Barry Beckham

Igor When I first saw the default option for Compact view of mixed channels I felt it looked odd and said so. As I thought the attached email is the second I have received in the past weeks I don't know if you can help me with this problem. It is nothing serious but just a nuisance. When I insert my sound file into the AV, everything looks and works OK except for one minor problem. The wave form at the bottom of the screen only shows half of the detail which I have not experienced before. I have upgraded to PTE 7.5 and also Adobe Audition 6 with Windows 7, so this is all new software to me. I have attached a screen grab so that you can see what I am talking about. If I close up the top half of the screen, it still makes no difference to the wave form. Are you sure you have this set at the right default, it just looks odd

Robert For what it's worth, I agree with what your saying, it would be nice if the space bar started and stopped the preview in the Objects and Animation (O&A) screen. I have found that the P key also starts a preview, but then you can't stop it with the space bar. If your inside the O&A screen its odds on your there to make changes and a preview will be required. The space bar is the most convenient and logical choice. Perhaps Igor will pick up on this thread and consider that.

One way I use is to place the font style, size and position of the text on one slide. Then from the Objects and Animation window Objects box, highlight the text, hit Ctrl+C. Skip to the next slide and hit Ctrl+V. Then adjust the words, but the position and size will be copied.

Peter Confirmed, same here following your instructions

Peter I really don't mean to open up the copyright debate again, but if we all follow the letter of the law, most of us couldn't make any slide shows at all and PTE/PSG and the like would never be, yet I am many others have been doing that for 30 years now without any real issues. It is an area that makes us uncomfortable for all the reasons that have been debated here and elswhere. Its one thing making a show with copyright music and showing it to other AV enthusiasts (but still illegal) and another to use copyright music in a commercial product for gain. The original thread was the assumpton that a slide show posted was fair game for someone else to take and use themselves. My issue wasn't really with the copyight angle, but the common curtesy of asking rather than assuming. We all make slide shows we hope others will enjoy, so most of us want our shows to be seen and hopefully enjoyed. If we don't, why bother.

Peter I did the same as geoff and tried it with three different old shows and it saved fine with the new file name, but that is the nature of an intermittant fault. It may only happen after a set sequence of events that are hard to put your finger on. I will pay more attention in future and shout if it happens to me

Peter Thank you. I was beginning to wonder if it was just me lately and I am so pleased it isn't. At least there is one person who thinks the same as I do and a gentleman to boot. For general AV purposes I can't see what YouTube has to offer. Lately I see more and more shows posted on it by PTE users and ProShow users do this almost exclusively, although its on the Photodex servers. I can't help wondering what the logic is. We pay a fortune for our cameras, we spend lots more visiting places of interest and a heap of time on our computer producing the images. We then lovingly spend hours making a slide show. Some ask for feedback and revisit their show and when they are finally satisfied, they can produce it at HD size. . Something we have only recently been able to do. It looks superb on the PC, the TV and................................... Then we post it on YouTube where it is decimated. Facebook and the like do nothing for me, but I will admit that Flickr does. I have been putting up galleries on web sites for years and I have to say, this way of presenting images with flickr is pretty good. Its not essentail to indulge in the interaction and it can be used solely as a gallery. I suppose YouTube can be used as an advert, to try and lure someone to the better stuff on a web site, but what else. I talking here from the point of view of a photographer and I am fully aware that if I was 25 years younger I would probably have my iPad welded to my hand by now so I can watch YouTube videos anywhere in the world.

Colin EXACTLY and thank you for saying so. For a while there I thought the whole forum had gone blind or lost the ability to read.

This came in this morning and its exactly what I was referring to Hi. I belong to ‘xxxx & xxxxx Photographic Club’ and we would like to use your tutorial DVD’s as an aid. Would this be OK ?It’s the first time we have had a tutorial for Pictures to Exe for all the members. regards A Bloggs LRPS CPAGB (club Program Secretary)

Anthony Yes, I doubt we could get to the place we took you because of the fire, but it is a natural occurrence out here as you know. Not a great consolation for those whose houses are damaged, but the land soon bouces back. We had a little rain last night, so lets hope that helped them at Bribie Island. http://www.flickr.com/photos/14841378@N05/8211991661/in/set-72157632002193497 This was how it looked a few weeks ago and even then some fires were affecting the sunset I think. This is Bribie just a few hundred meters from where we went.

It was way back in 2002/3 when I was writing and recording tutorials for Digital PhotoFX magazine, later to become Digital Photo in the UK, that I created a video introduction to PicturesToExe. I made a video that introduced PicturesToExe and showed how to put a slide show together. The slide show that featured in the video and introduction also featured on the magazines cover disk. Just for information I did this in my spare time as a hobby, having NEVER earned a living from photography. While doing some web work in the past few days I found the slide show and played it. Its small by todays standards, but the techniques used are still very relavent now and one or two were innovative, or they were at the time. Its 10 years old and I have uploaded the slide show to make it available on a web site I am working on. Its PC only of course, although I am sure I still have the project file on a disk with all the images. It can be downloaded from the link below for anyone interested http://www.mediafire...66wqslpnln3n611

Paul, I am not Igor, I left a note for him below yours, but I can see my mistake. Igor is the brains behind the software, I am just a user like yourself You seem to have done all the right things, but AVG has been known to give us problems elswhere, so did you download the file with AVG turned off or just try installing it with the virus off? Can you try installing the file on another PC? That may point you towards where the problem lies.

Paul I have experienced something similar. Go to the file you downloaded picturestoexe-setup, then right click and run it as administrator. I found it installed in seconds after that. Igor. If you read this it has reminded me of something meant to tell you, through the beta process. Sometimes I found the same as Paul has that a double click of the picturestoexe-setup just did nothing.

I don't wish to be argumentative, but if I make a Mp4 with Camtasia and drop it into PTE, it playes fine with the audio, but I am using PTE7.5

Mark At one point we had nearly 40 albums of copyright free music on our web site, now we are down to 7. At least one person on this forum bitched and whined about the easy listening style of the music, but at least we did have those albums and tracks available to us for a few years at a silly price. That music had a license perfect for your needs and mine too, because it even covered low level commercial use. It was aimed at amateur and semi professional photographers, thats why is was called Music for Photographers. MGMusic withdrew their music because every time we post a slide show on Youtube we effectively give the world the music for free and not just a smaller less useful version like we do with our images. If music is put on line in a slide show, I can grab it, so they do have a point. However, music copyright laws seem to be drafted in a way that makes it almost impossible for us to stay legal, but if the IAC doesn't cover you for what you want to do, which is show slide shows not for gain, then I would question its usefulness at all.

I have not looked into this, but one thing that sprang to mind as I read the thread is that perhaps it is a clever marketing move. Photoshop CS2 is now quite old, still a powerful program, but not a patch on their latest version CS-6. I seem to recall that there was a fair difference between CS-2 and CS-3 when that was launched. Upgrades are not always that significant, but I recall CS-3 was. That could indicate that maybe CS-2 is ready for soemthing like this. The main issue with CS-2 is you will not get the latest Adobe Camera Raw. That means that most users who shoot raw will not be able decode the images from their camera, particularly if the camera was bought after the launch of CS3 which was around 2007. Adobe do not back date Raw Plugins, so if you have a newly launched DSLR bought in 2008, your version of CS-2 will not decode the images. That still leaves you with a powerful program, but anyone who values Camera Raw, wouldn't be interested in it. I had 2 boxed copies of CS-2 and I couldn't give them away. If your as Jpeg shooter, then you will have a great program. There is no call for tutorials for CS-2 any more and that is another indicator that the passage of time might just have made this version of the software worthless from Adobes point of view. Using it to get potential customers interested may just be a great idea.

Eric Fair enough

Dave PC Mac HD Mp4 iPad (2048) Yes, I suppose your right, but as I typed it I was thinking of a HD Mp4 at 1920*1080 and the ipad version for our ipad 2 at 1024*576 I put the 2048 in brackets thinking of later iPads, but your right, by then its academic. Mark I am fussy when it comes to quality and how my shows are presented, but I have to say I am impressed with how the ipad displays images even at 1024

Peter I am not certain of this, but I think one of the beta versions may have done what you suggested and I didn't care for that much personally. I would assume that when I leave an expanded Time Line for the Slide List, I wouldn't want that expanded also. I guess that this will be a personal thing depending our AV creation style. What I do find is that the Slide List is rapidly becoming obsolete for me, I am in the Time Line all the while these days

Eric we post shows because we want them to reach a wider audience and we hope they are appreciated by others so I am not opposed to anything you say. Its just that when ever I have done that I allways ask the authors permission, even those who are close friends. It just struck me as a little different to show other peoples work and put it into a menu system that is sort of semi permanent. It indicates the slide show will be shown as a part of anothers presentation or talk more than once and under those circumstances of course permission should always be requested. You really must sit back and take a deep breath before you answer posts because you have the knack of assuming the worst all the time. I would not be unhappy about my shows being included, but I would expect to be asked. Especially when a speaker wants to use what I have made as a teaching aid as many do. I have been asked many times by people who want to show my slide shows or sections of my tutorial disks and I don't think I have ever said no. I guess many have used stuff without asking me, but I don't worry about what I don't know about. When someone does ask it says rather a lot about that person. Genuine, polite, they have integrity etc etc.

I agree, but the trouble is the Internet. I can see a web page where we have a slide show posted in a number of formats: PC Mac HD Mp4 iPad (2048) The first two are no problem

Thoughts... Showing other peoples slide shows is one thing, assuming they agree and give permission, but putting them into your own menus seems to indicate a continual use, which could open up some questions as to why I suppose.

I thought of that, but at 2048 pixels we have a 200MB file, still no problem unless you need to send it via the Internet

Mark The PTE promo as a exe file is 71MB, but I output it via the video and mobile devices to 1024*576 (it was a 16:9 show) and it is 54MB and plays beutifully on an iPad 2

Why would you need to know that for someone elses slide shows unless you want to put those into your menu system?