Barry Beckham

Can anyone help with this please. A lady contacted me who has made a slide show and made a successful DVD as a dummy run half way through the creation process. Now the show is complete, she cannot get past the next button on the Menu builder page. The little circle goes round and round and takes her nowhere, so she can't even get to the page to create the DVD title page. She is using PTE8 deluxe and has done a clean re-install, but still cannot get past that first DVD page. The next button just does nothing and I have not heard of this before and its ground her to a stop. Suggestions and ideas welcome please

I am a Sceptic, but its life's experiences that have made me that way

Brilliant, I have a super safe PC with Windows 10 that won't run the main software I bought the PC for. Not everything is all about security Judy. Computer security is probably more about the common sense of the user anyway and has anyone else ever thought that the threat always seems greater than the actual risk.

Nah, your not wrong

I don't think it's Invision power at all now. I did at one time, but how can that be when I change web space and use the same files for the forum and it works perfectly. I also had the same issue as you in that previously I had been able to post images, then suddenly I wasn't. That was nowhere near any Invision power upgrades or any other that I could pin down. I go a trusted person to sign onto my forum from another location using my username and password and they were able to post. It just seemed to be me who couldn't post. in my case I never really cured the disease, just sidestepped it by changing web space suppliers

No, but really, how much easier do you want it.

The command is in the time line, see attached

This sounds like a problem that dogged me for months over last Christmas when I could not post a picture to my own forum (the same Invision Power as this) getting that -200 error. Other people could post a picture and I had a couple of very frustrating months with the Forum software creators blaming my web space providers and the web space providers blaming Invision Power. There are all sorts of permissions at web level to control what files can be accessed by the public and which can't. Lists of them in fact Other issues I had with emails led me to form my own opinions, because all the technical people gave up and said there was nothing they could do. I have no proof of this, but I think my issue came about, because I was posting a picture in Australia to a web site located elsewhere in the world and it was obviously my location that was the issue. While that should not have been a problem it was. In the end, I was forced to move my forum to an Australian server away from the other one in the USA and it immediately started working perfectly and has done so ever since. So, I hope I am wrong and you don't have the same issues as me, because I couldn't get any technical people to help, mainly because they could not reproduce the fault. If you have a friend close by. Try taking what you need there and uploading from another location, you may find it works.That will not be a solution, but it may indicate that your problem is the same or similar to mine During my detective work, I bought a new modem, because the technical guys suggested it, but it didn't change the -200 fault. It did improve my wireless through the house so at least my $200 got me something. I suspected it was my ISP at fault, but friends and family also in Australia, were able to post a picture on my forum using the same ISP I think it has something to do with that handshake that two computers have to make before transferring files. If its not made quick enough it fails. Best of luck

I have been using PTE for club competitions for years, but only for remote judging. Even then for it to be practical you have to have a good knowledge of PTE and make use of many of its options. For on the night judging, what Dave suggests would boost sales without a doubt

If you're a Creative Cloud user, try opening the video in Photoshop's Motion window and then saving it back out. That process might put right any glitch that it preventing that one video from running.

I never picked it up at all, now I feel a plonker

Dave, so you started all this . Dam and blast

Glenn There isn't an easy way with version 5 of PicturesToExe. It would require a work around and would start to get complicated. As JEB has already been said, you're being a little ambitious as a newcomer to PicturesToExe with 500 images. That is not a great way to go, except in some really special cases. No-one on this forum would recommend making a slide show as a newcomer to the software with 500 images, its just that some may be reluctant to tell you that. The best answer here is the one above. Invest $35 and get the latest version, then what your asking is easy and you can do exactly what you're asking. Apply your zoom to 1 image, a 100, or all 500 instantly. Update HERE Scroll down for upgrade info

Dave You have summed it up pretty well in that paragraph above

Yes, that is something worthwhile. Add a thin line or even a distressed edge to all or the chosen images in a show.

No, I haven't tried either method, because I am wrapped up in other things at the moment and I would expect the author to have higher resolution images than were posted. So, if anyone is going to have the best success, it may be him. Having said that, if he doesn't have PS then its rather a waste of time anyway

Then a manual align via the distort tools in Photoshop may offer a second best option

Craig I think Jean-Cyprien has a point. Photoshop, if you use that program, has a powerful tool called auto align and while I have used it and been amazed by it, that was generally with two pictures taken in quick succession. However, Jean-Cyprien's suggestion made me think. There doesn't seem to be a good reason why Photoshop and auto align cannot work its magic on two pictures taken years apart, worth a try. Place the two pictures as a layered stack, select them both and choose auto align, then ok.

I think the two images will probably do that almost on their own given that one looks older. The older one already has a sepia tone and that should work well to convey age. Try a page transition from bottom to top and see how that looks, but check out the page options in other directions too.

Vulnerable to what?

Steven I think that ain't a bad idea and I have always done that in the past myself. This time I broke my rule out of curiosity and it's cost me a lot of time so far. 1. Upgrading to W10 and finding only generic graphics card drivers are installed. The originals are too old to be upgraded by Radeon. This impacts on Photoshop and filters and probably other stuff I never got to discover. 2. After talking to Radeon tech guys over a number of days and being certain there was no help there, I took the laptop back to W7 as Microsoft says we can. 3. Windows 7 installed, but now NONE of the USB's work, so no graphics tablet, no mobile internet while we are away. 4. So, now another factory re-set from the backup built into the laptop by HP. That is underway as I type Later: That seems to have got all systems functioning again, USB's all OK, graphics cards back in play.

Basically the same reason I tried it, but with better success than me. My laptop must be just old enough to slip outside the timescale where Radeon will upgrade the two graphics cards. They have an upgrade for one, but not the other and the machine needs both. Apart from this it works OK and I found my way around easy enough

Tom Surely there is a lot of difference when you upgrade to a software you actually use to produce something, like PS or PTE. The incentive is new tools, better ways of doing things and sometimes ways that change your workflow and even your ability to create images more effectively. I am thinking of how PS now deals with contrast and PTE animation An OP doesn't have any impact at all, unless they claim its much faster, which they always do anyway. There is always some risk when updating Windows. So, when you only use W7 just to run PTE, I am interested to know what Jeb felt he would gain. He could have said that he realises there is no measurable gain, but wanted to see what W10 was like while it was free, but he started to worry about life being short. I recently did much the same thing and broke my own ideas of only upgrading when a new computer was built, but W10 said my laptop was compatible and it was free. I had a bit of time on my hands and decided to take a look because I felt i could not ignore it forever. it installed OK, but after a few days i realised no graphics card software had been installed and that impacts my ability to use the laptop to demo photoshop. Some things will not run. Sadly, the laptop, which doesnt seem really old to me is not destined to have drivers written for one of the two cards in the laptop. The upshot is I either live with the upgrade and genetic drivers for the ATI Radeon cards, but that prevents the laptop from being used for the main purpose is was originally bought, or return to Windows 7 So, back to Jebs question and mine. When your only using W7 to drive PTE on a Mac, where is the gain, apart from curiosity.