Barry Beckham

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?

If you make an Mp4, I think you will find PTE will play it OK

TrailerTrash Select the music first and let that guide and inspire you, that's what I do. The images are them produced from Raw files one at a time

Ralf A tripod is not so good for this type of photography, you need the freedom to hand hold. Set your camera focus to AI Servo, set your drive to continuous and if the surfers are moving right to left, set your focus point on the right. That way you are in control of composition, framing and you can follow the surfers as they move. Just do a couple of test shots with your camera to shutter priority and once you can see from the LCD that the exposures are OK, then forget the exposure and concentrate on panning with the surfers and getting the shots sharp. If you can shoot later in the day, you will get the shutter speeds you need without that real harsh light of midday shooting. Good luck. PS, you will need to shoot 500 to find 50 good ones, if your lucky :blink:/> Some times you get a great sharp shot, but the surfer is too static.

Ralph I expect surfing has more appeal when the sea temp is closer to 24c than 14c :rolleyes:/> I have been amongst surfers in Australia for 4 years, but the conditions need to be right to capture some good shots. You need a bright sunny day, but that gives you exposure problems holding the contrast and highlights, but not all surfers have the skills to make good subjects. Then you need the right location or the surfers are either too far out or always coming straight at you. For a subject that is so common here, I found this show difficult to shoot and create.

This has been quite a battle to create something that matched the subject, without being obvious with the choice of music. Wipeout or a Beach Boys track are those obvious choices I wanted to avoid. Music is a Queen Track called Schools out, Surfs up . Top of this page for PC and Mac http://www.beckhamdigital.co.uk/slideshows_3.html

Igor Thats got it, well done

Igor Have you picked up on the visual problem I described in the Objects and Animation screen.