Barry Beckham

I can't help thinking that some completely misunderstand the intention or what the Project is likely to do for anyone. Firstly you cannot please all of the people all of the time and trying to please enthusiasts is like trying to find Hen's teeth. I doubt this sort of thing will help those already well into PTE and it's not intended to, if I understand Igor's intentions right. If you open Audition or Camtasia for the first time only it gives you a project you can look at and play. Often, just looking at one of those projects will help, simply by pointing you in the right direction. In addition it is a bit of a showcase for those who download the trial and are thinking of a purchase. If the project is not presented at the start, many newer users will not find it until its too late to help. Jeb, Goddi and Judy, thank you for some encouragement, for me and Igor To the faithful and I don't want to speak for Igor, but I think he was just giving enthusiasts a heads up. He's probably wondering why he bothered, I would.

Its OK now I know what the issue is, but I am still not sure why when I first opened SSC that I could not click in the text box and see the cursor. As I was fiddling around, the curso appeared and I am not sure if it would have done that anyway or I did something by fiddling with the settings.

Dave You're absolutely right. Because I had trouble when the text box first opened after the slide show uploaded I was clicking around to try and get the cursor to show so I could type. I selected back and that was OK, but it showed up as black against the brown background and I changed it to white thinking it was a little glitch that would come right later, as these things often do. When I spotted the spelling mistake I went back in, but had forgotten I set it to white. I guess in my difficulties I moved away from the default text colour that must be a mid grey. I have set that and can now see the text.

I uploaded an old show earlier and had great trouble getting the cursor to appear in the text field. It eventually did, but I am not sure what I did to get it there. Later I spotted a spelling mistake, but when I try and edit the text nothing shows in the text box. If you click and drag all the invisible text will highlight, but I can't see it when I begin to type. I tried with Google Chrome and Explorer with the same results

Mick For quite some time I have used a method which over time has become standard for me. If you place the cursor in any of the animation boxes. Pan, Rotate, Zoom or 3D you can move that object by hitting the up and down arrows on the keyboard.Just press and hold and your image will fly around the screen. If you need it to move faster, use page up and down rather than the cursor control keys. You can place the flashing cursor anywhere in the animation value boxes and this works. .

I have noticed that some camera clubs have bought large flat screen TV's rather then use a projector. I have to say the results are terrible and not a patch on a monitor or decent projector. Quality/colour is bad and In addition anyone more than a few feet away can't see any demo that is being given anyway.

Its a small point and hardly relevant, but perhaps because I am of a certain age and still think of a blank as a slide, albeit a dark one that I expected the name to change. The project, that you might see soon, needs to have everything correctly named, but looking at what I completed. It does look like I neglected to do so. It's only recently that I got out of the habit of creating my blanks in PS

I added a blank slide at the start of a recent project and as usual it was automatically labelled Blank. Later I decided I didn't need it, so I used the "Change Image File" option and the blank slide was changed it to a jpg image, but the name in the slide list and time line remained as Blank. Using Change Image File anywhere else changes the file name correctly. Looking at the changes in the Object and Animation screen, it retains the correct file name in the Objects box and the common tab

Urmas Perhaps it will dawn on me when I become more experienced. Perhaps you can define this workflow that will help me understand

Am I out of step here, because I can think of a hundred improvements that I think should be thought of before colour management. I didn't even know colour in PTE was broken. Does PTE need to fix something that works. Convince me?

Why on earth can't we have a way to just drop files onto the iPad -- easily without having to buy a gizmo to do it?

I have always felt fit or cover slide is the wrong title. Fit to screen or fit to AR would be more descriptive

I am not sure if you're missing anything, but I am sure I did do it once.

If its SSC you're talking about, go to your slide show and choose edit, then mouse-over the title and a delete option will appear

Might be an idea to give us a link to that video so members can see what it is like for them. It may go some way to finding the cause. Its not just your internet speed is it? Data not downloading fast enough? Try starting the video and pause it for 5 minutes and then allow it to run. Is it still the same? I just tried a full HD slide show that I put up a while back and after holding the play for a minute or two to allow the data to get going it plays pretty well, full HD, full screen. No jerking at all.

Mur Try making a slide show or two while your waiting

Thank you, now get back to work on PTE

Oh, thanks. I spent an age trying to remove it

Can anyone tell me how to remove the dirty great red banner that says a file link is broken, when it isn't http://www.slideshowclub.com/files/file/296-distressed-edges/ It seems a member can place it on there, but I can't see an easy way to remove it, because its wrong. The link is working perfectly

I started to use them quite a bit on the samples and demo's I made to accompany a tutorial video, but I stopped when I realised that not all options would run in a Mac. For tutorials, I found them great for setting the scene of what was to be dealt with in that presentation and showing what was actually achieved. It also forced the viewer to stop and take in any info I wanted to get across. It was also helpful to provide links to related subjects and web pages. However, your right and I cannot recall seeing them used in any PTE presentation that I have seen, so even though I used them a fair bit, I would not mourn their loss. I also use dedicated menu creation software where I can do the same thing. You could spend weeks programming all the stuff you need and I doubt it would encourage any extra sales of the software. Whereas, keeping it simple will

The geology is all true, I went back to verify it. Glad you liked the slide show, I was beginning to think I had created a bomber.

Hist101 I don't think I have specifically done anything on the falling leaf, but I have with a falling drop of water and the techniques are the same. Its not a really difficult thing to do, but once you start writing the steps, you realise there are a fair few stages to it. As always, its easy for those who have worked with PTE for a long time, but not always so easy for others. Perhaps I can deal with that subject in a newsletter, maybe July. Glad you enjoyed the slide show. Unless our presentations appeal to others, what's the point, but for me its a way of showing images that otherwise would never be seen

I have just posted a new slide show of our Scotland trip late last year. Unusually for me it contains three video clips, but I think they fit in rather well. Its available for PC - Mac and iPad. Download from HERE

Lin My experience of Camtasia is that it doesn't capture enough frames to really do justice to PTE transitions and animations. In all other aspects it's great. I haven't tried any others, so perhaps some can I don't know. I have always assumed that if they did, then the capture rate would have to go way up and the file size for downloading may become too great. However, that is getting less and less important these days too. Things move fast don't they I know you would have considered this, but to make sure my demos are top notch, if necessary I will break the video and suggest the viewer watches the exe coming up next. Then continue the video. I see your tutorial is an AVI and I used to use those for quality, but gave up because of the large file size. Your tutorial is 12 minutes at 1280px and its 192 meg. Through Camtasia you would achieve a 1600px video of the same duration which would come in at about 25MB. But, as already stated, it will not show PTE off at its best

I agree this is a good deal and have been saying so from day one, but not sure of a link that does not go to the Adobe site. I would want to buy from Adobe myself Creative Cloud