. From your explanation above I can now see what you are trying to do. Normally I wouldn't run background music when talking. I would set up my project to have manual contol - wait for key press - with no music, then maybe have a section with synced sound running automatically, then go back to manual control with no music. At present I can't see a way of acheiving what you want to do in PTE. But I can see some problems with what you are asking for. What happens if your talk lasts a long time, maybe due to questions from the audience. Your first piece of music could run out, unless it is much longer than you would normally need, or do you loop it?. At the point you arrive at your change over, the first piece may not blend harmoniously with the second. I know PTE is very good at doing a crossfade, but if the 2 pieces are very different it can still sound bad. I am sure you chose your music with care, but it could still cause problems. The only way I can see at the moment is to use a separate physical volume control and to manually fade one down & the next up. I am not familiar with foobar so maybe this is what you are doing. Jill

each show should be standalone. if the sound runs through from one to another it could be difficult for the audience to know which sound belongs to which. It also would not give them time to appreciate what they have just watched before moving onto the next. Also for competitions, we would never want the sound to continue across shows - each show is judged separately. Maybe for a manual performance that is just entertainment, you may want it, but could this not be controlled using the volume on your output? Fade one down then the next up. JIll

Are you sure you have downloaded & installed the latest version?

click on the first keyframe & shift click on the last keyframe you want The should all show as highlighted You can then drag with your mouse to move them. The keyframes can be on the same or on several Objects Jill

What would be more useful would be VU meters so we can 'see' the volume of each track & the overall volume. Increasing volume abovve 100% can often lead to 'clipping' and distortion so is not advised. Also it would be very useful to quickly 'Mute' or 'Solo' each track to check the volume. I will often open another audio editor to be able to see the VU meters whilst playing the sound in PTE, just so I can check the levels. For digital sound you need it to be around -3db to avoid distortion and clipping. Peaks can go up to -1db but should never reach zero. Jill

never been aware of this. I have only updated firmware very occasionally, but did it by plugging in a USB cable to the camera Jill

Tom, I agree that being able to change video speed via keyframes would be very useful. But for other Speed Modifiers the way we could adjust them in V8 & earlier was so much easier. We could also create our own user Speed Template. I just find the graph so much easier to visualise the effect than the current way of having to type in numbers Being able to group or split the speed over the keyframes was also much easier. Hopefully Igor can bring this back in V11 Jill

The way we used to be able to set Speed in earlier versions of PTE was so much simpler with the Graph. We could link & separate keyframes & being visual was much easier to understand what would happen. Having to use numbers I find more difficult. Jill