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This is a great competition and if you can get along to a judging then do. It is surprising just how inventive folks can be, trying to keep it short and be easily understood in many different languages. The UK judging will be in North Wales early June. Details will be posted on www.avnews.org.uk once the date is confirmed. Jill

You can easily switch between the standard and pro versions to see the difference. In settings, preferences, just select the version. If all you want to do is basic slide shows, with some pans or zooms, and any image effects - colour, blur etc you do in your normal image editor, then the standard version is fine. If you want to do more elaborate shows and control the sound volume with key points on the timeline, then go for the pro. But you can always upgrade to the pro later for just the difference in price. Hope this helps. Jill

No, only 1 instance. I do open more than 1 if I am copying from 1 project to another, but normally only 1

Igor, it is with PTE AV Studio 10.0.6 I was making a Menu for a competition this weekend. I opened last year's Menu project - Menu19 (made with PTE9) & saved with a new name Menu20 I then made changes, saved Menu20 & closed PTE10 When I reopened PTE10 it opened Menu19.pte instead of Menu20.pte I also noticed this with another project I was working on, this was an old project originally made with PTE5 I think. But each time I saved with a new name in PTE10 it opened up the previous version instead of the latest one. I usually save with a new name every time I make several changes - Project1; Project1a; Project1b etc Jill

Igor, thanks, this is what I do already and have done for many years. It is when I click the run application and the window opens to show the available files. These are all exe files, I have to click the down arrow to choose all files for it to show the video files as well. All the files I am running from the menu are in the same folder. I was wondering if you could make that window that opens on run application also include video as well as exe files. Just trying to save a few mouse clicks. Jill

Igor, thanks an interesting idea. However I think this would involve more work, these are not my AV's but those that other people have entered into the competitions. You have said that it is best to make MP4 if a show contains heavy animation or video, especially with the Windows10/Nvidia problems, so that is what people have done. Some have been made with other programs - M.Objects, Wings, Proshow etc. or a Mac program When the entries come in I run them all through to make sure they play correctly. If I was then to take the video file & make an exe in PTE I would have to run them again to make sure they still played correctly. I simply don't have the time to do this with all the entries. Jill

As more people are making MP4's these days instead of Exe files, could it be possible for the 'Action on Mouse Click - Open Application' to display video files as well as exe files. I have just been making a Menu to run competition entries and well over half are video files. This means that for each entry I have to click on the drop down arrow to display 'all files' to be able to find the video file to link to. If it is possible, it would save a lot of time if the video files were shown along with the exe files. This competition only had 33 entries, so not too bad to do it. But there is one coming up that currently has 70 with still some more to come in. And another which is likely to have over 100 entries. Just trying to save a bit of time in preparing for the competitions. Jill

Hi Malcolm, Thought you already had a later version than 7.5. That is so old now & upgrades were stopped for that a long time ago. The free upgrades were for the life of the product, not your life. Maybe something went wrong with the installation, I have never had any problems switching to the light interface. Try uninstalling, re download PTE & install again. Jill

Thanks, I will stick to downloading myself from the Forum. I check it every day so can easily see when a new version is out. Jill

If I open a project and then save it as a new filename, next time I open PTE it does not open that last saved project. It does not even show up in 'Recent Projects', but once I open it up manually then it does. I regularly save with a new name when I am working on a project and don't remember having this problem before Jill

I have just used the Auto Update feature for the first time to update to 10.0.6 I was very surprised that it did not ask me where I wanted to save the file. I always save the update file with the version number in a seperate folder, so I can easily go back to a previous version if I need to. It downloaded the file, but I closed PTE without installing the update, as I wanted to save it where I wanted it. I then tried to open my browser (Firefox) to go to the website and download. However it automatically did the install without asking any of the usual questions, such as did I want a start item etc. I have no idea where it has stored the download, I can't find it in any usual places. I suppose some people may want a quick update procedure, but If this is the way it is supposed to work, then I will continue to download from the website & do it manually. Jill

Easy, just add a light coloured drop shadow to the text. The larger the number in the distance box the softer and more diffuse the shadow. You can get it to just be a lighter background to the text to make it stand out. Jill

PTE 10 does not need to convert video files. If your Graphics card is powerful enough they should all play OK Jill

Settings/Preferences/Timeline

Igor, sorry but it isn't any different. Right Click Preview still starts on Monitor 2 if project is on Monitor 2.

Barry, I appreciate that things are easy once you know how. But I think that going to the Timeline & moving a sllide is hopefully more intuitive than looking for a setting you know nothing about. To make KFSD the default could cause confusion for a lot of existing users, some who may also not know where to look when suddenly things no longer work as they used to. You can't teach an old dog......

PTE is not a text editor, it treats text as any other object & sizes it depending on the number of characters. I also wish we could set a font size & also different colours within the same text object. To have different words in different colours you have to have seperate objects. Hopefully V11 will offer improvements in text The easiest way at the moment is to set the text how you want for 1 slide. Then copy & paste that to the other slides & just change the wording. However if the number of lines & words are very different, then you will still have to resize using the zoom parameter. Jill

Try installing VLC player on the USB drive, that way you know it will be there. Jill

I have finally downloaded PTE 10.0.5 & I notice that by right click in the mini preview window the preview is starting on the same monitor as the Project. So I have the project open on monitor 2 & the Preview is showing on Monitor 2. It has previously always started on Monitor 1 This was a bug in beta testing & was fixed & it seems to have come back again in 10.0.5 I didn't download the other 10 versions & went straight from 10.0.1 to 10.0.5 so not sure when this came in. Jill

No doubt you will have already expected me to react in the way I am, so I won't disappoint you Change image/video Agree that this should be on by default Orange Volume Line Agree, I have never wanted to turn this off & had several people puzzled when they have accidentally clicked it off & not realised. Keyframe Time Value I very rarely if ever look at the keyframe time and don't think I have ever actually typed in a number. I simply position the keyframe where I want it by dragging. It is so much easier now that we can see the waveform. KFSD - Isn’t it about time the KFSD was done away with I couldn't believe it when I read this first line from you Barry. But then I read the rest!! I have never understood why anyone would want KFSD. As jt49 says it causes all sorts of problems. If people really want their video to continue playing while the next slide dissolves in then it is very easy to just drag that slide back by the required amount. No need for KFSD just position the slides/videos where you want them. Jill

Andrew, there is no loss of quality publishing as an MP4. You have been to Leeds & seen many sequences on that big screen. I doubt if you could tell if they were exe or MP4. If your club's laptop is old I suspect that it may have trouble playing some sequences even if made with PTE9. I think that Igor has said that you can take a PTE 10 .pte file & still open it in PTE9 as long as it doesn't use any of the new slide styles. So your club member could make a PTE9 exe to play at the club. See you at Leeds in April Jill

Perhaps this is a silly question, but, if the relatives are used to watching a large TV from a few feet away, would they actually want to view a smaller image? Maybe you see it as pixelated, but if they are used to this, then surely they will accept it? I know you want your show to be seen at the best quality, but would they actually notice? Jill

if you can't see drive F then click on C: just below the Menu bar. It should then show all the drives available, just select Drive F & the folders should then be visible in the left hand panel. Select the required folder 7 you should then see the images in the second panel. As JT49 says just click on an image & drag it to the slide list - bottom panel Jill

Easiest way is to 'Normalise' the wave form in Audacity or similar audio editor. You can set the maximum peak to be around -3db to -1db This way the volume is increased without distortion7 Jill

Does this matter? I have never found it to be a problem. I just resize the template to the required size & shape Jill