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I do often use crossfades on the same track for soundeffects. EG ambient background sounds. If the clip I have is not long enough I will duplicate the clip several times & crossfade. As it is only a low volume background sound the crossfades work perfectly. Also when we are demonstrating PTE to camera clubs etc & I show how to shorten a piece of music to fit the slides the crossfade works very well. I am often amazed at how well it does work with a very quick random selection to remove part of a piece of music by keeping the start & end & removing the middle. 9 times out of 10 you cannot hear the 'join' Only when the two parts are very different in structure can you hear it. Obviously if I am blending two different sounds/music together then using the volume envelope on two different tracks gives more accurate control. If I do need to link several clips to be able to move them, then I accept the lack of crossfade while I move, then I unlink. Another reason to link several clips is when copying slides to another project. The sound will only copy when it is linked to a slide. I sometimes will build up a sequence in several smaller projects, getting each part correct before copying each project into a final one to join them all together. I need the sounds to be linked to the slides in order to copy them to the new final project. Jill

Thanks, if it is at all possible could there be a way of linking several audio clips on same/different tracks together - even if only temporary - so that they could all be moved at once. We may need to do this if we have several clips on same/different tracks that are all timed perfectly with each other, but we then need to adjust the timing of something else earlier in the show. To be able to CRTL click on several clips & move them as a block would really help. Jill

When you open a project with PTE9 that has missing files - ie the path name has changed - you should get a window opening that allows you to search for the files It should list all the images & audio files that are missing. Click on the dot next to one of the missing files & then on Find Selected File & navigate to where the the file now is. If all the missing files are located in the same folder it should find them all. You need to repeat the 'Find Selected File' for each one it doesn't find BEFORE clicking on OK. If all the folder structure is the same & it is just the Drive letter that is different then another option is to open the .pte file in a text editor such as Notepad or Word Do a Find & Replace to change the Drive letter on all the images & sounds. EG find C:\ & replace with E:\ or whatever then save the .pte file with a new name (just in case!!) Jill

Hi Chris, you have to save the project as either a Template or Backup zip to move it to a different computer. If you have version 9 it should allow you to relink all the files, but older versions didn't. Look under the file menu for the manage template or the back up zip options. Jill

Hi Igor, This does not happen! If I link a clip to slide 1, then move slide 1 to a different position - Slide 10, then only the clip linked to slide 1 moves, all other clips stay where they were on the timeline. There are many reasons we need to link more than 1 sound clip - for example we have speech which is broken up into small sections & we need to adjust the position of a slide. Then all of the small speech clips need to be moved by the same amount to follow the slide. Or if we have carefully worked out timings of sound to images but find we need to insert or remove one or more slides - all of the carefully timed clips need to move to keep their relationship with the slides. It would be very useful if we could link several sound clips (on same and different tracks) with each other & be able to move them as a block. Jill

Thanks Igor, the File came back clean from AVG as I thought it would. Jill

Hi Roel, click on Igor's. Picture in the above post. Then click on the envelope symbol in the window that appears. This will open up a private message where you can type your reply. Jill

It does everything he needs it to. Jill

working OK in North Wales UK Jill

I have a friend who is using PTE7.5.10 (the latest version) and whenever he sends an exe to anyone who uses Avast antivirus it says it may be unsafe. If the file is sent to Avast for checking it comes back as clean. If I scan the file with AVG (right click & scan) it says it is clean. But when I try to run the file, AVG does a quick 15 second scan first & says it may contain a virus. AVG is now part of Avast. I am sure this will come back from AVG as clean. He had similar problems with PTE 7.0 before downloading the latest 7.5 I can send you the file Igor if you need it. Jill

We use wetransfer for all competitions & have never had any problems with it. You can send up to 2gb with the free version. Both the sender & receipient get an email when the file has been uploaded. Once the recipient downloads the file the sender recives an email to tell them this. The files only stay available for 7 days, but you can easily resend if required. It is fast, safe & effective way to send any file type. Jill

could the second copy be opened in Read Only mode? This happens if I try to open the same xls file twice. You then cannot overwrite the original as the Read Only will simply close & not save. Jill

I don't care what the numbers are, or how many there are of them, I need my keyframes to relate to the music/soundtrack. I need to be able to roughly position a keyframe then finely adjust it by using the arrow keys. Can't now remember if we can do this as it is a long time since I made anything that used keyframes. Too busy just making Menus these days!! Jill

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Thanks Dave, that worked Jill

I am creating a Menu to run various shows. Each group of AV's is within a Frame But only the items in the top Frame (in the O&A Object List) are clickable It seems that the top Frame hides all the lower Frames. Is this a bug or is it meant to work this way? I think the actual Frame should be transparent and still allow objects located in a lower Frame to be clickable. I know I can resize all the Frames so that they don't overlap, but this means having to resize & align everything again. Jill

Hi George, It really is down to the Graphics card. 1920 x 1080 is standard for video files. If the laptop has dual graphics ie an inbuilt chip on the motherboard - usually intel, and also a seperate dedicated graphics card - usually Nvidia. Then you can force the laptop to use the dedicated graphics. It should play better but may still judder occasionally depending on the dedicated VRam. If there is only the inbuilt chip then it is unlikely to play video in an exe smoothly, or even some complex animation. A solution is to publish an MP4 file and to use VLC player to play this. I have found that VLC will play just about everything. We now make an MP4 for anything with video when we don't know the spec of the computer it will be played on , for sending to competitions etc. Jill

Maybe Igor still needs to look at it to find out why it does this? Jill

Hi George, it could be that your PNG files are too large. John had a similar problem with large PNG files. Try saving at a smaller size and see if that works. Jill

It is useful to tempoarily mute one track so you can listen to the others to adjust timing , level etc. So it is a very useful feature. However it would be nice to be able to just mute a single clip rather than the whole track. What is also needed is the ability to be able to solo one track quickly. It takes time to have to go through & mute/unmute tracks individually. A 'solo' feature would automatically mute the other tracks and then unmute when the Solo is turned off again. I now do all my audio mixing in PTE & very rarely have to use an external editor. Jill

You can quickly mute a track in the timeline. Right click on the track and select mute. If you have more than one track do it for all. Jill

You can still move the sound clip even when it is linked to a slide, just drag it along the timeline as normal. To link several clips to one slide they must be on different tracks. Jill

Click on the slide you want to link to. Then right click the audio clip and select link to slide X. Jill

Just above the file tree there should be a drive letter (normally C) with a little arrow next to it. Click on the little arrow and you should see all the other drives available. Select the one you want. Jill

If you use run slideshow then all shows must be made with exactly the same version of PTE as the menu. Eg 9.0.16 If you have shows made with different versions then use run application. You need to set your menu slides to wait for key press and use the right arrow key to move between them. Jill