Barry Beckham

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That’s an idea I hadn’t considered. I suppose it depends if Camtasia would record anything above 1920*1080 as well as I get now. I guess I wouldn’t know unless I did a test.

jmG I’ve been looking again at the BenQ SW321C monitor, which is 32in and 3840*2160 pixels. I’m sure it would be superb for image editing and viewing presentations, but I have just been wondering how it all works if I want to do a screen capture using Camtasia at 1920*1080. I can’t capture 3840*2160 and assume you just reduce the resolution in setttings and capture the 1920*1080 screen as normal. I expect few people here would have experience of this, so I’m just thinking aloud for a moment and welcome any thoughts you all have. Of course I could hang onto one of my 1920*1080 monitors just for that screen capture process, but I’m not a great fan of having two monitors on my desk.

I’ll probably do what I’ve always done. Used the screen out of the box, works for me

Sorry, I have no idea what a USB Cruiser is. However, it seems you’re making a fairly simple process quite difficult. When making a slide show, create a folder and copy EVERYTHING you use into that folder, then work from there and only there. Your project file and Mp4 should also be in that folder and if you do that, you will have the ability to adjust your show and recreate it any time. Plus you’ll always know where everything is

PTE AV Studio is available in two versions. Standard and Professional. One of the big differences between the two is how we approach sound editing. Here we look at our most common needs using the standard edition.

Why not open up your show again, assuming you can, then create another MP4 and in the address string look to see where it’s being created. PTE will create the Mp4 in the same folder as your project file. Unless you tell it something different. I guess your not working from one folder. Alternatively, create another Mp4 and change the address to place the video on your desktop

Thank you, the BenQ was the one that attracted my attention, but it will be in a small room and I settled on a 27in. However, it may be a while till I am able to move my PC to the room it will live in, so I’ll give the 32in more thought. I’ve had an Xrite ColorMunki for some time and my confidence in it is zero. All it does is screw up the colours of any screen I try it on. It was a used product when I bought it and I’m assuming its Just past it’s sell by date and needs binning. I like the idea of built in calibration

Why would anyone with the pro version want this option turned off.

Are you creating two seperate lines of text? Hit the “T” top left and type a line of text you want. Then hit the “T” again and type the second line of text and they are now Independant of each other.

Lowell Can you be a little more specific on what your issue is. For example, if your first slide appears and no others, it seems to indicate that you may have the control option ticked that’s turned your show into a manual user controlled one. I.e you have to hit the mouse button to go from slide to slide. Have a look into your control tab to fix that.

Thanks. The Eizo’s are a bit pricy and I like the idea of a monitor with built in calibration. The BenQ SW271 does that, but it’s fairly expensive over here in Australia, about $1900

Is there anyone on the forum who uses a 4k monitor, maybe a BenQ or an Eizo? I’m interested in some personal experiences with these monitors if possible

Nicely done

As you probably know, PS will allow you to display only your 3 rated images, which makes is easy to copy and paste them to a new folder. If you work on copies it’s much more convenient as you get creative through the process and may want to edit or even remove images from your original selection. You never have any fear of making a mistake and losing an image. Its pretty much accepted by most experienced AV enthusiasts that working on copies and keeping everything for our show in one folder is a good way to work. No point in trying to re-invent the wheel

I wondered why my iPad never recognised my sign in this morning. All good now

A bright red colour beaming out from the grey should be enough to alert even a beginner that perhaps the software is telling us something important. I suppose my clumsy point was that there are no rules and it’s the end result that counts.

Why?

Oh yes I do stumble over words and my wife has often said I should post some bloopers, but I’m not sure everyone is ready for my cursing

Thanks

Tom. No, I’m not offended, but this thread has amused me quite a bit and I can use a bit of amusement right now, so thanks for that. An Aussie accent? I don’t think so The Aussies here pick up in an instant that I’m not born and bred from these parts and ask me where I’m from. The Brits living here also pick up my accent instantly and many will guess pretty close what part of the UK I’m from. For the American market I could make sure I use the words awesome and cool into every sentence, but then that infuriates me. I have been told by some ladies that they take me to bed some nights on their laptop (tutorials) and fall asleep at the sound of my voice. I’m not sure if I should be flattered, or offended that I send them to sleep

In another thread Andreas reported an issue regarding text. See below https://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/topic/22782-inserted-blank-scene-shows-textwithsize/?tab=comments#comment-146489 I think he may have stumbled on a bug in the software, but I'm not sure. I tried to recreate the fault and I managed to get what Andreas reported. It appears after a blank slide is created and then one of the Caption Styles is selected. When you click into the text field to change text. Then the TextWithSize appears. Really the slide style should be applied to ONE image and when you select an image it works correctly. So, it may be user error rather than a bug.

Pascal My PTE AV Studio plays wma files OK

Take a look at your image editors ability to batch process file types. It should be quick and easy to copy and change a large number of images from tiff to jpg. Certainly quicker than programming the software to read tiffs