Barry Beckham

Very likely

Lin That's as maybe, but when your in full creative flow, we/I rarely leave what I am doing and start searching for a keystroke that isn't obvious. My point is that perhaps it could be as visual and obvious as it is with the images and available across multiple tracks. Look at Photoshop and a menu command will include the keystroke. Its rare for a key stroke as important as that to have no reference in the menus. Don't you think? Mur Yes, your right, but foolishly I thought I had the start of my slide show nailed down, but then a better idea came to me. It happens Anyway, the jobs done now and if push comes to shove I would rather have the ability to add silence into a sound file.

Peter Yes, video is treated much the same as sound in that the whole sound would be included in the exe, unless the Convert Tracks Option is ticked. Its wandering off here a bit, but am I the only person who asks why? The exe file doesn't need all that surplus added. We have it all at our disposal in our project file, so why in the exe where it just produces larger files sizes and therefore problems. Trimming off what is not used, music and Video should be default. I am waiting for a reply to try and ascertain if we are talking about video with this query, which we probably are. I just have in mind a 5 minute sequence that was submitted to our last Queensland AV competition which contained only stills and was 750MB in size. For you and I it would have been 30-40MB

I never thought of trying the Shift key and I should have and usually do try those, I did try the Ctrl key, but never went further, thank you for the tip. However that will only move the comments within individual tracks and you can only move one track at a time. Its also not as obvious as it is with the images. Key strokes should be a shortcut from a command located somewhere else within the software. A key stroke that is isolated in that way can easily be missed even after years of use and I am the evidence of that. You have to almost discover it by accident or be tipped off by someone like you who has come across it. That is not logical, especially when in many other software programs you would expect to right click and select all, something like that. Its not uncommon for every sound file/image needing to be moved. The images in the time line work really well, click the image and you move that and all following images, cluck the tiny blue tag and you move just one. Having said that I would still like a select all tracks/sounds option and be able to slide them along

Yes, I think I need some feedback from the author on how the file size has become so large. It would seem logical that there is quite a lot of video in there.

Igor I have been putting together a slide show where I have 75 sound files. There are two sound effects, one music track and the remainder are small sections of commentary (72 in all). I also have almost 80 images. I reached a point where I wanted to change my opening titles and add a couple of pictures, but then I found I could not move all the sound comments to the right, in the same way I can with the images in the time line. In an ideal world, I would have liked to have had the same options with those sound files within the Time Line as I do with the images. Meaning I can click an image thumbnail move it to the right and all the images to the right of the clicked one will move too. If I just click and drag the blue flag I can can move just one thumbnail independently of all the others. Could sound be made to be as flexible as that? I have never had quite so many sound files before in a slide show and I was looking for a way to select all sound files, even those in different tracks and to be able to move the lot. I appreciate the option to link a sound comment to a slide, but in this situation it would have been just as time consuming to do that, as fix the issue manually. As the production continued and creative ideas and tweaks came to me, I would have liked this option on a few occasions. The reason I had so many sound files is that I cannot add silence between an already recorded sound comment. (unless I use an external editor) The only option is to split the sentences and create two and sometimes 3 sound comments when one would have been enough, if silence could be added. Actually, if I could have added silence in a sound rack, I would not have needed 72 sound comments, I could have achieved what I wanted with one.

Thanks. I have had a query about a 4GB show that plays OK within PTE, but no sound when the exe is created. I guess that the file size is the cause. Not sure what makes the slide show so large

Can anyone remind me what the size limit is for a PTE exe file. I seem to recall reading it was 2 gig, but a search doesn't seem to be fining me the information

Harbrimar Perhaps the animation of these figures is not as complex as it may first look. Its not the figures themselves that have animated movement. (as in legs moving independently to arms) The figures could be replaced with oblong shapes and the animation work required would be the same. The time consuming part is creating the independent animation within PicturesToExe. Each figures skating movement would need to be controlled by Key-frames and the animation speed would also be important. ie slowing down or speeding up. I suppose it would be time consuming in Photoshop if you had to first cut out all of the figures you required from larger more complete images. I guess for the Russian weather channel, the figures may have been drawn specifically for the animation by artists and maybe straight into a computer.

Ray I did make a suggestion for a floating player, but it seems a long time ago now. I work almost exclusively in the time line and don't use the slide list much at all and when you have a few sound tracks a floating player could be moved to a more convenient part of the screen, or perhaps in your case another screen entirely

Here is a YouTube HD version of a slide show/tutorial NB. A You Tube video seems to play back at 320p resolution by default, but if you click the small cog wheel settings icon you can select resolutions up 1080p, if the video was uploaded at those resolutions.

Reine You can upload HD versions of your Mp4, but don't expect it to be quick to upload. I am uploading one as we speak. Its 573MB in size and has been uploading some hours with 148 minutes left to go, but it uploads in the background so I will just leave it and let it finish overnight if I have to. Never uploaded anything this size before so it will be interesting to see how it looks and how it plays, being so large. I did a short demo earlier which is also HD, so from a quality point of view it can be judged Best to view it in Youtube as it seems to come up larger

Peter I never experienced anything myself here and I did download a few slide shows from SSC

Ray I use the timeline extensively when making a sequence and have suggested a floating player that can be moved (to another screen if required) I think it has merits.

In that case, perhaps its waiting to be cleared or verified. Posting a slide show is not an instant thing I don't believe. Just leave it a day or so and see what happens.

Mur I am not sure if this will help, but it might. I have run a web site for years, but some months ago, maybe even a year now I suddenly found that things I could do easily with Windows Explorer I suddenly couldn't. I could put up a gif or text on the site, but could not link to that gif or text. I assumed that a Windows upgrade had changed something and I contacted my web guru. He confirmed my findings at his end and his advice was to use Google Chrome until the web software people created a patch (they haven't so far) The upshot is, that using Windows Explorer I cannot place a link on my web site, but I can do it with no troubles with Google Chrome. It impacts on adding links in the forum too, the PTE one and my own with the same software Something has obviously changed within Windows and I have now got quite used to running both browsers, but I could close down Windows Explorer now I am used to Chrome. Could your problem be something related to what I have experienced. Might be worth trying Google Chrome, just as a test.

The archive is still HERE

Last word From a personal point of view, I don't care either. In my way of working the KFSD settings could all be got rid of and it would not impact me personally at all, but that really isn't the point. It's not about me or you at all. My motive is to see PTE remain powerful and versatile, while trying to keep it as simple as possible for the new user. Whether that is possible or not, I am not sure, but I think some effort to avoid the over complicated should be made. From a selfish point of view and a creator of tutorials I could be saying, make it as complex as possible, but I don't really believe in that of course.

Thank you, but I think some voices are silent on the matter when they may not agree. I have two more points to make on this subject. 1. You only have to look at the threads and words created on this subject over the past year or so. Anything that demands that much noise cannot be right in my simple view. 2. How did we all manage to make a slide show a few years ago when KFSD or FSD was never shown on the thumbnails in the slide list?

Rather than type a whole heap of text, I have recorded it HERE

I wonder if it is worth mentioning that as far as I am aware, (members can correct me if I am wrong), there has never been a know virus in a PTE slide show. This slide show has been downloaded 108 times and I think if there was a problem it would be well known by now. The trouble is, the constant mentioning of computer viruses in the same sentence as PTE can and I am certain does give PTE a reputation is does not deserve.

Mur I uploaded a demo to slide show club today and it appears to be working OK for me, but then yours did for you. Is it visible to anyone else?

Mur If you are logged into Slide Show Club down at the bottom right of the panel for your show you will see an edit option (See screen grab), then another screen opens and as you mouse over the slide show the opportunity to delete appears.

I only see 23 demos, see screen grab of what I see.