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Hi i did reinstall and checked what you say it only changed the icon . It still did not go to the ver 6 .I did the usual open with always open with this that had no effect . Solution -----explorer tools folder options file types scroll to pte clk change and sel ver 6 from list bingo it works . Iwas sticking to ver 6 as its on old ME pc but i will change all to ver 7 . thanks to all cheeers John

Hello i have on pc PTE 5.5 V6.0.2 V7 i make show with pte V6.0.2 and save make exe and dvd fine . When i double clk the pte file which has like a generic icon it opens V5.5 and says cant open not made with this version. If i open pte v6 and go file open and go to that pte it opens no problem. i used ver 6.0.2 to make the exe when i browes with open with to the V6 folder clk on the start exe i get [cant open maybe made with newer ver1.00-1.6] I try browes to ver 7 as that mybe back compatible to v6 no get same answer cant open. any solution please ?

Hello all ypu helpful; guys i may have solution crossed fingers as yet .I found the hard drive was on the middle socket of the ide cable. Now from what i found out this is not good as there is a stub hanging un terminated on the end . I have put drive as master on the end socket [ black plug ] and it has not failed since .Even if it does not solve this problem its a good thing to have done in any case, it must have been like that since PC was built and i kept all as was . i have a new question that i shall put as new topic. thanks J

Hi guys thanks for response it began on what was looking like a duff drive . So put image on new drive of windows and started again hence install new pte I have tried your ideas i opened the V6 pte with V7 and after a couple of tries it did it in that as well..... So its got a version of windows that is prior to any problems a different HD It does it in two versions of pte Now i think that Ver 6 could have a problem as i tried a pte made in Ver 7 and it did not do it [but there again it does not do it every time in any case ] I guess that as its new to you i shall have to keep attempting to isolate the thing my self .I will start by uninstall ver 6 reinstall and try that .Im working with V6 as i have not up date key for ver 7 but no matter for pte and exe.

Hello Folks i loose my cursor %90 of the time when i use esc to stop a show. It is confined to pte show preview only ... exe file ok cant do it in any other app. have to restart pc to get cursor again. All else ok any ideas please ? win xp home

hello you helpfull guys . i am not sure if lin now wants me to up load again . If you do i am lost on how to do it . I have used mail big file a web up load but dont know how on earth i would get it to this forum or you. I have sent the file to a friend to try on his pc see if he gets same result. If he does i will try sending to you. cheers john

thank you man from the bay it might well be i have made narrower pans before without problems. cheers john happy new year

Hello i have tried with short transition as you say no diff also try with no blk starter slide again no effect Would it help if i up loaded the file for any body to try . I dont know if thats possible i know i can up load but how you get at it no idea . cheers J

Hello thanks for response to Lin golly i thought i put everything its pix dims are 3530 x 526. i sent file to two others one regular pte man sees stutter the other on a sony laptop after careful prompting does not see any stutter. I notice i am down as a junior member but im actually an old man !! I will try other suggestions like the no transition . cheers j

Hello i have been making a pan shot and am getting a stutter about 5 secs into a 1min pan. smooth after that. win xp serv pk 3 spd 1.8 Gh ram 960 Mb V ram256mb virt mem 672Mb free disc space 2.7 Gb avail V mem 1.96Gb . 5 sec blk---4 sec trans---60 sec pan---4 sec trans----blk does not show in small p/v only at full scrn the stutter seems to be at end of first blk slide i attch the exe Otley panorama 1 17 Mb any suggestions please

I shall continue to investigate this if i get any sense from it i shall post my findings .Thanks for all of your help and time cheers john an old feller in otley england Its very strange that im not had a reply from wn soft from my first request and send agains do think something has happened to them ?

Hello Peter i have made scrn grabs of file info in cool edit it does show that cool ver wasat 44,100 and aud at 22050 see my attches. thanks for your time cheers john

Hi guys dont seem to have got my last reply posted try this i note what said. i have since tried this . The orig sound trk was from cooledit yet played and looked fine for timing inany other editor.So this time i opened in audacity then re saved . Put it into pte and proj options agrees with the timing and it fades out as per the timeline waveform. I think pte have a bug problem but they dont respond to my question other than giving a ref no this has gone on since sept ! Thanks for you help but it really means that you must play around with diff sound editors to see if they correspond with pte

Hello In pte 5.5 both my friend and i have had this problem. You edit a sound track to a given length that matches slide show ie full show 14min 01 fade out at 13min 45 This matches the time line display Now when you put this sound trk into pte proj options shows it as15min25 impossible it aint that length ! When you view it in time line it looks perfect ie you see the fade out and end of trk coincident with last slide. As14min with fade at 13m45 But ! when you play it in p/v instead of fading out the music plays on past the end of the show and stops abruptly at end of last slide without any fade out at all. ie it wants to play on to 15min25 I could find now way of sorting this so i made the exe and to my surprise it faded our correctly . So i went ahead and made the DVD that too was correct. So whats going on oin pte in that it sees a sound track at the wrong length. It would present real problems if i had wanted to shift any timings having put the sound track in i would not know what i was looking at as the time line does not tally with the inserted track length. I have been trying to contact wn soft since 29 sept with tracking id of 6JP7XRQP2Q but have had no response Can you help please cheers john

Hi yes i see what you say but i am dealing with Mp3 as i see it . In any case the error i am getting was in the order of 20 secs and the other point as it resolved itself it was only tied to one cd. cheers to you Brian John brit

HI after much experimenting the conclusion is a particular cd [there could be more ] when ripped in a number of rippers then edited in cool edit or audacity and opened in any audio editor and looking fine. when put into PTE displays a different music duration to the editors the wave form shows the fade as in the editors but even after fade out music continues to play. It does exactly the same if taken to another pc. If the cd is ripped on a mac no problems. if the cd is put ascda into editor and edit then saved as mp3 no problem. So its a combination of one or some cds and ripping progs. hope this may be of help to anyone else having similar trouble cheers John brit

Just to say i have now put deep ripper in pc and guess what , When edit as before and put into PTE i get trk length of 9min not 8m36s. so its not cedex its something else connected with ripping. Deep rip does not have CDDB either so thats gone ! John Brit

The solution is here having done many experiments to isolate the problem i found this out. If i took the orig cda into cool edit and edited then saved to the times as of this issue i found when put into PTE it was fine.[ie i ripped in cool edit ] This only left Cedex as possible culprit . I the did fresh rip with cedx edit in cool same timings then put into PTE bingo there was the problem so there is some thing about cedex when ripping that PTE does not like ie the music keeps playing even though sound editors show fade and audio stop . I guess there is still one more move to make is it just cedex and that particular cd or does it happen with other rippers. Thanks to all of you that responded i hope this gets picked up some how as a post for others to learn from Cheers John Brit

Thanks for reply Peter yes i tried that no help. The plot thickens . I made new edit of original trk on mac with cool edit transfered to pte on pc it went in perfectly. I then did same on pc with cool edit starting from same original trak duff same as before. I then took that orig trk chopped to 4 min in cooledit then put into pte it shows music duration of 4 min 10s an error again. So this comes down to a particular music trk only when edit on cool edit or audacity on pc then put into PTE. So what is it that PTE sees but sound editors dont i ask . john Brit

some more information if it helps anyone audio length in following varies..... cool edit pc 8m36s audacity pc 8m36s creative wave studio pc 8m34s win med player pc 8m57s VLC pc 8m57s PTE 8m57s mac finder 8m57s mac QT 8m36s mac VLC 8m57s mac audacity 8m36s it must be some thing specific to a file but what . I am doing nothing different to any other time just saving as Mp3 in cooledit on Pc it sounds ok on any player its at 44100 16 bit. hope this helps

Try what Jim says no joy but what i do see is cool edit trk L is 8m36 with silence added to length of show ie inc silent end caption. When i put it into PTE in proj options it comes in reading 8 m 57. The time line shows fade out at 8m 28s but shows that correctly yet it also shows music duration going on as in proj options to 8m57s. the audio is not being stretched it sounds fine. what more can i say organmorgan brit

Hi jim i know the sample rate is correct but i agree you have to watch out as the likes of audacity makes it correct for viewing but has not actually changed the rate unless you tell it to. The other thought i dont think will work as the music is faded to end before last slide unless the timed point takes the end of the sound track ie including the bit after the fade. It does seem very odd when you look at time line its correct yet you here some thing different . After sending post i retried using a duff or apparent duff pte and it played correctly. yet another did not . hope someone else picks up on this cheers organmorgan Brit

Hello two of us have found slight difference in time between time line and a music trk made in cool edit to that length. But on last show the waveform looked right but when played the music track was some 8 secs too long.I could hear music past the point time line shows it faded out .I did everything poss from cpy slides into new project and then adding the audio fresh again. Attch scrn grab of time line showing fade but hear music to end of picts. My project options are all same as when i have made shows that come out on time. Any help please ? organmorgan man Doc1.doc