Barry Beckham

Targa I have videos already made on every topic I can think of. So at the moment any future videos are on hold awaiting inspiration :-) For all my projects and when it’s complete, I save a Backup to Zip from within PTE. This places everything you used in the presentation into one zipped folder and allows you to come back to it at anytime just as you left it. I usually include with that BIZ an Exe version of the show for my PC and also an MP4 video for posting and sharing. I store the backup in zip, the exe and the video off my computer and I have all bases covered.

I’m here, just a bit older, wiser and much much slower :-)

When someone sent me an audio file that would not play in PTE, I imported it into Audacity, then exported it out as an MP3 and it fixed the issue.

The images were shot within a 3 night stay just beside the Story Bridge in Brisbane. I made the effort to be up at dawn to make the most of the light, but also at dusk too. I confess I was not shooting with this AV in mind, but ended up with enough images for it to be considered. The images were shot and created in June 2024 and an AV was started at the time, but I couldn’t find music that inspired me or an approach that encouraged me. So, I sat on the project for around 4 months and when I came back to it, I found something to get me started. I have quite a few images that I discarded because they just didn’t fit in as well with the rest. It was all helped by the great PTE AV Studio software of course and when I first joined a camera club in 1975, an AV was the first thing I saw. Twin projectors and film back then, but I recognised the perfect way to be able to display more of the images we shoot. It’s a shame more camera club members don’t display their images in presentations via PTE. The problem of course is the effort necessary to make an AV with impact. It takes a fair bit of time and patience that many are not prepared to commit. Before you saw this, I probably saw it 50 times, or more. Thanks for the positive response. I’m getting to the age where I need all the encouragement I can get.

It’s because it’s a wnsoft exe file, there is nothing wrong with it. it was made with PTE 8

This is an oldie but still relative, but because it uses exe files those interested need to download the zipped file below. The zip contains a short Mp4 video tutorial and a Windows version demo. Just double click the exe file called start and test the buttons https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/td6aefnl3iqc0tg/Menu_system_demo.zip/file I'm sure the Mac version will be similar

They can also be found here https://beckhamdigital.photo Find them under the PTE AV Studio Menu

Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun congratulations Igor

Name me an App that anyone can jump into and start creating on day one and I’ll show you an App not worth having.

It seems like yesterday sums up things pretty well

Kieron I’m not sure my old body could take those temperatures after being in the Queensland climate here for 15 years. It took me a year to gather the images for this sequence. I ran out of images to complete it during 2023 and had to find similar lighting and conditions to shoot some more. I managed to do that last week. It’s the sort of subject that really needs to be fast and furious. Especially with the slow shutter speeds, which add a feeling of movement. Anyway, it’s kept me out of trouble for some hours.

I do still have a whole set of videos on the subject of adding commentary. They were recorded for PTE 8, but the principals are the same. Download them all below. https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/c4j23t5cdr0gm19/Adding_Commentary_in_PTE8.zip/file The Videos are: 1. Introduction 2. The Script 3. Writing the Script 4. Microphones 5. Recording and applying commentary 6. Linking Audio Clips 7. Linking Audio Clips (Review) 8. Audacity

For me it has to be short commentary takes, because as you put the presentation together, you need the flexibility to slide the audio along the time line to match up with the visuals. When recording short bits of commentary (a sentence or two), you’ll probably find that you’ll make less verbal mistakes. It’s also a lot easier to slot in a new bit of commentary when you realise you said something wrong, or you decide you can improve on what you originally recorded. It happens all the time. The down side is when you have a need to use noise suppression in your audio. Now it has to be run on all the seperate audio clips, rather than one complete audio file. For creative freedom, it’s seperate short takes for me and I’ve made a few of these types of recordings.

Thank you Ricky it does get as low as 8C here, but only in the depths of winter

This could help

Kieron On my first visit to a camera club in February 1974, I saw a twin projector AV show and felt right from then that this was the way to present images. That hasn’t changed for almost 50 years and you learn a few skills in that time. For me though the emphasis is always on the images. Thank you for you kind words.

They were taken a while back, but most have not seen the light of day till now. The Bristol Balloon Fiesta is a great event, but you need access inside the flight-line and that may be hard to get these days.

There is a Photoshop video tutorial that goes with this here: https://youtu.be/zJGFSO47L8Y

DG I’ve done that quite a bit over the years, gone back and looked again at what I took. After all, something must have appealed to be at the time. The new tools open that option up even wider. just found some old balloon images shot with an 11mp camera, but even if I say so myself, I have a few winners amongst these images. JRR Point taken, I just took the easy route there and to be honest it never occurred to me to record my message, but use different images. It was a bit of an after thought too.