Barry Beckham

If you do a screen grab of the largest thumbnail size you can find on the Slide Show Club site and measure it. The size appears to 120 pixels square, so to my mind it makes no sense to put up a large picture. Use the crop tool in your image editor to pre-crop a size of 120-150 pixels square. At least that way you get to decide what part of the image the thumbnail displays.

Am I the only one who seems to have so much trouble uploading a slide show to this new site. The time I have spent on this over a number of days is now seriously giving me the hump. I am not exactly inexperienced in these types of uploads as it is much the same as my web site, but I have more failures than successes right now. I uploaded a couple of demos yesterday, but not without incident or a whole heap of time spent doing so. This morning I tried again using Windows Explorer and step 1 appeared to go according to plan. Next I added a 150*150 pixel thumbnail and that appeared on the upload page too. I added the required text and then selected Add Submission and was taken back to the disclaimer page and I had to start all over again. I did the same thing again using Google Chrome and exactly the same thing has happened. Something is wrong somewhere, either me or the system being used, but it's just too frustrating to continue Solution Found: It is essential that you add at least one tag and while it does say that on the page, it does not indicate that it is an essential part of the upload procedure. Even if the tag is missed, it's a bit of a pain that the whole thing aborts rather that the field highlighting to allow the omission to be put right. . So up-loaders be warned, don't forget to add AT LEAST ONE TAG

Well it makes a lot more sense to spend your time in Camtasia finding out, rather some convoluted way that is likely to take you considerably longer.

All you require, to produce quality videos is there in Camtasia as I have already said. Trying to make videos with a combination of Camtasia, Audacity and PTE doesn't make any sense. Camtasia was designed and created specifically for what you want to do, PTE wasn't.

40-50MB will get you at least 25 minutes of video with a screen size of 1600*900 and great quality, straight from Camtasia. What you're faffing with all these conversions for is beyond me. You have the Roll Royce of screen capture, use it.

It happens in the Objects and Animation screen, because usually you're watching the preview at 75 or 50% and that will make the moire effect worse. You need to make any animated images that you want to place over the blurred background no bigger than they really need to be. Then the smoother/sharper option will have an effect. The real test is what shows when you view the slide show at full size

Abbey Have a look below, sounds like you just need some help getting started Web Page Here PDF details Here

Its very likely to be the Moire effect. Select your inset image and go to the Objects and Animations screen and select the properties tab. There you will find a slider caller sharper/smoother. Make the inset image smoother and it will probably smooth out the effect. An alternative is to make the inset image the actual size you intend to use it. If you start with a larger file and reduce the size in PTE, this can often trigger the Moire effect.

OK, I never checked, but doesn't the Mp4 have lots of settings that might enable a smaller file size to be created.

Make an Mp4 video and select any AR you want

Eric I don't have any involvement with an English manual, all my tutorials are videos and they are coming on nicely thanks

Eric I have suggested this before and I think you got upset at me for doing so, but it's obvious that using a menu is important to you and it's also obvious that it gives you a lot of headaches too. So. Why not think about a dedicated CD authoring program that is designed for the job. I have made hundreds of menus and I never have any of the issues you describe. The slide shows will run from a disk, CD or DVD or you can just run them from the desktop. Yes, there will be a cost in buying the software, but seeing as this is so important to you and you have been doing this for some time, why not give it some thought. I use Autorun Enterprise 2, but there are bound to be other less expensive packages available. It only needs to be basic to run slide shows.

I think the point is being missed here and I have lost track of how many times I have said this. You all want to be first to come up with solutions and workarounds. It's almost like a contest on who knows the most, but that is not the issue at all. Some of the tiny buttons are not obvious to a newer user and that is something I do know about. I have a bit of software that prints labels onto CD's and there is no big button in the main screen that says print. The fact that you can do the same thing 6 other ways is irrelevant. Its a print program so a print button should be front and centre. We use Slide Show software so a big button, obvious to all makes life easier for people to find their way around. All those little tricks we know about they will learn in time. With the greatest respect to software writers they are often too close to the woods to see the trees. What is obvious to them and the regular user is not to the newer user. If relatively experienced users have problems finding a function they know must be there, what does that tell you. Either that or I am out of step with the rest of the world, but something tells me not.

Robert I experienced that once and it was caused by old temp files left behind. Have a look at the address below and clear out any PTE stuff you find C:\Users\your computer name\AppData\Local\Temp\

Really.......and its so obvious isn't it.:rolleyes:/>

I wonder how helpful it is to give someone loads of different ways to do something that should be obvious from the start. A preview button should be up front and centre on both the main screen and the timeline so that any person opening the software for the first time should find it EASILY. It's not as though there isn't space. Robert is not inexperienced with PTE, yet he missed the setting as we all do from time to time if we are honest. I am a fan of PTE and Igor, but in my view some things just don't make sense and here we have a prime example. By default we have that dreadful Navigation bar turned on when hardly anyone uses it, but here we have an option that all of us use and it's hidden. If someone can explain the logic to that, take your best shot !!

My experiences of late are telling me that within reason I can use images directly from my 21MP camera without cropping. (5616*3744) Both PTE and my PC handles what I do fine. I guess if you want images animated all over the screen, large files may affect a smooth playback. In my view if animation isn't silky smooth on playback it may as well be dumped because it's as good as useless. So the opportunity to do this has been there for some while now, both from a PTE software point of view and our computer power. I have often made slide shows much higher than 1920*1080 and will probably make my next one at 3840*2160

I have also experienced something like you describe. Sometimes for no reason I can put my finger on, the Images would not always open in Photoshop after I hit Ctrl+W. despite the graphical editor being set correctly, I was pretty certain the issue was not a PTE one, but more on my PC, because it used to work fine. I never did find the cause and can't recall now how I resolved it. It probably resolved itself with a format and re-install which I do from time to time. One thing I have also noticed with software that has Ctrl+key shortcuts, is that one program can interfere with another's shortcuts. Not wonderfully helpful I guess, but just observations over the years.

Robert For reasons that escape logic, it's turned off by default. You will find a tick box in the preferences, but Ctrl+R does it too

I just tried on my version of PTE8 and the images opened up and were editable in Elements 12 I first set up the graphical editor in PicturesToExe 8 via Settings>Preference>system and then I located the Elements 12 application file You will find that at c:\program files (x86)\adobe\Photoshop Elements12\PhotodshopElementsEditor Leave off the (x86) unless you have a 64 bit computer It should work fine

Thank you I posted that show back in July and your comments caught me a bit by surprise popping this morning, but welcome all the same. In my view, pictorial slide shows, (those that don't have a very strong story line) need to be short and the images must be special or there is no lasting appeal. I suppose I find myself in the same boat as many photographers these days, with far more images on my hands than I can realistically use. Creating a slide show of the best of them is the obvious choice for me. Fantasia for PC and Mac

Well, that is just how the internet is all over. Look for drivers for Nvidia cards and you have to have the COMMON SENSE not to click on the google links that QUITE OBVIOUSY do not come from Nvidia and lead to all sorts of crap you don't want. Develop some savvy or stay off the net, but its a bit rich having a great service for free and constantly bitching about it. Try saying something midly similar in respect of PTE and you will see pages of text appear from many of you jumping up and down on the spot.:lol:/> .

JT You amaze me, you have a service for free that will give you 50 gig or storage space. How do you expect them to pay for it if it's not through advertising. I have hundreds of videos stored there and 35gig of space used without a hicup all for $30 a year. Tell me that is not reasonable !!!

Dave Firstly you should always send large files these days via the cloud. It';s not entirely fair to send huge files as email attachements even if the isp allows them. Far better to send a link that the recipiant can download at their leasure. At least they know what they are downloading. In an email attachement it can seem as though the emails have stalled to some because it is so slow. The benefits are that you have your slide show securely stored, if someone else pops up and and wants a copy yopu just re-create the link and send it to them. Use a free service like www.yousendit or www.mediafire. Upload your zipped file and send the recipents sks to see the show the link can ve copied and sent anytime. I have hundreds of zipped videos and slide shows on mediafire and it works fine, no bother. The only issue you have is the free account comes with adverts to pay for it. I find it convenient to create a spreadsheet list of what I store and I paste the link in beside the subject title. That way I always have the link without having to connect to mediafire at all. . By the way for other members, there is a deal on with mediafire about $30 to store 100gig of files all add free. I am not sure how they do it for the price.

A superb AV Peter and more work involved in making that then meets the eye. Love the story and the subject is one of my favourites too. Very polished and a pleasure to watch.