Barry Beckham

I have a great idea, lets ask Igor to start a nostalgia forum dedicated to 5:4 slide shows. We could even create a special section on slide show club for the tons of people out there who are using this format. Then we could then sit back and enjoy all the 5:4 slide shows published by authors who must feel a bit depressed in the 16:9 world. Anyone want to bet how popular this would be ?

Prints are not AV and the question was asked on an AV forum, so it's reasonable to assume that is what it relates to. I can't see a great point in making a 5:4 slide show when every screen and projector around is 16:9. A 4:3 or 5:4 slide show immediately dates it and the author.

4:3 was bad enough, but 5:4 is dead. If not dead, very seriously stunned.

Nice Demos

Demos need to inspire

I used the sound of a camera shutter, which opens some ideas

I thought of this a while ago for the sound of a camera shutter, but I never thought of making the sound effect into a video and applying it that way. I was thinking more as a suggestion to add on to slide styles.

Surely common sense states that if the stats are derived from the wnsoft web site. They are likely to reflect a pretty accurate figure of those who would have an interest in PicturesToExe. I recall in the early days of digital looking at my web site stats and seeing only 2.3% of visitors were mac users. I wasn't a bit interested on whether that reflected their share of the market at that time, but I felt it accurately reflected how many digital enthusiasts were using macs and PC's.

Look at the bottom right corner of the thumbnails in the slide list and you will see the side duration. Highlight the slides you want and change that slide duration on one of the selected slides and the rest will follow

Does your slide show contain video Mark ?

I am trying to find that out, but so far have assumed PTE8

The product key error is dealt with its the error on launch that I have no experience of. She is using W7 Home premium, 64-bit – 2.3 GHz – 8 gig of ram on a laptop

I have had an email request with the following question. Can anyone help please because its not something I have ever seen. All I know at the moment is that the lady in question has had to do a complete re-install for the product key to stop putting the trial banner across a DVD she was creating. She now says:- I have is difficulty when trying to initially start PTE from desktop icon – and I keep getting this message WnSoft Exception “EStream Read Error”

I have been asked this question a dozen times and each time I wonder why the off switch is In a place where it can be accidentally turned off

Well, that is the problem with some of these ideas. They sound good in theory, but as you say, they can look less than appealing in practice.

Do we get to see the result?

Mike Take a look at this slide show as it has something close to what your asking for. Its Called Schools out Surf's Up and here the sun comes up. What your asking is not impossible, but its not something that is easy to explain in a short post. If you have the need to ask the question then it does indicate that it would be difficult to convey how to do this, but i'll have a go. 1. You will need an image editor and you will need to be familiar with layers and how to make a cut-out. You need to cut out the buildings from the sky. They should be saved as PNG files. The sun can now be made to sink behind the buildings, but if the cut-out is not really good, it will look a little amateurish. 2. You need a second copy of both these parts and they will need to be manipulated in your image editor to achieve the effect of lowering light levels as the sun goes down. They should be PNG files too 3. You would need to link the two skies and building together in the Objects and Animations window as parent and child. 4 Add Keyframes to the child objects so as the sun sinks you can reduce the opacity of the bight sky and buildings to the ones looking more like a sunset.

Hallwoody There are obviously problems with DVDs as the many people who contact this forum and some of us privately indicate. The technology is now old and most have moved onto MP4 videos because they can be played in most modern TVs and are better quality DVDs reduce the resolution of our slide shows and destroy the quality we carefully create. They are only 720 pixels wide. Then as PTE moves forward with its development, particularly thinking about Mac capability, who pays for the development of something that is dead, or if not dead, certainly on its last gasps. There has to come a time when the plug is pulled

Are we back to the debate that the DVD has had its day and should be shunted off into the sunset. It seems to cause more issues than any other and hardly seems worth the effort.

Canico Stamp collecting? Forgive my bluntness, but if you want to make anything of merit, you have to put some effort into it. Audacity is not a complicated program and it comes back to my first question. Making your slide show fit the music is a fundamental part of what we do. It sounds to me like you don't need an external sound editor at all. If your music is too long, click the end of the track in the time line and drag it back to where the images end, then fade it out If your music is not long enough, either find another piece or use the same music twice and fade that out when you get to the end. Have a play around with the sound in PTE8 deluxe and you will soon get the hang of it .

It will not do time stretching, but the sound options in PicturesToExe will meet your needs. Cut back and fade the track if it's too long, add another if it's too short

The obvious question is. What is it you want to do that PicturesToExe cannot handle?

https://www.ephotozine.com/downloads/video-podcasts-300

The show is under 2 gig, although it is a large show, but that should still allow her to get past the first video builder window. I have passed on Nobeefstu's ideas above and will wait and see what reply I get back. This issue does come up quite a bit where someone inexperienced with the software and the whole process of handling or understanding image size, aspect ratio and resolution. Starts off by creating a huge show with hundreds of images with the obvious results. Every possible suggestion you may be able to make is alien to them and the user struggles to understand how they may reduce the size of the images. They now have so many images invested in their show, that reducing the size is a daunting task. What ever happened to starting off with a measured project to test the water

Thank you Some of that I have already covered, but you have given me two options I haven't. I will pass on this info and see if I can help