Barry Beckham

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

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