Barry Beckham

I am not sure how helpful this is, but one thing I learned from selling Copyright Free music (royalty free really) is that copyright of music changes a lot. It appears that if an artist needs a recording studio and time to record their music and I guess a way of marketing the music, they sign up with a record label who take over the copyright for a period.. With some of the music we used to sell, the copyright changes from the artists to the record label for a time specified in the contract. So, for lets say 5 years it's the record label who can decide to release the music royalty free. However, when that time expires the copyright returns to the artist who may decide not to. From time to time we had to withdraw tracks taken from certain albums and replace them with others as the copyright returned to the author. It was a bit of a job, but at the time I wondered how anyone ever kept up with this copyright issue. I didn't see how they could and I assume neither will YouTube. I don't think anyone envisaged YouTube and how it would affect music. YouTube was the direct cause of AV enthusiasts losing access to 36 albums when the record label felt that had to withdraw them. They told me that it was because anything posted on YouTube could be ripped off and they didn't see that coming when the royalty free music was first created. YouTube wasn't around then. So, I assume you could buy some copyright free music, but later the copyright changes. As it was sold as copyright free to you, then you can still use it a copyright free, but I guess you will never stop YouTube flagging it either.

Seems OK here in Australia

Ken F3 shows the file list, F4 shows the Slide List

What a great place. You couldn't let something like that get destroyed. I was intrigued with the accordion on the stage, was one of the workman a budding entertainer and practicing in their breaks?

Ken Isn't that what the F3 key does

What a good idea, rather like collections in Lightroom and Photoshop's Bridge.

Thank you, glad you liked it. Finding music for this sort of slide show is about the hardest thing to find actually. Never seemed to have this trouble in the past, but perhaps I am being more choosy these days

Top of the list http://www.beckhamdigital.com.au/store/pc/Page-4-Latest-c71.htm

Melanie Third post down from the top says that you un ticked that synchronise box !! It should be TICKED

Dave I don't disagree with your question. It might well be that something as simple as making the Fixed Size of Slide ticked by default will do what you ask? I have suggested this before, but I can't recall what Igor's response was. You can see part of the problem in the post above. He may be seeing the slide show at 4:3, but on a 24in monitor he is seeing enlarged images and therefore poorer quality images and doesn't even realise it. How many others new to PTE are doing the same. This issue also spills over to any smaller images we create for Picture in picture and other projects. If I make a picture 800 pixels wide to sit in the middle on my screen, in what circumstances would I want that 800 pixel image stretched to 1920 pixels, yet that is exactly what I will get. It's not logical, but perhaps it's not technically possible

In the attached screen (project options ) is the sync soundtrack and slides option ticked

Dave That's all very well, but there are experienced PTE users who don't appreciate what that little tick box does and how significant it can be. How is a newer user to PTE supposed to find that out. If a new user sets 1024*768 and 4:3 aspect ratio, logic dictates that is what that author should expect to get. Its not that its a rare occurrence, practically every small show falls foul of the same issue. I am sure many authors would be horrified to know that their pictures look terrible on other monitors all because the images are enlarged without their knowledge. If its fixable, it needs fixing. if not perhaps PTE needs to consider tool tips at some stage

Igor I have mentioned this before, so forgive me for raising it again, but we have just had a slide show posted called Amalfi Coast. The author made it at 1024*768, but of course when I view the show on my 1920*1200 screen, the image quality is not good. Is there not anyway that this can be addressed so that when a smaller slide show is made its not automatically expanded to fill larger resolution monitors. Anyone viewing this slide show who didn't realise what caused this may believe that PTE's picture quality is not that good.

You have export parameters in other versions of Lightroom. Its the way you export completed images !!

Well, I think I know what the real issue is and why many are tossing their dummies out of the pram.

You can. Its called setting up a pre-set in Lightroom from the export module. I doubt you will get it much simpler than that. You can decide where the images go, what format, what size.

Paul. My 1Ds Mk3 also has a lot of dust after 6 years of use, but it's away for a repair and clean at the moment, so hopefully I can look forward to less spots (for a little while :rolleyes:/> ) I agree that the visualise spots in ACR works a treat doesn't it and all those things that go slow slow slow in Lightroom work great in ACR 8.1 I wonder sometimes what all the bitching and whinging is all about with regard to Photoshop. Never have we had such a superb program at such a good price in Photoshop CC. One cup of coffee every working day will set you back 900 bucks a year, if your lucky. Adobe ask for $240 a year and all I hear is moans. As a registered user I have it for $9.99 per month and it's on two machines and switchable to a third if I want.

Can you explain what this plugin should do?

I have been surprised that many times the video clip portions of the slideshows will not play smoothly on many, but play very well on others. This is exactly what I discovered and some very high spec machines with the price to match were the worst, but I couldn't put my finger on why one would play an animated show in my case and one wouldn't. To be honest if I didn't have to tuck the PC under my arm from time to time, I wouldn't have a laptop as a gift.

Paul If that reply is from Adobe, they are lying through their teeth. A casual search on the Internet reveals the problem and the fact that I can do the same thing with Photoshop CS6 and now CC perfectly ok, but not with Lightroom is evidence enough. I have found the main culprit, which is the Lens Corrections/Profiles. If you add Lens Corrections at the start of a manipulation, that is the cause of the slow down. So, while the workaround is to leave the lens profiles till last, that is an illogical way of working. When you adjust lens profiles it can alter the tones around the edges, hence me saying that logically it should be done first, but it can't. I guess most users have never even found Lens Profiles (Mostly mac users) let alone apply them. So the majority of users don't have a problem and Adobe can't admit that anyway can they.

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I agree, those backlit keys are well worth having if you're going to use the laptop to demonstrate with. I quite like the idea of a solid state drive and will be going that way in my next desktop. A friend has just got one and it certainly seems sweet by what I have seen. If you choose that route then as you have discovered the size is restricted a bit, but that will depend how you work. Most if those solid state drives will be large enough for most of us, if we restrict it to just the OS and programs Externals are not expensive and I never store images on a C drive anyway. Would one of those help the heat issue too? I suppose it would, but then if I were buying a laptop I would expect that issue to have been dealt with by the manufacturer I do agree with Colin though that they are not good for really top class Photoshop work. We go away a lot and shoot images and I can look at them on the laptop, but I can't work on them because when I get home and see them on the desktop I want to start again.

Gary That makes sense. I personally dislike laptops for any photographic work. I find the screens too small and it's hard to determine the right tone and contrast on images being worked on. I appreciate that this is getting better as laptops get better too. I have demonstrated for years and always used a desktop for that. Working on the idea that I would have a PC projector, large prints, speakers, keyboard etc. The car was already full of kit so a desktop didn't add much more. Now in Australia I have moved to a laptop, but they are a pain in tha backside sometimes. Even when you get a really powerful one, they never seem to handle things as well as the same spec desktop. In theory (spec) my laptop should be better than my old PC that I use for making videos, but it isn't in practice. Pay attention to the keyboard of the laptop you buy. Some put those stupid keys down the left hand side to open things like a calculator, but as a demonstrator we are used to those bottom left keys being Shift and Control. I made a mistake when buying my laptop and I never paid attention to that. I am ALWAYS hitting those keys in error because the keyboard on the laptop is different to the desktop. It's something worth looking at before you buy. If you have another large keyboard that will USB into the laptop, think about using that, particulalry if that keyboard is a white one. The craze at present is for black keyboards, but as soon as the lights go down in the clubroom a black keyboard is impossible to see. I have an old white keyboard that I use, but they are hard to find in shops right now. An alternative is to get one of those USB lamps so at least you have a light on the keyboard for when you need it. Next laptop I buy will have as large as screen that is available or that I can aford to buy. I will also pay attention to the keyboard too. Take a USB stick to the store and ask to see a heavy PTE slide show running. I found that when I did that, some higher spec laptops didn't handle it very well. I was surprised at how badly some of them did given the spec and price

Gary What is the reason you're looking at a laptop? I know that sounds a daft question, but many people use them when portability and space isn't an issue with them at all. Just interested in what drives you towards a laptop

Ray I don't see it as my problem and at least one of the computers the slow down is evident on handles all I can throw at it in CS6 and that is quite a lot. I know its not universal, but it depends what level of manipulation its being used for and how powerful the PC is. In CS-6 I can open multiple, smart object images in 16 bit, but there is no slow down at all, so its the LR4 program and LR5 isn't much better. I suspect that if you use Lightroom to do some, delicate work, in other words just minor changes, then it's fine, but it can't handle what I want to do and what I have been doing for years. In LR4 if you open up a 16 bit 20MP image and apply lens corrections and Chromatic Aberrations fixes. Make adjustments to the exposure, clarity, white and black sliders and perhaps colour balance too. All normal stuff. Then add an adjustment brush to lighten just one part of the image.(what its designed for) Then apply a Graduated filter to the sky and the filter is likely to go into go slow mode. Try zooming into 1:1 and applying the Spot removal and wait 2 seconds for each dust mark to be fixed. I have done a lot of serches and none of the solutions come close to doing anything and the fact that Photoshop doing the same thing works a treat on both my PC's points the finger pretty firmly at LR My computer is running fine.